The Oskaloosa herald., 1902-02-20
RAILROAD NEWS.
Items of Interest Cleaned at De-
pot and Round House.

The Iowa Central road earned for
the first week of February s4s, 213, an
increase OF S5,O27 over the CORES
ponding period of last year.
: The Pennsylvania road has placed
an order for nearly four thousand
typewriters, having decided that all
telegraphic operators must in the
future use typewriters.
The Wabash road is already in
auguratipg some effective advertising
over the fact that 1t has its own rails
direct to the Worlds Fair ground in
st. Louis.
1t begins to look that the M. N. &
s. road will build through to Burling-
ton from Elrick Junction. 1t will
cover twenty-five miles of road max
ing line from Burlington to Musca-
tine fifty. seven miles in length.
The telegraph states that train
loaded with prunes was recently
wrecked down in New Jersey. You
can now look for several boarding
houses to spring up near the site OF
the disaster.
The Iowa Central has not been
idle these last few years. From two
streaks of rust it has eyoluted into
railroad of no mean pretensions. All
along it's line from Peoria to Albert
Lea are shown evidences of thrift and
practical economy.
E O. Macy, formerly chief ell
gineer of the Iowa Central, writes to
friends east that he is succeeding
very we'll in British Columbia, near
Vancouver. Mr.. Macy left the
Central to take a position on an
Idaho road but is now identified in
copper mine engineering in British
Columbia.
Living within ones income is
practical economy. Railroads are not
unlike individuals. Certainly the
modest and unpretentious Iowa Gen.
trail depot at Mason City stands for
something akin to practical economy
when the company's resources are
measured with those of the great and
strong companies,
There Is doubtless no institution in
Iowa where the employees are kept
more busy from morning until night
than in the various branches of the
Iowa Central machine shops. Ger
tainly there has never been time In
the history of the road at this season
of the year when 80 much work has
been in hand to be executed quickly
to meet the demands of the freight
and passenger traffic.
The Canadian Pacific now runs a
train from ocean to ocean in three
days, estimated at an average speed
for that great distance at forty-one
miles an hour.
Northwestern Iowa has made a
great record of late years in the i'm
provements of beef cattle. Fully 800
head have been bought by the farm
ers and cattle men of this state dur
ing the past five years, most of them
being imported. The returns of the
live stock division of the freight de-
partments of the Iowa roads will sup
port this statement.
Organization is the spirit of the
hour. Why don't the business men
of our city get together and organ
ize for city expansion and go after
some of the industrial propositions
that are now formulating all over
the middle west in these prosperous
times? Perhaps our city would be
the ideal site for a location-if the
business world only knew it.
If you are thinking of making
a land-seeking trip to the north, west
or north west, any time during March
or April, now is the time to mature
your plans by writing to Coos. Batty,
of the Iowa Central road, of Mar
shalltown, for the cheapest and
quickest route. The Iowa Central is
the Iowa route for the best locations
in the northwest for the homeseekers.