Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-10-25
Why Greatest aud Bcs,I

We see some envious mOrlals object to
the CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY
being called the greatest and best line in
the country. What means greatest? Is it
more length of line, miles operated and
business transported? What means best d?
Every one knows the reply. That this line
Is greatest, few facts will demonstrate.
1t operates nearly twenty-one hundred
miles of road (2,078 to be exact) and
reaches nearly every important point in
Northern Illinois, in Wisconsin. in North
ern Michigan, in Iowa. in Minnesota, and
runs many lines into Dakota. What other
line begins to traverse so many States Z?
None-Not one.
A road 500 miles in length is long one.
A thousand miles makes a great line.
What, then, should be said of one 2,l0O
miles long, just think OF it. If il was
laid eastward from New York il wonld
reach two-thirds of the way across the At
lnntic Ocean, or from the pine clad hills Of
Maine to the sunny shores of the Gnlf of
Mexico. Great is it not? Then for mo-
ment look at its business. 1t carries mil
lions (think of what millions menn) of pas.
sengers year, to say nothing Of the silver,
and iron, and lead, and lumber, and cattle
and hogs, and thousands on thousands Of
carloads of wheat, and oats, and corn, and
horses, sheep, aud the thousand and one
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 II starting
point. Westward, in nearly an air line,
you will trace its California line until you
reach the Missouri river NJ Council Bluffs,
opposite Omaha--here is a single run of
nearly 500 miles. Back to Chicago again
you look Northwest, and follow another Of
It's routes through Madison, the Capital of
Wisconsin, through the pine woods of that
whole State and into Minnesota, and on to
St. Paul and Minneapolis-this is 400
miles more. Again looking from Chicago
you can trace line through Sparta, Wis
consin, La Crosse in the same State, Vino
ma, Owatonna and New Ulm, in Minnesota, =,
and Northwestward far into Dakota-here
we have 625 miles more Of road. Again
coming to Chicago we see two lines run
ming Norrhwardly-one along the lake
shore to Milwaukee, and thence to Fond
du Lac, thence North through Oshkosh, De
ISISb ny anu W Ntblu-
nee, Ispheming and Marquetle-here is
another 440 miles of road. Then we have
line from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford and
Freeport, another from Clinton, Iowa, to
Anamosa in the same State, another from
Nenosha on Like Michigan to Rockford,
in Northern Illinois, and alter all longer
lines we have many short spans to traverse
before We have found out all OF the CHIcA-
GO & NoRTHwEsTERN RAILWAY.
Is it any wonder, then, that this line is
called the Great Western Trunk Line ?
So far ahead OF anything else is it in the
way of road bed, cars, locomotives and ho-
tel coaches, that even its competitors are
obliged to acknowledge that it is the lest.
The passengers TO or from California,
Colorado, Utah, Nebraska. the Black Hills,
Minnesota, Manitoba, the East, West North
or South, should see that they are furnished
with tickets by this great line. Forget not
that this alone OF all the roads west or
north of Chicago, run the world renowned
Pullman hotel car. No other western road
has Pullman or any other form Of hotel
ear, no matter what they claim.-Herald.
Wauseon Republican: Those who are
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