Milwaukee & Southwestern Railway

From Los Angeles Herald - Feb 28, 1900

RAILROAD PLANS County Bonds Asked for the Transcontinental Line
New York, Feb. 27. —The Times says: Plans have been partially completed for a new great transcontinental railway line, with a connecting line of steamships to Liverpool, by which the distance between that city and the western grain states is to be shortened 800 miles. The new Milwaukee Southewestern is to be a part of this system, which, wher. completed, will extend to the Pacific coast. James McNaught. who returned yesterday from Milwaukee, In speaking of the scheme, said: "The final proposition of the Milwaukee Southwestern Railway company, which : to be built from Milwaukee to Rock Island will be submitted to the county board p supervisors at Milwaukee tomorrow. Th proposition will unquestionably be accepted by a large majority. It will involv a subsidy from Milwaukee- county of $800, 000 in county bonds to aid in the construction of the road, for which) the county i to receive non-cumulative preferred stocl of the company. The road will have 70- pound rails and a standard gauge, and j the manner in which the road is to be built is clearly defined in the contract with the county. This road will be operated in connection with the Canada, Atlantic and the Great Northern Railway of Canada. The line of the Canada Atlantic and its connections will be used as far as Ottawa. From there to Quebec the connection will be j furnished by the Great Northern, to Can- | ada, which is now under construction and' will be completed by June. The line will I be in full operation to Quebec by the mid- I die of August." The Canada Atlantic has an outlet on Georgian bay, so that grain could be , shipped from Milwaukee to this point by i steamer. Negotiations lor the acquisition | of steamers for the new Quebec-Liverpooi' ' ocean line, which is to be part of the system. are now pending. It has not yet been definitely settled by which route the Pacific is to be reached, but it is understood that on© of the existing lines will operate in harmony with the new route to the Atlantic.