The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-01
WHY greatest and Reate

We zee some envious mortals object to
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway be.
ing called the greatest and best line in the
country. What means greatestf Is It
more length OF line, miles operated and
business transported What means best !?
Every one knows the reply. That this
line Is greatest, . few facts will demon.
s,rate.eIt operates nearly twenty-one
hundred miles Of road e, 07s to be exact,
and resches nearly every important point
in Northern Illinois, in Wisconsin, 10
Northern Michigan, in Iowa, in Mime
sofa, and runs many miles into Dakota.
What other line begins to traverse so
many States? None-Not one.
A road 500 miles in length is 4 long
one. A thousand miles make = great
line. What then should be said OF one
2 100 miles long?-Just think ofit-lf it
was laid eastward from New York 1t
would reach more than two-thirds Of the
way across the Atlantic ocean, or from
the pine clad hills Of Maine TO the sunny
shores of the Gulf Of Mexico.-Great is
il not? Then for 8 moment look at ite
business. It carries millions (think OF
what millions mean Of passengers q
wear, 10 say nothing Of the silver and
iron, and lead, and lumber, and cattle and
hogs, and thousands on thousands OF car
loads Of wheat, and oats, and corn, and
horses, sheep, and the thousand and one
other kinds OF freight that Ia grown or
used or handled BY the people OF the
great Northwest, through which 1t Is the
great iron highway.
Take down your map and trace Its
routes. Fix your eye on Chicago "a .
starting point. Westwardly in nearly an
air line you will trace its California line
until YOU reach the Missouri river at
Council Bluffs, opposite omaha-here Is
a single run OF nearly 500 miles. Back
to Chicago again you look Northwest,
and follow another Of its routes through
Madison, the Capital Of Wisconsin,
through the pine woods Of that whole
State AID into Minnesota, and on 70 81.
Paul and Minueapolis-this Is 800 miles
more. Again looking from Chicago you
can trace line through Sparta, Wiscon.
sin, La Crosse, 10 the same State, Winonar
OWatonna and New Ulm, in Minnesota,
and NortwestWard far in DLkota-hsre
we have 625 miles more oil road. Again
coming to Chicago We see two lines run.
ming Northwardly-one along the lake
shoTe 10 Milwaukee, and thence TO Fond
du Lac, and the other running more In
land. through Janesyille, WATERFOWL, etc
also 10 Fond du Lac, thence North through
Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay and EseAna'
ba 10 Negaunee, Tshpeming aud Marquette
here Is another 40 miles Of road.
Then We have line from Chicago TO FL
gin, Rockford and Freeport, another from
Clinton, Iowa, TO Anamosa, in the same
State, another from Kenosha on Lake
Michigan to Rockford, In Northern llli-
pois. and after all longer lines We have
many short spans 70 traverse before We
have found out all Of the Chicago q North
western Railway.
hit any wonder then that this line !.
called the great Western Trunk Line !
So far ahead Of anything else is It In the
Way Of road bed, cars, locomotives and
hotel coaches, that even lie compositions
are obliged to acknowledge that 1t Is the
I'll The passengers to or from California,
Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, the Black
Hill. Minnesota, Manitoba, the East
West' North or South, should see that
thew are furnished tickets BY this great
line. Forget not that this alone Of all the
roads west or north Of Chicago, run the
vorld.renoWned Pullman hotel car. No
other western road has Pullman or any
other form Of hotel car no matter what
they olAim.-TkS Herald.