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CHICAGO, CASCADE AND WESTERN RAILWAY
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CHICAGO, CASCADE AND WESTERN RAILWAY. Organized in 1893, the railway was to be headquartered in Cascade and capitalized at $2 million. The objective was to build a rail line in an easterly or southeasterly direction. If easterly, it would go through Dubuque. The provisional board of directors were Cascade residents.
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"The Cascade and Western," Dubuque Daily Herald, March 25, 1893, p. 4