The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-22

name synonym Gus for energy and en-
terprise. But the work went on. Henry
e. Lantry deserted the throttle of
Santa Fe engine and in conjunction
with the other son, Charles J. Lantry,
took up the threads that We're scarcely
dropped, under the firm style of B.
Lantry Sons, and have been as remark
ably successful with railroad construc-
ton as the father before.
For sixteen years, until 1900, a large
crusher plant was maintained in oper-
alton at Strong City, and no firm in
the west is better prepared today to do
contract work than they.
Notwithstanding their numerous con-
tracts and busy days, the social ties of
home are not forgotten One of Henry
Lantry's greatest pleasures is the quiet
hour with his family. For a pastime
he has established a chicken ranch of
thirty acres UP the creek, with a hatch
Plymouth Rocks every month. f. j.
Mileham is in charge.
Charles Lantry's work is more pc
culiarly along the lines of securing con-
tracts and seeing to the corporate in
terests Both members are interested
financially in a Topeka bank. Their
contract with the Santa Fe to fill in
China Basin is perhaps the largest of
any recently secured.
Perhaps the firms most noted work
was the construction of the "cog-wheel
road up Pixies Peak 1t was a very
dizzy affair, but carried to a safe con-
clusion without the loss of single man.
Two hundred miles of the Santa Fe,
Prescott & Phoenix railroad was the
work of these Kansas contractors, ana
yet along the depot platforms at Strong
City when some of the boys gather on
sultry summer nights to keep cool. old
residenters relate how when they were
out with the Lantrys on the construc-
ton of the reservoir dams at Walnut,
Williams and Seligman, Arizona, they
boiled their coffee and eggs without
fire. But stories often grow larger with
repetition and distance.
Those who have ridden over the Gulf.
Colorado & Santa Fe lines in Texas in
it's infancy and again since the reduc-
ton of the grades, by this firm, pay
grateful tribute to their skill in trans
forming roadbeds. The same state
ment will apply to a similar large con-
tract for the Santa Fe on 1.-The eutOff
at Wellsville recently completed.
Life in the breezy west adds a rare
vigor and staunchness to the constitu-
ton and it is said by modern ph1loso-
pher that one is, after years of resi-
dence, enabled to impart in great
measure this faculty to his work and
plans. Almost the entire bridge masonry
along the Santa Fe shows a hypnotic
infection of strength and smooth COM
pactness that Santa F>e trainmen and
officials declare is most creditable to
these young Kansas contractors.
The Santa Fe buildings at Point Rich
mond, Barstow and Bakersfield are also
the result of this firms hustling quail
ties for contracts.
Besides the San Francisco work the
firm has five crushers busily grinding
out ballast for the Frisco road at F'itz-
hugh and Lantry's spurs The output
at each place is 1000 yards per day.
At Watrous. N. M, 200 men will grind
out and place /, 500 yards daily of ballast
for the Santa Fe at the new crusher
plant just being started.
Another contract in existence with
the Santa Fe is masonry, roundhouSe,
depots and tanks on the Fort Madison
division.
The bridge building for the A & p.
around Los Angeles is another plum