Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-08-15
l1PKANsAs RAILROADS.
co,struction of One New Line the '"' Msans of Starting Dozen.
... which Draw Humanity and Cap Ass,s ..r, Ito New Fields-Rich Mines, Fsr,ile Lands and Vast Forests
 soon to Be Penetrated.

r.,s ,s an age of great beginnings
 a treat enterprises. New cities sps m almost in night, new centers 'pf pp,ndustry are formed in what were M s.v years ago considered uninhabitable ~. ..;ons of the country, forces of nature bsipr subdued, while railroads are ~orL;ne marvels in the way of opening 1ands and changing the course of ..4c Two years ago all western ex- L .t business went via New York, po.tou. Philadelphia and Baltimore, .S,ls now there is a steady flow to .o,thern seaports. Wheat for foreign rsrkets is pouring into New Orleans and Galveston every day. Last year a Ar If grain exporters at New Orleans,
 a..ting in connection with St. Louis ssslsrs, placed 14,00o,ooo bushels of s-.in on shipboard, while at Galveston sss amount shipped was 100000. 1t . .' estimated the shipments of Galveston .his year will exceed 95,oo0, ,ooo bushels. Sorth M and south lines of railroads have aiverted western grain to southern .orts The causes which have infiu- frscad the building of railroads to the srlf may be defined as the operations q new laws of trade and changing con- s;t;ons but the secret or hidden cause vbieh led to the construction'of one .ew line which compels the building 
 d others may be read in
 A Tale of Two Cities.
 To any person who has kept tab on the rivalry between Kansas City and St Louis to control Mexican and sea- nort traffic the building of the Kansas citv. Pittsburg and Gulf railroad was no surprise. For many years past both these cities have been reaching after .outhern and southwestern business, and now they are waging contest for mpremaeY which intensifes as time eoes by, and will eventuate in the con- struction of new railroads and exten- sion of lines now in operation. Kansas City has what are designated Kansas City roads, that is to say, lines that are specially interested in building up the trade of that city, and the same may be said of St. Louis. While this is the case there are railroads connecting both cities and traversing the west and southwest which are more interested in the amount of freight they carry than In the cities to which it is carried in other words, simply looking after busi- ness and using every means to hold l what trade they have and get more if possible The Missouri Pacific is one of the neutral systems. It enters both Kansas City and St. Louis, with lines E radiating south, west and southwest ] Long ago the management of this sys- ] em cast an eye over the field to every point of the compass beyond the termi- nas of trunk and branch lines, with view of extending them to meet antici- ] psted competition whenever it became necessary. It may be safely asserted that the opening of the new line from Kansas City to Port Arthur resulted in
 Breaking the Barriers
 which obstructed projected lines to the gulf and arousing all roads pointing
 that way to a consciousness of the necessity of pushing their lines to completion. The incorporation of the
 Little Rock, Springfield and Gulf road,
 the benef ,iary of the Smith land grant
 bill, whicl will parallel the. Kansas
 Cty, Pittsburg and Gulf from Spring
 teld, Mo, to Yell county, Arkansas, has
 caused the Missouri Pacific manage
 nentto discuss the question of building
 aaalternative line, or extension rather,
 nom Cushman northwest to Spring
 aeld, or rather Carthage, where it will
 Ap one of its own trunk lines. This
 project has long been in contemplation.
 Sashman is located about 13 miles
 northwest of Batesville and is the ter
 nnus of the Newport and Batesville
 usnch of the Iron Mountain road. It
 aosSes splendid region of table land
 Aasersed in every direction by creeks
 suu rivers, all fed by springs at short
 a'ervals, with surface heavily tim
 sea with hard wood of various kinds,
 1ane everywhere along the route ex-
 N nch deposits of minerals which will
 brought to light as soon as the route
 unlsned While steps are being taken
 es'aolshed systems to extend their
 'a's in Arkansas there is manifested
 '9U'i Interest in All Parts of the State,
 saleatlng that the people are fully "aAe to their interests and resolved s'eap the benefit of every opportunity Oceasion offers. It is the opinion of
 se offcials, who are well informed psc'lng railroad affairs, that work .. .ue Little Rock, Springfield and ... sa road will begin within 90 days. A 4 my my ol expert employees of the com < M ss. has been searching the records of 7 ,sa" s~'e land office selecting forfeited 7 M as'' which lands were withdrawn ~ si market to become the property of :. Ips aA,oao ,, company, provided it com 7 Wi'h the conditions upon which 7 iano grant is made, one of which lnass ma mat work shall begin within p SI 0u'hs after passage of the Smith a0 "afy Work Progressing Rapidly. 0' es.e os.e IS IS no reason why work should
 s,,oa ssmltted to lag, and there is every Q why 1t should be hastened, as 1u uonated by the state will more