The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-20
Daily Eagle
Wichita on New Trunk Railway Line.
II. NJ. MURDOCH. Editer.

Wichita on New Trunk Railway Line.
The original land grant made to the by
gress for line railway from the Missouri river by
the way mouth of the rverTichita
and westerly through the territory Kansas in the
direction Santa Fe corporate directory having
reached the Neosho valley changed the line strike
the Big Arkansas the mouth of Cow creekIutch-
inson-and thence along the river up the Great
Bend for the subsidy greater proportion
of valley lands Subsequently. after branch had been
built down Wichita and after the road had reached the
foot of the Ration chief engineer who afterwards
became general demonstrated the satisfaction
Of the then directory that mistake had been made
recommended the obvious remedy the construction of
cutoff from Florence from Peabody Wichita and
westerly to Dodge City making the through Colorado line
by the of Wichita thus avoiding Peabody hill and
then starting what is as the Panhandle and
Pecos River some other point
the Wichita Western avoiding for the through
Pacific line the range general contract later
San Francisco railway which last
road reaching out for wichita hobbng things gen
orally brought naught southern Pacific line
contemplated by the Santa Fe Wichita realizing by
this uy-o she had been tremendously handicapped
started in to remedy matters The chairman
three Others went to Chicago and siege the
of the Chicago and Rock Island road by way of an
attempt convince that management the time had
for thai push the Missouri river at
st. Joe to Wichita and into the territory
That conference materaIzed further along so far as
Wichita and Oklahoma concerned Later two of the
gentlemen of the four mentioned up with Chicago
and Alton management proposition of constructing an
extension from Kansas City Wichita either on an air
line by the of utilizing the Lawrence
and Carbonate line via Empora Bazaar Chel-
sea, Ell Dorado Wichita
The Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad com
pany for which was taken out last Saturday by
Arthur E stiwe and associates proposes to build over
along the line abandoned by the Santa Fe and the one
which the Alton people failed utilize The proposed road
in being less than thousand miles long would make
the shortest Orient for Chicago and for New
York also by the way ST. Louis and Frisco connections
1t is line which avoids all SHOWS The west end Of the
road through the Mexican Chihuahua and sinaIoa
taps immense coal fields timber regions and among the
richest undeveloped gold mining districts of the Rocky
mountains The road Will construct it is estimated
from $SoOOOOO to $4GOOOOoO The Of present
road running out from Topoobampo and which owners
have an enormous subsidy from Mexican government
are party to the scheme time right of
way has been secured in advance distance Of seventy
miles out of Kansas City, the which right of v
IS already graded and portion which rails have been
laid The Mexican governments grant is $225OO per mile
for that part of the which trverses mountains and
$l250o per mile for lowands syndicate it is said
also owns $4,000 of Mexico The Frisco
and also the Choctaw both have connections with
the big through line the Frscos connection being at Wicb
ita probably, and the Choctaws Oklahoma It NAV be
urged and doubt be- that the scheme is too sunerd
Gus for possible realization. that has been urged
against all big western lines their conception Not one
individual in ten thousand expected to see the Santa
Fe reach Mexico much less the Pacific When StiuU1au
started in to build the City Pittsburg and Gulf
railway, right in the midst the most depressed condi
tons financially about everybody agreed that he never
could do it, yet its not only now running rap
larry from Kansas City Port Arthur on the gulf but
the road proved of tremendous advantage to Kansas CITY
in the way of lowering gulf rates.
As for anything else the stwen people in addition to
their subsidies and franchises declare that s GOO Of the
oompanys bonds have been subscribed for and that the
roal viii be built.