The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-09-15
StiIlwell q BenefactOr.

W nat u powerful JnlIB IL uI
idea Here to-day are more tnan
1000 Western shippers. mer.
chants and farmers Interested az
stockholders III the success of A
f. Stilwell's Orient enterprise.
These men live in Missouri, Kan
sas, Texas, Oklahoma, Indian Ter
ritory aud Nebraska. Such a
showing has never been made by
q railroad enterprise III this
country and It is indicative of the
interest felt in the enterprise
which will connect Kansas City
with the ports of the Orient 1t
is the peoples railroad. But the
idea which will do 50 much to
change the trend and direction of
American commerce in the next
hundred years, is one mans idea
More powerful than steam or
electricity, more potent than any
physical force, is the energy re.
leased in the world when a strong
efficient man things.
Stilwell had another idea fit
teen years ago ten cents dropped
from the seaboard freight of every
bushel of Kansas wheat as a re-
suit of that idea. What states
man or merchant prince has done
as much as that for the present
generation of men? The Stllwell
road is building i'll Mexico, and in
u few years will be finished The
Mexican Investor, the leading
commercial newspaper OF the
southern republic, thinks the road
will do more for Mexico than any
other industrial force that the
country has seen for twenty years.
The Investor says.
Though the mining industry
is, and always will be of first inn
portance in the region tributary
to this railroad, there are other in
dustries, such as sugar and GER
calls, which will be benefited by it.
There are important coal inter-
ests to the northward of the Pa
cific outlet, in the Santa Clara
field, of anthracite and natural
coke, which is put within easier
reach and some day will be con-
nected by further railroad devel-
opment. In the Yaqui country
there is a little known mineral
belt, the development of which
has been retarded by Indian dis
turbances. In the advent of a
railroad there is a guarantee of
public tranquility and protection.
"While many railroads are pro-
iected in Northern Mexico, there
are few which like the Phelps
Dodge lines and the Kansas CITY,
Mexico ~ Orient, are actually
building.
Between the city of chihuahua
and Fuerte Valley the Kansas
City, Mexico IL Orient line will
traverse a country rich in mineral
hitherto accessible with difficulty
and much retarded III It's develop
ment for lack of transportation
facilities. Fellow engineers who
have been over some of the Sierra
Madre trails know what this
means. Among the large mines
of the region to be benefited are
the mines of Batopias and Palma
reio, Lluevia de Orc and those
about Guerrero. There are also
many small mining interests
which will be more indirectly
served by the advent of railroad
IN that part of Mexico. Central
and Eastern Mexico are devoid of
even scant timber for long
stretches of plateau, so that tim
Der becomes o valuable asset
when 1t can be brought within
reach of such territory. 1t is
certain that some of the finest
timber land will be made avail
able, as this railroad passes
through a longleaf pine forest
for a distance of something like
$50 miles, beginning abont lac
miles southwest of Chihuahua.
"The total length of the main
line when completed will be,
according to survey, 1929 miles
OF this 1928 has been permanent,
ly located, and 600 miles are now
graded; POO miles are completed
and the track laid, not including
the chihuahua IL Pacific road
which, it is expected will form q
part of the through line"
All this sprang from an idea
That spiritual force which is EN-
bodied in this idea is sure to have
effect upon the destiny of man OIL
this globe. The building of thai
road will play its integral part
whatever may be needed, in itl
time and place-to uplift man
kindsand bring about the ulti
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