Illinois Report on the Milwaukee & St. Louis Air Line

Annual Report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the Illinois Volume 4

REPROT OF THE MILWAUKEE AND ST LOUIS AIR LINE RAIL WAY COMPANY

TO THE Commissioners of Railroads and Warehouses of the State of Illinois For the year ending June 30 1874

OFFICERS AND OFFICES Names Address
Joshua Stark President Milwaukee Wis
TD Brewster Vice President Peru
WG Parsons Secretary Milwaukee Wis
John Black Treasurer Milwaukee Wis

General offices at Milwaukee Wis

Board of Directors Address
 Edward P Allis Milwaukee Wis
John Black Milwaukee Wis
George Burnham Milwaukee Wis
Guido Ptister Milwaukee Wis
John H Van Dyke Milwaukee Wis
Joshua Stark Milwaukee Wis
RW PierceMilwaukee Wis
 Philo Belden Rochester Wis
 Charles L Cellum Sycamore Ill
TD Brewster Peru Ill
CC Merrick I Chicago Ill
JH Johnson Woodstock Ill
CW Marsh Sycamore Ill

 GIVE PROPOSED LENGTH TERMINI AND CONNECTIONS

Charter termini are Varna in Illinois and Milwaukee Wisconsin

Length of proposed line from Milwaukee to Varna via Richmoud Sycamore Mendota and Peru Ill is about 160 miles

Prospects of completion at present very promising

DEBTS None GENERAL REMARKS The Milwaukee and St Louis Air Line R y Co was formed in the fall of 1873 by the consolidation of the Milwaukee and Northern Illinois RR Co a Wisconsin company with the Varna Peru Mendota and State Line RR Co formed under the general laws of Illinois. Several vears since the right of way was procured and work of grading done on several miles of its line by the Wisconsin Company in the State of Wisconsin.

 No work has been done on the line in Illinois except the making of a preliminary survey in the winter of 1873 and 1874 since which all effort has been suspended to prosecute the enterprise The officers of the consolidated Company are not prepared to give a detailed statement in answer to the above questions the facts not being within their knowledge.

 State of Wisconsin County of Milwaukee
signed
Joshua Stark President

and

Wm G Parsons Secretary of the Milwaukee and St Louis Air Line Railway Company being duly sworn depose and say that they have caused the foregoing statements to be prepared by the proper officers and agents of this Company and having carefully examined the same declare them to be a true full and correct statement of the condition and affairs of said Company on the 1st day of July AD 1874 to the best of their knowledge and belief or so far as they are now able to make the same Signed JOSHUA STARK RR Seal WM G PARSONS Subscribed and sworn to before me at Milwaukee Wis this 24th day of October AD 1874 Notarial Seal J EDW E JOHNSON Notary Public Milwaukee Co Wis Milwaukee and St Louis Air Line Railway 321