The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-07
RAILROAD NEWS.
Santa Fe Said to Be Backing a
Big Merger
Secure Direct Line from Kansas
City to Cincinnati.
To THE ATLANTIC.
sssboard Line Nay Be the Santa
Fe's Objective.
VIII Probably Reach st. Louis
Prior to 1904.
To THE ATLANTIC.

There Il a report that the santa re
i- sarls4nafa big railroad merger and ex-
tension. lie object Of which IS 20 con
zsti5ars 8nd extend number q short
lines III Indiana. Illinois ard Missouri.
10 form q direct route from Cincinnati
10 kansas city. touching probably Al
St. Lou5s en- route
The rkv consolidated line VIII be 200
miles dag and wiz. It is believed, be
the o-Ieuing wedge Tor q transconli-
mental line o. the santa Fs- Cincinnati
Is SO FIR east that If il should once get
thar II. the santa re could wei aILoEu
60 huf5 or purchase q line U me sea-
blardf and thus have IT'S own rams rom
ocean, to ocean Ehls is the AMBITION
e. nearly all OF the zig railway systems
Information concerning the proposed
extension u the santa E'a IS conveyed
bv q dispatch from Chester. HI Moth
tng is said in this dispatch eoneeE17llls
a St. Louis connection Out IL s alto
Esraer crobable that this = part OF the
plan The santa F. would Ike 70 get
Into s. Louis prior 70 The Nor4a 3 Ialr
ard ir has several times been conner r-
with deals Of which rnat was sad 90 oe
tha object
ne news in the dispatch from Ches-
ter H. IS as f0LoHss
Chester ILL., jan There IS good
authority for the statement thaE John
Illinois southern southern AE1f-la-ll1
and Southern Missouri railroads. IS en-
gagged in big railway scheme ana pro-
poses TO extend and merge these roads
60 form q new direct line from Cl1c1n
uati 20 Kansas City. distance Of about
200 miles II Mr. Walsh does succeed IN
completing a line from Cincinnati to
Kansas city and L seems certain that
he wiz do SO. it would be a most de-
sirabls acquisition for any Of t1e DIG
western 81 sreus Tbs fact Is sad 60 be
fully appreciated By the management
Of the santa Fe. which Is suspected OF
being back of the Cincinna III nsas
City line now being quietly but FlSor-
cusly pushed BIT M Walsh
When the Evansville and Richmond
railrCao was sold under foreclosure IN
1897 Il was bought b. John 2 Walsh
and his associates II Is nov known
as the Southern Irdiauz- and runs
frcrn Tarr= Haute &c VVsstport- Ind. a
distance Of 14s miles In 1900 Mr.. Walsh
EecuFed another bankrupt road the
Cenrralfa and Chester. and changed its
name 10 the Illinois southern Il runs
from salem TO this city. elgnry-sev-n
miles. Last year Mr.. Walsh contract
ed for 10rty-fiva miles extension Of
the Illinois Southern. from Chester to
Bismarck. So. crossing the Mississippi
STE eFereF-aTe- lle latter read IS
known as The Southern Missouri and
about -hfrtv miles have been 5uiIr- II
VIII be pushed 70 completion as early
as the weather VIII permit. while as
much work as possible Is expected TO
be done during the year extending the
line toward Kansas CITY
To comp lsre this new route from Gin
ciu1att % Kansas City ir VIII only be
necessary TO extend the Southern In
diana from Wesrport % Cincinnati.
sixty miles the Uiinuis Southern from
Salem t8 Terre Eaute 100 mixes and
the Southern Missouri about - miles
heyond Bismarck % Kansas city.
For some time vague rlulors Of an
eastern 1urlsr Of rha Santa Re system
have been in circulation. but nothing
tangible developed until the proposed
building Of Waish's Ciuciuuati-Ea Kansas
CITY Ina