The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-11-21
ATCHIsON, Topeka & SANTA FE
Chicago Railway Review.

1t should be borne in mind that the
earnings this year are compared with the
earnings last year, which showed a very
large gain over the year before. Thus,
the earnings in October, 1877, were but
$7S, 1874, or about $4,000 less than the
increase of earnings this year over last.
The earnings for the whole month of DC
tober last year were but $445,0OO and
for October, 1877, $;342, 1922.
The following dispatch from San Fran
cisco, dated Nov. 3, is given for what it
may be worth:
among the passengers who sailed to-
day for San Diego were Lucius Pratt and
q. b. WILDER, of Boston. They repre-
sent considerable Boston capital, and are
prominently identified with the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, now in
| course of construction to the Pacific
coast Their mission to San Diego is to
complete certain negotiations began some
time ago, looking to the establishment
of Pacific coast terminus for the rail
road they represent at that place. Ne
gotiations have been conducted with
much secrecy, owing to the fear enter
tanned by the people of San Diego that
they will be interfered with by the Texas
Pacific or the Southern Pacific compa-
MES, both of which are directly interest
1 san luC
| agreement TO construct its road to San
Diego harbOr, and the latter regarding
with jealousy any rival attempt to connect
the east with the southern Pacific coast
| Seaboard. Persons who are interested in
| San Diego real estate aver that Kimball,
proprietor of the national rancho, situa-
ted ON the bay of San Diego, has offered
the Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe people
ten thousand acres of land, a con-
siderable portion of which is deep
water frontage on the bay, provided they
will make San Diego their terminus, and
at once or very soon, begin building
from San Diego eastward. This Offet
has been supplemented by another OF
10000 acres, to be Jointly given by sever,
al large property holders, making in all
10000 acres which will be assured the
company if its representatives see fit to
bind the bargain. There is also move.
ment ON fOot-in fact, the legal steps will
soon be taken-fOr the restoration of the
| 10000 acres donated to the Texas Pacific
company conditiOnally by the city OF
San Diego. The company has not com.
piled with any of the conditions, and the
general impression in San Diego is that
Tom Scott can be made to relax his
grasp upon them. In that event these
lands will also be conveyed to the Atchi.
son. Topeka & Santa Fe&ompany. 1t is
believed that Pratt and Wilber will bring
the affair to rapid completion, and thai
work will be begun on the Pacific coast
division of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fee railroad before March l."
Those who have investigated the sub
/ ject declare that the history of the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad is
the history of bold and specula-
tive enterprise, but is one most likely tC
| terminate in magnificent success. Jusi
think of il for moment. Here is a rail
road which Is likely to become riva
Of the Pacific railroad, originally started
| from point of minor importance, and
passing through portion of country mt
terly desolate, n country which even tho
Indians would not select for home, un
til now it connects Kansas City and At
Gibson with Pueblo, Denver, Leadville
| Carson City and Southern Colorado, in
Guiding the famous San Juan and Gun
nison countries, which promise to be tho
| California of the future, thus opening NJ
New Mexico and Arizona TO eastern trade
| and at the same time controlling a thou
| sand miles of railway, and is earning mon
| ey, while pushing its line night and day
toward Mexico to meet the SOutherI
Pacific building from the Pacific coast
through. The original road was com
menced in 1860 by dozen Kansas men
but il got to a point where it languished
for ten years, when some Boston and
Cincinnati men-toOk hold of it and
agreed TO build section of it from TO
peka to Burlingame-
But failure again overlook the enter
prise and the road was turned over tC
what was known rs the AtchisOn com
pany, composed of Boston capitalists
who were ON the lockout for profitable
railroad speculations in Kansas. The
names of these capitalists are now pow
er in the market The principal idea Of
the Boston people in taking hold OF this
thing was the bold one of running a road
to the Pacific, to cut short the greai
route to Asia and Australia. At present
the road runs 200 miles into New Mexi
co, and is fast working TO the Rio Grands
river. The stock of the road is up to 119
When the inner history of the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad is written
| it will read like romance-Boston Cor
respondence San Francisco Call.