The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-03-24


City this Summer-FOrt Scott, Park City, |
and Santa Fe Il. Il. Under Contract to |
Acknowledgement OF the Speedy Build |
Mountain Z. R.-Park City Railroad
Center.
On the l1th inst, a large and enthnsi-
astic meeting of the citizens of Sedg-
wick county was held at the new real
estate Office of Grifon, Zimmerman s.
Hammond, Park City, to hear an adj
dress from ". N. Stuart, Esq, President
of the Fort Scott, Park City 81 Santa Fe
Railroad, and to consider railroad mat
tiers in general.
The meeting was called to order by
J. a. McIlvain, Esq, and, on motion,
T. II. Dunlap was appointed president,
and j. L. Zimmerman, secretary of the
meeting.
President Stuart then addressed the
meeting and held the vast audience al
most spell-bound for the space of one
hour and half.
The Fit. Scott, Park City s. Santa Fe
Railroad is not what is known in pop
ular parlance as a paper .Tailro0d, but
is an idea crystallized, veritable real
ity. The road, according to its charter,
is to have its initial point at TT. Scott
running through Bourbon and Allen
counties to Humboldt; thence along the
9Th parallel, as nearly as possible, to
Eureka, in Greenwood county; thence
to Eldorado, in Butler county; thence
to Park City, in the beautiful and fer
tile valley of the Arkansas; thence by
the nearest and most practicable
route to Santa Fe, New Mexico. This
road is now under contract to Humboldt,
and will be built to that point during
the coming summer. The Fit. Scott 81
Allen County Railroad, running from
Fit. Scott to Humbolt, is already willing
and anxious to consolidate with the
Ft. Scott, Park City s. Santa Fe Rail-
road. The intention of the consolidated
road is to form a connection with the
Airline Railroad from st. Louis to
Fort Scott. The people of st. Louis are
alive to the importance of an airline
connection with the west, and we are
assured by the earnestness with which
they have taken hold of the matter, that
the road will be speedily built. These
roads will form the shortest route east
for the entire southwest, and running,
gion, will prove of inestimable value to
this part of Kansas, and especially of
the people of the great southwest.
The Arkansas Valley & Rocky Noun
tain Railroad, excepting only the q. P.
r. R., is one of the grandest projects of
modern times. This railroad will start
at, or near, Napoleon, Arkansas, on the
west bank of the Mississippi, and south
bank of the Arkansas Valley to Little
Rock F.; thence to Fort Smith thence TO
Fort Gibson, in the Indian Territory
thence to Park City, traversing the en-
tire length of the valley on to the
Rocky Mountains. This railroad will
open for settlement portion of coun-
try hitherto unknown, and one that is
rich in everything that can contribute to
the prosperity of country; agricultu.
raj lands, boundless in extent; mines
of both useful and precious metals Of
untold wealth and inexhaustible, and q
climate unsurpassed for healthfulness
The largest ocean steamer that visits
the port of New Orleans can run up the
Mississippi, at all seasons of the year
, as far as the mouth of the Arkansas
; Thus the inhabitants of this valley viii
: get their imports from the commercial
cities of Europe direct to Napoleon, a
the mouth of the Arkansas river, with
out the trouble and extra expense of re
: shipping at New Orleans, and Sigh
advance in cost over the same goods re
ceived at that place.
l AS the river, along which this rail
road runs, drains this vast and extern
sive country of its surplus waters, so thu
Arkansas Valley and Rocky Mountain
/ Railroad, can have no successful com
petition in carrying off our surplus pro
! duce, and cannot fail to furnish us {
5 cheap means of transportation to anG
) from the sea-board. Already has thu
Alabama s. Mississippi Railroad chang
: ed its terminus from Helena to the
mouth of the Arkansas, to form con
nection with this road.
ALI railroad men, who have had theil
r attention called to this last named road
l admit that it can not be otherwise
than great and a national road.
The Texan Cattle Trail has beer
) Strengthened by the K. P. r. r., and
: now runs through Park City. The
prospect of brisk trade this summer
by reason of the Trail being perma
nently located here, is already attract
ing many business men to this point.
1t was resolved that another meeting
be held on Saturday, the 25th, to take
into consideration, and to make such
arrangements in the matter, as shall be
deemed necessary, that no trouble shall
arise by reason of Texan cattle being
driven over the Trail. We are assured
that no trouble will arise in that respect
Our citizens are willing and anxious
to have the cattle driven through this
place. Z.