The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-26
KEEPS It GOING
Mr.. C. E. Cole Again Discusses
North and South Railway.
IT WILL BE SURVEYED
He Says>a Civil Engineer viii
be Sent to Wichita.

Mr.. C. z. Cole. who IS in correspondence
with railroad men about proposed line
through Wichita from the Great North
ern 10 Port Arthur. said yesterday:
THE projectors OF the North and South
railroad have not been idle the past two
weeks. They have determined TO send
practical and experienced civil engineer
to Wichita, it being the equi-distant point
between the northern lakes and the south
ern gulf, to feel the route. so to speak,
and awaken interest in new transcont.-
mental railroad in the communities It Is
proposed TO become public carrier FOR.
The proposed road has been carefully
gone over and canvassed as 10 the mat
tiers above and also as 10 grade. The es-
innate has been made as 10 cost and It
is fully established that the road can be
built for S15O00 a mile, that 1t viii be 80
miles the shortest route from the lakes 10
the gulf. that from Norfork, Neb., 10 Port
Arthur and the gulf it traverses the rich
est territory west of the Mississippi river.
While so doing il parallels no other road,
yet connects with every important system
leading east and west. making every re-
quired connection for travel and the trans
portation of freight
"A brief summary OF the project would
be: That at NOrfork. Neb.. It connects
with what is Familiarity called the Jim Hill
system, the Great Northern, which reaches
Yankton. S. D., on the Missouri river.
Minneapolis, ST. Paul and Duluth on the
northern lakes, with a line of steamers
for Buffalo, n Y. At ST. Paul and Min
neapolis It reaches HIS Northwestern
system for the Rocky mountains and Pa
cific coast north of Puget Sound. 20 Taco
ma and Seattle and by ocean transporta-
ton. Manitoba and the vast Alaskan min
eral fields. At Norfork Il also meets a d.
vision of the Northwestern system which
is the shortest route TO the Black Hills
and all points in Montana and Idaho. BY
the same system it reaches directly Chi
cago and all points east. This system Is
now centering at Norfork, and 1t is pro-
posed TO build from Norfork south. there
by opening te the markets OF the world
the great agricultural mineral and timber
belts of the choicest counties throughout
Nebraska, Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas.
and the uneXeelled timber regions of Lou
isiana- Crossing Oklahoma 1t gets into the
heart OF an inexhaustible coal belt. both
anthracite and bituminous, that viii com
pare IN every way favorably with the best
caol OF like kinds found in Colorado. 1t
reaches and tra%erses the richest counties
In northern and eastern Texas. It estab-
fishes bonds of commercial interest be-
tween the north and south, with an in
creased exchange OF diverse commodities.
many yet crude and undeveloped. because
of the absence Of hauling facilities.
wichita being the midway has an
opportunity that comes only once, such
an opportunity as had Leavenworth when
the Joy roads were offered her for the
taking. but through apathy and treachery
on the part Of some OF its self-constitu-
ted leading citizens. the roads were per-
mitted to slip from her grasp and Kansas
City, No, then but a village as compared
to Leavenworth, secured them at an i'm
mense cost 10 Leavenworth. which would
today have been as large and as important
a city as Cincinnati. Ohio