The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-09-29
The ORIENT COMING.
Kansas Papers Think 1t Only a Matter
of Time Until the Entire Line
Is COMPLETED.


business men and property own
ers of Wichita, nor the people of
the other towns along the project
ed line of the Kansas City, Mexi-
co and Orient railway realize the
advantages that are going to ac-
crue TO them through the compile
tion of this stupendous enter.
prise, this far reaching conception
of Il. A. Stilwell. The possible
ties of the protector of trans
continental line of railway which
in avoiding SHOWS and troubles
and expenses of winter traffic of
other transcontinental lines,
line a thousand miles shorter to
the Orient, can only be estimated
by what he has accomplished in
the past. There seems to be no
end to the mans resources. Had
he but sprung his enterprise II
year sooner, when times were
flush and domestic money was
seeking investment, before there
was any suggtlon of a war in the
east, the whole scheme would have
been Hoated Immediately and up
on its face advantages.
A majority of the stockholders
of the Kansas City, Mexico and
Orient railway live west of the
Mississippi river This is unpre-
cedented in the history of rail-
road enterprise, and it makes the
road peculiarly u western enter
prise. More than this, much
Kansas money has been invested
in the enterprise, and now that the
road is soon to be in Wichita and
doing business where we all can
see it and feel 1T, more Kansas
money is going into it.
The road will be into Wichita
with its track and trains by the
first of September. With the
Wichita connection it will have
nearly $50 miles of track in Kan
sas and Oklahoma. Only 80
miles of grading between Wichita
and Usage City remain to be done
and this will be done ana track
laid by January /, when trains
will be running into Kansas City
using the Missouri Pacific east of
Usage City.
Mr.. Stilwell is master of big
enterprises and If he gets what
nature made him for he will be
one of the worlds great CAPTAINS.
The Pittsburg and Gulf which he
built, 500 miles as the crow flies,
when nobody else could raise
money for railroad construction,
is work of the mans genius.
That Knocked ten cents hun
dred out of the export grain rate
TO the seaboard, stimulated the
elevator business all over Kansas,
and added a dollar an acre to the
value of wheat and corn land.
Now he has undertaken another
big enterprise and Kansas news
papers should encourage him. lie
is going TO build the Orient all
right-he is building it right I'M
der our noses-but it helps a man
to hear or read "Well done" oc-
casionally. He Is a man of big
things of energy and resolute
courage, and when he succeeds he
is 1.-THE same old shoe" without
faint of snobbery.
But take Wichita's interest,
leaving out the fact to the shops
which are to be built here, and
the people these will employ, and
leaving out the fact that this city
is to be both freight and pas
senger division, and yet this,
when only completed from the
Red river to this point and from
here to the Missouri river, will
give the greatest impetus to the
growth of Wichita and increase
of business, through advantages
which the Orient will afford,
such as no other road has giveL
this city.
From Wichita to the Red river
is vast new field which will be
opened to our live stock yards,
to our packing houses, to our
merchants, wholesalers, and many
other interests, a field which can
be reached by Chicago and by
Kansas City only through
Wichita. But of more lmpor-
tance still will be the line from
here to its Missouri river con-
nections. Stilwell is not the
man who is gong to permit his
road to haul empty cars back and
forth from Wichita to the Mis-
souri, river, as he demonstrated
by his operation of the Pittsburg
and Gulf, after completing it.
Stilwell will have his share of the
outgoing and incoming tonnage