The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-26
ROAD TO KANSAS CITY
MOBILE MAY HAVE A DIRECT con-
NECTI0N.
Commercial Club of Gulf City Has As
suranccs of Construction of
Railway If Mobile Comes
Forward.
Advertiser Bureau,


Mobile, July 25.
Prospects are bright, IL the Mobile
end is anxious for a railroad line direct
from Kansas City. Secretary ]. Paul
Wilson of the Mobile Commercial club,
has for sometime been in communi-
cation with the Little Rock Board of
Trade with reference to a railroad
from Kansas City, by way of Spring.
field, Mo-, Little Rock and Vicksburg,
Miss. to Mobile, which, if built would
prove an air line road from the Gulf
to the centre of commerce of the great
western grain district.
The railroad has been in contempla-
ton for some time and the people at
the other end, who, as they term it,
"mean business" have been quietly
waiting to see what those at the east
end thought of the proposition. AS
an evidence of the faith of the projec-
tors at the west end of the proposed
route in the road, the following from
letter from the Secretary of the Little
Rock Board of Trade to Secretary Will
son is worth reading. The opinion Is
from Professor Thomas an expert. who
is familiar with the proposed route:
Take any correct map of the United
States and scale it, and it will be found
that the distance from Kansas city TO
Galveston, Sabine Pass, New orleans
and Mobile are practically the same
with railroads now in operation and IN
/. course of construction, with few gaps
to be built, an almost airline can be
built by the way of Little Rock, from
Kansas City to Mobile and when Mo-
lille is reached, the best harbor on the
Gulf will be found 1t is on a direct
line to Cuba, and all West India ISL
ands, South America and the Panama
Canal, and all European countries. You
see 1t is two-thirds across the Cult
hun
more miles of Mississippi River like
New Orleans. This proposed route by
way of Springfield. Mo-, Little RoeH
and Vicksburg from Kansas CITY &c
Mobile passes through the best cottof
region in the world. and it is also rlcf
in timber and minerals, the finest mar
bIes and the largest deposits or zin'
on the continent. This road wooio De
come the great trunk line from the
grain and meat producing region of the
Northwest, exchanging the products o.
the tropics with those of the Temperate
Zone. Kansas City would become th'
distributing point of tropical products
for all of the Northwest and the expor
market for it's grain, and meats for tn
tropics and European countries. Mo
bile would become the entry and eXpor
city beyond any point on the Gulf, TO
! IL would then be the terminus of tn
best trunk line from the grain neldS o
the Northwest to the sea. A carefu
inspection of the map and even
slight study of the statistics of the ex
ports and imports from and to the re
gion this proposed road would pas
through would, I am confident, con
>-.vince anyone that this line. when II
operation, would become the trunk lin
r for the exchange of products OF tn
tropics and temperate zones. You vii
notice that from Kansas City to Mo
bile. 1t is all the way down hill. TIL
more one investigates this scheme. tn
more he will be impressed with the de
STABILITY o9 it's construction. not onl
to Kansas City and Mobile. but to ever
city and village 1t will pass through.
The Mobile Commercial Club will a
once take up the matter.