, 1869-09-04
BUFFALO,
THO Ncccne Isnilf0nA ConAoiidn~ =
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fronn tht Rnfdts On'nsretlt 1 rrtsrr. .tu,u,t -
Ghr consolidation Of thu L,kr Sl,oru / Mlrhiv1u
Houthcrn With tho Toledo, Wa!I1sh i Htst"rl
Company will place nttcrn hun'trei miles af ian
bcst Eailxn{ on this cont!nnnt uttrr ono n,anaRr-
Hchs. R!anrr Ut nHT tl4T ot winch our rail-
ways asr correctly ialtt sto vii viii sow how In.
sh'1 sesh =" villa VIII a M
long 10 Tic tMntn'lntct cuUpany. Ab!e to rnl,l-
pete on e,uat terms with any cntnranY fnr lhs
YnTk -osntus norp than haif IT, th,,
roate hetwtsu tho,' poIntt--,hs cum
arroeA 1hiD, ,rLvrrsing thc central rarLA VI thu
grrat stntea Of lnt'ana ana Illinois, through tho
very hcarts Of their iost fertile distI.ct1 stretch
MI tht Sor,h nnd sontn IailwaJs, With connecting
branches tn iced thc trunk Inc With the business
OF our Western, Northwestern nnd Southwestern
statea md TtsrttOrtcst aai suon TO form better
courccaon With the facIac Railways than that
Nhichthc company now Possesses, through Cns-
This will .c, In brief, tho position Of tho consoi-
dated company io rrla'on 70 sne railway trAI11c nj
tho county but wAA not Of Its general features
thnt We uestrcA to Eptak at present. Our object,
Just now, IL to show .ta Eeatna to B1talo, and to
point out the an,azlag change 7hlch these comb-
nations have Effected, ant3 will affect, In thu
amount Of railway tratic passing through toi4
cttr.
consolidation Of the EntfaIo L Erie with ihr LaEc
Hhorc Michigan Southern Ha1lHaJ-re hah bur
ninety unstc1u Of nfteen hundred, as now, ulex
D! fhls grand railwat combination, the direct and
positive ooject Of the managers Of which WAS to
bring the!r traffic to Buffalo. True. the ninety
miles be'onan1 to tae I!utlalo Erie lsaiIfpsd
Company formed q part OF the ll1ect line between
Sex York nud Chicago, and, to 4 certain extent.
the line WAS worked ~ one, but 10 all the other
ference whether the 'naa,ncss soughs Bunalo or
Eenehed The line at polnts west Of US Take tho
railway traffic from Chicago TO the seaboaru, ior
tho sake Of simplicity In Illustration. Before tho
consolidation, the Michigan Southern Railroad
sought to clrrJ II q. fax east a Toledo, but,
The nat. .er ended there Tue traflc mlKnt seek New
York rIa Clcs:llre and pittsburgh, md the Penn
s5lvanta Ccntlal-or z1a Cleveland and the Atiau-
tic Great Wc4tefu-or siu Efe and PhiI&def-
phla,-or r,a Dunkrk and the Erie RaIvay-and
the Michigan Southern would be Just as we'll
Of Hunalo and the New York Central OF Eris. So
with The next link IN the cha!n-the Cleveland
Toledo-that conranJs direct interest IN
so with the Cleveland Erie Company, to
point than Etls or 1'ank1rS- To the Buffalo and
niles Of the roufe-was It 4 controlling ob]ecs to
Feclre the business between Chicago 1nt Sen
xo,s sos5 b. naJ IN q TIL s Ssov The oeset
their entire line, and they Will woEI, therefore,
Wllh equ:l tnte1e.. Tor the BuiIa!o cut Of the
tine. as far as they can control It, wilt all pass
The Toledo. II aoash L Western Comaanr. ure-
agreed upon, Eas Ike the Michigan Southern IL
rtspect 70 no absolute interest further east than
Toledo, opIy Hutsa1o was still more m Indifferent
objective point with tue former than With the lat
Ter companv. Holding the same relations u
Ctestlre, Cleveland, Ere aud Dunktrk aa to D1f-
rao, Just We have indicated tC the case Of the
Michigan Southern, the Toledo / WABASH line
constrained to exercise 1nparttalHy+ at least 70
lar Buitalo Was concerned by Its intimate seta-
tlons with the Baltimore i Uaio, Pittsburgh l.
Fort WRsnc, aud Pennsylvania Central Railways,
Nil these companies be!og able to h1m7eE Il with
restrictions ia regard To through business In
1t fayottf other connections rs against tnem and
Iii Of them hayinR direct Interest," In preventing
| the trsn1c from TeachiD9 Buffalo
The policy xill be different nor. So far rs the
| CONSOLIDATED company can, hy a1eepless energy,
control matters fne entire through trunc Of ihrr
| 1,ae Iui!ea Of east and west r7lx1r, fed a. The
line will be oJ all the Important ne1tn aui soatn
lines, Htl1 pass through Buffalo, increasing Our
r1JlWar tra1c to an extent hitherto unframed
Of The grain trstDc OF tho Wabash Valley I5 en-
otMcI8- Not tuany 6asR s1nce, C1ere tnan half =
million bushels were u tho courre Of transit A.
one time. On the lle Of the Toledo, Wabash +
Western Railway Tnt bulk OF the immense cal
tie tIzde Of Indiana aud Illinois viii tatc thas lac.
1nter8ect1DK them - It does thelF yefy centres
And 1t wllI conc to Buffalo The latter iact aou.,
viii add Immensely 10 what IL stre1dy one Of our
chief interests. Our cattle trade Is something en-
ortnous now, hut we nrmly believe that, within =
brief period. we shall to able to shux, by tudts-
putahIe ftatMt3cs, that the cattle market At Buffalo
Is the largest In the world. Great additions to our
present facilities ior accommodating that trafuc
must speedily he male.