Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-04-03
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Few realize the extent and variety of
interests which are comprised by a sim
gle great railway company, or the labor
and responsibility which devolves upon
the chief executive Of the parent COM
pany and his associates, in supervising
the workings of a complicated system
Of organizations, covering vast stretch
es OF country, and representing an i'm
mense expenditure of money. Looking
over the manual of the Atchison, Tope-
ka and Santa Fe railroad and auxiliary
companies, for example, we find that
this one system comprises or is largely
interested in the following formidable
List OF corporations:
Arizona Southern Railway company.
Arkansas Valley Elevator company.
Arkansas Valley Town company.
Atchison City Elevator company.
Atchison Railway Employees associa-
/ tiOn.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road company.
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad COM
pany.
Canon City Coal company.
Florence, Eldorado and Walnut Val
ley Railroad company.
Harper and Western Railroad COM
pany.
Hunnewell Town company.
Kansas City Belt Railway company.
Kansas City and Emporia Railroad
company.
Kansas City, Emporia and Southern
Railroad company.
Kansas City, Topeka and Western
Railroad compnny.
Kansas Southern Railrord company.
In Junta Water company.
Las Vegas Hot Springs company.
Leayenworth, Topeka and Southwest
ern Railway company.
Manhattan, Alma and Burlingame
Railway company.
Marion and Mcpherson Railway COM
pany.
New Mexico Railroad company.
New Mexico and Arizona Railroad
company.
New Mexico and Southern Pacific
Railroad company.
New Mexico Town company.
Usage Carbon company.
Pleasant Hill and. DE Soto Railroad
company.
Pueblo and Arkansas Valley Railroad
company.
Pueblo Union Depot company.
Ration Coal and Coke company.
Ration Water company.
Rio Grande and Elpaso Railroad COM
pany.
Rio Grande, Mexico and Pacific Rail-
road company.
San Pedro Coal and Coke company.
Sedgwick and Western Railroad con-
pany.
Silver City, Deming and Pacific Rail-
road company.
Sonora Railroad company tlimited)
Southern Kansas Railway company.
Southern Mining company.
Topeka Equipment company.
Topeka Iron company.
Topeka Western Railway company.
Trinidad Coal and Coking company.
Wellington and Western Railroad
company.
Wichita and Southwestern Railway
company.
Wichita and Western Railroad COM
pany.
OF these forty-six companies, Mr..
William B. Strong is president of thirty
one, vice president of three and direc-
tor of five others-Or thirty-nine in all.
or the remaining seven he is probably
also practically, though not nomially the
executive head. Some of the other
principal officers Of the parent compa-
nies are in each case officers of the sub
ordinate companies as well. A man
who has to be responsible for the opera
tion of forty or fifty different compan-
les needs to have an active and com
prehensive mind, the ability to endure
an immense amount of labor, and the
gift of selecting the right men to carry
out the details of management for the
great system. The prosperity of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe CON-
pany indicates that all the require
ments have been met.-Railway Age.