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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THE SPRINGFIELD AND MATTOON RAILROAD Salisbury township has $10,000 in the
COMPANY Springfield and Northwestern Railroad.
Has $280,000 in subscriptions, voted Woodside township has $20,000 in the
by counties and townships, under the Springfield and St. Louis Railroad.
old constitution of the State. This line HINT TO RAILROAD MEN.
is seventy miles long, and is an extension By way of a hint to railroad men and
of the Grayville and Mattoon Railroad, capitalists, I would just ask them to
Operations are to commence on this line look at the map, and see if there is not
within a few weeks. The officers of the a splendid opportunity for a paycompany are the same as those of the ing investment, in another Illinois CenGrayville and Mattoon Railroad Com- tral Railroad. Commence at Cairo, and
pany. run via DuQuoin, or on a straight line
THE SPRINGFIELD AND PEORIA RAILROAD west of that place, to Litchfield, SpringCOMPANY field, Pekin, Peoria and Freeport, tbence
Was organized under the general laws to Madison, Wisconsin.
of the State, August 16, 1870, and a CONCLUSION.
board of directors chosen. The directors It will be seen by the foregoing stateare: John T. Stuart, John Williams, J.C. ments and consulting the map, that
Conkling and George N. Black, of Spring- Springfield has six lines of railroads
field; Milam Alkire, of Menard county; finished and running; two others upon
James Haines and Thomas King, of Pe- which the work is far advanced, and will
kin; and A. J. Hodges and Sidney Pul- be completed within 1871; and three
sifer, of Peoria. other organized companies, with such
SUBSCRIPTIONS. provision made as will secure the buildSangamon county, the city of Spring- ing of the respective roads. She will
field, and the several townships named, have at the close of this year eight, and
have taken the following subscriptions at the end of two years, eleven roads; or
by vote of the people: as it were, spokes to a wheel, concentraThe county has $100,000 in the Gil- ting to and diverging from this point.
man, Clinton and Springfield road; and There are about fifty thousand miles of
$100,000 in the Springfield and Illinois railroad in the United States. Of these
Southeastern road. Illinois has about one eighth, or someSpringfield township has $80,000 in the thing more than six thousand miles. It
Springfield and Illinois Southeastern; is with feelings of pleasure that I point
fifty thousand of it at one subscription, to the map, engraved by a self-taught
and thirty thousand at another. artist of Springfield, M. M. Wickersham,
Springfield towhship has $50,000 in as a graphic description of the position
the Springfield and Northwestern Rail- the Capital of Illinois sustains to the
road. general railroad system.
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