STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
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“This liberal and judicious arraugement on the part of the 
Milwaukee and St. Paul Eailway Company will not only 
prove a great convenience to shippers^of live stock, but also a 
decided advantage to the packers and stock dealers of this 
city. 
“ Mr. E. W. Edgerton, superintendent of the new stock 
yards, reports receipts from the date the yards were opened^ 
October 26th to the 31st of December, of 4,125 head of cattle, 
47,981 hogs and 1,677 sheep.” 
Nor have the plans of Milwaukee, at length fairly aroused 
to the importance of more vigorous measures for insuring to 
herself the full amount of trade that naturally belongs to her, 
been confined to the extensive and valuable improvements 
above-named. Kailroad enterprises of great magnitude and 
far-reaching in their influence upon her own destiny and the 
future of the whole state, have been inaugurated and pushed 
with commendable vigor. The most important of these I 
deem it proper to recite, drawing again for accurate informa¬ 
tion from the report of the chamber of conimerce: 
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS LOOKING TO A FURTHER CEN¬ 
TRALIZATION OF COMMERCIAL INFLUENCE AT MILWAUKEE. 
“ The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company .—This great 
corporation, of. which our distinguished fellow citizen, Alex¬ 
ander Mitchell is president, now owns and operates 936 
miles of railway extending westward from the city of Mil¬ 
waukee, and known as the Milwaukee and St, Paul Eailway. 
The enterprising spirit that has characterized the company 
since its first organization, has at no time been more con¬ 
spicuously illustrated than in the character of the improve¬ 
ments and extensions made upon its lines during the past 
year. And while these improvements and extensions have 
been liberal, involving an out-lay of $1,255,000, they were 
eminently judicious, and will certainly contribute materially 
to the future prosperity of the company. In a little more than 
