History of Springfield, Illinois, its attractions as a home and advantages for business, manufacturing, etc. Pub. under the auspices of the Springfield board of trade, by J. C. Power.

34 SPRINGFIELDI ILLINOIS) AND
Miles. Springfield. They, with their families,
The Main Line is.............................. 4T6
st. Louis Division (from Decatur to St. Louis)... 106
KeokukBranch........................... 48 dred of the population.
Hannibal Branch............................. 0 The monthly pay roll averages somePekin Branch (from Decatur to Pekin......... 65
Pittsfield Branch.............................. 6 thing more than $20,000 per month, or a.MoberlyBranch (in Missouri)................. 68 total of $250,000 per annum. The pasTotal....................................... 814 senger earnings at this station for 1870,
Of these 814 miles there are in Illinois were $80,000; freight $72,000, making
Miles. the total receipts $152,000. This shows
Main Line................................. 226 that the money paid out by the company
St. Louis Branch............................... 106 in Springfield is about $100,000 above
Pekin Branch................................. 65 the receipts annually.
PieokinBranch.~ 4the receipts annually.
Keokuk Branch.........4............... 43
Hannibal Branch...............o.......... 50 J. IT. Fancller is the accountant at the
Pittsfield Branch.............................. 6 macline shops, and T. G. Gorman, masTotal in Illinois............................. 496 ter mechanic.
The Illinois Division comprises all West Col. R. Andrews, Superintendent of
of Danville, except the St. Louis Branch, the Illinois Division, resides in Springwhich is a division by itself. field, and has his office in the new depdt
The Toledo, Wabash and Western is building.
not only the oldest road in the State, but Other officers and employees in the
is a very important one to Springfield. same building are: K. HI. Wade, master
The company has, for several years, kept of transportation; D. G. Moore, chief
repair shops here, and in 1869 erected clerk; T. L. Dunn, resident engineer;
new buildings for their rapidly increas- A. M. Gregory, stock and fuel agent; E.
ing machine works, at a cost of about HI. Ives, ticket agent; E. Dresser and J.
$75,000. A. Patterson. train despatchers.
There are sixty-two locomotives be- CHICAGO, ALTON AND ST. LOUIS RAILROAD.
longing to the Illinois Division, and all
are kept in repair at this place. Occa- All effrts to connect Springfield and
sonally the repars are such as to be Alton, by railroad, either by private
sionally the repairs are such as to be
about equal to building a new engine. charter or under the internal improveThe new stock carried at these shops ment laws, having been abandoned, a
averages about $40,000. company was incorporated Feb. 27, 1847,
averages about $40,000. and called the Alton and Sangamon
During the building season of 1870, d called the Alton and Sangamon
the company erected in Springfield a very Railroad Company. The charter was
fine and substantial passenger depot,with amended by a act of the General Assembly, Jan. 29, 1851. It was again
accommodations for all the offices belonging to the Illinois Division. This amended so as to extend it to Bloomingbuilding cost $36,000, and the freight ton, Feb. 11, 1851 with an additional
depot $8,000. These, with the machine amendment, Feb. 17, 1851.
shops, make the total cost of buildings By an act of the General Assembly,
belonging to the company at this place June 19, 1852, the name was changed to
about $120,000. There are about one the Chicago and Mississippi Railroad
hundred and eighty men employed in Company. The work was then being
the shops, thirty track men, and about prosecuted vigorously, and on the 9th of
one hundred train men, including con- September, 1852, the first locomotive
ductors, engineers and firemen, making came through from Alton to Springfield
over three hundred of the employees of From the Springfield Journal of Monthe company who have their homes in day, Oct. 10, 1852, I learn that an enter