Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1906 — THE RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE RAILROADS

Pasenger officials of the Northwestern predict an extraordinary movement on account of the national encampment of the G. A. R. at St. Paul. The Illinois Central railroad now carries nearly every pound of its fruit in its own cars, thia company having in service 3,000 of its own refrigerator cars. The Virginia Corporation Commission yesterday declared the Churchman 2-cent railway mileage act of the Legislature in conflict with the Constitution of the United States and therefore null and void, and entered an order dismissing the proceedings. The Indiana Railroad Commission handed down a decision by which the Vandalia Railroad Company will be compelled to make a general reduction of 33 1-3 per cent in the rates charged for all classified freight from Indianapolis west to the Indiana State line. Because of the rising of the Salton Sea the Southern Pacific is reported to be about to move its main line in that vicinity for the fifth time. The waters are now approaching the track, and it is thought it will be necessary to create the new line within sixty days. Under express instructions of George J. Gould, the Western Pacific is making a special effort to secure 7,(XX) laborers in addition to 10,000 men now at work in Utah, Nevada and California. Construction work is to be rushed with all possible speed, and to that end agents have been sent into the middle West and Northwest in an effort to secure the needed •workmen. The anticipated action of the Wisconsin rate commission fixing 2 cents a mile as the maximum passenger fare lias been delayed for several weeks in order that the St. Paul road may present new arguments against the proposed rate, / An effort is being made to obtain the co-operation of eastern trunk lines in the endeavor to secure a ruling from the Secretary of Agriculture that will enable the railroads everywhere to receive consignments of meat for transportation by stamping the way bills to show that the car has been sealed by government inspectors.