. The street railway review . r-ried on during the last three years hy syndicates of which Mr.\V. U. McKinley. of Chantpaign, is at the head, and the roads eitherpurchased or huilt, together with those which are under constructionor arc projected by the same interests will, within the next twoyears, increase the interurhan railway nuicagc in the state of Illi-nois hy several hundred miles. In addition to the central Illinoisproperties, which we shall describe In detail, the interests with whomMr. McKinley is associated control electric railway properties inrt. Wayne, Ind., and northern Illinoi
. The street railway review . r-ried on during the last three years hy syndicates of which Mr.\V. U. McKinley. of Chantpaign, is at the head, and the roads eitherpurchased or huilt, together with those which are under constructionor arc projected by the same interests will, within the next twoyears, increase the interurhan railway nuicagc in the state of Illi-nois hy several hundred miles. In addition to the central Illinoisproperties, which we shall describe In detail, the interests with whomMr. McKinley is associated control electric railway properties inrt. Wayne, Ind., and northern Illinois, including the Illinois ValleyRailway Co., running from Marseilles through Ottawa to Ulica, LaSalic, Peru, Spring Valley to Ladd, which line will soon be ex-tended west to Princeton; also the local street railways in La Salleand Peru, the Galesburg Railway & Light Co., and the local railwayproperties in Galesburg. besides the Clalesburg. Monmouth & RockIsland interurhan, now under construclion. and the Quincy Ilorsc. <1F (KSTR.\r. TKACTH N SYSTKM. Railway & Carrying Co. The managenieiu of the properties innorthern Illinois, however, is entirely distinct from that of theproperties in the central part of the state. The latter propertiesinclude the Illinois Traction the Illinois Centra! Traction the St. Louis & Springfield Railway Co. The Illinois TractionCo. has been in complete operation for nearly a year and the Illi-nois Central Traction Co. and the St. Louis & Springfield RailwayCo. have been in partial operation since June and are now ncaringcompletion. In acquiring and constructing these various properties the opera-tions of the McKinley syndicate have been quite different to thoseof most of the other electric railway syndicates in the country. In-stead of building interurhan lines exclusively, the McKinley syndi-cate has acquired a number of city railway systems in the townsthrough which its interurhan lines are being extended and in sev-era
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