Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ng the jack, returns tothe discharge tank, from which it is drawn by the pump, and is forced imder pressure back into the pressure tank. The pump is automaticin action, and starts itself whenever the pressure on the tank ilropsbelow a prc-dilermin<i; point. The jack is used particularly forremoving and rci)lacing wheels and motors, but the principle isapplicable to raising car Iradies. Missouri Valley KIcctric Railway Co. The Missouri Valley Electric Railway Co, has been orgatiizcdunder the laws of the stale of Missouri for the purpose of con-structing an electric line from Kansas City to St. Joseph, followingthe Missouri River, with spurs to Leavenworth and Atchison. Tomanage the affairs of the company duiing the construction perioda committee has been chosen consisting of Warren Bickncll, presi-dent of the Lake Shore Electric Railway Co.; L. W. Prior, ofDcnison, Prior & Co., of Cleveland, and George B. Blanchard, ofThomas Nevins & Sons, bankers, of New York. The committee
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MAP OF MISSOURI VALLEY ELECTRIC RV. will add to their number two others to be chosen by them from theunderwriters. The underwriting is in the hands of Denison, Prior& Co., of Cleveland and Boston, and Thomas NeWns & Sons, ofNew York. The capitalization of the company is as follows: $7,500,000 fiveper cent 30-year bonds authorized; $5,000,000 five per cent 30-year bonds issued; $7,500,000 common stock authorized; $5,000,000common stock issued. Following the line of the road from Kansas City, which bendsto the northwest with the river, a number of thriving villages,towns and cities are crossed. The town of Park\-ille is the firstimportant point touched, nine and one-quarter miles from KansasCity. Further to the northwest are touched the thriWng commu-nities of Waldron and Farley, and a little further north a spur ofthe road runs directly west for Leavenworth. The main line ofthe Missouri Valley Electric railway, after passing the junction withthe spur for Leavenworth, runs north

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