The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-06-15
ORIENT SOUTHERN SURVEY
Corps of Surveyors at Work Estab-
fishing Route Toward Sonora
and San Antonio.

The Orient surveyors are at
work near Christoval. Last
Thursday evening they moved
camp from Pecan Creek to q point
about one mile north Of Christie
val. Last Saturday morning they
were ut work on the survey near
Christoval and 10y this time have
passed to the south of that pic
turesque little city.
The people of Sonora are very
enthusiastic over the prospects of
getting this great railway. Should
this road and another which So
nora hopes to get from the East
materialize, there is no town in
Texas which will present better
opportunities for investors and
for business mel.
The following clipping from the
FIT. Worth Telegram is of interest
to the people of West Texas:
II. G. Hord, general attorney
for the Kansas City, Mexico e
Orient Railroad Company, head
quarters at Sweetwater, is in the
city today, returning home from
San Angelo, where he has been
looking after the legal end of the
San Angelo bonus and reports an
additional line may reach San
Antonio.
He says work of construction is
progressing all along the line,
both in the United States and
Mexico. In fact, he says that not
to exceed $50 miles are yet to be
built in Mexico, and that work Of
construction is under way on three
different divisions. He says Pres
ident Stilwell has devoted most of
his energies in pushing the con-
struction in Mexico III order to
hold the several valuable conces-
SONS granted the company by the
government of that country.
The grade IS completed from
Red River to Wichita, Kan, ex-
cept about thirty miles, and of
this distance 100 miles of the road
is in operation. The right of way,
Mr.. Hord says, from the north
boundary line of of Texas to the
Mexican gulf has all been pro-
vided for and that active con-
struction characterizes the work
at every point of the route from
Kansas City to Port Stilwell. The
main line has been located via
Sweetwater, San Angelo, thence
west to Fort Stockton and Alpine,
thence to Preside across the Mex
lean border.
Mr.. Hord also says that there is
n surveying party now in the field
running second line south from
San Angelo, through the counties
of Schleicher, Sutton, Edwards
and Kinney to Spofiord on the
Southern Pacific, from which
point it will cross the border
either at Del Rio or Eagle Pass.
Mr. llord says that if the route
IS found to be feasible, President
Stilwell will probably build it on
into San Antonio, but on this
point he is not able to say def
nitely.
Mr.. llord says that twenty-one
miles of the line north of Sweet
water is completed and will soon
be operated through to Sylvester,
n town named after w. w. Syl-
vester, vice president of the COM
pany.
The road south from Sweetwater
toward San Angelo has been
, graded thirty miles and work will
| be pushed on through to San An
, gelo, a distance of seventy-fve
miles, the citizens of that place
having complied with the demands
of the Orient in the way OF bonus.
The construction Of the line in
| this state will be continued unin-
terrupted, according to Mr.. Hord
all the arrangements for complet-
ing the line within the next two
years, possibly less time, having
been made by President Stilwell.