Connecticut western news., 1875-10-08
Chicago and Her Railroads.

Chicago and Her Railroads.
 We copy from lengthy and very con- prehensive editorial in the Chicago Tribune of Sept. 11th, 1875, an account of the greatest railway in the world. It may not be generally known, but nevertheless it is true, that the Chicago & Northwestern rail- way company is the most extensive, and owns more miles of railway than any other corporation in the world.
 THR CHICAGO AND NORTHWESTERN.
 The Chicago & Northwestern railway embraces several distinct lines radiating from Chicago, west, northwest and north. It is the pioneer road of the West, and from the single line that forty yearsag pushed it's way over the uninhabitei prairies of Northern Illinois to Galena, it has grown to be mighty system traversing the great states of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ninne- sota, Michigan and Dakota-the garden of the nation, and laying the rich harvests of millions of broad acres in the lap of Chica- go. The magnitude of this vast corpora ton can hardly be grasped by mere show ing of the statistics of its business, but the fact that the combined extent of it's various divisions would make a continuous line of over 20O0 miles in length, gives faint idea of the immense amount of capital neccssa- rily involved in it's management. Ar exact statement we cannot give, but it will ap- proximate $72. 100000 The company has 9.l6o cars, 369 locomotives, employs 1000 nen, and its monthly expenses average about $500, ,o0O. The lines owned and op- erated entirely, or mainly, by the Chicago & Northwestern railway are as follows:
 THE OMAHA AND CALIFORNIA LINE.
 The Omaha & California line extends from Chicago to Omaha, 492 miles, passing through Rochelle, Fulton and Dixon, nli- nois; Clinton, Dc Witt, Cedar Raplds, Mar shall, Grand Junction, Missouri Valley and Council Bluffs, Iowa. It passes through the finest portion of Illinois and Iowa, pre- senting to the traveller or shipper the very best facilities for reaching not only the sta tions on it's own line but by it's principal connections all the country north. Its con- nections are as follows: At Dixon for Po- To, Warren, Mineral Point, Galena and points north thereof; at Sterling with the Rockford, Rock Island S St. Louis road it forms tue short line between Chicago and Rock Island, and reaches Davenport, Mon mouth, Beardstown and the tier of counties along the Illinois river; at Fulton with the Western Union road for the territory GOV cred by that line; at Clinton with the Chi cago, Dubuque & Minnesota, with which line it forms through line and runs through trains of Pullman palace cars 10 Dubuque, Lansing, McGregor, Prarie du Chien and Lacrosse at Dewitt for Day. enport; at Cedar Rapids with the Burling- ton, Cedar Rapids & Minnesota railroad for Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Shellrock, Wa. verly, Postville, Austin, Minn., and Mason City. Iowa; at Marshall with the Central railroad of Iowa for Ackley, Clear Lake, Mason City and Austin at Ames with the Des Moines & Minnesota road for Des Moines; at Grand Junction with the Des
 
 south and Fort Dodge north at Missouri Valley with the Sioux City & Pacific road for Sioux City, Yankton, Blair, Wisner, West Point and other points in Southern 1 Dakota and Northern Nebraska and on the line of the Dakota Southern railroad. This road is eminently the route to Sioux City and Yankton. Over all these lines the Chicago & Northwestern railway ships pas sengers and freight and very largely con- trols their business. Council Bluffs gives their line intimate connection with the Great West, and offers facilities unsurpassed for passengers and freight destined for any point west of the Missouri river. At Omaha it gets it's connection with the Union Pacif. ic road for Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, NevaCa, California, the Pa cifc coast and for the trans Pacific ports ID Japan, China, the Sandwich Islands, Aus tralia and New Zealand. It has agencies in San Francisco, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Singapore, Honolulu, Melbourne, Sidney and Aukland, and by these means controls a large and growing trade with the Orient This line is owned exclusively by this com pany it is largely laid with heavy stee rails its cars are superb all express trains on this road arc equipped with Nesting house patent air-brakes and Miller's patent safety platform and couplers-the mos, perfect protection against accidents known THE ST. PAUL AND MINNESOTA LINE.
 The St. Paul & Minneapolis line (Elroy route) extends from Chicago to St. Paul 4O9 miles, and to Minneapolis, 42O miles passing through Harvard, Madison, the cap ital of Wisconsin, Devils Lake, charm ing summer resort, Baraboo and Elroy. Fl roy, PIP miles from Chicago. is the south ern terminus of the West Wisconsin rail way; it is also the point where the Mime sota division of the Northwestern road which runs northwestward to Lake Ram peska, Dakota, 625 miles from Chicago leaves this line. Of this division we speal elsewhere On the St. Paul division tn, traveller passes through the heart of th' great pine lumber region of Wisconsin, go ing through Black River Falls, Humbird Augusta, Eau Claire, Menomonee, and fl nally crossing the St. Croix river at Hud son. A few miles beyond you reach { branch for Saltwater. A l5-mile ride iron Hudson brings the traveller to St. Paul, ,ant II miles farther on, Minneapolis and St Anthony. At St. Paul close connection are made via the Lake Superior & Mssiss ippi railroad for Duluth, Morehead, Bis marck and other points on the great North ern Pacific railroad, and also with the St Paul & Pacific railroad for Breckenridge Fort Garry and points in Manitoba. 4 greater variety of beautiful scenery is me with on this line than on any other of equa