The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-03
BY FIRST OF
FEBRUARY
Orient Will be Running Trains
Into Wichita.
BIG CONSTRUCTION GANG
Will be Started to Work Next
Monday.


that the Orient Superintendent OF Con-
struction E F. Brown, would move his
gang of 100 men to Anthony and lay the
track north TO the connections with the
Missouri Pacific at Milton. Mir. Brown
is only laying the rails and putting the
tracks in shape for work. The men
reached the Salt Fork last Wednesday
with the rails and are now engaged an
putting on the finishing touches to the
roadbed. The road has been graded for
sixty miles southwest of Salt Fork.
Mir. Brown has his camp at Byron, o.
Z. and on Monday morning the entire
camp tools, and one hundred men will be
moved to Anthony and the outfit put to
work completing the line from Harper
to Milton. where connections Will be
made with the Missouri Pacific. The con-
tracts have been let for every mile OF this
section of the line and the work will be
pushed as rapidly as possible. The entire
gang will go to work laying the ties and
rails.
The company has established way
station about three miles in Kingman
county north Of Harper and call it Ham
mer. This point will be made a sort of
base for supplies for the work at the
front. Mr.. Brown and his men will lay
the rails as fast as the line is graded
and with the large force of men at work
there is now no doubt but that the COM
pany will be running trains into Wichita
on the first day of February
Mr. Brown has stated number of times
that they would make the connection at
Milton by that date and is now more
sanguine than ever that Orient trains
will haul passengers to Wichita on the
first day of February, 1903.
When Mr.. Dickinson, the general man.
ager, was here, some months ago. he
stated that the company wished to do
this and now it seems that it will be ac-
compished.
Since its inception the Chicago papers
have had little faith in the Kansas City,
Mexico and Orient They seemed to con-
slider Mr.. Stillwell a dreamer and his pro-
posed short line to the Pacific coast just
an immense pipe-dream. Within the last
few weeks however the paper seems to
take the matter seriously, especially since
Mr. Dickinson left the Union Pacific to be-
come general manager of the Orient and
George ]. Gould became director. The
following extract is taken from the Chi
cago Post and is significant of the change
of feeling:
NO question now exists as to the abil-
| ity of a. f. Stillwell, presiuent of the
Kansas City. Mexico & Orient road, TO
| mt throrpI bic nroiact baua CON,
pleted in a short time. He has raised
| SIS. 0O0, 900 for the construction of this road
subscriptions being about equally divided
| between Europe and America. The cost
| is estimated at 900 and the COM
pany receives s4,000,0 600 in gold subsidies.
| The company will have no interest to pay
| during construction or for the next three
years
MIR. Stillwell has made close traffic
agreements with both the st. Paul and
Missouri Pacific roads and George j.
Gould has entered the directorate of the
Kansas City, Mexico G. Orient.
THE Orient road will be 1000 miles in
| length from Kansas City to the Mexican
| Pacific. and will be 800 miles shorter
from Kansas City to the coast than any
| evisting road.
There is a force of about 1900 men
| at work on the construction of the road
| About 200 miles are now in operation and
| about 100 miles graded. President Stiiwell
purchased his steel rails in Belgium at So;
Per ton landed at Port Stilwell. the
western terminus of the road. paying foI
the same in Mexican subsidy bonds
| Iot
can lines of the company alone wher
! completed vii lmore than earn sufficient
money to pay the fixfied charges on the
entire line from Kansas City to the
! coast