Download or read book A. N. Marquis and Co. 's Handy Business Directory of Chicago, 1888 written by A. N. Marquis and Company and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-11 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A. N. Marquis and Co. 'S Handy Business Directory of Chicago, 1888: Embracing an Alphabetical and a Classified List of All Firms and Individuals Engaged in Business or Professional Pursuits, a Street and Avenue Guide, and Much Other Useful Information The Chicago, Milwaukee St. Paul Railway Company now owns and operates over fifty-six hundred miles of thoroughly equipped road, in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Dakota. Ieach recurring year its lines are extended in all directions, to meet the necessities of the rapidly populating sections of country west, northwest and southwest of Chicago, and to furnish a market for the products of the greatest agricultural and stock raising districts of the world. In Illinois it operates 317 miles of track; in Wisconsin, miles; In Iowa, miles; in Minnesota, miles; in 'dakota, miles; in. Missouri, 142 miles; and the end is not yet. It has terminals in such large cities as Chicago, Milwaukee, La Crosse, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Omaha, Kansas City, and St. Joseph, and along its lines are hundreds of large and small thriving cities, towns and villages, Manufacturing interests are cultivated, and all branches of trade find encouragement. The Railway Company has a just appreciation of the value of its patrons, and its magnificent earnings are the result of the good business tact which characterizes the management of its affairs. The popularity of the line is attested by the fact that, notwithstanding the strongest kind of competition of old and new lines, the Chicago, Mil Waukee St. Paul Railway continues to carry the greater proportion of all the business between Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis. It is the best patronized route -to and from all points in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakota and Iowa, and its Kansas City and St. Joseph line will undoubtedly take equal rank with the older lines leading to and from the Southwest. 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.