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STATE AGEICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
“ The various lines owned by the Milwaukee and St Paul 
Eailroad Company, and now in operaiion, are as follows: 
Miles. 
Milwaukee to St. Paul via Prairie du Chien.405 
Milwaukee to La Crosse via Watertown. 196 
Milwaukee to Portage via Horicon....,. 95 
Horicon to Berlin and Winneconne. 58 
Watertown to Madison. 37 
Milton to Monroe. 42 
Calmer to Clear Lake... 84 
Conover to Decorah. 10 
Mendota to Minneapolis. 9 
Grand Total. 936 
“ In addition to these roads owned bv the Milwaukee and 
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St Paul Company, there are in the state of Minnesota 700 
miles of completed railway directly tributary to their lines, 
which is constantly and rapidly extending. The St Paul and 
Pacific, completed 247 miles; the Lake Superior and Mis¬ 
sissippi, 77 miles; the St Paul and Sioux City, 107 miles; 
the Hastings and Dakota, 30 miles; St Paul and Chicago, 20 
miles, and 50 miles of the Southern Minnesota, are feeders of 
the main line of the Milwaukee and St Paul Kailway. It is 
understood that arrangements have been made to complete 
the eastern connection of the Winona and St Peter Kailroad 
to La Crosse during the present year, which will be equivalent 
to adding 150 miles to the La Crosse division of the Milwaukee 
and St Paul Kail way. The West AV’isconsin Kailroad, in 
operation between Tomah and Augusta, 66 miles, is also an 
important feeder to this line. Also 50 miles of the Southern 
Minnesota Kailroad, in operation between La Crescent, 
'opposite La Crosse and Lanesboro. The gap between the two 
sections of this road from Lanesboro to Kamsey, three miles 
west of Austin, where it intersects the main line of the Mil¬ 
waukee and St. Paul Kailway, a distance of about 40 miles, 
will be built the present year, thus opening an unbroken line 
of 130 miles of road, extending westward Irom La Crescent. 
“ One of the most needed improvements made by the Mil¬ 
waukee and St. Paul Kailway Company during the past year, 
