. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . h they trans-port partly to Galveston, New Orleans, and other Gulfports, and partly to St. Louis and Memphis, where con-nections are made with lines to the East. Besides thevarious roads of lesser rank in this wide region there arethree large systems that overshadow the others. In orderfrom North to South, these three systems are the RockIsland-Frisco lines, the Missouri Pacific, with its affiliatedroads, and the Southern Pacific, the last of the three beingalso tlie large
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . h they trans-port partly to Galveston, New Orleans, and other Gulfports, and partly to St. Louis and Memphis, where con-nections are made with lines to the East. Besides thevarious roads of lesser rank in this wide region there arethree large systems that overshadow the others. In orderfrom North to South, these three systems are the RockIsland-Frisco lines, the Missouri Pacific, with its affiliatedroads, and the Southern Pacific, the last of the three beingalso tlie largest of the transcontinental lines. The Granger Lines.—West of Chicago and West-Nortliwcst of St. Louis is the fifth territory, that occupied <^ 1^ S 5 (£ o Q. 3 cr -1h- o OO 03 OC < <« O o o < Io < * z_l < Iu < q: OC (3 Z o- UJ CE i- z g Io UJ tr CO z C 1- zo IT•0 I O UJ 1- «3 z < o z < I 0. •8 UJ UJ Z ^ o_ •8 UJ a. cc (r tr _J (0 zz UJ 3CQ (- 3 1- O S < UJ o I UJ ; CO I -1o 0. 0. Q. CD Q. O z. 22 ELEMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION by the Granger^ lines. These roads were the first onesbuilt into the great agricultural regions beyond the Mis-sissippi ; their traffic consists of carrying out farming pro-ducts mainly to Minneapolis and Lake Superior, to Chi-cago, St. Louis, and Kansas City; and of transporting intothe region coal, lumber, manufactures, and other neededsupplies. They got their name of Granger lines in theseventies when the farmers of the Central West were organ-izing the Patrons of Husbandry, a society whose localbranches were called granges. The most prominent Gran-ger lines are the St. Paul, the Northwestern, the Burling-ton, the Rock Island and the Illinois Central. The north-ern part of the territory is served by the Great Northernand North-ern Pacific, and the southern part by the Mis-souri Pacific. The mere enumeration of the leading Gran-ger roads shows that they, like the roads in the CentralTraffic territory, have
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