The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-06
CLYDE, KANSAS, IN19O4.
Correspondent Writes of Worlds Fair
Business.

To the Editor of the State Journal
In regard to the Missouri Pacific
would say that they ought to build and
viii endeavor to show how much bus
iness will be done between Denver and
the east if that is what they want to
know. In the first place. they should
build through from Lenora to Denver
This would make fast mail line from
Denver through Kansas City to Calves
ton. Texas, that would be a main link
for a mail line. There would be about
seven freight trains daily The mail is
coming into Clyde-it takes three men
to tell the tale-the first man says
Here they comet The second man
says Here they are" 1t takes three
minutes to change engines; and the
third man says. There they GO" That
is good time made. There are three reg
ular freights in Clyde, now and four
there are from ten to sixteen extra
trains east from Clyde each day But
with consolidated engines with 20-inch
cylinders they could haul three more
cars or tonnage than the pig engines
now haul from our city east.
There is a gain by using the con-
Solidated engines of $lOO more than the
pig engines would earn But there
would be more extras to go east that
the regular trains have left in the yard
and we amt got no more engines in
the round house, and no crews left
Only two passenger engines! What will
we do for engines and crews when the
four regulars" that have got 45 to 55
cars or tonnage on each train come in
from the west. and we have no extra
crews in the yard at Clyde, where the
terminus is2 What viii we do for
crews2 You can use the two passenger
engines TO take the two stock extras
east Let the regular passenger en-
gines go through with the passenger
trains this time, or change crews If
necessary. See how the business isl
and we look for bigger volume of bus
mess than this. This is only com
mencement
People amt aware that the road has
been built to Denver yet 1t has to be
advertised that they are running trains
over the new line, with one division at
Clyde another at LenOra, the next one
has not been contemplated yet, while
Denver win be the fourth terminal Thi
road is running pretty smooth for new
line. Talk about our new bridge at
Clyde 1t viii be as good a. first class
bridge as there will be on the line, ana
will carry any traffic they want to haul
over it. When completed it viii hold
as many as three engines at one time,
and carry them. There is ffteen-stall
roundhouse at Clyde Cor will be) and
tWo-story brick depot They have also
a superintendent train dispatcher and
freight solicitor here Cor viii have when
the time comes for this change)
And they viii ind that the roundhouss
IS not half large enough TO accommodate
the enEines at times and they must have
more power at Clyde and more freight
crews to take out freight east. expect
81 viii take a hundred crews at Clvde to
do the work both ways. east and west, in
q short time after they build to Denver.
This is my statement which shows the
Missouri Pacific people what business they
viii do when they complete the line to
Denver. Talk about dividends They will
reach more than Is per cent and that beats
12 per cent long ways. Tt is no use to
wait. The business will come in big vol
umes Only this-keep plenty Of power
10 do the business east and west at Clyde
This is my way of looking at the lay when
the Denver extension is completed
j. p. BEACHTEL, eX-Engineer.