The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-11
The Next Great BrXn.cOnii mental.
TSpringde.d (Nass.) Republican,

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The country has made lot of money in
the last ?e sr, and knows i, "a the country
has befcfs, and as before, the country will
spend lie profits in railroad building. For
u generation, every time big crops, a Eu-
ropeau demand and growing population
| has swollen the American publIcs surplus
cash, it has strsightway spread a net work
Of iron rails oStr some new district, and
shortly after seen all of the original CAPT
tai AID most Of the bonded debt incurred
90 out OF sight in the next PANIC. Oae
fiood tide OF railrosd building carried the
railway System Of the Country over the
Allegheny mountains, another spread Ii
over the .i;ssippi valleys third drove it
over the ntinent, a. A great loss Of capt.
tai to the original investors, bat with sub
stan;ial good to the GommuH iiy. 80 far,
the Southwest, a region someS hat larger
than New England, the Middle States AID
all the rest OF the couaIry north OF the Ohio
river and east oi the Mississippi, has not
had its share OF ne railroad building OF
the country. OF al the long stage Routes
of generation ago, the only one lett is
across this region, line i go miles long.
From present ind cations. however, Wet
ern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and
Southern California have not long TO wait
before the familiar rrospec! Of Railroad ex-
pansion is repeated.
If the circumstantisl re; o,ts of western
papers are to be believed, the Atchisop,
Topeka and Santa Fe railroad will be the
next company to spread its lines over a
dssolate area by way Of improving Ne
elected section. TIE Atchisop, Topeka and
Santa Fe ia the hist Of the great solvent
| roads which will some time lie On the
western slope of the Mississippi Missouri
valley, az others now lie on lis eastern
slope. II Is not like the Union Pac tic Il
| national throug hfare, nor Ike the ChIGsgo
| and Northwestern 8 system Family lag from
one great city. Up tie ARK river,
| through perhaps tie most fertile valley Of
| the vest, over The highest psss crossed to-
day by an Amer can locomotive, The Athi
sion. Topeka and Santa Fe lies In a terri
tory OF its Own, and profits by business
which lis own lire has created. TIE story
| Of lis sudden appreciation In value is ore
OF the most marvellous opes in recent rail-
road history IL il this ro,d hicn nov
proposes, according TO arepo-ted Interview
with Its vice President and general mana
ger, W. b. STups, TO reach tbs Pacific by
=,
cut three raDscoutinental roads the at
tempt OF Atchison, Topeks and SAINT. Fe
| to cut across the continent by its Cwn route
may, however, he anticipated By the effort
of jay GoGhi 10 reach the Southern Pacinc
over the S.. Louis. Ircn Mountain and
| s uthern, through which recent bu
| vague report s.ys lie il tends To make him
| se.f felt il Texas, and effect junction with
l ~ II T.. - II
| irsl Pacific.
Speaking broadly, where the road now
ends, water runs, when there is any, one
way down the Rio Grsnde TO she suif OF
| Mexico, the other down the CCiorsdo 10 the
gulf Of California and between stretches a
| wafer shed, naTsos al Grst tgt later b. DAD
enipg into the le vel table lsUd ci central
Mexico. The company proposes to get one
connection with the Pacific oy going down
the Rio Grande 1.-THE river will be reached
in six weeks, as track Laying il now going
OF at the Tate If t~o miles day. sc lar as
( P.so, where the Southern Pacific will be
met coming scroes from the vest, just north
of thu soVthera boundary of The tbiieG
States. The Southern Pacific, which Guus
10 places for hundred mites nj q streIch
| through desert hare of every lisirg thing,
| Il being crowded across sou.hsrr Arizona
and New Mexico By the Central Psci6c, in
the bope OF forestslling competition.
Eighteen months ago the c ptrsl Pacific
appeared altogether likely to liz up the
trade OF The pac!sG cosst by extending this
daring branch throu ugh the desert. Oids
are even Low that brf re it iscompleted The
rosd will be crossed by two rival tran-con-
| tInen;al lines.
Someihins ilnre th.n mere railroad
building is Involved by tie next en'sr-
prise Of the Atcaieon, topeka i 5 Inis Re
1t hiss not only to build its road, bas to
create lis terminua From some point in
its southern progress . branch Is to run
from the Rio Ora. de Ii ,e of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe into new southwest
Mexico. II ia to PCS Diagonal = over tie
Northwestern PIT I Mes.eo, "a gTesricG-
! hs H. gici.ez. Ia. al r.s ~. .L1 &
oI., mas, on the suif OF California. -uJ-
stsntially . city Of the future. Ii has DO
present. a big Mexican grant fJr this
project is in some inchoa,e SHAPE, and {, Q
statement is made, bat scarcely credible,
that from Gioymss TO HerIn,silla the
road is already under contract. Nor is this
all. BY securing control Of . neglected
line in southern Missouri, the St. Louis
& San Francisco, = rod beginning at the