The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-08-17
INrERURBAN TO COST $4,000, 900
The Proposed New Int erurban Line From
GAINESVILLE TO Madison.

The Proposed New Int erurban Line From
GAINESVILLE TO Madison
By the extension of the street car line
now operating in GAINESVILLE to Madison,
which has just been undertaken by a
syndicate of financial and railroad men,
chain Of electric interurban roads be-
tween Chicago and Madison will be COM
pleted. Dickinson MacAllister, who en-
gineered the construction of the Metro
politan elevated railroad in Chicago, and
who for nine years operated it as receiv-
or, and also as its president, and FL. Fl.
Clough, who built the Rockford, Beloit
& GAINESVILLE road, are in charge of the
construction work which is about to
begin.
Upon the engineering and statistical
reports OF Messrs. Clough and MacAl-
lister the GAINESVILLE & Madison Railway
company, whose capital stock is 81 $780,
600, and whose bond issue is $1,500OOO
decided to build fifty miles OF electric
road. When this is completed pas
senger may travel by electric lines from
Chicago to Madison at lower rate of
| fare than is paid on the steam roads,
! through one OF the most picturesque
and beautiful sections of Wisconsin.
| The Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway
will take passenger from Chicago to
| Elgin. The Elgin & Belvidere road.
which is being completed and which is
| scheduled to be opened by October 1st,
will carry the passengers to Belvidere.
| From Belvidere to Rockford and from
| Rockford to GAINESVILLE the Rockford &
Interurban railroad operates it's lines.
| The last link to Madison will have fifty
miles of track and will pass through the
| towns of Edgerton, Albion, Stoughton
! and Madison. Its route passing a num-
| Der of summer resorts near Lake Kegon
| sa, Koshkonong, Waubesa and Monona,
and will traverse the tobacco and agri-
| cultural fields of Wisconsin. Mr.. Mac
| Allister, who is member of the Ameri-
can Society of Civil Engineers, and an
| expert in both the construction and op-
Grating branches of the electric railroad
work, declares that the chain between
| Chicago and Madison will constitute
one of the most attractive interurban
roads in the country.
Mr.. Clough says, the routes under con-
sideration have but few engineering diff
fculties Easy grades can be secured
| the entire distance and no sharp curves
will be permitted. He will have the very
| best construction possible and Is foot
! roadbed. 1t will cost lot of money,
| probably more expensive than any other
| line in the state, but when completed it
will have an equipment that will permit
an express train to cover the distance
| between Madison and GAINESVILLE in one
| hour, which is tastes time than any of
the steam roads make it. The design is
to have fast express cars leave every
hour and local trains midway between
so that a half hour schedule will be
maintained. The promoters are figuring
with the Kilbourn Water Power Co. for
| the current used in transmission of the
| 20 miles of road. Ii their price is as
reasonable as can be made from steam,
| it is quite probable the line will be OPP
Grated by the power generated at the
| Dells Of the Wisconsin, transmitted at
| high tension and reduced at substations
| to the voltage needed.