The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-29
TALK OF BONDS.
Frankfort Railway Company
Wants Some Help.
Will Ask City of Topeka for
$4,000.
TO BE Sc MILES LONG.
Contractors Will Be Here to Go
Over Line.
Major Anderson Says 1t Would
Benefit Topeka.

II Is up to the city of Topeka to make
the Topeka, Frankfort and Northwest
ern Railway company a reality This
city will be most benefited and the
promoters are looking in this direction
for material aid. When the board of
directors meets next week in this city,
the day still unsettled, it is not unlike
ly that an effort will be made to get
two-ffths of the tax-paying residents
Of Topeka to petition the city council
to institute a bond election. the
money to be used for the terminal facil-
tiles of the road in Topeka The
sum Of $4,000 can be raised according
to the statutes covering such matters
Inen an effort will probably be made to
get Shawnee county to vote 50 600 for
every mile of the road in it's confines,
in all little less than twelve miles,
making total sum of $54, 900. which
shawnee county and city of Topeka,
as corporations, will be asked for The
road, however, needs all the money it
can get for its construction and roll
ing stock will cost not less than an
even million of dollars. All of the coun-
ties through which the line will operate
have voted $4,000 a mile. The road will
be SO miles in length, of which about
81 are outside of Shawnee county, mean
ing that about 1922, 900 has already been
voted for its use.
Next week several contracting firms
and they will go over the proposed
route for the purpose of making an
estimate of the construction. They will
make early reports and bids to the di-
rectors. The meeting of the latter body
VIII also take place next week. At that
time efforts to interest Topeka will be
instituted, for all of the other counties
and cities contiguous to the line have
taken up the matter and have given
such aid as has been asked for The
remainder of the battle to establish the
road viii be fought out right here in
this city.
Major Anderson, who is interested in
the road, and one of its chief promoters,
said this morning: Topeka will be
more benefited by the new road than
any other place along the line. 1t is
planned to put in a nigh class system
all the way through. The line will open
up opportunities for trading with the
people living along its tracks. Ere
quent trains running to this city from
that territory will be of value to the
merchants of this city. Topeka will do
its share, I believe. Just how the di-
rectOrs will go at the matter I do not
know. They will be here next week to
take it up. But" continued the major.
there is another reason why the line
should be built. IF the White River ex-
tension on the Missouri Pacific from
Carthage, Mo. is made up, we win be,
through this Frankfort line, in direct
connection with New Orleans and all
the territory through that neighbOrhoOd.
ger traffic, and especially a grain haul
ing standpoint. This whole matter will
be fully set forth later on and the peO-
pie of this city won't have to look far
to see how much they would be benefit
ed and what big return on their in
vested money such an outlet would
make. The Missouri Pacific is now
building it's line to the south and at a
big cost, for it is an expensive piece of
engineering. 1t certainly would be
worth something to this city to connect
with that line
When as much ready cash as possible
has been raised. then bonds will be is
sued and sold and the road mortgaged
in that way to raise the necessary sum
for the complete building of the line.
The engineers employed by the road are
at work now looking over the proposed
right of way and after the contractors
get through with their estimate, def
mite figure can be announced as to just
exactly what the road will cost. There
will probably be little trouble to float
| the bonds.
The route of the proposed line after
! leaving Topeka follows Soldier Creek
up to a point near the old cheese fac
tory then over to the Cross Creek val
| ley in a northwesterly direction and
| from there to Holy Cross in POttawat-
omie county. From this point there is
a choice of two routes, one to Ravens
vile and one to Onago. The two lines
| join again at the county line between
Pottawatomie and Marshall counties
and from there runs directly to Frank
fort, a total distance of 63.8 miles.