The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1877-08-30

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About an Important Railroad.
Salina, Aug. %, 1877,
FRIEND SAMPsoN-We noticed some
days since an article in the Topeka Con,
m0nwedlth, which contained the state.
ment that the Kansas Pacific Railway
Company desired and intended in the
very near future, TO build a line OF road
up the valley of the Solomon. While
reading the article it occurred to me that
now was the opportunity OF Salina to gel
benefit from trade that was surely
slipping away from her. 1t matters not
to Salina, where such line of road shall
leave the main line cat Sahna or Sole
mon City, the effect of its construction
upon the movement of the produce of
that great valley is just the same de.
parted froro Sslina and localized upon
the stations along the line, in either
case. Yet to Us il seems very necessary
to the future growth aud prosperity of
Salina, that such line when construct
cd should start from our city. We will
briefly give few OF our reasons. 1t will
benefit Salina First, it will afford an
for the business men of Sa-
lima for the exercise of their business tact
and talent inSecuring large portion
of the wholesale and jobbing business of
the valley. While losing large retail
and shipping trade, large field in the
wholesale business will be opened up.
Second, such location of the branch
would result in Sslins being made per-
manently the end of one and the begin
ming of another division of the K. P. r.
R. After such a location Salina,
when the trafac-passenger and freight
increases, rs it must NECESSARILY, will
become to the K, P what Altoona is to
the Penn. Central, it's grand central di-
vision, the center of its business, the
place where is located the greater por-
ton of lite personal property and where
the largest sum is paid upon the rolls
for labor. Third, it will quadruple the
population Of our town in FIVE years,
making a very large increase in our To-
cal business, Fourth, it will beneftthe
entire county, in this that it will add
thousands to the number of consumers
in the county, and consequently make
home market for a very large portion
Of our breadetufs, meats, fruits aud veg
etables. 1t will assist in sundry ways
in popping and in advancing the mater
ial prosperity of the city and county,
The Kansas Pacific Railway, when 1t
shall have received justice and fair treat
ment az guaranteed by law, at the hands
of the Union Pacific, will soon become
one of the great arteries Of connection
between the East and West. Just now,
in consequence OF the policy and course
pursued by the Union Pacific toward
the Kansas Pacific. in setting at defiance
a clear and unmlstakable law, which re
quires that the Union Pacific shall, in q
certain way and to q certain extent as ia
act forth in the law, pro rate with Kan
sas Pacific, this road ia nothing more
than purely local road, and one, too,
that is shut of from any connections
westward.
We would not advise or even suggest
the building of railroad north or south,
Or in any direction as an original propo-
Sition, tor we believe the building of any
such road will not now benefit orr town;
but if such roads are 10 be built in her
vicinity and The emporiums
% her trade invaded, surely lot the trlb-
ute, what there Is OF It, tall into the lap
)t Saiina.
Ii is our opinion that the present
of the Kansas Pacific have
he klndiest feelings towards our town,
md would do any reasonable act II aid
n advancing hor future, ami we believe
hey would meet frankly and consider
airl y any representation made by oar
.itizens. This is the era OF paciication
md good feeling, aud in our Judgment
he time has come tor an honest and tar
understanding between our people sud
he Railroad, TO the end that we may
lave the great advantage of the partial
ty of the Company toward oar interests
hat lay in line with theirs, and toward
our future
We simply suggest these thoughts for
he consideration of our business men
md property owners. We deem them
worthy OF careful consideration. Should
he road start east of US We are virtually
mt of, while il west of Us, we would be
point on the line East and still could
each the section by energy and enter.
rise. When we have time we will en-
Ieavor by the abduction of facts to con-
'ince our friends of the opinion long
leld by us, and to make them of our
mind, that SalIus ia By ell means, and