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Show 1 GOOD FOR THE COPPER MARKET., The Interurban Railway Journal has some items which should be of interest to the men who are producing pro-ducing copper. It says that the greatest amount of electrical railway built during 1905 was in the central cen-tral Western States of Ohio, Indiana', Michigan and I Illinois, where numerous towns and the favorable j topography of the country invited such enterprises. i J Again, in California very long lines have been projected, pro-jected, with more reference; to terminals than to " intervening towns. The same is true generally of the new and less populous States of the Northwest. I The papers in recent issues contain notices of en- t; ' terprises in twenty-three States and in the Terri-tories Terri-tories of New Mexico and Oklahoma, and in everyone every-one of these States and Territories from" two or three to twelve or fifteen electrical enterprises have been reported. . 1 . , . j We in the West do not realize the improvements ! that are going on in this system of transportation. 'l Xew conditions of long distance travel, interchange-. interchange-. able mileage, sleeping cars, dining, cars and the handling of local freight, have amounted to almost a transformation. " Sleepers for. interurban roads are ;j one of the latest innovations, and it is thought they H . Trill become very popular. ' In other cases where the J run is not long enough for sleepers, parlor cars have been put on temporarily until long distance connections connec-tions can be made. It begins to look as though steam would be, reduced to the transcontinental roads. Again, . some of the interurban lines have made traffic arrangements with the steam roads, vhereby tickets may be sold at stations on the inter-.urban inter-.urban acceptable on steam lines. . This arrangement is working first rate to both parties and is liable to spread. It is possible now to travel from western Jsew York and Pennsylvania to the Mississippi river N on electrical roads, and the closing of the gap in New York will enable one to jnake a continuous trolley trip from Maine to Missouri. ' This journal says that there are far sighted electrical elec-trical railway men who believe the day is not distant when there will be continuous tsplley connection between be-tween Portland, Me., and Portland, Or. The paper further explains that there is a, continuous trolley connection from Akron, O., to Kalamazoo, Mich., 205 milesvand the connections are such that the distance dis-tance can be covered by electrical railway in less time than by steam and at about one-third less cost. A trip from Indianapolis, Ind., to Zanesville, O., 250 miles, can be made in one hour less time by electricity electri-city than by steam. All these long time connections were made last yean ' The above indicates an unparalleled use of.cop-"per, of.cop-"per, and is a partial explanation at least of why, although copper production is so rapidly increasing, the price of copper advances in about the same. ratio. |