Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-09-06
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Nearly 100000 is to be expended by
the Illinois Central Railroad for new pas
senger train equipment.
Frederick Underwood president of the
Erie road, holds seventy-two directorships
and trusteeshps, but is second in the
United States to W. ii. Newman of the
New York Central in point of holdings
The interstate commerce commission, in
session at Toledo to investigate the rela-
tons of the railroads with the ice trust
brought out numerous facts showing that
the Ann Arbor road had Disseminated in
freight rates in favor of the trusts. There
were indications that the commission was
about to make a thorough investigation of
coal-carrying railroads of Ohio.
Officials of the Lackawanna railroad
announce that they are about ready &c
dispense with the services CT all tele-
graphers after which they will control the
movements of the trains by the automatic
block signal system, supplemented by tele-
phone facilities. This will effect the en-
tire system and it will be the :rst rail
road in America to make sweeping change
The Western Pacific Railway Con. ,Jany
is perfecting plans to enter California,
and when the road is completed it will be
one of the greatest railroad engineering
feats of modern times. The engineers IN
charge have instructions to keep one OBJ
ject in view, the straighteSt line with the
least grade. To accomplish this forty-fiye
tunnels will be bored in eastern Ca!ifor-
ma, between Oroville and Beckwith Pass.
Instead of going around mountains the
NaC+ap17 DooiGc &c
BY the time the western wheat crop is
ready to move the Canadian Pacific will
have n hundred additional engines and
$500 cars. which will be exclusively used
to haul the western crop. Further than
that, the roadbed has been and is being
80 improved by reducing grades and curves
and double tracking that where formerly
trains of FIVE hundred tons were about the
limit. in places the engines can now haul
fifteen hundred on loads, which means a
vast improvement in the capacity Of the
road
1t is claimed that with the recent general
reductions in passenger fares in the West
and the 2-cent fares in effect in thickly
populated States east of the Mississippj
river the passenger tariffs of the United
States are now way below those of Eu-
rope and among the lowest in the world.
A newly Incorporated holding company.
to be known as the Beach Creek and
Eastern Coal Company. capitalized at
&S.0G0,0O0 has taken over the Pennsvl
vania Coal and Coke Company. the ALI
ance of which with the New York Central
was recently investigated by the Inter
State Commerce Commission.
The summing up Of business done BY
american railways in July shows the
greatest total on record 70: this period.
1t was greatest not only in freight ton
mage but in passengers carried and in rev.
. eEue received.
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., former president
of the Wabash railroad, while in New
York consulting with financial interests
regarding his new railroad enterprise-she
New York. Pittsburg Pittsburg and Chi
.ago Air Line, said that entrance INFO
Chicago would be comparatively easy
matter, as there are several belt lines
from which terminal facilities could be
leased.
4 preliminary statement OF the gross
receipts OF the Southern Pacific for the
fiscal year ending June 80. which includes
the first two and half months following
the San Francisco fire, gives S1000OO,0OO
as the gross income, making the Southern
Pacific in that respect, the second great
est railroad in the country. The figures
indicate an increase of 100000 over the
previous year and so, 900 over the
gross earnings in 1901.
President Stickney of the Chicago
Great Western says that the railroads
have now taken to manipulating tariff
schedules to take the place Of rebates
He says the constant filing of new tariff
schedules should not be permitted.