The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1914-01-11
ELECTRIC LINE
| LINKING CAIRO
With MISSOURI
Representatives Here of Wealthy
Boston Syndicate Looking
Over Field.
CAIRO SURE TO BECOME
CAPITAL INLAND EMPIRE
Impregnable Levees, Numerous Rail-
roads, Two Great Rivers, Two
Bridges ard Interurbans.

Cairo is destined to become the
capital OF great inland empire
it is not the chimera of an idle
dreamer but soon will be reality.
Its magnificent and absolutely i'm.
pregnable system of leyees are nov
almost complete. 1t enjoys an ideal
geographical position which entities
it, beyond dispute. TO be the gate
way of the Mississippi and Ohio
Valleys to the Panama Canal. There
are two great rivers, the Mississippi
and the Ohio coursing by its doors,
the forne" stretching out from ST.
Paul on the north. TO the Gulf of
Mexico and Panama on the south,
and the Ohio paving tribute from
| pittsburg. Cairo is linked by steel
| bands to the north and south, east
and west over which traverse a
number of great trans-continentai.
and north aud south systems of
steam railroads. Cairo has one big
electric interurban system, the Nc
kinley, reaching out to the far
north, which, when the intervening
stretches have been completed, will
| give uninterrupted communication
with Chicago and St. Louis.
Another Link in Chain
Now comes another link in the
chain of steel binding Cairo to the
outside world and making OF her
great metropolis great steel
bridge is part of the project in the
building of an electric interurban
system which will unite rlch South
east Missouri 20 Cairo.
The erection of this bridge, which
no doubt will he used not only by
the interurban, but by the Iron
Mountain and Cotton Belt railroads.
is the gigantic undertaking of an
eastern railroad syndicate, presum-
ably the Stone Webster people Of
Boston. as no other is known to be
possessed OF sufficient capital to
build the road and finance the
bridge
The representative of this syndi-
cate has been in Cairo for some time
looking over the ground and study
ing the details. Engineers have ae-
companled him on trips IN Missouri
but not wori as to their work or
their motive has escaped any of the
party and it has been through mere
chance that their business was learn.
ed--no one has said that their busf-
ness was in any way corrected wisE
.he construction Of road or bridge
they arc looking over the field
thoroughly and before next summer
rolls around Cairo will actually
know every detail in connection
| with the proposed enterprise.
Seek Location.
Scanning the United States for a
prospective location OF a prosperous
! interurban line. these experienced
eastern capitalists realized that the
/ towns of Missouri had no depend
able facilities for reaching 4 me-
tropolis and the country, rich in pos
sib.lties, could hot therefore. de-
yelop as rapidly as 1t would If these
advantages were provided.
The state OF Missouri and private
interests are building leyecs to pre~
tect the rich alluyial lands from
further overflow. which insures 4
rapid increase in the population
and the development of the remark
able agricultural and timber re-
sources OF that part of the state.
Under these conditions these eoun-
ties are rapidly increasing in popu-
lation; their wealth has increased
even moro rapidly Improved letee
conditions are responsible for most
of this increase and with the levees
COMPLETED to the line of absolute
security. giving confidence to capital
and an impetus to railroad building
land general development in agricas-
tural and timber manufactures.
these sections will develop with
amazing rapidity during the mex.
decade.
Drains Richest Counties.
The present proposed traction line