. The street railway review . cKitdeyalso controls two important interurhan properties, one of which is theIllinois Valley Railway Co., the headquarters for which are at La-Salle, 111., and the other an interurhan line, at Galesburg, which willbe described in a subsequent issue. It should be explained that whileMr. McKinley is at the head of both of the syndicates owning these a rural poimlation between these cities of about 5,000. LaSallc andPeru, with a combined o( people, and Ottawa with12,000 population, are the most important cities touched by this and Pe
. The street railway review . cKitdeyalso controls two important interurhan properties, one of which is theIllinois Valley Railway Co., the headquarters for which are at La-Salle, 111., and the other an interurhan line, at Galesburg, which willbe described in a subsequent issue. It should be explained that whileMr. McKinley is at the head of both of the syndicates owning these a rural poimlation between these cities of about 5,000. LaSallc andPeru, with a combined o( people, and Ottawa with12,000 population, are the most important cities touched by this and Peru may be considered as practically one city, thetwo places having grown together so as to leave no well-definedboundary line between them. Locally they are spoken of as thetwin cities and both contain many thriving business houses andmanufactories. They arc also the center of a large coal miningdistrict, and coal mining forms one of the principal industries of anumber of the cities along the western end of this road. Ladd is. ILLINOIS VALLEY RY. BRIDGE AT SPKINI. VALLEY, ILL. two groups of interurhan properties, that the two syndicates have noconnection with each other and outtide of Mr. McKinley are com-posed of two entirely distinct groups of men. Illinois Valley Ry. begins at Ladd, 111., and runs south to SpringValley. .-Kt Spring Valley the road turns east and runs in a gener-ally easterly direction through to Marseilles. The principal pointslying between the termini are Spring Valley, Peru, LaSalle, Uticaand Ottawa. The total length of the road is 36 miles, and theentire route at present constructed is shown on the accompanyingmap, 1 lie total iwpulation served is about 42,000, divided as follows :Ladd. ; Marquette, 350; Spring Valley, 8,000; Peru, 7,500;LaSalle, 11,500; Utica, 2,000; Ottawa, 12,000; Marseilles, 4,000, and almost exclusively a mining town, and Marquette, otherwise knownas No. 3, consists merely of a settlement at one of the mine shaftsAt a
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