The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-25
FOR THE ORIENT ROAD
Surveying Party Arrive Here
10 Make Preliminary Survey.
EAST TO KANSAS CITY
Work in Charge of Locating
Engineer Armstrong.

A party of surveyors who are making
the preliminary survey for the Orient
road arrived here yesterday and are
camped east OF the city on Fairmount.
The party is under the charge of Lo-
eating Engineer w. p Armstrong, and
the men number thirteen. They have
the usual amount Of surveyors equipment
and the work OF the preliminary survey
from Wichita to Kansas City will DO
begun today. The direction will be
northeast toward Ell Dorado. Just where
it starts from the center Of the city is
not yet known as the decision in regard
to that matter has not yet been made.
Mr.. Armstrong was in consultation with
Mr.. U. V. Ferguson yesterday in regard
TO survey matters and the situation was
thoroughly gone over.
The surveying party has been In Okla
homa and has made the preliminary
survey to this city. The entire line is
mapped to the west of the city and the
entrance to the city has not yet been de-
cided upon. The matter of the survey
east is being rushed and the entire line
to Kansas City will be hastily gone over.
It was announced here by one member
Of the surveying party that the survey
rom Wichita east would strike Topeka
and some of the principal cities In that
direction.
Regarding the matter Of the appointing
of receiver for the Guardian Trust COM
oI,; - Sv,4A 4AI fya 10 Gro nfo1
end of the road, an Associated Press dis
patch from Kansas City to the Eagle
says:
Judge John F. Phillips, in the United
States District court today postponed to
one week from date the hearing on appli-
cation for a receivership for the Guar
dian Trust company made yesterday by
John Y. Gates of Chicago, and other
security holders fthat company"
Grading has been commenced in the
territory south of Harper. A number Of
men and teams are at work on the road
and the grading is being carried toward
this city. The work is under the direc-
ton of w. C. Edwards and there has
been a rumor current that Edwards
would move to this city after the con-
Struction OF the ROAD,
President A E. Stillwell who has been
in the east for some time returned to
Kansas City Tuesday ad when asked
concerning the movement for a receiver
for the Guardian Trust company, aud
whether it would affect that financial
matter of the new road, he said as fol-
lows:
Nothing can stop the building of the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient road"
THE Guadian Trust company has alb
solutely no connection with the Orient
road except that it proposes to become
the trustee of the mortgage bond and re-
ceive pay for its service continued Mr..
Stillweu. 1.-The necessary capital for the
completion of the road is in sight, and,
as l announced in the start, 1t will be
ready for through traffic from Kansas
City to the Pacific coast inside of three
years time. Mr.. Gates has a record OF
attempting to destroy that which he
can't control, and his action in this in
stance is simply along that line. The
Kansas City Southern and Kansas City
Suburban Belt roads, in which Mr.. Gates
is largely interested, owes the Guardian
Trust company in the neighborhod Of half
a million dollars, and they hope by these
proceedings to secure an easy settlement
of the accounts
Mr.. Stillwell said that track laying in.
Oklahoma, Texas and east of Port
Stillwell on the Pacific coast would be
commenced within the next sixty days.