El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-20
FL pASO ON THE LINE
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& Topeka euburban line, and it lie said
Mr.. Stillwell has already secured an
entrance to the Onion depot in St.
Louis. The work of constructing the
road is to begin at once, or rather as
has been said, it las already begun In
Mexico. But new beginnings will be
made at several American points &C.
cordipR TO the plan Mr.. Stillwell fol.
lowed In building the Pittsburg &
Gulf.
"While this new railroad IL an
enormous undertaking from the casual
observer's viewpoint" said Mr.. Still
we'll, "a s27 600 600 proposition, yet to
the man of foresight. the man With
money to invest, this is nothing. Now
adsys capital looks or ly to the return
that may be expected. Any amount OF
money can be secured for an enterprise
that will pay good returns, and this new
road can not help but prove one OF the
most profitable railway enterprises
ever undertaken. We shall start from
the finest harbor on the South Pac 6c.
It Is available for vessels drawing 30
feet of water, and they can unload
direct to the shore without the use OF
piers. This harbor IL on the tropic OF
Cancer, which runs through the
Hawaiian Islands. It is nearer to Ha-
vail, Hong Kong and the Philippines,
10 q woro to the gre At marke to OF the
whole Orient, than any of the other
American ports. We shall have
steamer line connections with the ca
directly our road is complete. Already
a line of steamers plies forth from
Topolobsmpo to Guaymas, and the
head of the Gulf of Cal fornia. There
will be other lines south to Panama
and the South American Pacific ports.
In Mexico We will tap q country that Is
nov entirely without railroad CON-
munic ations. Within 200 miles from
Topolobsmpo ara gold fields, In which
are 5000 defined mines, from which
over 5000 pack animals now carry out
precious metals to Topolo bampo.
WILL BE AN AIR LINE
"Reaching Texas, as have sad, we
will traverse . territory between the
Santa Fe and the Rock leland. which
is now entirely without railroads.
tract of 300 miles wide and rich as any
in the country. To q great extent tt .
same will be true in Oklahoma. And
taking the whole proposition from
Kansas City to Topoiobsmpo, We shall
have q shorter rail haul shsn any other
route 70 the Pacific. Take the Union
Pac fic route. on an air line, making
no allowance at all for it's mean derinR
circuits through the noun tains, the
total length of our route wouldn't
bring the U nion acifc TO thu eastern
of the state OF California.
Another thing. Our road, connecting
with the Southern Pacific, and thereby
Rysn's Pass, Tex. will give
the shortest rail route from ocean to
Dee 40, excepting only the road on the
I,thmus of Tehuantepec. whose har-
bors are not nearly so good or so avail
Abe.
Gin the matter of construction,
n ~ say there are absolutely no great
engineering difficulties. The only
noun sins we have to deal with are in
Mexico, and our route 10 already sur
? y ed through passes no more difficult
al was the construction in several
places on the PittsburR and Gulf. 10
act, the whole road as an engineering
is very similar to the
oistsburg and Gulf, which 1 built for |
II 900 mile. of course. not including |
Equipment. Our Mexican subsidies |
'ange from s12. 900 to s22. 500 per
nile."
Tho officers Of the company are:
Arthur e. Stilwell, president; J. w.
3irst, drss vice-president; 8. A.
second vice-presidept; 81.
}. Pert, third vice-presideDt; G. N.
Atkinson, secretary; W. A. Rule,
ressurer; Trimble and Braley, aItor-