Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-25
Growth Of One Systems Business
May be Taken as a Criterion
BOUGHT COLORADO EASTERN
Rock Island Gains Valuable Proper
y In Colorado Port stllwell
Now Officially Exists.

1.-THE Illinois Centrars business and
track mileage have 40 increased Of
late" said Mr.. Donald Rose, Salt Lake
representatlve-of that company today,
"that It has been found necessary TO
order seventy new engines and ] .5g0
coal cars. The cars are TO be Of 40 tons
capacity, and win cost a total Of ST.
100000, and the engines are to cost an
average price each Of $4,000. Our sys-
TEN operates now a total mileage ot
$500 miles and upon our southern lines
we have two Of the largest engines In
the world, Nos 68g and $40. have
sent for a large photograph Of $40 and
expect It here In a few days, when /
win have It on exhibition. Three Of
the new engines are to be OF the tS9
and $40 kind. These jumbos are OF the
consolidated type and tip the beam al
over 2S2, 900 pounds In working order.
about 10000 Of which rest on the eight
driving wheels, the balance on the plot
truck. The drivers are nearly 90 inches
and the boiler so inches in diameter
The cylinders are 70 by 30 Inches IN
dimension. and the firebox II feet long
by sh wide. The steam working pres
sure Is 2ls pounds, and the mosnters can
haul eight or nine thousand tons or
100 loaded cars like a string Of toys.
They are. Of course, IN the freight SER
vice, and on the divisions with the
heaviest grades and curyatures. Their
adoption necessitated the Illinois Gem
tral 70 rebuild It's bridges and culyerts
on those divisions.
THE growth OF the Illinois Central
engines, however. has been no greater
or more astounding than the growth OF
itself. From the original Illinois "Y''
before the war, when Cairo Chicago
and East Dubuque were It's sole termi-
nails, Il has pushed through Iowa and
deep into South Dakota. annexed Wis
consin al the heart, crossed nothern
Illinois direct from Chicago 10 Dubuque.
added ST. Louis and Louisville, has a
double track from Fulton Kentucky, 20
New Orleans, and Is practically in Gin
cinnau and Nashville. The year 1900
witnessed is entrance into Omaha over
its own rails and Il rs reputed 10 have
secured control OF the Minneapolis q
81 Louis from Fort Dodge. Iowa, into
the Minnesota Twin Cities. A recent
map issued by the company shows
dotted-line extensions to Duluth and
Charleston, South Carollna--reyealin
that the end Is not yet. Freight and
ticket offices are being established IN an
the Atlantic and Pacific coast cities
THE new arm Of the Illinois Central
system from Fort Dodge 20 Omaha rep
resents a cost appr0Nlmatlng $1,000. 900
In the right OF way. the building and the
equipment The Omaha arm Is an air
line from Tara Junction just west OF
Fort Dodge l25 miles In length and OF
the highest tO-dato standard. with a
twenty-fO0t wide gravel ballasted bed.
steel bridges, stone cuverts, and
eighty-fve-p Ounds-tO-the- yard steel
rails, making the route capable OF the
heaviest and fastest trains This, to-
gether with the roads old established
main line between Tara and Chicago,
gives the Illinois Central a splendid
Chicago Omaha route the grade Of the
new division ranging from about fifteen
20 twenty feet to the mile. while the
curyatures are cOrrespondingly light
stretch Of some forty miles being per-
fectly straight The new road takes a
bee line from Tara 20 Denlson, cross
ing the Milwaukee and the Northwest
ern branches respectively az Rockwell
and Wall Lake and paralleling the
main line % the Northwestern from
Denison 70 Logan, crossing overhead
between them, ana again at Cradle.
halfway between Missouri Valley and
Council Bluffs. The work necessitated
some extraordinary aud costly embank-
ing"