Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-04
THE NEW RAILROAD

The prospects for AZ additional line
of railroad entering Abilene at an
| -arly dare are very encouraging In
yesterdays issue We published the
names of the newly organized board
of directors of the Omaha, Abilene &
| Wichita road. The organization is
composed OF the very best material
the three cities named in the charter
can afford-men of go-ahead qualities,
! men possessing ample means of their
own, and so situated in the business
world rs to command ample means to
complete the enterprise without delay.
One hundred thousand dollars was
subscribed for the purpose of conduct
ing the survey at once, with the
further statement that the engineers
would be placed upon the proposed
route within ten DAYS from the date Of
the election of he present directors.
This road will bc of untold value to
our city and county. bencfitting every
commercial interest that exists in this
part of the couu r.. 1t gives us a
direct line TO the Chicago market for
our production OF wheat, corn, cattle
and hogs. at a .raic similar to the one
employed and enjoyed by Kansas
City to-day. 1t wi give us lumber
rate in return, which alone will bene-
fit this country, in five years, suffi-
cient to return the outlay made by in
creased taxation for the principal and
interest on all the bonds which will be
required to build The road. On
the south we will ..ave opened
to us the long-tfcsired south
ern outlet, which viii place
H. in direct communication with the
cheap coal fields of Southeastern Kan
~a-. the lumber districts of Arkansas
rnl the grain and flour trades of the
lower Mississippi. In either direction
we will be relieved of the pooling sys-
i,in now in vogue at Kansas City,
without possibility of any pooling
ro'npact being formed by new lines.
Il gives us two direct routes from
Wichita TO St. Louis, without touch
ing Kansas City and three distinct
lines of road from Omaha to Chicago.
1, will pass through the very heart of
he golden belt" of Kansas. and
traverses the center of Dickinson
county, running north and south. 1t
will. without a doubt, give our city
he most successful boom of
any on the line, being men,
rio-ed in the charter, and situated
midway between Omaha and Wichita
will undoubtedly be division point
for the erection Of round hou ses, ma
chine shops and the headquarters of
many of its off ces. In addition to all
the advantages enumer ,ied. we must
not lose sight of the old pioneer road,
the Kansas Pacific, which has been
our salvation for number of years
The management of this route will not
be likely 10 stand idly by and permit
all of the business of our city and
coaniry to he taken away from il:
competing rates will at once be estab-
lished. and the merchant, farmer. me-
chanic and laborer will each reap his
proportionate benefit from the new era
in which we will be living. Abilene will
at once be prominent purchasing and
shipping point for the central part of
Kansas. extending for at least one
hundred miles west from here. Ii will
be the coal and lumber market for the
entire west and northwest Kansas
Ii will be the point for wholesale job
hing houses of every class, and manu-
facturer- will be induced TO accept il
as the place for them 10 locate. Our
future could not look any brighter.
Almost every word of the above.
taken from the Abilene Gazette, APP
plies 10 Clay Center and Clay county,.
Every citizen should begin seriously
TO think of this new project. Is its
building from the south is an assured
fact and only the question whether
Clay wants it is in Doubleday Gen.
ter Times.