Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-04-11

The Big -Four has decided TO build a
to cost $25O,000.
The State board of railroad assess
ment of Arkansas met at Little Rock for
the purpose of settling railway tax suits.
Work has begun on the largest railway
station in the world, at Leipsic, Ger
many. The total length of the building
will be 1000 feet, aud the total cost will
be $37, 100000
The Denver and Rio Grande road has
closed a contract for the construction of
branch line, ffty-two miles long, from
Durango, CAL, to Pennington, Neb, to
be completed July /.
Service between Indianapolis and Fort
Wayne has been opened, by way of the
Indianapolis Northern Traction Com
pany and the Fort Wayne and Wabash
Valley Traction Company.
The railway committee of the House
of Commons Of Canada has granted an
extension of seven years to complete the
proposed bridge of the Canada Southern
railway over the Detroit river
Western traffic men held a conference
with coal shippers from Iowa and Ne
braska regarding the method employed
in weighing coal. The matter may lead
to a serious break between the interests
Officials of the Great Central route
met in Detroit and discussed the ques-
ton of summer schedules and also of
plans to put a number of new through
passenger trains on IL .ir own and con-
Meeting lines.
1t is announced that H. l. Miller, who
has been general manager of the Rock
Island, has been appointed third vice
president and general manager of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad,
to sdcceed j. II. Hammond
There are several wooden railways in
Canada and the United States. One of
them is in the Province of Quebec and
is thirty miles long. The rails are of
maple, and trains are run over them
with remarkable smoothness at the rate
of twenty-five miles an hour.
Orders for sweeping reductions in ex-
penses have gone out from the headquar-
tiers of the Chicago, Darlington and
Quincy. Nearly all the company's big
shops are affected, and great discomfort
is said to prevail among all classes of
employees.
Dissatisfied at the action of the lines
running into Baltimore and philadelphia
in meeting the cut in import freight
rates made by the lines extending to the
gulf. the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western, Erie and Lehigh Valley rail-
roads have. it is said, withdrawn from
the trunk line import committee
Executive officials of western railroads
decided to ignore the order of the in
terstate commerce commission, requiring
them to charge no higher rates for live
stock than are charged for the transpor-
tatjon of the products of live stock. By
the advice of general cOunsels the mat.
ter will be tested in the courts. as the
railroads have determined that it will
be impossible either TO lower the live
stock rates or to increase the rates on
packing house products. Compliance
with the commissions order would mean.
il is estimated. an annual loss to west
ern railroads of at least 100000 This
estimate is made from figures on live
stock movement for the last few years
General Manager II. L. Nudge of the
Santa Fe road Is TO be slated TO fll the
vacaucy IN the Rock Island road caused
/, IN the resignation Of General Manager
II. /. Miller. who is now second vfee
president and general manager 81 the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
The Chicago and Northwe<tera rail-
road has started ont a special good
roads train through Iowa. from which
expert advice viii be given upon the sub
iect by means of lectures and literature.
The theory upon which the Northwestern
oficials are working IS that a good road
insures the farmers contiguous to il the
certainty Of taking aIvs atage Of every
demand Of the market.