. Electric railway review . a half-hourschedule with meetin,g points every 15 minutes. The sched-ule time from Carthage to Joplin, 20 miles, is 1 hour and10 minutes, and the run is often made in one hour. Forty-five minutes are allowed from Joplin to Galena, eight miles,because of the necessary low speed while passing throughJoplin. The rate of fare is approximately li/^ cents per mile,th« rate from Carthage to Galena, 28 miles, being 40 containing 100 five-cent fare coupons are on saleat various places, such as drug stores. Convenient waitingstations are provided at various poi
. Electric railway review . a half-hourschedule with meetin,g points every 15 minutes. The sched-ule time from Carthage to Joplin, 20 miles, is 1 hour and10 minutes, and the run is often made in one hour. Forty-five minutes are allowed from Joplin to Galena, eight miles,because of the necessary low speed while passing throughJoplin. The rate of fare is approximately li/^ cents per mile,th« rate from Carthage to Galena, 28 miles, being 40 containing 100 five-cent fare coupons are on saleat various places, such as drug stores. Convenient waitingstations are provided at various points along the line. Therecently completed station at Oronogo, on the Webb CityNorthern branch, occupies a ground space of 14x42 feet,one end being used as a waiting room and the other end forthe sale of refreshments. This building is constructed ofvitrified paving brick with moss-green tile roofing and asmay be seen from the engraving, presents a very handsomeexterior. Up to the present time no effort has been made to de-. Southwest Missouri Railroad—Steel Viaduct over St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad. a population of 8,000: Joplin. with 35,000: Webb City, 14,-000; Carterville, 6,000: Carthage, 12,000; Prosperity, 2,500;Duenweg, 2,500; Oronogo, 3,000; Purcell, 1,500; Neck City,2,000, and Alba, 2,500. The entire territory traversed is thickly studded withlead and zinc mines, employing several thousand men atgood wages, and is built up almost continuously betweentowns. The St. Louis & San Francisco and the MissouriPacific railroads adequately handle the freight traffic of thisregion, but for passenger traffic these towns offer an excep-tionally favorable field for an interurban line giving a fre-quent service. At present cars are operated on a half-hourschedule, but the traffic has already reached such proportionsthat the cars are filled at nearly all hours of the day andat the rush hours of the morning and evening when theminers are going to or returning from work it is nec
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