The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-05-28
0RIENT'S K. (.
TERMINALS
The Stilwell Road Has Gained
Entrance into Kansas City.


The Kansas City, Mexico e.
Orient Railway company has
solved the problem of terminals
in Kansas City. If the project
involved in maps fled to-day in
three counties, Jackson and Clay
in Missouri, and Wyandotte in
Kansas is carried out, the Orient
will have terminals equal to those
of any other road entering Kan
sas City. The plan involves u
four track interval, two for steam
railroads, and two for electric
railroads. With six miles of
interval tracks the Orient line
will enter the Union depot by one
of three routes; will establish
connection with practically every
railroad entering Kansas City
with the exception of the Chicago
& Alton railroad, and including
the Kansas City Belt, the Union
terminal and the Suburban Belt
systems. A bridge across the
Missouri river near the mouth of
the Kaw river will afford an en-
trance into the Orient freight
yards, which are to be in Clay
county, west of Harlem.
The terminal system of the
Orient will also make it possible
to connect with the proposed
Bates Union depot on the North
river front. The four track ter
minal will be situated so that the
Orient can handle the great bulk
of its own transfer business,
transferring the freight from and
to the Eastern railroads in its
freight yards in Clay county. An
advantage of the outline" of the
system is that all the freight may
be handled without passing
through the city. The lines are
to be laid so that they will admit
of easy connection by spur tracks
with the packing houses and
other great industries in the
West bottoms, Armourdale and
Kansas City, Kas.
TERMINAL PLAN IN DETAIL.
The new terminals will cost
about = million dollars, This
includes two bridges. More than
half of the right of way in Kan
sas City, Kas., has been pur-
chased. Within two months the
active work of building the ter
minals will begin. A passenger
depot will be built in Kansas City
Kas.
The new terminal tracks, to be
known as the ''outer belt" or
line, will cross the Kaw river two
miles above Kansas City and
enter the city limits of Kansas
City, Kas., near the intersection
of Eighteenth street and Mime
sofa avenue at the west limits of
the city. Running in a north
easterly direction the tracks will
cross Thirteenth street not far
from Oakland avenue, crossing
Ninth street near its intersection
with Walker avenue. Then the
tracks will turn to the east and
follow the draw occupied by the
Kansas City Northwestern rail-
road to the intersection of Free
man avenue and First street ;
thence easterly, crossing the Mis-
souri, river near the Chicago Great
Western railroads elevator, con-
Meeting in Clay county with the
Burlington, tie Rock Island and
the Wabash railroads, besides
securing an entrance to the ORR
ent's freight yards By continu-
ing this line to the Hannibal
bridge, one of the three proposed
entrances to the Union depot is
secured.
UNION DEPOT ENTRANCES.
A second route to the Union
depot, and the one that will
probably be adopted, calls for a
bridge over the Kaw river near
it's mouth, and running immedi-
ately north of the Wabash rail
road yards, to enter the Union
depot at the North end of that
structure. Another plan for an
entrance into the Union depot
provides that after crossing the
Kaw river about two miles west
of city limits, before connecting
with the terminal tracks at Eigh-
teenth and Minnesota, one
branch will be diverted and fol-
low the north bank of the Kaw
river to a connection with the
Kansas City Belt railroad and
the Union Terminal tracks in
Armourdale From this point
the Orient officials are confident
of an easy entrance into the
Union depot.
Ever since the announcement
was made that Mr.. Stilwell pro
posed to build line from Kansa;
City to the Pacific coast it has
been stated that the project would