, 1903-02-05
PRICE FIVE CENTS

may be imagined that this wheatJ
was hardly destined for export,
and that the travellers on this jun
ket of early days little thought to
what proportions this nucleus of
a great railway system would
grow.
But the road grew and in 1867
the line to Council Bluffs was
complete, and the Pawnees on
the Platte and the Sioux on the I
Missouri began to feel the crowd
ing of the white mans outposts. /
In 1850 Iowa, Minnesota and
Wisconsin had become well set
tied, while along the Platte the /
Indians still remained. The
Northwestern had, however, built
a line across southern Minnesota
and into Dakota as far as Water
town, with feeders to various
points, while in Wisconsin and
northern Michigan lines had been
extended into the Lake Superior
districts through Escanaba to
Negaunee and Ishpeming.
This all seems very recent, but
since that time the system has
grown until it penetrates nine
states of the Union, and its heavy
lines OF freight trains and its pa
latial passenger service reach all
important points from Chicago to
Milwaukee, Madison, St. Paul
and Minneapolis, Duluth and Su-
perior, with three fast trains be-
tween Denver, Salt Lake, Ogden,
Cheyenne and Chicago daily; fast
service to aud from the Pacific
Coast.
With all this development in
various directions the Northwes-
tern has never for a moment lost
sight of the great fact that the
transcontinental business of this
nation is, for many years to come.
to furnish a great volume of traf-
hc. The Chicago & Northwes-
tern is the pioneer transcontinen-
tai line. Its little ten miles fore
runner, of '4S, reached bravely
out to the great West, has always
kept a little ahead of the fast
pace set for progress by the young
man, who, taking Greeley's ia
nous advice, has gone West, I'M
I'll the West and the Far East are
ready to join hands as one.
The Northwestern has played
an important part in the growth
of the Western country. Double
track trunk lines, heavy locomo.
tives and palare-like passenger
trains have all come to the West
largely as a result of the work of
this pioneer line. Elevated
tracks in Chicago, electric block
signals, daily overland trains, and
the steady reduction in time, for
trans Missouri passengers have
all been furthered to a very great
degree by the Northwestern.
A highly important addition to
its through service was the recent
inauguration of personally con-
Quoted excursions in Pullman
tourist sleeping cars between
Denver, Colorado, Springs, Pu-
eblo, Glenwood Springs and Salt
Lake City and Chicago. This in
addition to the service of daily
and personally conducted excur-
sions from Ogden, Laramie and
Cheyenne via the Union Pacific
main line.
The completion of the first
double track between Chicago
and the Missouri River, puts the
road not only at the front as COM
pared with the other Western
roads, but in advance of many of
the Eastern lines that traverse
country where the population is
much more dense.
This double track is part of the
general plan on the part of the
Northwestern, the Union Pacific
and the Southern Pacific to make
the facilities for transportation
between Chicago and Colorado,
Utah, Idaho, Washington and the
Pacific Coast as amnla and rom