The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-04
BY FIRST
OF MARCH
Orient viii be Operating l27
Miles of Road.
TRAINS FROM FAIRVIEW or.
Will be Running Into Wichita
on That Date.
TRAINS FROM FAIRVIEW OF.

Mr.. w. Z. EDWARDS, contracting agent
for the Kansas City, Mexico * Orient
railroad, received the following letter
from A. E. stllwell, president of the
road:
Kansas City, No, Dec. a. 1902.
Mir W c. Edwards Director. Kansas
City, Mexico & Orient Railway, Wich-
ita, Kan
Dear Sir: Please convey to the COM
mercial club, and TO my friends in Wich-
ita, that 1 am now able TO publicly an
nounce to them the fact that through
the kindness of Mr.. Goula. president of
the Missouri Pacific Railway company
and Russell Harding, vice president, we
will be able to run trains from Fairview
to Wichita the last of February or the
first of March.
When your committee visited me from
Wichita, 1 said that We would do all
that we possibly could to have trains
running into Wichita by next June or
July, so, through the kindness of Mr..
Gould and Nj Harding, we will be able
to do this long before our promised time.
When l explained to these people how
anxious the people of Wichita were to
have the trade from our road as fast as
finished, come to Wichita, they, thor
.oughly approaching what a splendid CEN
ter Wichita was for their system, very
kindly consented to allow US to Iun our
trains over the thirty miles of track nee
essary to establish at once railway con-
nection direct with the portions of our
road now finished.
1 appreciate the kindness of Mr.. Gould
and Mr.. Harding, as l know all my
friends in Wichita will. We have six
miles more OF track to lay to connect
with Milton, and as soon as this connec-
ton is made we viii establish through
service from the end Of our road in Ok
lahoma to Wichita.
l cannot tell you how much pleasure
this gives me to comply as nearly as we
can with the wishes and desires OF oui
friends in Wichita. Very truly yours
(Signed) a. e. STILLWELL.
Mr.. Edwards turned the letter over TO
II. L. Resfng, secretary of the CONNER
cial club, and meeting of that body
was held yesterday at noon. The mem
bers were very enthusiastic concerning
the Orient and the possibility of the
line running trains into Wichita at an
early date. The president OF the club,
c. g. Cohn, was absent and J. II. Black
presided at the meeting. The following
letter was formulated and ordered sent to
1Ir. Stillwell:
Wichita, Kan, Jan. 5, 1908.
Mr. A. E. Stillwell, President X. c., NJ. &c
o. Ry. Co, Kansas City, Mo.
Dear Sir: 1t gives me great pleasure
on behalf OF the Wichita Commercial
club to convey our best wishes and
greetings to you.
We have just received, through your
representative, Mr.. Edwards. your let
ter assuring us that you viii have your
Kansas City. Mexico & Orient railway
trains running into cur city within sixty
days. To know that your great under
taking is assuming such a measure of
success is gratifying to every citizen of
this community. We will all welcome
your entrance to our city, and promise
that the commercial interests will prove
OF great benefit to your enterprise Since
the proposition was given our people TO
aid your company by voting $11o0oO in
bonds. which was done almost unani-
mously, we have had great faith in your
ability to consumate this wonderful un-
loyal friends than in this city.
We realize that you made an extra
effort to please our people. and TO full
fill the promise made some of our club
members several months ago. To know
that you will reach our city sooner than
then expected is gratifying in the ex-
treme.
We are especially pleased to learn that
your road viii be built into our city as
originally proposed, and that the use If
the thirty miles of Missouri Pacific track
TO Milton is only contemplated for tenn
porary purposes. that you may immedi-
ately reach the best city in Kansas and
share in the business we can offer We
have every reason to believe that the
interest Of your railway and the inter-
est of our people will be mutually bene-
flied by the early consumation OF this
undertaking.
Through you we desire to express our
great appreciation to President George
Gould and Vice PRECEDENT Russell Hard
ing of the Missouri Pacific railway COM
pany, for the interest they have taken
in permitting you the use OF their track
TO reach us at an early date. Very truly
yours,
]. II. BLACK, Vice President.
The company expects to have the line
completed to Milton before the first of
the month. The superintendent Of con-
struction. f. L. Brown. who has had a
large body OF men at work near Byron.
will move his camp tools and men to this
end Of the line tomorrow As fast rs
the grade is completed the track will
be laid. As stated in the letter, there