El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-08

PROJECT
Details Of the Concession
Granted BY Mexico.
TRANSFERS COMPLETED
Covering Concessions From the Rio
6rande To the Pacific. Both
State and National Aid. Morgan
Not Back OF the Orient Road.

MOI DoIh vi thS " fNOoos
Arthur +. Stilwell. the chief pro-
moter of the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient railroad. passed through the
city Saturday night on his return from
Mexico to Kansas City.
He was somewhat non-committal on
the progress thu far made by his COM
pany. but said that everything was
moving on smoothly and the survey
ing crews were progressing nicely.
The official papers of the City OF
Mexico have contended until recently
hat the company had no concession in
the republic but it is now thought
that all difficulties have been arranged.
The following from the Two Repub-
lies. giving the concessions granted
the company. is interesting:
Two transfers were formally COM
pleted yesterday which place absolute
~ in the hands Of the Kansas City.
Mexico and Orient railway
concessions for the building of a road
from the Texas boundary to the Pa
cifc coast. One ransfer was that of
E. C.. Creel. vice president of the Chi
huahua and Pacific railroad company.
to Agustin Fernandez. who holds the
power of attorney for the Orient road
in Mexico. This transfer was practi-
cally made on September %, but the
final formal affixing of stamps and
NHt n WdS HOI SOHe IUTOu2n WlIn
until yesterday.
Some $1,000 worth of stamps were
attached to the documents in the case.
The second transfer was the final as
Segment by A. E. Stillwell to the
Orient road of the concession granted
him this year for the building of a
road from Preside del Norte, on the
border, to ~Topolobampo or Port Still
well. as it is to be called, on the ST.
naloa Pacific coast.
These two transfers complete the le-
gal acts necessary for the ACQUISITION
of all concessions by the Orient road.
In view of the many that
have been made in the states and in
Mexico. an absolutely correct list of
concessions granted to M. Stillwell |
and the Stillwell interests. taken from |
the Diario Official and official records |
is interesting. /
The first concession. Their. was the |
and Pacific concession.
granted several years ago originally
to the builders of the road of that
name This was granted to such veal
my men or as the Creels. |
Don Luis TerreZas. the representatives
or the Hearst estate, and the Britting-
ham people. Just at that time the
Sierra Madre line was about to he buiIt
on down southwest from Ell Paso to
and through the rich Casas Grandes
unit hitherto tributary to the city
OF ~fhuah To prevent this road
taking away their trade. the Chihua-
huans formed the G.. n T.. and built
10 the west. inteTcepting the new line.
n result was a saving of the terri
for Chihuahua. However. the d,
owners of the road have now no fur- 7
tner use of the o 6io'vuoafproof
use for the extended concession. \
ana In fact many of them are interest a
IN the new road. Mr.. Creel being it's II
wee president Hence their willing s
ness to sell This is the concession b
subsidy OF $1,000 on the plains and sI2.- a
100 in the mountains. with various z
cast and lock privileges.
- The second concession was theI
me granted A E. Stillwell to build a
tandard gauge railroad from the r
own OF Preside del Norte on the Dor :,
er to the city OF Chihuahua. This
oncession carries no concession from z
he government, but will be aided by .s
he state to the extent of $4,000 a kill ID
~
g. The third concession granted is ..
= F. Stillwell. giving to him the a,
.ht to purchase and control of pub
LAM : in the state of chihuahua. =.
a Iarea norton of S~inaloa, and in ,e
an enormo, : grant. including 5OO.- g.
bectarnnnot- 300. 900 acres of lands &c
lila biv IN these states.
|. The fateu 7cession is one
Ted to a ~ go. III. Issued from
de- 'artment of Fom. Ccession to
ne. granting him the co.. The iino
ID a road from Durango or. :,
the International to Cutter re. y
ance of $50 miles. This safp ''fS
with 1T. but It is uD desS.,sfl
I the amount of state aid. wilt cyl O
a million dollars. g
With these definite $. Ia
cession taken frop satemen.s ]
=. .+a,d - civ official sources, n,
IN 1Jerico en- the Orient pro- o.
,oII,ad viz Mr.. Stillwell has now
i the government, in ac- ~
ure the e Carrying out OF the con- f,
It's. something over 500, 900, near
$1,000 in stamps was affixed to the In
issued yesterday. and these ex
tile straws. in common with the TACT
lat 300 miles of the Dad are under
in the states. certainly indicate
le ultimate success of h Stillwell
Undertaking which will do so much :.
II Mexico. IL
Mr. StiIIwell's previous experience
.ems to demonstrate his abllity 10
lrry the project through this time. se
Ie has a record of having built 1000 CT
lilies of DAD before he had reached n,
Is thirty-siXth year. and this during nj
no panicky years from 1893 to 1896 rs
n three Of these years he built an
more than a fourth OF all new
Mileage constructed in the Unlted Y
,tates. s
Perhaps the most effective evidence e.
Il his foresight is shown now in the y
of his Port Arthur harbor on Il
he Texas coast as the southern ter y
of his Port Arthur location. con- '