Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1904 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

A surveying party is now engaged in defining the smite of the second Siberian railroad. The. Western Passenger Association has re-elected the outgoing executive committee without change. The Union Pacific has met nt junction points the recent Nebraska grain rate reduction made by tlie Chicago and Northwestern. President L. ,F. I.oree of the Rock Island lias decoded to remove the executive headquarters of the Rock Island system to Chicago. The Great Northern Express Company has taken out n policy with nn indemnity company for SIOO,OOO to protect it ngainst train robberies. The current issue of the book of the Royal Blue states that the home 01 transportation exhibits at the Ixiuisiani Purchase Exposition has just been completed by the contractors, having dimensions 559x1.300 feet, nnd covering an area of 15.5 acres', having been erected at a cost of $002,000. Tlie Southern Pacific; through its agents of the land and immigration department in Texas, Louisiana, Indiana, Illinois, lowa and other Staten in the North and East, sold over 1,500,000 scree aland in Texgs and Ixiuisiafia during e‘ fear 1902.