CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, successor (Jan. 14, 1928) through reorganization to the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail way Company (in receivership after March 18, 1925) ; owns and operates one of the oldest and largest railroads north and west of Chicago, Ill. The predecessor company was organized and in corporated in 1863 as the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Co.— "Chicago" being prefixed in 1874. The oldest part of the present system is the first railroad built west from Milwaukee, Wis. (1851), then the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad. The "Mil waukee" entered Chicago, Ill., over its own rails in 1873. It had reached and was the first direct railroad to St. Paul and Minne apolis, Minn. (1867). Omaha, Neb., was reached in 1882 and Kansas City, Mo., in 1887 and by this latter date the north-west line had been extended to the Missouri river near Mobridge, S.D. Further extension westward was begun in 1906 and in 1909 the road was opened for operation to Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., on Puget Sound; 656 m. of this extension across the mountains were subsequently electrified. In 1921 the Chicago, Terre Haute and South-eastern railway tapping the southern Indiana coal fields was acquired under a 999 year lease. In 1922 the stock of the Chicago, Milwaukee and Gary railway was acquired and this road (1 oo m.) has since been separately operated by the "Milwaukee." Gross revenue from all sources in 1934 was The C.M.St.P. and P.R.R. serves 12 States from Indiana on the east to Washington on the North Pacific coast with 11,130 roadway miles. The company's investment in railroad property and equipment amounts to over $700,000,000. Its capital struc ture consists in round numbers of $290,000,000 of fixed interest bearing funded debt ; $183,000,000 of contingent interest bearing debt (income bonds), $120,000,000 of preferred stock and 1,174,000 shares of no par common stock. On July 1, 1935, the railroad filed a petition in bankruptcy accompanied by a plan for reorganization of its financial structure. (H. A. ScA. )