. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . pen railroad communication between Chicago and the navigable waters of the Missis-sippi River in 1852, when their line reached LaSalle, connecting with the streams to St. I.,ouis, andlater with the main river at Rock Island. Until the completion of the Chicago & Alton Railroad,nearly the entire travel between the Mississippi Valley and the lakes was over this route to bulk of the merchandise for St. Louis and the Missouri Valley was transported over this line. TheRo
. City of Minneapolis. A review of her growing industries and commercial development, historical and descriptive .. . pen railroad communication between Chicago and the navigable waters of the Missis-sippi River in 1852, when their line reached LaSalle, connecting with the streams to St. I.,ouis, andlater with the main river at Rock Island. Until the completion of the Chicago & Alton Railroad,nearly the entire travel between the Mississippi Valley and the lakes was over this route to bulk of the merchandise for St. Louis and the Missouri Valley was transported over this line. TheRock Island Company has from its organization been a company of progress. It was the first to con-struct a railroad bridge over the Mississippi River, third to connect Minnesota and the Northwest withChicago, and has ever been in the front ranks in all reforms and improvements in its service. Its linespass through the most thickly settled portions of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and other States andTerritories, and it has always had a full share of the travel to and from this city. It operates 4,516miles of CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS. 15 THE SOO ROUTE. The Minneapolis, St. Paul &SaultSte. Marie Railway, less formally known as the Soo line, has enteredthe field as a competitive road to the Atlantic seaboard during the past year. It has filled the gap leftopen by the closing of navigation each year in keeping Minneapolis freed from the domineering despot-ism of Chicago and her lines of railway. Since the completion of the Soo, Minneapolis has enjoyedlower freight rates to and from the Atlantic coast than ever before known for any length of schemes have been attempted to cripple its usefulness, even by congressional action, but so farwithout avail. The Soo will be the great route between the East and the Northwest, and the businesswill be done directly with Minneapolis, and not by the way of Chicago. The road is an oudet not onlyfor Minneapolis, but for the great Northwest
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