The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-29
KATY ROAD COMING
Railroad Men Say 1t Is a
Certain Event
FRISCO TO EXTEND, TOO
VIII. Build Southeastern Line
to Fill SapuIpa Gap.
TO EXTEND, TOO

The katy" road is coming to Wichita
There is no doubt of it. Seventeen large
contracts have been let for material and
the supply includes iron and ties for the
wichita extension One Of the best post
ed railroad men in town said yesterday
that he has understood for some time
that the Katy had its eyes on Wichita.
1t wants 10 do business with the corn
belt. which has bigger tonnage than
any section of the state. The Katy is
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road.
On top Of the news that the katy
is coming came the information sterday
that the Frisco people have made up their
mind to oil in the gap between Wichita
and Sapupa in the Indian Territory.
This VIII solve the problem Of south
eastern direct line with the undeveloped
Indian country.
That the Frisco management has con
cluded to do this comes from the best
source Of railroad information in this
state.
Il want to say to you" he said. ''that
the Wichita and Sapulpa road VIII be in
operation before either the Katy" or
Orient" and I believe both Of them win
be running ears into Wichita inside OF
two years"
The Frisco IS now almost completed be-
tween Sapulpa and Sherman, Texas.
Cars viii be running on the line within
a very short time. What did the Frisco
buy the Midland for? Take the map and
look over it a few minutes The Frisco
is bound to run to Denver That was
the object Of the management in buying
the Midland TO Ellsworth. From Els
worth to Denver is not far, as you viii
notice by the map, and YOU can easily
see that it is an objective point. If the
road is going to Denver and the gulf how
can you imagine that the gap between
Wichita and sapulpa would not lie
filed IN.
S'rom Wichita to Sapulpa IS only $50
miles. The gap can be filed in for about
a million dollars. Tt is a straight line
and avoids. if you will notice all rivers
and creeks save the Arkansas at one
point. 1t viii also avoid the flint hills,
leaving them to the east some ten or f1f-
teen miles. The road viii go from here
to Winfield and Win enter the territory a
dozen miles or less east of Arkansas City.
1t viii go through Pawhuska, the capital
of the Usage nation, and thus command
the entire trade-cattle and commercial
of that entire country This viii open
to Wichita the trade Of two or three In
dian nations now controlled almost ex-
clusiveIy by Kansas City and St Louis.
Thirty or forty miles below Sapulpa it
VIII tap the coal belt Of the Indian Ter
rit0ry. thus opening UP a. market for
that necessary commodity in Kansas.
Within two years it is quite sure that
three more railroads win either be in
course of construction or viii have been
constructed ia Sedgwick county and then
Wichita can boast that it can sell rail-
road tickets to more points in the United
states than any city west OF the Missouri
river.
ON the proposed extension OF the Frisco
Wichita cannot help being the division
point for three sets Of railroad crews,
fact in itself of great business impor-
lance Add to this the shops and divis-
ions of the Orient road and it is very
easy TO see what the future of Wichita
win be from the standpoint Of a railroad
center.
And the story IS not yet finished. It IS
a fact well understood by those who hold
close relations with the management Of
railroads that one of the roads now here
VIII in all probability do a great deal
soon towards concen uatng its heaviest
business in Kansas at Wichita
II Wichita hasn't a population Of 5000
within five years no one win be more
astonished than those who understand
the things that are going on among the
men who contemplate big enterprises n
the near future.