The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-02
RAILROAD NEWS.
Does the Santa Fe Want New
Orleans Terminate
Paul Morton and Party Visit
Louisiana Metropolis.
LOOKING FOR LAND.
All Depends on What Facilities
Can Be Obtained.
Frisco Ordinance Is Held Up by
City Council.
FOR LAND.

9cav- Orleans. La. Feb. at is now
believed without doubt that the Santa
Fe railroad is seeking to establish an
entrance to New Orleans and secure
terminals here. For several days last
week party of capitalists and rail-
road magnates We're here, Ostensibly
on pleasul d but it leaked out today
thai they were busy in real estate mat
tiers. Just as the Frisco and the Shreve-
port s. Red River Valley railroad Off
Gals had been before them. In the
party were Paul Morton, Of Chicago,
vice president of the Santa Fe; q. A.
Potter. It. p Shonts and JOY Morton,
all capitalists and heavy Santa Fe
stockholders. They admitted at the
time that they had a proposition
1t developed today that the PROPOSE
ton was the entrance of the Santa Fe
to New Orleans. While here Vice Pres
tdent Morton held conferences with
number of real estate men. aIler max
ing q tour of inspection of the city
river front and harbOr facilities. 1t is
also stated upon reliable authority tnat
a party of engineers have been ordered
TO this locality.
The whole matter is believed to hinge
on whether or not the Santa Fe can
get the facilities IL wishes. Meanwhile
the Frisco ordinance is held up in the
city council awaiting the moves of the
other roads headed this way. first the
Shreveport & Red River alley ana
now the Santa Fe.
1t is not by any means a certainty
that the St Louis & San Francisco
railroad. the Frisco ssytem, viii build
q line in New orleans. A corps Of sur
Neyors and engineers are now in the
field locating the route from Memphis
south and President YOakum and Vice
President Winchell have been in New
Orleans and made what was thought
to be a definite decision regarding the
entrance. but in an interview yesterday
j. L. Winchel said that the matter
was 10y 10 means settled. He talked
as if there had been a hitch somewhere
1n the arrangements with the city and
limited that New Orleans may not be
disappointed If the Frisco system de-
cided To pass that city up for some
other Gulf port
For the past few weeks it had been
looked upon as an absolute certainty
that the Frisco would make the historic
old city its southern terminus, but Mr.
Winchells interview shows that the
whole matter is still hanging fire and it
is still possibility that Galveston viii
be selected as a southern outlet instead
of New orleans. THE Frisco wants to
go into New Orleans. said Mr.. VIM
chel but there are other ports on the
gulf and it is by no means certainty
they VIII ever so into that city. II
proper arrangements are not made and
the city does not show that it wants
our road, we viii not go, but instead
win build to some other port"
The delay in the passage OF the fran
chise by the city council of New Or
leans may have much to do with the at
ttude of Mr.. Winchell. Tt is expected
that the franchise would be passed last
week, but there have been more delays
and it is still being held up. Mr. Win
chell said that their building depended
much on the attitude of New Orleans
and the securing of suitable terminals.
Upon their last visit south the Frisco
officials were most cordially received by
the people of New Orleans and so GER
tain We're they that every possible aid
would be given them that they a once
Put force of men in the field surveying
and making the preliminary arrange
the west bank Of the Mississippi river.