Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-15
THE SANTA FEE RAILROAD.

NEW BOON FOR KANSAS. ROUND HoteEs
TO BE BUILT AT NEWTON, FLORENCE. NICK
ERsos, DODGE CITY AND SARGENT. SIX
MILLION DOLLARS TO BE EXPENDED IN
KANSAS THIS SEASON TO IMPROVE THIS
ROAD.
T. Jefferson Coolidge, President Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad has
issued the following circular to the stock
holders Of the road:
In a few weeks We shall probably have
reached Florida Pass and made connection
with the Southern Pacific. This will increase
our business by giving Ne part Of the through
travel and freight to and from California,
and We Anticipate demand from the mining
region of Arizona for coal and coke for
mining materials, food, and forage. We
think, therefore, that that portion Of our
road extending from Albuquerque down to
the eouthern part Of New Mexico which has
not been able to earn anything because not
completed will furnish its share of receipts
The crops OF Kansas are looking better than
they have done for two year,, and | hope 10
zee our transportation increased in the State
But the road is not in suitable condition TO
do the large business which has already
come upon it. Our earnings for the pact
year, amounting to about S, 500, coo, have
been seriously interfered with by the condi-
ton of our track and the want of suitable
rolling stock, and our best customers and
friends on the line in Kansas and New
Mexico have not received the Accommodations
which We would have gladly given them il
We had been able TO do 80. The road has
not been sufficiently ballssted, and a large
part OF il was laid with light iron, which ID
giving wsy rapidly both in Kansas and Col
orado. In the latter State we are in perpet
ual danger from cattle straying on our track
and great deal of expensive fencing will
have to be done before We can rua at full
speed. We require at the present time %, O0C
tons If steel and 10000 cross-ties to lay
down a. rapidly as possible. The machine
chops at Topeka are altogether insufficient,
and we are without the necessary shops to
repair rolling-stock, both in Colorado and
in New Mexico. In or near Kansas City VT
sh,ll require at least 100 acres TO make ex.
changes of Cars, TO make the necessary round
house, coai-chutes, etc. The renewal Of
bridges which should be done at once will
re1u re some $50, 000 and the water-servics
no, less than $4,000. At Topeka We
ought TO erect the necessary buildings fol
the business of the Company. Passenge,
depots should be put up at Lawrence and
Emporia, and round-bouses should be ethel
enlarged or hulk at Atchison, Emporia
Florence, Newton, Nickerson, Dodge Ciy,
Sargent. and several other places in Color
ado and New Mexico. la the matter o.
rolling stock alone we require engines and
cars which will cost in the neighborhood Of
50 500. 600. Besides all this, some 40 miles
of side-track should be laid at once. In shori
although the road mas been a successful one
and the business has increased IA much s'
the stockholders could hope, vast Gums o.
money will have to be spent before We car
work economically and proitably. The d.
rector, after giving the whole matter care
full consideration, have decided that S6,000,-
600 should be spent on the road, and they
consider il much more conservative TO issue
stock and sell it at par TO the stockholders
than to load down the road with heavy
debt in the shape OF bonds. They therefore
have decided TO issue one share in four OF
new stock, which viii b. used as explained
above. for construction and rolling stock.