The Portland daily press., 1870-07-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
INDIANAPOLIS.
BLOOMINGTON
Western Railway.
Seven Per Cent. Gold Loan,

cured by first mortgage 2O5 miles of road from
Indianapolis, the largest city and most important
railroad centre in the Stale ct indiana, to the city
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILES of the
Line are now IN FULL OPERATION, and euui,ped
with New, FIRsT-CLAsS Rolling Stock consist inc nj
% Locomotives, % Passenger Coaches; II Bagoaoa
and Express Cars $50 3 x. Stock and Coal Cars and
more will pe addeu as the wants OF the road require
Interest on the Whole Issue Of BONDS The balance
twenty-five miles of the division in Indiana, is nearly
all graded. with all the Iron on hand and will he
completed without delay.
There thirty-six depots on the line. located in
cities and toens that contain. IN the aggregate, a
population Of one hundred and nsnetU thous0nd
averaging over 800 to each square mile within a
radius OF half mile of the track: and ,r;tb;n
t,centy miles Of Me track there is population Of
II passes through the counties of Marion Hem
bricks, Montgomery, Fountain, Warren and Yer
million, in the State Of Indiana, and yermilhon,
counties, in Illinois, the line of the old emigrant
state road which was lai out in the best portion
the main line of Western travel, and consequently
became more thickly settled than any other sections
OF the West, as the numerous Cities large villages,
and products OF these counties demonstrate
Besides tue large agricultural productions of this
section the manufacturing interest is very extensive
in the large towns and.is rapidly increasing.
The coal mines at Danvi lie on this line are extern
siyely and protitablv worked, and FURNISH BUSI-
NESS FOR OVER THREE HUNDRED COAL
CARS on TINS line at present, and MORE THAN
TWICE THAT NUMBER WILL BE REQUIRED
to carry coal on completion of the remaining link
From the present earnings on 1870 miles IL is safe to
assume that the LOCAL BUSINESS ALONE
VIII BE AMPLE NOT ONLY no Pay THE
BONDED DEBT, BUT LARGE DIVIDENDS
ON THE STOCK.
In addition to the population and wealth of the
country and all that is necessary to support first
class 70 d and make it a profitable investment
through local traffic. it forms grand central trunk
ne Tor through business lot passed by any road
of equal length in the West
AT indianapolis it cOnnec by main lines with tn:
cities OF Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburg, Cincinnati
and with the Pennsylvania Central, Baltimore and
Ohio and other important railroad lines, At Pekin
the western terminus, connections are made will
Peoria, Quincy, Keokuk. Burlington an Omaha
At Bloomington, with the Illinois Central Road
which runs northwest GOO miles to Fort Dodge, Iowa
very large business will be done with this line
At awhile it connects by rail with Toledo on lake
Erie. map will show all these to he very impor
tant connections in making through lines over th
route
Tue loan is placed beyond any contingency BY tb,
present earnings from local traffic on one bundIe
and eighty miles, which must necessarily be double
when the trains run through.
The Bonds are convertible at The cption of FIJI
holder into stock at par at any time, which ado
greatly to their value. They may be registered a
| the Farmers Loan and Trust Company il desired