Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1903 — RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RAILROADS

The contract for. the construction of the first twenty-five miles of the Alaska Central Railroad has been let The L. E. & W. will lay seventy-five miles of heavy steel on the main line and the Indianapolis division. Half of the fine which the Louisville and Nashville is building from Jellico to Knoxville 'has been completed. About Oct 1 the headquarters of the western district of the Southern are to be removed from Chattanooga to Birmingham. An 4ir-line electric traction line from Cincinnati to Louisville is projected by Easterners. It will be ninety-three miles long. Trie Illinois Central Railroad Company Phas issued a preliminary report for the fiscal year ended June 30: Gross earnings, $45,145,400; Increase, $4,324,370; operating expenses and taxes, $31,731,000; increase, s3,7l(£Qlio; net earning?* $13,414,400; increase, $007,010; surplus, after payment of dividends and . fixed charges, $4,587,000; decrease, $450,502. President Yoakum of the St Louis and San Francisco has announced that hereafter the Ozark and Cherokee Central Railroad will be operated by the Frisco and will he known as the Muskogee district of the Frisco system. Odc of the interesting exhibit* at the St Louis exposition will be a locomotive of the old red-wheel type, which used to run between Hannibal and St Joseph, Mo., before the war. connecting at the latter town with Buffalo Bill's famous pony express. Side by side with this will he one of the great Burlington locomotives. J J 0 ... - * „ a