. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . t tiit acquired b)- OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. In iSSi and 1S82 extensions and new lines were addedto the extent of 405 miles, making the total mileage operated at the close of 1882, 3,229 was in the spring of the latter year that the line from the Nebraska State boundary to Denver was opened, andthis same year the St.
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . t tiit acquired b)- OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad. In iSSi and 1S82 extensions and new lines were addedto the extent of 405 miles, making the total mileage operated at the close of 1882, 3,229 was in the spring of the latter year that the line from the Nebraska State boundary to Denver was opened, andthis same year the St. Louis,Keokuk and NorthwesternRailway was acquired bylease. In 1SS3, the Hanni-bal and St. Joseph Railroadwas added to the Burling-ton system. Branch linesare c o n s t a n 11)- beingopened, and particularly isthis the case in Nebraskaand Kansas, where duringthe past )-ear 800 miles havebeen completed, the closeof the present year witness-ing a branch leaving themain line at Holdrege, Ne-braska, completed throughto Che)enne, \V) Burlington has also ac-Iithin the last sixty days the Denver, Utah and Pacific Railroad, a narrow guage roadfrom Denver to Lynns, Colorado, a distance of forty miles. This will make a total mile-. quiredrunninc age for the Burlington sys-tem, at the present time, of5,580 miles. The head-quarters of the Burlingtonfor all lines west of theMissouri are located inOmaha, and from this pointover 2,000 miles of road areoperated. It can readily beunderstood that it is there-fore a pre-eminently greatline for Omaha, bringing toits doors the products ofthe vast region penetratedby its lines, the grain, stockand mineral regions of Ne-braska, Kansas, Colorado,Wyoming and Utah. Its em-ployes in this city number resipence of j. m. counsman. over 200. The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley line, which has about 1,200 miles of road inoperation in Nebraska, Wyoming and Dakota, had its inception in the construction of a branch linefrom Missouri Valley, on the
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