Show NOTABLE PROJECT NOW NEARING COMPLETION As the time approaches when the St Pauls extension to the coast shall be opened for travel to Puget Sound rail railroad railroad railroad road publications and officials are hav hay having havIng hayIng ing much to say about the new road The completion or of this extension known as the Milwaukee St Paul Puget Sound railroad is one of the big railroad con construction construction construction accomplishments of oC the th past several years Like all big projects of its kind the work has brought to the at attention attention attention of the railroad world many new features New engineering problems have been solved Entirely I ly new difficulties have been met and surmounted The building of the road has added much to the science science sd ence of railroad engineering In many respects r the building of the St Paul ex extension et ci tension has been wonderful It is said that the tM extension was built bitt b complete with a total expenditure of less lesa than tian It will ill have cost the Pennsylvania railroad to complete its New York pas passenger passenger terminal Its completion gives the Ute St SL Paul a through line to the Pacific northwest and the latest reports are to the effect that through trains will be in operation over the new line by June 1 I IThe The last rail was laid and spiked with without without without out any demonstration or unusual cermon mon mony on March Marcil 29 9 The new railroad extends from the eastern Pastern side of the Mis Missouri I river at Mobridge S D across five states to Seattle and the total die dis distance tance is 1400 miles With one exception that of the initial transcontinental line the Pacific coast ex extension extension extension tension of the Chicago Milwaukee St StPaul StPaul Paul railroad constitutes the largest piece of railway a construction ever undertaken at one time in this country No longer than Ulan three years ago were the first con contracts contracts contracts tracts let Not a bond was issued to rals rate funds for or this 1400 10 miles of track of main mainline mainline I line nor for the th construction of the ap tp approximately proximately miles of ot branch linos lino or orto orto orto to pay PRy for the necessary equipment Stock Stockholders Stockholders Stockholders holders of ot the old C M r St P rail railroad railroad railroad road have bave provided all the money mone which came to just a little less than In September 1906 1006 the stockholders au authorized authorized i an Increase of In the I I capital stock of the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railroad company The fol fOI following i lowing December of stock two thirds of it being comm n and preferred was allotted ro lb the old share shareholders shareholders I I holders at per par to be paid for Cor in six si in jn installments the last ast of which was reid oaid reidon I Ion on the first of the present month That ThatIs ThatIs Is the way wa the necessary money mone was WitS pro provided provided i vided as work progressed on the St Paul extension |