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.
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36 SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOTS, AND order will be two hundred and twenty- The principal office of this company is five miles long, from Shawneetown, on at Springfield, and the officers are: S. H. the Ohio, to Beardstown, on the Illinois Melvin, of Springfield, President; WilRiver. liam Fuller, of Clinton, Vice-President; This line of road opens up to Spring- John Warner, of Clinton, Treasurer; and field the finest body of timber land in Henry Crosley, of Clinton, Secretary. the Western States. Forty miles of it, in the southeastern part of the State, runs through a dense forest of several species of the oak, hickory, sweet gum, Was organized under the general railblack walnut, and other varieties of tim- road law of the State, August 4, 1870, ber suitable for the manufacture of agri- with a capital stock of $800,000. cultural implements,cabinet furniture,etc. The object of this organization is to An idea of its importance to Spring- secure to Springfield a competing line to field may be formed, from the fact that St. Louis, and also to furnish another the Springfield and Illinois Southeastern through route from St. Louis to Chicago Railway Company have contracts already via Gilman. It runs almost in a straight for supplying plow manufacturers in Mo- line from Springfield to Litchfield, Montline with timber from these forests. gomery county, thence to St. Louis. Its The officers of the company are: Thos. entire route is east of and eight miles S. Ridgway, of Shawneetown, President; shorter from Springfield to St. Loui sthan Charles A. Beecher, of Fairfield, Vice- by the route of the Chicago, Alton and President; George N. Black, of Spring- St. Louis road. This read will be put field, Secretary; E. C. Dawes, Treasurer; under contract this summer, and will, no Orland Smith, of Springfield, General doubt, be completed during the present Superintendent; Geo. W. Norris, Super- year. The officers of the company are: intendent Southern Division; John Fog- S. H. Melvin. of Springfield, President; gitt, General Freight Agent; Louis B. Robert McWilliams, of Litchfield, Vice Smith, Auditor. Springfield is the head- President; George N. Black, of Springquarters of the company. field, Treasurer; P. B. Updike, of LitchTHE GILMAN, CLINTON AND SPRINGFIELD field, Secretary. RAILROAD COMPANY THE SPRINGFIELD AND NORTHWESTERN Was incorporated by an act of the RAILROAD COMPANY General Assembly, March 4, 1867. An organization was effected at Clinton, Was incorporated in'1869. It is to connect Springfield and Rock Island, by April 21, 1869. Grading was commenced connect Springfield and Rock Island, by near Clinton, July 4th, 1870, and from the way of Galesburg. Sept. 15, 1870, that time until the close of the working fifty miles-from Springfield to Lewisseason, from fifteen to eighteen hundred ton-was put under contract, to be gramen were employed along the line. Track ded, ironed and furnished with rolling laying was commenced at Gilman, Feb. stock. It will be completed from Hava19, 1871, and it is expected that the en- na to Petersburg by the 1st of July, and tire line, 110 miles in length, will be from Petersburg to Springfield by the completed and running by the 4th of close of 1871 July. This will open up some of the The officers of the company are: W. finest agricultural country in the State- C. Green, of Tallula, President; L. W. which has not heretofore been reached Ross, of Lewiston, Vice-President; John by railroads-and furnish a new route to Williams, of Springfield, Treasurer; and Chicago, almost or quite as short as that Edward Lanning, of Petersburg, Sec'y. by the Chicago and St. Louis railroad.
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- 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.
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- Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894.
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