The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-07
Prom the American Railroad Journal
More Important Railroad Con.
sOlidatiOn.
New and Great Through Railroad
Route to the Misstssippi River.

The plan inaugurated by Sir Morton Peto
and his friends connected with the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Company, To open
m connection with the Reading, Catawlssa
and Morris and Essex Railroads an air line to
the West from this city and Philadelphia,
has walked up the parties largely interested in
the Pennsylvania Railroad, TO protect its in
terest in securing direct connection with the
Mississippi river at Warsaw, and keokuk,
and we are informed that parties largely in.
teresed in the stock have in connection with
the stockholders of the "Pan Handle Steu
benvllle and Indiana, and Columbus and In
dianapohs Railroads, formed a company to
build a road from Union, on the last compa-
ny s road, direct to Logansport, Indiana, a
distance of 81 miles, and there to connect
with the Toledo, Logansport and Burlington,
and the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw RAIL
roads to Warsaw and Keokuk, on the Misss-
sippi river. The road IN Indiana is already
under contract, and is to be completed and
in running order next January; and it is prob
able it will then be consolidated with the To-
ledo, Logansport and Burlington Road, form
ing one company in Indiana, a distance OF
l52 miles.
The parties interested in the enterprise
have already secured the control OF the road
west of Logansport by purchasing of its
bonds, and stock, and the following gentle.
men were elected directors at the annual
meeting few weeks since, viz: K. d.
Barclay, j. Ii. Bradley and 5. VI. Vain, of
Philadelphia; w. d. Thompson and j. F.
Seeley, New York; Gov. WIN. Dennison, of
Washington; and Benz, Z. Smith, of Colum-
bus, Ohio.
These gentlemen are well known railroad
capitalists and are all more or less largely in
terested in the connecting lines from Indiana
to New York, and their names are sure
guarantee that the work will be vigorously
pushed towards completion.
The Mississippi and Wabash Railroad Com
pany owning the line from Warsaw to the H.
Enois river, have recently in view of opening
the sGreat Midland Route merged aud con.
solidated with tae Toledo, Peoria and War
saw Railway Company, which conneoted at
the State line and terminated at Peoria, under
the name of the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw
Railway Company, making continuous line
across the State, distance Of go miles, and
crossing the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad at two important points, and also the
Illinois Central Railroad on the main" line,
and branch at Rl Paso And Gilman, and the
Chicago aud Alton Railroad at Chenoa, fifty
miles from Peoria.
The consolidated company have already
put under contract the Gap between Peo-
ria and Carthage, on the Mississippi and
Wabash line, and under the patronage and
influence of the roads east of Illinois, (which
is to form apd complete .he t.'Grsat Midland
Route" it is expected that the road win be
completed as soon as the Indiana Company
make the connection at Logansport.
The following gentlemen: Charles L. Frost,
Zeno Secor, James w. Smith, of New York;
Hon. John B. Brown, Portland, Maine;
Henry Hill, E. P. Buell., Warsaw, Illinois; H.
B. Ten Eyck, keokuk, Iowa; John w. Chen
ry, and w. II. Cruger, of Peoria, Illinois; all
of whom are we'll known in New York and
the West, were recently eleeted the managers
OF the Illinois consolidated road; and being
men of wealth, and of great practical bust
ness experience, and having very large per-
sonal interest in the property, the public may
be assured that they will not be behind hand
in their part of the work, and that the "Great
Midland Route" will be opened for through
business in fifteen months from this time
The distance from New York to Warsaw and
keokuk by this route is as follows, viz:
Miles.
New York to Pittsburg. 43I
Pittsburg to Columbus, via Pan Handle ........l91
Columbus 10 SO
Union to OIL
Logansport to Warsaw.
1000
By the Route via Chicago to New York, the
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