. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . f the leading Gran-ger roads shows that they, like the roads in the CentralTraffic territory, have come to be closely coordinated withrailway systems in the surrounding sections. The Chicagoand Northwestern is controlled by the New York Centralinterests; the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul is appar-ently independent, but it has become a transcontinentalroad by the completion, in 1909, of a line to Puget Sound;the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is owned by those whoown the Grea
. Elements of transportation, a discussion of steam railroad electric railway, and ocean and inland water transportation . f the leading Gran-ger roads shows that they, like the roads in the CentralTraffic territory, have come to be closely coordinated withrailway systems in the surrounding sections. The Chicagoand Northwestern is controlled by the New York Centralinterests; the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul is appar-ently independent, but it has become a transcontinentalroad by the completion, in 1909, of a line to Puget Sound;the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is owned by those whoown the Great Northern & Northern Pacific; the IllinoisCentral, which is a Southern as well as a Granger road,is controlled by the Southern Pacific; while the RockIsland & Missouri Pacific Systems are more largely South-western than Northwestern. The Northern Transcontinental Roads.—The roads con-necting the Mississippi VaUey with the Pacific coast fallinto two groups, the nortliern and southern. There arethree northern transcontinental lines (not including theCanadian roads). Two of them are the Great Northern. I _z 4- - ^
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