The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-21
RAILROAD TO
THE SOUTHWEST
Winfield Parties Secure a
Charter for One.
MAY BE A FRISCO DEAL
Same Men Who Built BeS Line
are Behind This One.
MAY BE A FRISCO DEAL

The following was received in this city
yesterday from Topeka:
"A charter for new railroad com
pany, to be known as the Winfield and
Southern. was filed in Topeka today. The
company is composed OF twenty-five bus
mess men Of Winfield, capitalized for
Sl0aOoo. SO w, Of which has already been
subscribed. The object of the company
is to build a railroad through southeast
ern Cowley county TO the coal fields Of
the Usage and Cherokee nations. The di-
rectors Of the company are; ". c. Rob
inson Of the First National bank, J. E.
Jarvis Of the Cowley County National,
W (. Otis Of the Winfield National.
Charles F. Holmes. A. II. Doane, J. 3.
Lynn, J. r Lanerty, c. T. Wells and p.
h Albright"
This projected road is believed in thig
city 10 be a Frisco company scheme TO
tap the coal fields in the Usage nation.
The incorporators are the same men who
buiF the Blackwell. Enid and Southwest
ern, and this was purchased by the
Frisco. IL was built under the leader
snip Of ed Peckham and il is believed
that Mr.. Peckham is behind this scheme
with his millions Of St Louis capital to
tap the coal fields and also a rich agri-
cultural country in the Indian Territory
Mr.. Peckham was backed by the Missis-
Bippi Valley Trust company in building
the Bes line and this company has
financed several Frisco deals and is con
troIled by people with large interests in
the Frisco railway. For the past several
days President Yoakum of The Frisco
and number of high officials and direc-
tors have been touring the country IL a
special train on their line. They have
been in Winfield and soon after leaving
that point the charter was filed in To-
peka.
Every man named as one Of the direc-
tors Of the company is a wen known bus
mess man Of Winfield. All are well
known in this city ana are men who
have the confidence of the citizens of
the community. They are men Of wealth
and well able TO organize railroad com
pany and procure a charter and pay Cor
the surveys for the line and the right
of way. Then the trust company, with
It's unlimited capital at its back. would
LD4Alt al anu put ulI tue AtAon Will WHICH,
10 build the line. Although the name Of
Ed Peckham il not mentioned among the
board of directors, it is wei known in
this city that he has long had in mind
the building of d line to the southeast
Finding the Winfield people ready to
furnish the money Tor the preliminary
work, the road has been organized and
the first steps taken to build the line.
II Mr.. Peckhara is backing this scheme,
said a prominent business man and one
weu versed in the work oE Mr. Peckham,
Il would be willing to wager almost any
thing that the Frisco Railway company
is really back of the project. In all the
railroad building Mr. Peckham has done
and he has built several lines, he has
been backed by the same trust company
and the same people and they are the
ones that row control the Frisco"
MI ". C. Robinson. who heads the
list of incorporators was one Of the
principal men who first conceived the
Bes line. and those who know the bus
mess relations between Mr.. Robinson and
Mr.. Peckham say that one is not inter
ested in a railroad project without the
other.
The day for a southeast railroad into
the coal fields of the Indian Territory is
at hand This day has been coming,
but ii seems that some one has been hold
ing it of. TINS section of Kansas must
have a railroad into the coal fields near
est us In arder to build up cities at
Inc rate they should be builded to bring
manufacturers near the homes of the
consumers and to make the county more
populous. The first step toward getting
the railroad into the desirable fields has
been taken. If pushed, it viii mean cheap
fuel for all of southern Kansas and the
uphunding Of the state. The projectors
Of this line are men who can, and VIII,
build the line and they VIII not be long