A PROSPEROUS RAILROAD

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, May 13, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 20

A PROSPEROUS RAILROAD.

THE NEW YORK Herald has been looking over the business that is annually transacted by the CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY, and the more the writer considers it the more he wonders at the immense magnitude of its transactions, the great length of its lines, the incomparable wealth, fertility, and expansiveness of the sections that it penetrates, and the brilliant future which this gigantic corporation has before it. In collecting the data for its article, the Herald finds that the NORTH-WESTERN operates 2,100 miles of road, and reaches almost every important point in Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, in Northern Michigan, in Iowa, in Minnesota, and runs many miles in Dakota. If its lines were laid eastward from New York they would extend more than two-thirds of the way across the Atlantic, or they would reach from the pine-clad hills of Maine to the sunny shores of the Gulf of Mexico. The Herald continues:—

“Take down your map and trace its routes. Fix your eye on Chicago as a starting point. Westward in nearly an air line you will trace its California line until you reach the Missouri River at Council Bluffs, opposite Omaha—here is a single run of nearly 500 miles. Back to Chicago again you look north-west and follow another of its routes through Madison, the Capital of Wisconsin, into Minnesota, and on to St. Paul and Minneapolis—this is 400 miles more. Again, looking from Chicago you can trace a line through Sparta, Wis., La Crosse, in the same State; Winona, Owatonna, and New Ulm, in Minnesota, and north-westward far into Dakota, here we have 625 miles more of road. Again, coming to Chicago, we see two lines running northwardly—one along the lake shore to Milwaukee, and thence to Fond du Lac, and the other running more inland, through Janesville, Watertown, etc., also to Fond du Lac; thence north, through Oshkosh, De Pere, Green Bay and Escanaba, Negaunee, Ishpeming, and Marquette—here is another 440 miles of road. Then we have a line from Chicago to Elgin, Rockford, and Freeport; another from Clinton, Iowa, to Anamosa, in the same State; another from Kenosha, on Lake Michigan, to Rockford, in Northern Illinois; and, after all longer lines, we have many short spans to traverse before we have found out all of the CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.