The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-07-12
II ~dianapolis.
Bloomington
WESTERN RAILWAY.
SEW I'm PER CENT. GOLD LOAN,
II dianapolis.

The bond- n.o IL d.uon.na .on y. al 0vU cab
BY q prst mortgage n 2O5 miles ol road, ON In
dianspolii, the largest city and most importsn,
railroad centre in the State Of Indiana. L. the rity
Of Pekin In Illinois.
One Hundred and Eighty Iuile- oi the line are
low in Full Operation, and equipped with New.
First class rolling stock, consisting OF % loeemo-
tiyes, &c Passenger Coaches, Il. Baggage and EX.
press ears; 80 Box, Stock and Coal cars, and
more will be added NJ the wants oi the road re.
quire. The earning are already Greatly in ex-
cess OF the Interest on the whole issue Of bond..
The balance, twenty-five mile. oil the division in
Indiana, is nearly all graded, with all the iron on
hand, and will be completed without delay.
There are Thirty-six depots on the line, located
i'll cities and towns that contain in the aggregate,
q population Of one hundred and ninety thousand,
averaging over go TO each square mile, within
6 radius Of half Il mile Of the track and within
twenty miies Of the track, there Is a population oi
about six hundred thousand.
1t passes through the counties oi Marion, Hend.
ricks, Montgomery, Fountain, Warren and vermi-
lion, in the state Of Indiana, and Hermiliiou,
Champaign, De Witt, Platt, .Mcl.es and 1a7ewell
Counties. il Illinois. on The line OF The old emi-
grant state road which Wa laid oct in the hest
portion o. those States before the tira- @; railroads,
was then the main line of Western travel, and
consequently became more thickly settled than
other sections Of the West, ~ the numerous cities
and large village, and products Of thee %countie-
demonstrate.
Besides the iur1, agricultural productions 1t
this section the manufacturing interest is very TX.
tensiye in the large Inwn- and ~ rsridlY increa..
ing.
tn. coal mine- at Dan,illr GA TIL. line are e.
tensively worked, and furnish business Tor osef
three hundred coal ears on th:. line NJ present and
more than twice that number will he required 10
carry coal on the completion o.! the remaining
link.
From Ia. present e.rninss OF isu niles il i, ale
TO assume that the local business alone Will b.
smple net only to pay the bonded debt, tut large
dividends Oh the stock.
Ia addition to the populatio. aud .eall. Of ths
scuntry and oil that il necessary 10 support L art
ciass read and make il a profitable Investment
through local trhhe. IL forms = grand central
trunk line for through business not surpassed ny
cay road Of equal length 10 the west.
At Indianapolis il connects BY main !ihe, nill
the cities of Columbus, Clesvsland, Pittsburgh
Cincinnati, and with the PennsylsBnia Central
Baltimore and Ohio, and other important railroad
lines. At Pekin, the western terminus, connec,
tions ste made with Peoria, Quincy, Keokuk, Bar
lington and Omaha. At Bloomington, with tbs
Illinois Central Road, which runs northwest t.
Fort Dodge, Iowa. a very large b siness will h,
done With this line. Al Danville il connects b,
rail with Toledo on lake Erie. 4 nam will show
all thee to be very important connections in max
Ing through lines over this route.
The Loaa Is placed beyond any contingency b.,
she present earning. from Local lralc on One
Hundred and Eighty miles, which must nece.sari
ly be doubled when the trains run through.
The Bonds are convertible at the option Of the
holder into stock at par at any time, which add
greatly to their value. They may he registered
at the farnsrs' iosu and Trust Company II de
sired