, 1873-10-07

Earnings per Earntnns per
,passenEcr ton 9f(rei:lht
E: E::: :::s ::2: :Z :: ;:
Fsr Fes yssT yssF snns sR5s My i 3s59 3os
Ser Eor sans snns Ely 1a 5 s5SS
which aro 20 per cent decline on passenger
Comparatively, these li1forencoB concodo ovor
81. 300, ,o00 OIL the largo business Of tlie last
year, whereof the public renped tho bcnon..
Since the Inst annual report tho
WEST WISCONSIN RAILWAY COMPANY
haB completed itH line to q connection with the
Madison Extension Of Elroy, ,---making through
line from Chicago, through Madison, the capi-
tal OF Wisconsin, to st. PAUL and Minneapolis,
This lino ia har1nonlously and successfully op-
Grated BY the two companies and furnishes to
tho public as valuable facilities as any Of Its
rivals.
During tho lust fiscal year tho several exton-
siona Of tho Company'a 1incs havo boon prose-
outed with oil possible vlgor. -.
THE. EsoANABA EXTENSION
from Monomince to EsohnRba, Is miles, waa
completed and put IN operation on tho 31st of
December last, mud tho largo lanl-grant contin-
gent upon Its construction prior to the timc 3D.
Tho work upon -. +.
THE MADISON EXTENSION,
designed to connect tho lines in Wisconsin with
the Lacrosse, Trompeleau 4 Prescott Railroad,
and through that line with the Winona Il st.
Potter Railroad, in minnesota, has been nearly
completed. The location of this line required
tho construction Of three largo Lunnols bctwcon
Elroy and Sparta, In Wisconsin. Two OF
them aro fully completed. Tho complo-
ton OF the longest ono, $500 foot In
amount Of wator found In excavating it. This
difficulty Inns boon surnlountod, and tho Exson-
sion will bo fully completed by tho 1st Of Sop
tenbor next elonld no unforeseen difficulties in
the tunnel work be met. =;
:: Owing to the unusually Aevore weather and
heavy SHOWS OF November last, tue work Of con-
Rtruction upon
THE w1NoNA ST. PETER RAILROAD,
In Minnesota and Dakota, was suspended on the
Now Em with the grading nearly finished to tho
end.-about So miles wcat of tho western bound
nry limo of the Btnta aud about 1GG miloy ycst of
New Ulm. Tho forms Of tho net Of
tic completion Of tho Nv wo{o T no 'eI'1oq on or
before tho Sd day Of March Inst. A repra-
scntation Of the circumstances under which tic
work was suspended was made to Congress at
aud 0 an ao o2tonps o limo for I eoa pS
was promptly PASSED. Work has boon resumed
md il boing vigorously pressed. and tho ontiro
limo will be completed before tic timo expires,
and the land-grant, amounting, Us estimated, to
1,20G, 1884 acres, will DO secured.
TIe work upon tho
NORTHWESTERN UNION RAILWAY,
designed to oouucct the lfno betweon CEicaco
md milwaukee,, at tue latter place. with tho Wls-
cousin Division at Fond lu Inc, was in 4 great
monBuro iutorlupted by the gauo caugns tl,at
compelled Suspension Of tho work on tho Win
ona & st. Peter Railroad; work was, however,
prosecuted during tho winter, md has been con-
iiuuol until the present timo The track il being
1aid from each end, and the entiro completion Of
the line Ia confidently expected by tho lHt day of
August noxt. Whom opened for business this
line will shorten the distance 20 milea between
Chicago and all points on our lino between Fond
du Lao and Lake Superior, besides furnishing n
profitable local business. Worry yalnnblo dopot-
grounds have been acquired in the City Of hill
waukeo.
above named,
THREE MA1N-rauHg LINES,
contained in tho great systom Of tile Chicago l.
Northwestern Hallway Company will cume into
operation ono west, from tho Chicago to tho
Missouri ltyor, connecting with the Union pa-
cfic lsailroad at Council bluffs another, north
wost, with continuous line owned by tho Com
pauy, through the States of Wisconsin and Min
noBota into Dakota, and, BY connection with tho
West Wisconsin Railway, forming direct
line to st. paul and Minneapolis and
to the Northern pacitic Railroad and
tho thira running north. ria hlilwaul!;3eo,
consin, to the copper and iron districts OF, upper
Michigan.
During tho year, tho Company procured tho
construction Of the limo of -
THE srANWoop l. rirToN RAILROAD,
leading south from stanwood, OH the Iowa
Division, to Tipton, u distance Of So miles, and
il now operating it. This line reaches rich ro-
elon Of country heretofore without railroad fa-
oiltioa, ond will prove a valuable feeder.
THE ST. olIAnI.Es BRANCH RAILROAD
Inns boon oxtonlod from tho u,nil. line at Gonova,
Ill. south miles to Datayin Ill.,-onabliug us
to reach tho immense stone-quarries at that
place. furnishing much needed material for tho
construction Of bridges and culyorts, NJ we'll as
for tho public.
branch railroad outside and west Of tho city-
limits Of Chcago, B meB i'll lonEih. lending
from tho Wisconsin Division main line ut Irving
park, 6 miles from Chicago to Ill intersection
with tho 0alcnA Division line about miles
wost Of tho Wells street depot, aud known as
:, twEsr-slnE TRAoK.'
has boon constructed and put in operation during
atrnsteI @ nrincnaIIv to aeeonmodato the largo
Trai1hf. M .f,f1fn nf lin Com1nuy. furnisllos n WV