Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-10-15

she greatest hallway Ia ti.s World.
The Chicago & North Western Railway
Company IS the most extensive, and owns
more miles Of railway than any Other cor
porltion in the world 1t embraces sever
al lines, radiating from Chicago, west,
northwest, and rorih. 1t is the pioneer
road OF the West, and from the single
line that forty years ago pushed its way
over the uninhabited prairies of Nothern
Illinois to Galena, it has grown to be
mighty system traversing the great States
Of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin. Minneso-
to, Michigan and Dakota-the garden OF
tue nation, and laying the rich haryests OF
millions OF acres in the lap of Chicago.
| The combined extent of the various divi-
sions OF this corporation would make Il
continuous line OF over 1000 mileskin
length. The immense amount of capital
involved in its management, will approx
mate s.2,000,O00. The company has
$50 cars, 369 locomotives, employs 49,
900 men. and its monthly expenses
average about 100000 The lines
owned and operated entirely. or mainly.
by the Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way. are shown in recent number OF the
y. \. Tribune. Is follows;
THE OMAHA Il CALIFORNIA LINE,
From Chicago to Omaha. 492 miles,
passes through the finest portions of Hi |
nois and Iowa, presenting the beat iacli- |
ties for reaching the stations on its own |
line, and all the country north. Its on
nections ara az follows. At Dixon, for |
Mineral Point, Galeni. and points north;
at Sterling with the Rockford Rock Isl
and a ST. Louis Road it forms the short
line between Chicago and Rock Island,
and reaches the tier OF the counties along
the Illinois River; at Fulton with the
Western Union Road TOR the territory
covered by that line; at Clinton with the
Chicago, Dubuque & Minnesota, with
which line it forms through line and
runs through trains ofPullman Palace Cars
to Dubuque Prairie du Chen and La
Crosse; at Dewitt for Davenport; at
Cedar Rapids with the Burlington & Min
nesota Railroad for Waterloo, Cedar Falls.
Austin, Mimi, and Mason City, Iowa;
Tor Ackley, Mason City, and Austin; at
Ames with the Des Moines l. Minnesota
Road from Des Moines; at Grand juno
ton with the Des Moines Il Fort Dodge
Road for Des Moines south. and Fort
Dodge north; at MISSOURI Valley with
the Sioux City d Pacific Road for Sioux
City. Yankton, Blair, Wisper, West Point,
and the other points in Southern Dakota
and Nothern Nebraska, and on the line of
the Dakota Southern Railroad Council /
Bluff gives their line intimate connection
with the great West, and offer facilities I'M
surpassed for passengers and freight des-
tined for any point west of the MISSOURI
River. At Omaha it gets its connection
with the Union Pacific Road, for the Paci-
tic Coast, and for the trans-Pacilic ports
in Japan, China, and the Sandwich Isl
ands, Australia and New Zealand. This
line is owned exclusively by the COM
pany; it is largely laid with heavy steel o
rails; it, cars are supurb all express II
rains on Ibis road are equipped with c
W heterogeneous patent air-brakes and \
Millers patent safety platform and
most perfect projections
gainst accidents known. "
THE ST. PAUL & MINNEAPOLIS LINE.
Elroy route), extends from Chicago to =
st. Paul, 400 miles, and TO Minneapolis, :
20 miles, passing through Madison the =
'apitai OF Wisconsin. Devils Lake, q \
harming summer resort, Baraboo and
1lroy. Elroy, PIP miles from Chicago,
5 the southern terminus of the West
Wisconsin Railway; it is also the point d
rhere the Minnesota Division of the 9.
'orth- Western Road. which runs north a
eastward to Lake Kampeska, Dakota, =
Is miles from Chicago. leaves this line.
IN the ST. Paul Division the traveller
asses through the heart ofthe great pine
inber resiea Of Wisconsin, going n,