The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-13
LOOKEDAT ORIENT
Stilwell Party Returns This
Morning From Mexico.
Expect to Have 600 Miles Com
pleted April I.
THEY CALLED ON DIAZ.
f. E. Grimes Pleased With
Mexican President.
Says That the Tour Was a Great
Success.

President A. E. stlweu of the Kan
sas City, Mexico & Orient Railway
company, and a party of eighty bust
ness men and capitalists from the east
ern and middle states, who have been
on a trip through Mexico, Texas and
Kansas to inspect the properties Of the
Orient. passed through Topeka at
O'Clock this morning on a special train
over the Rock Island en- route for
Kansas City. where the party viii
break up. the various members of it
leaving from there for their homes.
Frank Z. Grimes, OF Topeka, one of
the directors of the new road, was a
member of the party and when seen
today he spoke with great enthusiasm
of the trip and the prospects of the
company
eve expect to have trains running
from SWeetWater, Tex, to Kansas City,
q distance of over six hundred miles,
by April T. said Mr.. Grimes. we
have two hundred and eighty-five
miles of the road built in Mexico and
it runs through a wonderful country.
Forty miles of the road has been built
from SWeetWater north to Rule and
one hundred and seventy miles has
been built south from Wichita. to Bar
ton. All the grading between Barton
are laying track on this grade, work
ing from both ends. Most of the grad
ing between Wichita and EmpOria has
been finished and all this work viii be
completed by April 1 when we will be
able to run trains into Kansas City
from SWeetWateT. They will be run
temporarily from EmpOria over the
line of the Missouri Pacific, and it is
possible that at the same time we viii
be running trains into Topeka over the
Missouri Pacific from Richland. 1t
will not be many months after April
when we viii have our own line built
from Emporia to Kansas City.
our trip was a most enjoyable one
and I am sure that every member of
the party was impressed greatly with
the possibilities of the country that our
road will open up.
we left Kansas City on October o.
We touched San Antonio and Laredo
and arrived at the City of Mexico on
october 81. Four days We're passed
there. Then we made trip east and
west on the Orient lines in the state
of Chihuahua, and when this was over
we started back and arrived ia Sweet
water on November 10. We inspected
the line north from SWeetwater ana
then switched around to Wichita and
made a trip south and back over the
Orient road from that point. Work all
along the line is progressing most IA
vOrabIy.
on President Diaz, the vice president
Of the country and the governors of
the states of Mexico and Chihuahua.
President Diaz impressed me as being
one of the finest men / ever met and
he is beloved by his people as much as
any ruler in the yOTld. Mexico is GER
tainly a country of marvellous POSSIBLE
titles and nowhere there are they great
er than through the territory our road
traverses. At one point of our line
west of Chihuahua our road winds up
TO the top of a plateau $3.50 feet above
the level of the sea and on this plateau
there is a stretch Of land comprising
one million two hundred thousand
acres. 1t was a wonderful sight and
the scenery throughout the whole trip
in Mexico was simply marvellous.
I'VE were especially favored with
good weather and during the entire
trip not a member of our party was
taken i'll and not the slightest accident
Of any kind occurred
The party Travelled throughout the
trip on a special train of nine cars, all
PuIlmans except those needed for bag
gage aud those in the party as the
guests Of Mr.. StilweH included S. S.
Mcclure, Nathaniel Niles, L. II. Rob
erts Dunlevy NiIbank, William H. Du.
val, Edgar Park, c. c. SCHNEIDER. Will
lam j. Rogers Charles II. Jones, Jr.,
Charles +. Quincy, William Babcock-
William H McCord, and William r.
Nfal0neY. IT., of New York city; Rob
ert w. Chaplin of Buffalo. n. Y; John
Martin Of GloverSVIle, n. Y: Edward
b Sh0LWeu, InOnaS SUnSOn, winthrop
Sargent, A J. Majors. B. II. Hood and
j. W. Campbell of Philadelphia, Pa;
James B. Oliver c. /. Shannon, w. NJ.
Kerr, George T. McCague, Ralph Z.
Elinn, James @. Chaplin, r. L. ScoviIIe,
John b Jackson and j. j. DOnneU of
Pittsburg, Pa; DR.. Theodore p. Sfmp-
son OF Beaver Falls, Pa; William c.
TaImadges George B. Denison, Frank
"A. After and Charles h AFTER of
Cleveland, O.; 2. J. Barney. J. Kirby.
Jr., s. H. Carr, DE-. A. A. Plotner, Chas.
f. Clegg, Robert T. Cummin, B. 3.
Threshor, F. T. Huffman and John w
StOddard of Dayton, o.; 3. f. Hobart,
L. L. Adreon and Zach W Tinker of
st. Louis, Mo: William c. Off DR.. Jas
c. Logan, Hal Gaylord. E Dickinson,
w. ". Sylvester. J. Nc D. TrimbIe, D.
y. Haff, NJ. V. Watson and Lawrence
Y. Guild of Kansas City. Mo; H. D.
Corey. l. II. Williams Charles Hayden
and Samuel Bernhard of Boston
Mass; George S. Parker of WATERFOWL,
Mass; Charles r. McGrew and c. II.
Brown OF Omaha, Neb. DR. A. Pear.
@. E. Burnham and c. A johnson Of
Norfolk, Neb.: Frank Curie of Craw-
ford, Neb.; G. 2. Coffee. and E c. Har-
ris Of Chadron, Neb: H c. Putram Of
Eau Claire. Wis; Calvert SDensely of
Monroe Point. Wis; Luther Davis of
Oshkosh, Wis. A. p. Holiday of In
dianaDOlis, Ind; [. c. Elston of Craw-
louisville, Ind; James z. Defebaugh of
Chicago ILL.,; Hon. 3. B. Brooks, gov
ernOr of Wyoming; T. Z. Grimes To-
peka, Kan; J. ". Hutchinson of FL
Paso, Texas, and c. D. Neville Wyatt
of London. England.