The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-30
NO LONGER ONE.
Lantry Brothers Partnership Is
Finally Dissolved.
Charles j. Lantry Sells Interest
to Henry Lantry.
MILLIONS IN WORK.
Firm One of Largest of Rail-
road Contractors.
Now Engaged in Stupendous
Task of Filling China Basin.

solution of the partnership heretofore
existing between Henry E. Lantry and
Charles ]. Lantry of Strong City, Kan,
under the firm name of B. Lantry Sons.
According to the notice. -Chas. j. Lam
try retires from the firm. leaving Henry
Lantry in charge. B. Lantry Sons do
practically all of the big contract work
of the Santa Fe railway
1t is estimated on good authority.
however. that the real purpose of the
dissolution of partnership is to divide
the work now being done by the firm,
and place the contract work along west
ern end of the Santa Fe under the
charge of Charles j. Lantry and leave
Henry Lantry in charge of the eastern
portion of the line. Charles Lantry will
have more of the active field work to
do, while Henry Lantry will make his
headquarters at Strong City and look
after the extensive interests there
The notices of the firms dissolution
were sent out from Strong City on Mo-
vember %, and read as follows:
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership heretofore existing between
Henry E. Lantry and Charles j. Lantry,
under the firm name of B. Lantry Sons,
has been voluntarily dissolved. Charles
J. Lantry, retiring, has sold and trans
ferred all his interest in said firm and
| its property to Henry E. Lantry. who
assumes the liabilities, and will individ-
ually continue the business of said
firm"
| A few days ago the State Journal an
nounced that Chas. Lantry had sold all
his Strong City property to Henry Ian
try This is supposed to include the B.
Lantry residence, the extensive stone
quarrIeS and the immense ranches own
ed by the Lantrys. The Lantry ranches
extend for ten miles back from Strong
City, and are valuable chiefly as hay
and pasture land.
OF still greater value are the firms
assets in the contracting business. The
Lantrys enjoy the confidence of the
Santa Fe mana cement to an unusual
degree, and have almost monopolized
/ the big Santa Fe contracts for a long
time. The latest contracts secured by
the Lantry firm were the filling in of
China Basin, at san Francisco, and the
construction of the eastern end of the
New Mexico cutoff through Abo pass,
on the Rio Grande. The firm owns To-
comotives, cars, an immense equipment
of grading machinery, great numbers of
mules and all the paraphernalia which
goes with the work of handling the big
gest kind of railroad jobs.
Barney Lantry, who was the father
of Charles and Henry Lantry and es-
tablished the firm, was a poor Irish
boy up in Wisconsin when he COM
menced working the section of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul. He
had sharp wits, and was gradually
promoted. lie became acquainted with
John Lawlor, at one time superintend-
ent on the c. NJ & st. P, and secured
! important work under Mr.. Lawlor. He
came to Kansas in the seventies, and
opened up the first stone quarry ever
opened at Strong City. He got in with
the Santa Fe management, and COM
| menced supplying the road with stone
for its bridges which were then being
built between Kansas and the Pacific
coast. He confined his attention to the
stone bus0ess for good many years,
but later on branched out into the
work of grading and excaYating. Bar
ney Lantry died about Is years ago,
and his sons have conducted the very
profitable business ever since.
In the last weeks Golfers there is an
| extensive account of great railroad un-
| dertakings of the present day. among
which the Abo pass and China basin
contracts are given an important place.
To give some idea Of the magnitude of
| these undertakings, on which the Lam
try firm is still at work, the following
extract from that article is repub-
/ lished:
THE Santa Fe makes sensational
move, by planning to build a $50 mile
cutoff to attain the lowest grade route
to the coast.
"The company estimates that $500 0oo
a year will be saved in through traffic
which will no longer be hauled over
mountain grades seven thousand feet
above the sea. Up these steep ascents
I passenger and freight trains barely
crawl, assisted by the biggest helping
engines in the world Sometimes trains
break in two, and dash down the noun
tain side to destruction. No bridge
building can Withstand the power of the
canyon torrents in time of food, and
the expense of maintenance on the
Santa Fe has caused sorrow among the
stockholders.
over the new road, much of this loss
will be avoided. and, as an important
! detail the economy, $50 tons less of coal
a day will be needed to haul the same
/ amount of traffic over this part of the
through route. The Santa Fe will spend
| $10,0O0,000 to dodge the Ration and
Glorietta passes and the terrors Of
Apache Canyon.
1.-The reclamation of the China Basin
in San Francisco, and its transforma-
ton into modern railway terminals, is
another engineering project of magni-
tude and boldness undertaken by the
lAtchisOn, Topeka & Santa Fe manage
nent. The tract selected for the ter
mina1 development comprises fifty
four acres and was from four to fifteen
feet below tide water. The railroad
/ wishes to overcome its handicap in the
matter of station and yard facilities
and will spend $4,000, 900 to be next the
1 new yards of the Southern Pacific fha
Central Basin, and Channel street
i Engineers soundings found a depth
of mud of from 40 to $50 feet in the
4 China Basin, and a sea wall of solid
rock must be built nearly q mile long
and 200 feet wide on the TIP. At least
/ 100000 tons of rock -sgfH be needed to
i I'll. in the- tReatherous basin bottom The
BASIN IS being reclaimed by three huge
steam shovels. removing 1900 cubic
yards of earth daily from an adjoining
hill to the basin. Twenty cars and seven
locomotives help the sf1ovels, and a big
plow pushed by 75-ton locomotive does
the work Of 100 men in scalping the ad-
joining hill which is to be improved by
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