The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-27
Santa Fe VIII Spend S223,OOO
on EmpOria Cutoff.
ARRANGING DETAILS.
Officials Now Out on Tour OF
Inspection.
Summary of New Lines Prom
iSed For This Season.

During the year ending December 81,
1901. only So miles of railroad were lald
in the state of Kansas The total ne"
mileage for the present year promises
10 excede 1is total by hundreds Oh
miles. The present prospects Tor great
progress in railroad work are very
bright
one of the most important improve
mems which under the customary rules
will not be included in the new mileage
,sDort is the construction of Il miles
of new double track on the santa + (
cut off near North Ottawa The detalis
for this double trackage are now pelils
arranged by General Manager n -
NTud0S General Superintendent {. r.
Ressegl1ie and Chief Engineer w %.
storey who are making an lhspec1ioii
trip over the cut OIL ,.,z
About 1928 600 will be spent IN DuIlu-
ing the q miles of double track on the
cllt off. The exact places to be proNlueo
with this added trackage are oet ~,
Gardner and Camp Junction, 70 IllllG ~
and between North ottawa anu L.
Tower, miles, go,
The new double track will cost from
$40 600 to 5000 per mile to build
The remainder of the 100000 appro-
priation for double track will be e2-
pended at other places on the SANTA re
The last issue of the Railway Age
lines to be built in Kansas during the
coming season: ,.to
Kas. to Omaha, Neb-, 25O miles; ~
miles built by Kansas & SOUTHERN
from Blaine to Westmoreland; sur
veyed from Emporia to Westmoreland
70 miles, and under survey from Omaha
to Pawnee City, 100 miles; mileage IN
Kansas will be 1876 miles, and mileage
in Nebraska lis miles. Richard New
ms, jr.. general manager, and H A
Schwanecke. c. E., both of Emporia'
Kas.
inson. Kas, to Fort Smith, Ark, 4OO
miles, Frank l. Martin, Hutchinson,
Kas
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fee
Branch to Fort Leavenworth military
reservation, 3 miles. James Dun, G. Il,
Chicago.
Fort Scott. lola & Western.-Fort
Scott to Florence, Kas., $50 miles; IL
miles completed in 1901, Moran to lola;
grading in progress, lola to Piqua, 8
miles; distance, Piqua to Florence. oo
miles Contractors. Middle States Con
struction company, St Louis, Mo B.
p. Mcdonald. president. Fort Scott,
Kas. H. A. Genung, c. E.. lola. Kas.
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient-Kan-
sas City. Mo, to Port Stillwell. Mexico,
on the Gulf of California, 1,630 miles;
graded from Harper, Kas., to Fair
view, so miles; from Red River, north
and south, 20 miles; from Chihuahua,
Mexico. east 40 miles, and from Port
Stillwen, Mexico, east so miles. Grad
ing in progress, Anthony to Wichita,
kas., IS miles; Fairview south, Ill
miles; Sweetwater, Tex, north 120
miles; from Chihuahua east, and from
Port Stillwell east; preliminary survey
made Kansas City to Wichita Kas.; To-
Gated Wichita, Kas., to Sweetwater,
Tex; preliminary survey made, Sweet
water. Tex, to point 40 miles east of
Chihuahua: located Chihuahua east 40
miles; preliminary survey made, Min
AGA to Ell Fuerte, Mexico, and located
FL Fuerte to Port StiIlwell; distance
from Kansas City to Mexican border,
$40 miles, over half of which is located
in the state of Texas, about 200 miles
In Oklahoma, and about $50 miles in
Kansas; Kansas City & Oklahoma Con-
struction company, contractors. a. f.
Stillwell. president; W. w Sylvester,
vice president. and NJ. P. Paret G. F.,
all with headquarters at Kansas City.
Mo
st. Louis & San Francisco.-Oswego
TO Jacques Junction. "A miles. c. d.
Purdon. c. E. st. Louis, Mo.
Missouri, Kansas &. Northwestern on.
X & T)-Mineral. Kas., to Joplin. Mo,
2A3 miles, of which 1913 miles are in
Kansas and 6 miles in Missouri:
graded Grigsby Construction COM
pany, of Texas. contractors. f. w.
Fratt. engineer, Joplin, Mo-
St Joseph & Grand Island-Marys-
vile to Blue Rapids. - miles. f. S.
Hunt C f. St. Joseph. Mo
Missouri Pacific.-McPherson to Mar
quette, kas-. IS miles; Saline to Yuma
lNas.. % miles, H. Rohwer, c. E.. St
Louis. Mo.