Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-26
MEMPHIS--KANNAS CITY.
. Great Ambition Nearly
C~Onsummated.
Kansas City to Memphis.
The Kansas City, Fl. Scott and
Gulf Railroad Extension Push
ing Forward.
Kansas City to Memphis.
The Greatest ssaboard Route.
The Future Passenger Route ia
all Southern Points from
the West.
Kansas Civ Journal.

For more than ten years past the
one unrcalizcd ambition of Kansas
City has been the general demand for
a live, enterp-ising and we'll equipped
line OF railroad between this city and
Memphis. "On to Memphis" was the
watchword of progress in 1872 and be-
fore, as it has been during 1882 and
now. No other railway enterprise, no
other route has had such persistent
pursuit, or met with so many insur
mountable obstacles to success as have
the attempts at opening a line from
Kansas City to the Mississippi river,
with the terminal points at OF near that
vigorous distributing center, Memphis.
No other line, unless it be the very first
one leading into Kansas City, has
ever. o more energetic effort or
more united confidence in its advan-
tages IS a trade promoter, or its i'm
portance as a commercial adjunct, and
yet seemed SO utterly impossible to
secure as this southern outlet. The
history Of the various enterprises for
the accomplishment Of this great d..
sideratum under diversified titles and
Of various dates, have been chroUiclcd
in the journal and is not unfamiliar
TO a majority OF its readers.
The realization Of a hope so long
deferred is reserved for 1883, and even
now it is rapidly approaching absolute,
undoubted cOnsumma;ion, Its pos
session as an exciting fact will not be
less gratifying from the Ease with
which it ia secured to us, and the
positive manner 10 which it is being
carried TO completion by the liberality,
enterprise and able management Of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
railroad, as an extension of its system
from the old line at Fort Scott. Ken
sas, through Missouri in a southerly
direction into Arkansaw, over the
Ozark range, and being put through
with q vigor and determination which
leaves no doubtof its fnal accomplish
ment at an early dste. Completed in
the manner in which the K. u, TT. S
and g Company do such things, and
operated 10 the same spirit Of regard
tor commercial interests and public
welfare which this popular old line
has always manifested heretofore, the
new Kansas City and Memphis route
cannot fail to prove itself, what our
citizens have long asserted it would
be, n OF the most valuable aud nag
nifceDt Of our railway requirements.
Opening up, as it does, a hitherto
~untenable section of country as trade
relations with Kansas City are cen.
eeFned, its advantages are manifest 10
the traffic IL has already begun te
secure and will, when completed, in
sure q new field 10 our johbers, our
manufacturer and our producers oil
meats and breadstutf.. The satisiac
ton expressed by all classes of oul
leading business men at the PROMISING
outlook through the possession Of this
new trade factor is scarcely greater
than the qualification Of the citizen,
Of our sister city, MemBhis, at the
prospect Of q prosperous and profitable
trade Interchange between the two
trade centers soon to be linked By
the new Southern route, the Kansa.
City, IT. Scott and Gulf railroad
With an immepse advantage in it,
fa7or in the matter Of distance. a.
compared with Chicago, it must take
the place of the city o. the lake in
supplies for Memphis as a d%istfibaiinS
point for the South. We can enter
on equal terms with St. Louis
for the Memphis trade, aud in
the shipment Of grain, hay, aour and
provisions can more than hold our
own with any city, and can lay down
the above enumerated products in
Memphis at figures that will secure
us the bulge on this class Of ship,
ments.
The Kansas City, Fort Scott and
Gull company has been so active ia
its work, and yet SO quietly has the
pushing forward Of this important
line been made, that probably not one
in a thousand Of the people Of ouI
live city know how near we ore to The