The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-03
NORTH AND SOUTH RAILWAY.
The Dakota, wichita and Gulf, Md-Conti-
nent Enterprise.


ing the organization of a railway company
under the above name, for which state
charter had been taken out. Further
than to give the names and residences of
the incorporators few details were men
toned.
Some five or six years ago an English
sydicate was formed for the purpose OF
taking up the construction bonds OF road
proposed to be built from Bismarck, n. d.,
via Superior, Neb., and Wichita, Kan,
through the coal fields of the Indian Terri
tory to Galveston. 1t was to be an air line.
through thu great grain belt OF the entire
Transmissouri region. Some of the pro-
moters Of the enterprise came before the
Wichita Board of Trade at that time with
letters, pamphlets. maps and other evil
dences of good faith and assurances OF
solid backing. Some time subsequent
it was announced that the magnates
of the Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe sys-
TENS had succeeded in dissuading or other
wise preventing the English syndicate
from furnishing the contemplated capital
for floating the proposed bonds.
However that may have been we only
know that for some reason the enterprise
was abandoned, and nothing more WAS
heard Of the great North ard South rail
way" until some two weeks ago, when
Edward Roemer of New York city, G. NJ.
Rawlings of Lyons, Kansas, and W. 3.
Cook, asked for conference, at the Carey
hotel, in this city, with the president OF
the board of trade and its railroad COM
mittee. At that conference profiles Of the
en- frnp, NahraCEa inf ha Indian
Territory and maps of the entire line were
exhibited by the gentlemen named. linked
with a proposition to make Wichita the
headquarters for everything and to locate
their general Offices here The committee
laid the matter before the directory
of the board, two meetings for its consid-
Grafton being held. The only aid asked, ia
additional to the amount which the law
says may be voted, was grounds for ma
chine shops and round house, depot
grounds and right of way through the
city.
Following an acceptance of the PROPOSE
ton the company was reorganiz-d, and
the charter filed with the secretary of state
on the 31st ult, with Z. r Powell, G. w.
Clements, T. X. Mclean and W. b. Cook.
VI w iCnI'tt, L. -. IGdW VI LyoLss ", IL.
Violet of Oklahoma, and Edward Roemer
of New York, AS incorporators.
An Associated Press dispatch, dated
Topeka. the next morning, says:
''The charter is for ninety-nine years,
and the authorized capital stock is SlS,
600 600, at 500 per share. Ii Is proposed 10
construct IL line of Standard gauge rail
road and telegraph from point near
Nahr cl- L, m
sas, Oklahoma an Texas. TO the Gulf
of Mexico. The estimated distance is
1000 miles. Nothing is known of the
project in Topeka, except that the Popullsts
say that it has nothing to do with Gov
ernor dwellings, gulf steamship project.
1t Is Wichita scheme, and IFS incorporate
ors are said to be all Republicans The
fact that it is proposed To build the road
in the central part of the state has given
rise to gossip that the scheme includes the
purchase of the Santa Fe's north and south
branch lines in that section. BY building
short lines here aud there to connect these
branches an almost due nort b and south
line would be secured, covering the terri
tory described, and running from Superior.
Neb., to point on the south line of
Kansas.
AT subsequent meeting of the directory
the following organization was had:
e. r. Powell, president.
&. NJ. Rawlings, first vice president.
G. w. Clement, second vice president.
w. b. Cook. secretary.
L. h. Mclean. treasurer.
Edward Roemer, chief engineer.
OF the responsibility of the new English
syndicate, said to have been formed for
the purpose of furnishing the necessary
capital to build this thousand miles of
railroad ,vp know MOTH no 6afinita From,
clippings from the Galveston News and
other papers we learn that Major Edward
Roemer is Prussian by birth and an en-
gineer of great repute. He was before the
committee of congress with an offer to
secure deep water in Galveston Bay for
two million dollars of less sum than was
proposed at the same time to the same
committee by the late Capt. Eads. Major
Roemer is credited with the execution of
the great naval station and port OF Will
helms Haven, on the North sea. and as
the engineer of works on the Mas and
Rhine. But of this gentleman's standing
and of the ability of the English capital
lists whom he is said to represent, more,
probably, in the future.
The commercial world is coming in a
WY (SbSiai hoy ~ hCSOEShAfO az SS'h-
omical truth and traffic logic,
which had been set forth aud advocated
for years by the EAGLE The time was
when no trunk line of road not running
east and west could be made to pay. The
nearer south Atlantic seaboard and Gulf
with their numerous ports counted for
nothing as against the commercial pres
tige enjose ed and capital controlled by
New York ii other eastern Atlantic
cities. Waterways Were abandoned by
boats in this interest, compelled by rail-
ways constructed across the Alleghenies,
over which all the products practically of
the Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri and SUBJ
sdiary valleys have been forced for a mar
KIT and for export. And the products of
the states east OF the Mississippi river may
still continue thus to so, but the
people of the transmississippi. and
especially those of the transmissouri
regions are awakening to the advantages
of a shorter, cheaper and less difficult haul
TO export ports Oh the south. Such line
as the Dakota, Wichita and Gulf' road
would tap and traverse the greatest wheat
growing belt in the world. 1t would run
through the wheat belts of Oklahoma,
Kansas, Nebraska aud the Dakotas entire,
which states. including Texas, constitute
the greatest live stock region probably in
the world.
OF the further movements OF the new
enterprises and of the calculations and
promoters, the EAGLE will keep its read
ers fully advised
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