70 
STATE AGRICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
which, it could never gain or hold with Kacine as its eastern 
terminus. The Milwaukee and St. Paul road will also be 
benefited to the extent of the increase traffic over its line from 
Eagle to Milwaukee. This connection will be completed early 
in the present season, when through trains will run daily be¬ 
tween Milwaukee and Eock Island, making close connections 
with the tributaries of the Union Pacific Eailroad at Fulton 
and Eock Island. 
“ The distance from Milwaukee to Eock Island by this 
route will be 207 miles (fifteen miles shorter than the route 
via Eacine,) and to Omaha 518 miles, only twenty-five miles 
more than the distance from Omaha to Chicago. 
“The region traversed by the Western Union Eailroad, 
embracing the counties of Eacine, Walworth and Eock, in 
Wisconsin, and Winnebago, Stephenson, Carroll, Whiteside 
and Eock Island in Illinois, is unsurpassed anywhere in the 
west as regards the fertility of its soil, high cultivation, di¬ 
versity of resources, and general thrift of its inhabitants. It 
has been truly said that this road penetrates the garden of the 
two states, and we may add that Milwaukee proposes hereaf¬ 
ter to have a share of the fruit. 
“A movement is on foot to extend the line from Sabula, op¬ 
posite Savanna, westward about 150 miles through some of the 
richest portion of Iowa. It is understood that the ompany 
propose to iron and operate the road if the parties interested 
along the road will grade and tie it. Sabula and other towns 
on the route are taking active measures to accomplish this ob¬ 
ject.” 
“ Milwauhee and Northern Railway .—By a recent act of the 
legislature, the Milwaukee and Northern Eailroad Company 
was incorporated with power to build a railroad from the city 
of Milwaukee upon such line as they may select between lake 
Michigan and lake Winnebago to the Fox river of the north, 
and thence to lake Superior. The incorporators include some 
of our most enterprising capitalists and business men, whose 
names in connection with the project are an assurance that this 
