The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-16

Michifa and the orIent RaiLway Enterprise.
n. VI. sEURD0CK. Editor

Wichita and the Orient Railway Enterprise.
This is an era Of enterprise and of growth and compe
tuon is its greatest factor The entepsng ndvid-
uaI Of any community whatever profession
is the most successful The enterprsng rich
and the enterprising business wealthy The
towns of the greatest enterprise the central cities
Of their respective areas No tree ever grows large that
its spreading roots fan adequate nourishment The
greater the city the farther it reaches with its
nercal lines and trade interests the susten
ance The greater city greater its values
and the greater values falling beneath its influence and
sustaining advantages The greatest factor of modern com
eral growth and agricultural development the compel
tive railroad The greater the number railway lines the
more numerous the advantages Of both city and country
In adding wealth enhancing taxable valuation they
afford additional accessories bring additional opportunities
edd importance the Of everything
Expansion and growth into greatness but the sequences
OF the utilization unimportant and
paratvely worthless products Great Arkansas
valley are not only increased price for the producer by
every newly added transportation facility but the
gate Of the products is increased and all wealth is only
Increase so the greater the city the better the
Tnare. and the rrore everything cong to
ana Of all arnencble to its influence.
With the foregoing propositions every intelligent
is eonversant to conviction without railway transportation
markets for the Arkansas valley would be impossbiy
and all its principal products little value
the number Of trunk railway therefore the higher
the home price Of the product spite
combines and agreements in competition the struggle
for traffic freight rates 60 down and nearer and
approaching the minimum
T7n5ar rresent law Kansas
for any township county municipality Overeach itself
in voting aid for stock from the per
mile IS onehaf what the road assessed for
taxable purposes So far as any burhen Indebtedness
incurred is concerned 1t is just like giving annually
in the way Of interest and collecting two
the way Of taxes Railroads may overreach themselves
and burst up go into bankruptcy hands Of
receivers but they can't dodge the taxes Of the state
county 1t IS species Of taxable property which cannot
be hidden from the assessor or stolen and carried away by
night It's steel and rolling stocks are always good for the
taxes at the rate Of six or eight thousand Fer mile assess
neat The taxes collected in than
the interest and principal bonds put together
But Of course all that is understood. The particular
Importance Of the Kansas city and Orient railway to
Wichita and sedgwc county from trans
portaton facilities and the new markets which it viii in
sure is the proposition in the contract that the principal
manufacturing plant the repair shops and locomotive
houses together with the freight and passenger divisions
shah be located and maintained in this city To estimate
what an these interests in the of increase of
population the numbers Of additional workngmen Of
additional value dollars species Of realty, to
the stimulation OF trade enterprises would be
difficult The principal manufacturing shops Of trunk
line railway fifteen hundred miles long reaching
Missouri river the Pacific ocean means more
way of capital invested, employed and money in
weekly pay rolls than readily approximately figured
out because Of it's very magnitude
proposition of such far-reaching consequences in
voving much of moentous and embracing so
advantages little cost seldom comes to any
people and only wichita probably because Of her
peror location and the wen known energy ana enterprise
Of her citizens