Sunday, January 11, 2015

More Milwaukee & St. Louis Air Line tidbits

From the "Financier, Vol 4".  Not sure how Beloit fits into the route plan(?).

Milwaukee & St Louis Air Line

-A project for building a road from Milwaukee southwest to Varna IL to connect there with the Jacksonville division of the Chioago & Alton road is being discussed by Milwaukee people and others The estimated distances are given as follows:

From Milwaukee to .......
-state line 44
-Woodstock 55
-Sycamore 75
-Mendota 116(?)
-Peru 133
-Varna 156

The line in Wisconsin passes through Muskego Waterford Rochester Burlington Richmond and Beloit The following are names and addresses of those connected with the project Guido Pfister EH Ball WE Smith and EP Allis of Milwaukee CC Merrick of Chicago Charles Kellum Sycamore 111 JH Johnson Woodstock 111

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