| Show I MILLION MILLON GO GOTO TO THE WEST Railroads Carrying Settlers Setlers and Freight Earned Omaha Bee Final reports of the railroads of the west for 1907 have Just been completed ed and give some idea of the te rate at which the west Is being populated The Te gross earnings and mileage of or the systems systems systems which are carrying c settlers etters and ana art cities and the materials for building homes into the west are greater than ever The great roads which either origin originate originate ate passenger and freight freight business in inthe inthe inthe the states of the th middle west west or form the connecting link which carries the traffic to the new homes of the far west operate more than miles mies of ot track or about 34 3 per cent of the total in the United States and their immense business during duing 1907 may maybe be realized from the fact that their com corn combined combined gross earnings were Railroad men believe bel eve that the num nurn number number ber of passengers carried to the west to make up this great total must bemore be bemore I Imore more than The is I Ithe the gross of all al the freight traffic over the many I any lines Not All Al Settlers Setlers from East Many of those who have gone west vest year ear were from Iowa JIll Illi Illinois 11 nois Indiana Missouri and not a few from Nebraska The northern Hill Hi roads have carried thousands from Wisconsin and Minnesota Not all al the are from the fat east and only a small smal percentage of them immigrants immigrants Immigrants grants who were unloaded at the At Atlantic Atlantic lantic or gulf seaboards Some idea of the railroads now re required required required to carry the people and freight into the west may be gained from tile tie of the western railroads and the earnings just compiled from the reports report for the year The Atchison Topeka Santa Fe railway essentially a western road has tracks that aggregate a length of miles mies Its Is total earnings amount to more than a year The Chicago ago Northwestern rail railway ri railway way operating more than miles mie of track has miles mies In the west vest The Chicago Burlington n Quincy Quincy has miles mies west of the Missouri river The total earnings amount to The Western Wester while not distinctively a western railway is isone isone isone one of the principal connecting links between eastern markets and western productions It I has 1452 miles mies of or track rack Its Is gross gros earnings for the year ear were nearly Big Year The Chicago Milwaukee Sill SUI Paul railway operates miles of rail railway rai railway way in the western states state It I has more than 1000 miles mies under construction The total earnings amount to more than annually Chicago Rock Island Pacific is an another another another other road with branches into many parts of the west west Its Is total mileage is I Its Is gross earnings a year are Colorado Southern railway ope operates operates operates rates miles mies of tracks and its It gross earnings are nearly Colorado Colordo Midland operates over I miles of rails rais and its Is gross earnings were I Denver Rio Grande has tracks that total miles mies and its is gross I earnings e rings were nearly This includes the business of the Rio Grande Western W stern The Frisco system is largely a west western westen enl ern road although It I has lines In Illi Illinois Il nois and Indiana The western track age foots up miles Its Is gross earn earnings ear ings lags were Great Northern Norther railroad is miles mils long and its is gross earnings earing are past pa pathe t the mark Houston Texas railway has miles mies of track Its Is earnings are in included included eluded in the Southern Pacific Souther figures Illinois Central operates 1000 10 miles mies of ot track in the western wester states S International Great Northern ope operates operates operates rates 6 miles mies of o track and its gross earnings foot up more than 6 Kansas City Southern and the Tex Texarkana Te Texarkana arkana Fort ort Smith operates miles mile of with a gross business of nearly nearl Missouri Kansas Kansa Texas operates miles of railway and had gross earnings for the year ye r of or Missouri Pacific Was Busy Missouri Pacific with miles mies piled pied up a gross goss business of nearly 45 Northern Pacific with miles mies had a gross business of more than 65 a substantial increase over 1906 1905 This com pan also operates a line lne of transPacific fc steamers Oregon Railway Navigation com coat company company pany also operating steamship lines is part of the Union Pacific system Its earnings are included in the Union Pa Pacific Pacific Sian Antonio Arkansas Pass rail raU railway raIlway way with miles did a gross busi business business business ness of Southern Pacific operates mlle miles of track and did a n gross business of more mor than St Joseph J seph Grand 13 miles mies of track did agoss business of If more than Texas Texts operating principal ly in the southwest has a total track age of 1848 miles mies and did a a agrosa gross bus business busIness iness incas of The total tra kage of the Union Pa Pacific Pacific is miles mies and its gross goss bus business busIness iness mess amounted to Several thousand miles mies of lines iines have hae been added since the beginning of o last year the added to the steam stem transportation facilities of Spokane alone amounting to more than miles mUes Of the foregoing miles mies of steam and electric lines are in opera operation operation tion ton in the Spokane country countr there are 1838 miles under construction and 1125 mies I miles mies projected In the Canadian northwest partly party tributary to Spokane are several projects including the Grand Trunk runk Pacific the Canadian Pa Pacific cHic and the te Canadian Northern which will wi add acId almost 1000 mies miles to the of the country countr which means that in a few years year the gross business s swi will mark wi be 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