The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-30
NEW STATION
ESTABLISHED.
In Nngman County on Line of
Orient.
BIG STEAMSHIP LINE
Has Made Traffic Agreement
With President StiIIWelL.

The Orient railway has completed its
grades and tracks to a point about three
miles north of the Kingman county line
and has established way station at
that point. The company has announced
that they will haul goods to this point,
but no agent has been appointed and
freight must be prepaid. This station is
the first one north of Harper and when
inc line is completed to Milton it is ex-
pected to be 8, only one between Har-
per and Milton.
The grading and laying of the track is
progressing nicely toward Milton and the
track viii surely be connected with the
-,.-ssouri Pacific tracks at that point by
The first of February. The contract for
the grading has been let and the work is
being pushed as the company wants TO
get its trains running into Wichita via
the Missouri Pacific tracks from Milton
by the first day of February. The ma
terial for the road is on the ground and
nothing but severe weather can prevent
the completion of the link before the
date named
When this connection is made it will
open more than a hundred miles OF new
railroad lines TO Wichita merchants.
There is a large body Of men at work
south of Byron, o. T. and bridge ma
terial mas been shipped TO points along
the Cnoctaw so that the bridges may be
put in al the same time the grading and
track laying is being done. AS soon as
the track is completed to Milton the
gangs will be taken south and the track
extended 10 Fairview as fast as possible.
The directors of the company held
meeting in Kansas City yesterday and a
dispatch TO the Eagle says:
contract for service with the Ham
burg-American Steamship line was rati-
fed today by the Kansas City, Mexico q
Orient railway at meeting of the di-
restors of the latter company held in this
city The Hamburg line will extend its
service and will have a close traffic ar
Iangement with the Orient at Port Still
well, the terminus OF the road on the
Mexican coast, and the new line of
steamers Will. it is announced. be in oper-
alton by the time that the Orient road is
completed TO the Pacific ocean.
The directors also elected George Crock
Griffith vice president. His election as a
director of the company was announced
some time ago.
President \. +. Stilwell was much
pleased at the successful efforts of his
company TO conclude the contract with
the Hamburg American line. which he
said he considered one of the most i'm
portant deals for the Orient road since
the corporation was financed. The Med
iterranean line has been extended to in
clude Calcutta and Hong Kong, and it is
this line that will by today's deal enter
the Pacific ocean and complete world
circuit by a connection at Port Stilwell.
The route has not been definitely deter
mined. but it is probable that it will be
direct one from Port Stlwell to Hong
Kong by way OF Honolulu.
\ year ago the Santa Fe railway sys-
TEN began negotiations looking TO the es-
Enlistment by the Hamburg line of a
line on the Pacific TO be operated in con-
nection with that road. but the negotia-
tions were discontinued.