Excerpt from Fifteenth Annual Report of This Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, 1878 In May last this company purchased the most of the stock and bonds of the Dubuque Southwestern Railroad, in Iowa, extend ing from Farley, a point on the Illinois Central Railroad twenty three miles west of Dubuque, in a southwesterly direction fifty miles to Cedar Rapids. The road of this company extending from Sabula westerly, connected with the Dubuque Southwestern at Marion, six miles northerly from Cedar Rapids, and now runs to that city over that road, forming an important and long desired connection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.