The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-11
FOR THE OFFICIAL GUIDE
Orient Railway Announcement and
Man Is Given

M9C is 0iNcn.
The September number of the Official
! Guide. which was received in Wichita
Yesterday. contains for the first time the
nap and announcement Of the Kansas
| City. Mexico and Orient Railway com
pany. building from Kansas City to Port
Stilwell. Mexico The map occupies a full
| page. showing the route of the line
through Kansas. Oklahoma. Texas and
Mexico, with principal stations and con-
nections. In the lower left-hand cor
rer OF the page, out IN the Pacific ocean
or the map. is shown the roads trade
mark, consisting of the American and
Mexicon flags bound together with ties
and sails. The opposite page shows the
officers of the company. followed by inter
esting data regarding the new road.
Under the head of portions OF the line
in operation are shown that from Harper
Kan. via Anthony. Kan. and Waldron,
0. T, TO end of the track in Okla
homa. and that from Chihuahua. Mex
east to Albania. Mex. and the end of the
track. Under the caption. construction. -
II is announced that between 400 and 500
miles OF grade is completed, with ties
or the ground and awaiting rails. and
that track is being laid al three different
points-from Port Stillweu. Mex east
from Albania. Mex. east. and from Wal
dron. O. T., south.
Upon the subject OF grades. * is stated
that the maximum grades on the drst two
divisions out Of Kansas City viii be one
half Of l per cent. this covering a distance
OF about go miles; that the maximum
grades or the next four divisions will De
,,ey cont -hss rs--,-fr- IT, roo5 ,.~ .,
the Rio Grande river. a distance from
Kansas City Of about 1885 miles. The
maximum grades on the next division.
from the Rio Grande TO Chihuahua Mex.
Chihuahua west. the ruling grades viii
BE- . per cent; the maximum grades Of tho
second or mountain division west Of
Chihuahua will be > per cent. and the
last division on the west coast 81 Mex
leo VIII have maximum grades II per
cent. Attention is called 10 the fact that
on tho mountain division. where the max
imum grades occur. the road IS high
lire. avoiding rivers and canyons and
the resulting river bridgework
Industrial agricultural and mineral re-
sources are given as follows kansas
Grain, live stock. fruit ard coal. Oklaho-
ma-Grsin. live stock cotton and fruit
TeNas-I-ive stock. cotton. grain and fruit
Republic q Nexico-Cattie and aericui-
turai products. with mines. gold. silver.
lead. zinc. iron. copper and coal. timber.
yellow pine. ar. oak cedar. narIvoo5s
and ebony. and tropical products. west
O. the mountains. oranges. lemons sugar
cane. bananas. cocoanufs. coffee. tobacco.
and al tropical fruits.
The officers Of the company ara shown
a. follows. a staweli president, "
W Sylvester. vice-presldent, -. a Rule.
treasurer. Neal s. D1raa. secretary and
auditor y. ?. Paret. cher engineer; Ira
g kfrbhen. huye-- II O. orr. general pas
ssnEer agent Trsmnie q Bralev. general
counsel: John A Eaton. general attorney
1or kansas and Okiahoz1z. all vfth head
quarters 81 Kansas CITY, II G E0rd
SEeetwster. Tex general attorney fr-
Texas. ElizsEa. Fernando Il Pa1sez. Ciry
q Mckee. general attorneys Tor Mexico