The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-05-28

more than J million dollars.
A. e. sTILwELL TALKS OF HIS PLANS.
A. E. Stilwell, president of the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railroad, will leave for New York
tomorrow or Thursday night.
Accompanied by Mrs. Stilwell he
will sail for Europe May 20. After
June ) his address will be Hyde
Park Court, London. In discuss
ing his plan for terminals this
morning Mr.. Stilwell said:
Ever since the Kansas City,
Mexico IL Orient railway was
designed and work commenced
along its line some persons have
predicted that while it was easy
enough to build road through
the country, no terminal could be
gotten in Kansas City without
costing the Orient road from 3 to
10 million dollars. The predic-
tions have been sent to Europe
and sent out wherever they could
by ,aptag1-y VIC. interests in order
TO prevep----nancing 9f 8A
road. Bug ,ople who Z,
ed in the pro- ny were the 8
who had invested in the Pitt AZ
81 Gulf and in the Kansas *
Suburban Belt railroads. TkAz
had become accustomed to heR
ing such stories and had becorA
immunes, The predictions y
failure slid off without having adg
effect. At least the officials of
the Kansas City, Mexico e. Orient
railway have justified the faith
put in them by their friends, and
have secured a most advantageous
entrance into Kansas City-an
entrance by which they can
reach the Suburban Belt, the
Bates station, the st. Paul sta
ton, and which will connect them
with all the railroads except the
Alton, and the company is now
figuring to reach that line in
some way.
ADVANTAGES OF THE PLAN.
"The entrance secured by the
Orient will add to the railroad
situation in most unexpected
way. The plan involves connect
ing the East and West roads
without going through the crowd
ed railroad center of Kansas City,
which will do more to facilitate
the handling of freight between
the East and West roads than
any plan yet devised. 1t will be
a great factor in relieving the
congested condition of the rail-
road situated here, and will
hasten more than anything else
the development of Kansas City
as railroad center. The Subur-
ban Belt railroad is valued on the
market to-day for about 4 million
dollars more than the proper cost,
and when | was building it pre-
dictions were sent out saying 1T
could never be done but it is
to-day one of the greatest proper
ties in Kansas City, realizing
enormous earnings.
The entrance of the Orient
railroad as now designed will be
tor electricity and steam and will
do more for Kansas City, Kas., as
a manufacturing center than any,
thing that has been thought of
for years, opening up property
which is now of no practical
value, and which will make suita-
BILE sites for factories and large
plants. 1t will add greatly to
the assessed valuation of a large
portion of Kansas City, Kas.,
which is to-day lying dormant.
WORK on THE ORIENT LINE.
ut has been only two years
since the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient railway was organized and
only about sixteen months since
the first engineering corps was
sent out and to-day rails are be-
ing laid in two places and rail
shipments to Port Stilwell have
now started. 1t is expected that
within six weeks rail laying will
be started at that point. NR@ny
400 miles of the grade has been
completed. Sixty per cent of all
of the 1.5C0 milessof right of way
has been secured. Probably in the
whole history of the West no new
enterprise has been carried on
more rapidly than this. Those
who have looked over the plans
predict now that the entrance
into Kansas City by the Orient
will be as great a success as that
of the Kansas City Suburban
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