Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-05-17
1flistrIIalD.
Correspondence % Size Freeman.
ChicagolRailroads, their Appointments and
Earnings

Cu0G1, April 2S, 1864
Chicago !, uuqus,.ombIy the terminus echua
gilmore railroads .h4n la, p.y W ps.a u .u
the Wes', ana 70 M the United States, proJ4b N
With th, exception OF Boston. And what is
more, all those railway, are yery mportau oaes,
while several Of them in lhlt ro.psc. have no r-
vaIs in the country, anywhere. whether 81 tue
West OF a, the East lao .hs great lasue
city run directly tigi, great lines of O. roads.
while several others OF scarcely Ies, Importance.
f,li into these, shor, distances o4t oi the cy, oa
their way to their common centre, 20 .dI l0fus
great railway network, and sso tbe mighty 4
sregats Of the business the combined Who'll, are
daily transAoting Ninety train, Of freight a14
passenger cars daily .eAye the city, aud tne same
number, as a matter Of course, dliy eater t
The breiesi calculation By figures w. ,ao" u.
the immense amour. Of business done aaa al4l
BY these ieemiog railway. A..o'ins the prob
able proportion of twlny Of these trains to be
passenger train, with four cars zach, and IJrty
the number Of passengers 10 each ear, aud you
have 5000 persons dliy leaving lh. city, And
this number doubled by those entering u,sHo
the little army Of 6 400 daily brought tu of cle
ri,d out Of Chicago by nirold las uum'o5
multiplied by 3lS, the number Of working days
nithe ear,.gIves 20Oj,200 or uI1und numbers
over two millions Of persons conveyed by raj, IN
one year, in and out this great Commercial. me-
tropol' Of the West A calculation OF tae freight
business will still more surprise US '-ot the Iio
outgoing and incoming freight 'rln'' each 'Fa'n
will not average less lhan ten cars, elch loaded
with products OF the estimated value OF SioOo.
III" makes '2e v'ue OF the iFe'sh' Oh 'ne Ito
cars over fourteen million dollars Us the aa'!
business and II we can believe our own hsu''"
which we scarcely can do' the ''dPendau' sum o.
over four thousand million as the yearly amount
oil the business done by the great railroads oi 'he
West centeung IN Chicago.
thus much by way OF general estimate OF the
business oil all those great railway ines h1' 'rt
Us no" lake a more particular h1.e OF las '"o or
three OF Ihsm' whose merits, IN point oil oa'tas'r'
general appointments, &c, have more especn.y
fallen under my personal observation These are
the noted Michigan Central 'he now scarce less
important Ua'ena and Ch'e'go onion, and The
comparatively new but rapidly growing North
western Railroads
on coming west travellers alter leaving the
queen dom'alon'' and reaching Detroit at once
enter on 'ae "feAt N'ch'san central and the!
are not long IN per'''vng 1t to be rieaiy entitled
TO all the celebrity enjoys those OF them "h,
may nave pa'seu over thIs road two or lhrei
years ago Will now ma IT, as good as they then
thought 1t to oe' greatly improved IN the finish
ng' furnishing and ventilation OF the cars, an1
the smoo'hness OF their running In respect tt
'ne a''e'' indeed they may recall the scenes
'oe" carry ooynoou on Tue ice where they were
u.'N" oy Tue o'u' s"dtioo'ed skaters over tn
s"'! surface on nlnd Sled SO evenly AM
s~o0'p'y arc 'ney oorne along And The salts