The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-10-31
wnY GREATEST AND nrsri

We see some envious mortals object
to the CHicAGo Il NoRrn- WESTERN
RAILWAY being called the greatest aud
best line in the country. What means
greatest! Is it more length Of line,
miles operated and business transport.
edl What means best Every one
knows the reply. That this line is
greatest, a few facts will demonstrate
1t operates nearly twenty.one hun.
dred miles Of road (2,07S to be exact
and reaches nearly every important
point in Northern Illinois, in Wisconsin,
in Northern Michigan, in Iowa, in Min
nesota, and runs many lines into Dako-
ia. What other line begins TO traverse
so many States ?-None-Not one.
A road 500 miles in length is a long
one, a thousand miles makes a great
line, What, then, should be said OF
one 2 100 miles long Just think Of it
IF it was laid eastward from New
York il would reach more thar two
thirds OF the way across the Atlantic
Ocean, or from the pine clad hills of
Maine to the sunny shores o. the Gull
of Mexico.-Great is it not ? Then for
a moment look at its business. 1t car
ries millions think of what millions
mean) of passengers a year, TO Say
nothing of the silver and iron, aud
lead, and lumber, and cattle and hogs,
and thousands on thousands of car
loads Of wheat, and oats, aud corn, and
horses, sheep, and the thousand and
n other kinds of freight that is grown
or used or handled by the people Of the
great Northwest, through which it is
the great iron highway.
Take down your map and trace its
routes. Fix your eye on Chicago as a
starting point. Westward, 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 North.
west, and follow another Of its routes
through Madison, the Capital Of Wis
cousin, through the pine woods of that
whole State and into Minnesota, aud on
to St Paul aud Minneapolis-this is
400 miles more. Again looking from
Chicago you can trace a line through
Sparta, Wisconsin, La Crosse, IN the
same State, Winona, OwatonUa aud
New Ulm, in Minnesota, and North.
westward far into Dakota-here we
have 625 miles more Of road. Again
coming TO Chicago we see two lines
running NorthwardIy-one along the
lake shore to Milwaukee, aud thence to
Fond du Lac. aud the other running
more inland, through Janesyille, Water.
town, etc, also 10 Fond du Lac, thence
North through Oshkosh, De Pere,
Green Bay and Esoanaba,t to Negaunee,
Ishphemiog and Marquette here is
another 40 miles Of road Then we
have a line from Chicago to Elgin,
Rockford aud Freeport, another from
Iowa to Anamosa ia the same
State, another from kenosha on Lake
TO Rockford. IN Northern H.
and after all longer lines we
many short spans TO traverse be-
we have iou nd out all OF the Cur
cAGo & NoEIH-W EsrERs RAILWAY.
Is it any wonder, then, that this Iine
is called the great Western Trunk
Liner So far ahead Of anything else is
i in the way Of road bed cars, locomo
and hotel coaches, that even its
competitors are Obliged to acknowledge
il is the best.
The passengers to or from California,
Colorado. Utah, Nebraska. the Black
Hills, Minnesota. Manitoba, the Eaet,
West, North or Sorih, should see that
are furnished tickets BY this great
.lhe Forget net that this alone OF all
the roads west Or north or Chicago. run
world renos ned Pullman hotel car
No other western road has Pullman or
any other form Of hotel car. no matter
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