The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-02-28
Michigan Central Railroad.
sI5ISS1s9s 81 Capital-5 600 Men Employ
ed--IIO Locomotives In use--2 300
Cars In Notwithstanding
and ETneMsea

The people that patroniZe. ride upon and ship
their produce over the Michigan Central Railroad
have not even faint idea the business done by
the road and the immense number of persons who
use this great thoroughfare, the number of men
employed. number of locomotives in operation. and
the number of cars that daily pass it. filed with
all kinds of merchandise. These figures almost
beyond conception. The expense Of keeping the
road in repair and of transporting passengers and
freight is very large. Like all enterprises
that have been started and carried in the early DAYS
ofthe West to a successful completion, the results
have more than realized the anticipations of its most
sanguine friends, The western terminus is Chca-
60 and Detroit the eastern. The road is $50 miles
in length, and passes through some OF the most
thriving villages and cities eff the Northwest
This road, from its start, has struggled through
revulsions in the money Market land pirates and
malicious enemies ard yet stands second to no 9th
er road in the United States for its wealth. reguar
ty, spacious coaches and magnificent locomotives.
ROLLING STOCK.
The rolling stock consists of no locomotives to dC
the large and increasing business of the road There
are fifty frst-cass passenger coaches, with twelv
wheels each, and six sleeping care, with the sam,
running gear; fourteen rstclass with eight wheels
and four second class, with the same number. TIL
whole number OF cars now in operation to trans
port the immense freight and great number of pas
| sengers over the road is 500.
| From the report Of the business of the road tn
year ending the 3lst of May, 1885, gather the fol
| lowing facts:
| The whole number of passengers who travelled
over the road was 9O2 826-an increase those O
1865 of 1887. The number of way passengers wa
766, 755, and of through passengers 1861. Nor
people passed over this road during the past yea
than the whole population of Vermont, Maine ant
New Hampshire, and one-third more than the Stat
of Michigan. The number going east was 463, O33
going west, 44O 1893 The earning of the road, from
passengers, was s2O61 1885, %; from freight, $2,2Os
SOL SO; from miscellaneous, $176 593.64an increas
over 1865 of 1891 O7O a. The amount Of freight sen
over the road east was 81, 1888 1854; going west
81 02S 046. SO. The amount of freight shipped cas-
was $t63, 499 SO more than was shipped over tn
| road west.
The total expenses of the road fer everything wa
g. sos, 375. SO, leaving balance of $1,63S, 11459
profits. The whole expense of running the roa
was sixty-one per cent There were 55,o7S cords G
wood used by the company costing S247S51; Goa
62S toas costing 80 21438; OIL 1878 gallons, cost
ing 1922 527.60; rags and waste, $5,529.16.
There are three large repairing shops, situated a
Michigan City, Marshall and Detroit, and abou
five hundred men employed in them. The Who'll
number OF men engaged by the company is abou
5000.
The whole care of the Western Division in erect
ing bridges, buildings and keeping the road in re
pair rests with S. K. Johnson, and the Eastern d
vision,C. H. White. Both have had long experience
are very efficient men, and have rendered valuabl
services to the company. r. N. Rice, General Su
perintendent, speaks highly Of the men employee
on the road, without exception, as industrious an
honest, and having the interests orthe Company q
heart. To give the reader an insight into the mag
nitude the freight and other business of the roat
1 will give number of the prominent articles this
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