Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-04-19
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| Arrangements have been made which
will give the Illinois Central an entra ncs
| into indianapolis.
The Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern railroad has advanced the wages Of
its conductors and train men and has
granted a ten-hour day.
| A group of the minority stockholders of
! Wells, Fargo & Co. have undertaken to
| force distribution of the company's sur
| plus, which is said to be S5,000000 or
! twice as much as the entire capital stock.
Announcement has been made that the
| Western Pacific, which is the Gould Pa
| cific coast extension. has made arrange
ments to operate a Ene OF steamers be-
tween the port of San Francisco and the
| Orient.
| The Postmaster General announced re-
Gently that changes in trsnscontnentdl
railway mail schedules have reduced the
time Of transit between New York and
San Francisco, both ways, twenty-four
hours,
The Union Pacific will build an extern
sion of its Mindok and Southwestern
| line from Twin Falls. Idaho, to the new
| town Of Bull, "a distance of twenty miles.
The company also contemplates the build
| ing of an extension from a point about
half way between ST.. Anthony and Marys
| vile, in a southeasterly direction. to tap
the main line of the Union Pacific lit
| tie west Of Evanston. Wyo. In addition
it will also build three other branches
| in Idaho, the routes Of which the officials
of the company are not ready to an
nounce.
1t has been announced that as soon as
the Santa Fe's Belen cutoff Is completed
at least five hours viii be taken off the
present passenges schedules between Chi
cago and Los Angeles and Chicago and
San Francisco. The freight service will
be shortened at least twenty-fOur hours
Charles VI. Schwab and other eastern
capitalists are interested in a project to
build a new road from Vernon, Texas,
across the Panhandle to Roswell, y. NJ,
distance of 800 miles. A temporary
survey has been made and a bonus OF
$50. 900 has been raised in the townships
through which it will pass.
At a meeting in Cincinnati the general
passenger agents of the central territory
decided that tickets for popular excur-
sions shall be at slightly higher rates, diff
fering according 10 local conditions, but
averaging about p cents to the ticket.
This is an outcome OF the 2-cent fare law.
The report that the Great Northern
railroad was about to begin a transcon-
tinental line across Canada was confirm
ed by Vice President l.. W. Hill at St.
Paul. He also said they had secured their
terminals at Winnipeg and that they
would soon build to that point. A con-
tractor says that the road will be COM
pleted from Winnipeg to the coast within
eighteen months.
A new freight tariff on coal, which pro-
vides a reduction Of 10 cents a ton and
which took effect April !. was made pub
lie by the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad. 1t was stated at the
office OF the railroad in Boston that the
reduction was made possible by decrease
in ,he cost of handling coal in transit.
and improved facilities at tidewateG
points.
The Pennsylvania railroad has decided
to burn up all wooden coal cars and to
discontinue the construction OF new ones.
Costly wrecks have been caused by the
use Of these old cars. which are frequent
ly crushed between the heavier steel ones
by sudden stoppase OF trains.