The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-06-08
NUMBER SO.
THE TWO" AIR LINES /"

| i !" " Alh Lines.
The announcement BY the Chicago and Ga
lena Railroad Company, ofits determination Il
build an /" Air Line" road to the Mississippi
river al Savanna, has created no small depre,
OF sensation amongst lis stockholders, and thos
in the Chicago, St. Charles and Mississippi All
Line road, which was recently orsanized
When It was known, two nnnihs ago, tia
some of the stockholders Of the Southerr
Michigan and Northern Indiana road had de
termned to build an Air Line road from this I.
the mississippi river at Savanna, it excited ne
small degree Vt alarm among the directors o.
the Chicago and Galena Company, and when
the determination Of the FIRST named party, re-
ccived form by an organization, and definite ness
by a subscription to The stock of the road.
suhcient 10 insnre It's completion in eighteen
months, il set the latter company to work in a
manner more bold and determined than we had
thought possible. Silently, the chief and his
subordinates went to work to survey an Air
Line, and in less than six weeks thereafter, it
IS announced that the whole work from the
Junction to Savanna, will be put under contarct,
as soon as the estimate can be got ready -
The public also learn that the line will cross
Fox river, at or hear Geneva, below ST. Charles
and continue in an almost direct line to point
hear Dixon, where it will connect with the lines
from Fulton City ana Albany, on The Mississippi,
ana from that point, direct to SavaIa
crossing The Rock river at Grand de
Tour. BY this means, it is intended to cut on
all the business on the sou'h side ofthe Chicago,
st. Charles and Mississippi Air Line road, and
conhne it to strip Of country not exceeding Is
miles in width, to draw its way business
from.
Now the question is, will both +" Air Lines I"
be built for certain it is, that The country
through which they run will have to be i'm
mcnsely productive to give them paying bus.
mess. Over 3 200 900 of the Chicago, St
Charles and Mississippi Air Line is already
subscribed /; a majority of which Is by capitalists
of undoub'ed energy, who desire The road for
the business it will bring to the Michigan
Southern road, in which they are Interested to
the extent of several millions We take it that
this alone will secure the construction Of this
line.
The Chicago and Gaena Company has mt
yet asked for stock subscription to its Air Line,
we do not know that il will. Its present road
is paying onc-tne best in the United States
has an undoubted credit, and directory who
represents large amount of property. Besides,
there are outside parties, who, from the peculiar
position OF the other Air Line, may be made
in this and who represent and can
many millions Of dollars
Our citizens and we anon. the number, have |
heretofore given no attention to th. expressed
determination Of the directors Of the Chicago |
and Gaena company to build an Air line, but |
now We cannot but look at the advantages tina.
each will possess, and the pr robabIe result.
The Chcngo, St Charles and Mississippi
Air Line Company have to build its entire road
% Savanna, distance Of one .hundren and thirty |!
miles. This it can do in eighteen months !
The Chicago and Galena Company has thirty |
niles of their Air Line already constructed, and |
locomotives, cars, iron, ties, and all the appi |
,ances necessary to push forward its line forth !
with 1t can complete one half of it before the |
'ther can get fairly started, and may have the
whole finished within one year. So far it has !
decidedly the advantage. The party that gets |
10 the Mi slssippi river first will certainly come
DIT victorious, because it will form all the most
available connections, and thus occupy the
vantage ground. The other road will not be
worth much. But will the GaIena Company
use its advantage, or will it 90 along with its
Air Line as it has there ore done with its crooked
line IT The latter, it will certainly come out
No. Z, tor the persons who have the control of
the Chicago, st. Charles and Mississippi Air
Line, are men of indonilabla energy, as
has been shown in the construction of the
Michigan Southern Road. I've think they can |
not be beaten by any party in an even race, ard
they think they can beat the Galena Company
with all its advantages, and not halftry
How this interesting little race will end, is
very doubtful. ltis, evidently, to be an exciting
on-, and will totally eclipse anything of the
KIND that has ever taken place in the United
States. The power to m.ve bone and muscle
will be thoroughly tested, as well as the least
possible time in which mile Of railroad can be
held-Chicago Tribune