256 'Wisconsin Academxy of Sciences , Arts, and Letters. 
way of Alliance, and with Cincinnati, by way of Columbus; 
Milwaukee bad begun to build towards Madison and Prairie 
du Cbien; while below Cincinnati on the Ohio railways actu¬ 
ally started inland from Madison, Jeffersonville, and New Al¬ 
bany, and were projected from Lawrenceburg, Evansville, and 
Cairo. 
In 1852, the advancing ends of track began to meet. Chi¬ 
cago' was reached almost simultaneously by both the Michigan 
roads, 3 while the Ohio lines and their extensions not only en- 
3 Indiana, interested in the future of Indianapolis, obstructed the 
entry of the Michigan roads into Chicago. Finally the Michigan Cen¬ 
tral crossed Indiana on tracks built by the New Albany and Salem, 
while the Michigan Southern used the tracks of the Northern Indiana. 
The former used the Chicago terminal facilities of the Illinois Cen¬ 
tral; the latter those of the Chicago and Rock Island. American 
Railroad Journal, XXV, 295, 343; Poor’s Manual, 1884, 560; Farmer, 
S., Hist, of Detroit and Michigan, (Detroit, 1884), 899; Hake Shore 
and Michigan Southern Railway System and Representative Employees, 
(Biographical Pub. Co., 1900), 32. 
