Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-11-01
TWO ROADS BEING PUSHED IN
SOUTH DAKOTA.
STEEL COACHES COMING
Illinois Central Does a Fine Years
5usiness-passenger Fares in
Britain Usually Run at About Two
Cents a MiIe-cheap Week End
Excursions.

oOuIn dakota, the Northwestern ana
the st. Paul both evincing profound
concern to get into fertile fields first.
The former will at once begin the
shipment Of bridge anu road material
to Pierre, and temporary bridge will
be constructed as soon as possible for
the conveyance to tie west side of
the river of the material necessary to
construct So miles Of road from Fort
Pierre west. The necessary mater
ial for about the same amount of
road will be shipped to Rapid City
and work will be started at both ends
of the line. The new bridge win con-
tain a draw for the passage of boats.
For the st. Paul company party OF
surveyors is working northwest from
Gam Valley in Buffalo county. As
Buffalo county has no railroad within
its limits, conjectures as TO the pur-
pose of this survey are numerous.
An extension westward from Messing
ton Springs, the present terminal of
the Milwaukee in Jerauld county,
would stfihe the locality now being
survl ged. The Armour extension
now being built would aso run into
this vicinity, if it were continued in
its present direction. Either extern
sion would look as if the Milwaukee,
having failed to get the capital moved
to one of its existing lines, had now
determined to get to the permanent
capital, Pierre, and incidentally to be
first in the great block o. country be
tween the Northwestern and Milwau
kee lines, north and south, and the
Milwaukee road and Missouri river
east and west, which is yet unreached
by railroad service.
w. l.. Darling, chief engineer for
the Rock Island railroad is said to
have resigned to accept the position
Of chief engineer in charge of the Pa
cifc coast extension of the Chicago,
Milwaukee and ST. Paul railroad 1t
is also understood that the sudden
resignation of II. r. Williams as gem
eral manager OF the St. Paul was to
enable the company to place him in
charge of the construction of the
coast extension. The selection of
these men, as we'll as the final decis-
ion to build to the coast, is said to
have been made at the recent annual
meeting of the company he'd in Mil
waukee. Officials of the road still
deny any purpose of a coast line or
that Mr.. Darling is going with the
road The denials, however, lack a
genuine ring. There is a persistent
belief in Seattle that the st. Paul has
purchased property on the flats there
for the construction of terminals and
for an entry to the city. The strip
said to have been acquired by the
company is the one which James J.
Hi left between his road. the North
ern Pacific, and the Great Northern
for the city to extend upon.
steel Coaches.
Transr 1rtation and motive power
officials of several of the larger lines
have become interested in the advan-
tages to be derived by the use of
steel passenger coaches. The recent
introd lotion of such coaches on the
Long Island road attracted the atten-
ton of Pennsylvania railroad author
tiles, and as a result of conferences
held recently 1t is thought likely thai
experiments will be made with view
TO the use of steel coaches on the
Pennsylvania regular lines. The
Erie is also said to have taken up the
idea. and to have ordered the con-
struction of one car for experimental
purposes. A steel postal and bag
gage car now on the Erie lines is re-
ported to be giving general satisfac-
ton. Steel construction of passen-
gen coaches offers the advantages of
great strength, the elimination of the
danger af telescoping In case of
wrecks, and of the risk : fire AS
is well known. steel cars We're adopt
ed in the New York subway when its
service was first inaugurated.
The Prosperous |. C.
For many years the Illinois Central
Railroad company has been regarded
as one of the strongest and most sta
BILE railway properties in the United
States. Its dividend record is I'M
equaled among American railway com
panies, and throughout its history ats
general relations both to the. public
and to its stockholders have left little
to be desired. According to the fifty
fifth annual report of the directors TO
the stockholders for the year ending
June 80, 1905. the gross earnings
reached the highest figures in the his
tory of the company. being s49,5oS,-
$40, an increase of S2,677.514 over
1904. For the preceding year the in
crease was only s1.646.059, so that
the prosperity of the Illinois Central
IS not mercy increasing but it is in
/ reasiug at a higher ratio each year.
/ Passenger Rates in England.
/ Regular passenger fares on British
| always are not absolutely uniform
/ n all roads for sirlila distances. re
ports United States Consul Mahin
from Nottingham. First class fare
! ranges from three to four cents a mile.
I second class is about two and one
hair cents. and thisd class about two
/ cents. Distance has little to do with
the rates except where several lines
! compete for business between two I'm.
portant points-London and Liverpool.