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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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g that he was to be allowed timeto put through independently the Joliet & Aurora line. Heresigned later to give his entire attention to this enterprise,and was joined by his brother, H. A. Fisher, and L. D. Fisher, his son, who had been prominently connected with several simi-lar undertakings in Ohio. The Joliet, Plainfield & Aurora Rail-road Company has no legal connection with either the Chicago& Joliet or the roads it connects with on the north, although onfriendly terms with both. As to population, the census of 1900 gave Joliet 29,353; Au-rora, 24,147, and Plainfield, 920. At Joliet, however, a largepart of what is apparently the city of Joliet is in reality outsidethe city limits and not included in the city census. In certaindistricts, factories were located some time ago upon the ex-press agreement that these districts should not be annexed tothe city and thus caused to pay city taxes. A conservative esti-mate would give Joliet and its manufacturing suburbs a popu-
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CAR LEAVING SIX CORNERS lation of 40,000. Assuming this, and allowing for the probablegrowth since the 1900 census in the other towns, will give asummary of population about as follows: Joliet and suburbs 40,000 Plainfield 1,400 Aurora 30,000 Rural population 5,000 Total 76,400 As the interurban road is 20 miles long, not including its city

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