The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-08-05
MISCELLANEOUS.
INDIANAPOLIS.
BLOOMINGTON
eStel'll RailWay.
Seven Per Gent. Gold Loan.

The bonds are in denominations OF $1,000 each 50.
cured by first mortgage PES miles of road from
Indianapolis, the largest city ard most import ar't
railroad GENRE in the Stale at indiana, to he civ
of Pekil in Illinois. Wy
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY MILES of tbo
Line are now IN FULL OPERATION, and eoninned
with New, FIRsT-CLAsS Rolling Stock CONSISTING of
20 locomotives, % Passenger Coaches; II Baggage
and Express Cars; $50 Box, took and Coal Cas-
more will be added as the wants the road reGnire
The earnings arc already Greatly in Excess Of the
Interest on the Whole issue Of BONDS The balance
twenty-five miles of the division in Indiana iS naari
all graded with all the Iron on hand, and will be
completed without delay. W
There are thirty.sx depots On the line located in
cities and torns that contain, IN the a0greaofe n
averaging over 800 TO each square mile, within a
radius OF half a mile OF the track; and ,r;tbi@
t,oenty miles OF me track, taere is population OF
about Sir hundred thousand. "
IL passes through the counties OF Marion Hem
bricks, Montgomery, Fountain, Warren and Yer
million, in the State Of Indiana, and vermlon,
Champaign. Dewitt, Piatt, Mclean and 1azewoll
counties, in Illinois, on the line of the old emigrant
state road which was lai ont in the best portion
those states before the time of railroads, was then
The main line OF western travel, and consequently
became more thckly settled than any other sections
OF the Vest as the numerous cities, large villages,
anu products OF these counties demonstrate
Besides the large agricultural productions of this
section the manufacturing interest is very extensive
in T the large towns and is rapidly increasing
Inc coal mines at Danv lie on this line are extern
sy lively and nrotitably worked, and FURNISH BUsi-
NESS FOR OVER THREE HUNDRED COAL
aAh ; on to's line at present, and MORE THAN
TWICE THAT NUMBER WILL BE REOUIRED
to carry coal on completion the remaining link
from the present earnings $50 miles ID is safe ia
assume that the LOCAL. BUSINESS 4IONE
VIZ BE AMPLE NOT ONLY TO Ply THE
B0NDED DEBT, BUT LARGE DJVIDENDS
ON THE STOCK. -4' O"'
I'D addition to the population and wealth of the
country and all that is necessary to SUPPORT first
class ro'd and make it profitable Investment
1roagh ,ccal traffic, forms grand central trunk
ne Ior through business hot surpassed ty any road
of equal length in the West
Ac indianapolis 1t cOnnec. s by main lines with III
cities OF Columbus Cleveland, Pitts6urg, Cincinnati
and with the Pennsylvania Central Baltimore and
ONO and other important railroad lines. At Pekn
the western terminus, connections are made witt
Peoria, Quincy, KeOkuk. Burlington an Omaha
AT Bloomington, with the Illinois Central Road
which runs northwest GOO miles to Fort Dodg Iowa
very large business will be done with this line
A. awhile it connects by rail with Toledo on lake
Erie. A map will show all these to he yerv mpor.
route.
The loan Is placed beyond any contingency by III.
present earnings rom local traffic ON one bundled
and eighty miles, which must necessarily be doub ed
when the trains run through.
me Bonds are convertible at the option Of the
h0ider INTO stock at par at any time, which ado
greatly TO their value. They may be registered al
the Farmers Loan and TruSt Com "a, lne:,oI