Ogden Daily Standard | 1898-11-29 | Page 7 | Activity in Railroad Circles

ACTIVITY IN RAILROAD CIRCLES ble railroads give olve orders tor for rails to be used in extensive kepalus chicago nov 29 five railroads centering in this city illinois central chicago and northwestern chicago milwaukee and st SL paul chicago rock island and pacific and chicago burlington and quincy have placed orders wit with the federal steel co for new rails the material will be manufactured by the illinois steel company one of 0 the concerns in the new federal company millions of dollars are involved in the deal the aggregate of three of the contracts which have been definitely figured up Is the rails are to be used for extensions and repairs the material will be put in place next summer the amounts of the orders which have been definitely ascertained are as follows chicago and northwestern tons illinois central 60 tons st paul tons the illinois steel company also has an order on which it Is now working for tons of rails for a railroad eighteen miles long to be lie built in hawaii