Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-10-06

Thursday. These engines are
twelve tons heavier than any that
have ever been used previously on
the system in passenger service,
and they were provided, so far as
the Iron Mountain is concerned,
for the heavy Texas, Mexico and
California trains. They are built
along lines laid down by the ma
chinery department of the system
and resemble to a great extent the
engines in use on the New York
Central Railroad, and in the west
those of the heaviest and fastest
typein use on the Chicago & Alton
Railroad. They have greatly
Abbreviated smoke stacks, no high
er than the roof of the engine cab,
and are of great length and mas
sive and powerful appearance.
The engines will come to st.
Louis under their own steam and
be ready for road service by the
first of October. Primarily, on the
Iron Mountain, they + intended
to haul ten-car trains over the
controlling grades below Iron
Mountain, which means Hogan
Mountain and Gad's Hill, dis
pensing with the expensive and
time-destroying system of double
heading or using two engines for
one train over these elevations,
which has been necessary before.
Incidentally, they will stand be-
hind the Iron Mountains shortest
line and quickest time to Texas,
Mexico and the Gulf Coast. One
of the engines will be used to bring
the Roosevelt train from Little
Rock to St. Louis. leaving there
October II. G. L. Stone, passenger
traffic manager of the system, says
the use of the new fast engines
does not necessarily mean a re-
duction of the time schedule of the
Iron Mountain trains to Texas, as
these schedules are already fast.
But the engines are built to cover
any such emergency. If the en-
gines prove to be all that the
makers have guaranteed for them,
it is more than likely that the
same class of motive power will
be used in Missouri. Pacific over
land service, all the way between
st. Louis and Pueblo, when that
service is established in the early
future,-Poplar Bluff Republican
Says Saturdays st. Louis Times:
"Plans for an automobile highway
from st. Louis to Arcadia, by way
! of De Soto, Bonnie Terre, Flat
= River, Doe Run and Pilot Knob, as
proposed by the Missouri State
Board Of Immigration and State
Highway Engineer Curtis Hill, is
certain of being carried out. The
, Times pathfinder which was sent
over the route by the immigration
Commission, has laid out the route
, and aroused the interest of the
r farmers, automobiles, the bust.
ness men and residents of the
small towns along the route to
such an extent that they have
r promised to build the 16 miles of
, road from De Soto to Bonne Terre
which is practically the only bad
place between st. Louis and Ar
cadia. The pathfnder's car car
ried, besides driver Goldthwaite,
j. HI. Curran, State immigration
, Commissioner, and j. E. Poland,
official pathfinder for the Immi-
gratinn-Gn and good
roads meetings we're held in De
Soto, sBonne Terre, Flat River,
Pennington and Ironton. All the
meetings were we'll attended by
farmers, merchants, automobile
owners and professional men.
Speeches by immigration Com
missioner Curran and Pathfinder
Poland on the plans for improved
highways received the endorse
ment of all present at these meet
ings. AS laid out, the highway
/ will be a little over 1912 miles and
. will be one of the most enjoyable
0 one day runs out Of st. Louis. st.
Francois county has to-day some-
thing like 65 miles of good rock
: roads and more road work is going
on all the time. Judge Mitchell OF
the st. Francois county court as
t sured the pathfnders that the
bridge over the Big River just
out of Bonnie Terre would be COM
g pleted by spring and the 1e miles
q of bad road between Bonnie Terre
and the st. Francois county line
|, put in such a condition that mo-
! florists would have no diff Guilty in
getting to Arcadia. The De Soto
/. district has been bonded for $780,
900 with which to build roads, and
= the rebuilding of a bad stretch OF
road from De Soto to the St.
Francois county line is assured by
1 by those who have charge of the
road work in that county. Road
working is going on now in Jeffer7
son county. The citizens of IRON
ton and Arcadia will, by personal
e subscriptions, raise enough money
to put a small piece of bad road,
k ust eastof Graniteville, in good
: condition."
PERSONAL.