Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-04-23
OPENS FOR TRAFFIC
TOMORROW MORNING
REGULAR SCHEDULE OF HOURLY
SERVICE WILL BE OPENED;
THE CINCINNATI INTERURBAN
PLANS BEING PUSHED.

Centerville, April 22.-(SpeciaD- -
The men who subscribed for the $751;
900 in bonds which made possible the
building of the Centerville-Mystic in
terurban were guests Of the company
this afternoon on the first trip over
the completed line. The regular
schedule Of service begins at o'clock
in the morning when cars will run
regularly each hour. leaving Center
vile on the hour and returning from
Mystic on the half hour. Frank 5.
Payne and d. G. Bradley, now the
owners Of the entire stock Of the Cen
terville Light & Traction company, in
vited the $50 bond holders to be their
guests this afternoon. The handsome
new interurban cars were all taken on
the trip over the seven mile line.
Souvenir folders were distributed Civ
ing information about the building OF
the road and its equipment. The bond
raising campaign was completed July
g. following by an OK barbecue on the
public square a few night later. The
road Is now complete, with first class
construction, seventy pound rails, NO.
4 white oak ties two feet apart, thirty
five foot cedar poles SO placed as to
be utilized In carrying wires to light
Mystic and furnish electric power for
mines enroute and at the terminal
from the Centerville power house. On
the power house itself $4,000 has
been spent in improvements, among
other things smoke stack six feet
inside and 40 feet high being put up,
boiler capacity increased to 600 horse
power, ESQ horse power rotary con-
verter put in new, and the machinery
capacity increased to 1000 horse
power. The line runs through a new
coal field which will now be opened
up. All curves have been so made
that the heaviest freight cars can be
hauled. Negotiations are pending for
traffic arrangements with the Mil
waukee road by which both a passen-
ger and freight business will be
handled out of Centerville the same as
a station on the line. The terminal
at Mystic is at the Milwaukee depot.
The Centerville terminal is at the
Rock Island depot, and the G. B .& @.
is passed enroute The company has
acquired a large tract Of ground two
blocks long and a half block wide,
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square on which car barns will be put
up, machine and repair shops, and
freight depot facilities as fast as need
ed to handle the Milwaukee traffic,
The fare to Mystic is 20 cents, or
three round trips for $1.00. The men
who made the trip today as the guests
Of the company subscribed in sums
from $10O to $4,000 when the bonds
were being sold to insure the building
of the road. They hold first mortgage,
6 per cent bonds, now considered
worth their full value. Already, be-
fore a car was run over the line, the
first semi i-annual installment Of inter
es has been paid. The bonds are Sc
cured by the entire property Of the
company, city as well as interurban.
This company has a survey COM
pleted to Cincinnati, nine miles south
west, through another rich coal field,
which will give connection with the
Burlington and Kansas City line OF
the c. B. &. @. It is probable that it
will be constructed next fall.