The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-27
Great Improvements Planned
for Frisco Rock Island Lines.
FOUR BIG PROJECTS.
Route From Great Lakes to
Gulf and City Of Mexico.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

are now commanding the close atten-
ton of the dominant factors in the
Yoakum- FIawley syndicate. The first
is water grade line from St. Louis
to New Orleans, the line to be a direct
route from Chicago, the Northwest and
St. Louis to the principal ports on the
Gulf of Mexico. The second is the con-
struction of roads to New Orleans,
Galveston, Houston and Beaumont
The third is a road from New Orleans,
Galveston, Houston and Beaumont to
Denver and the North Pacific coast
The fourth is a short route along the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico, from New
Orleans, Galveston, Houston and Beau
mont to the City of Mexico.
This work is not projected, but is
planned. It is already begun, and the
next few years will witness its complete
fulhllment. When it is done, the
Yoakum- Hawley syndicate viii have
direct lines from Chicago. Minneapolis,
St. Paul, Watertown, s. D., and st.
Louis to Memphis, Birmingham, New
Orleans, Beaumont, Houston, Calves
ton and the City of Mexico; from Chi
cago, St. Louis, Memphis. Birmingham
and Kansas City to Denver and the
North Pacific coast; from the City of
Mexico, New Orleans. Beaumont Cal
weston and Houston to Denver and the
North Pacific coast, and from Birming-
ham and Memphis to Denver and the
North Pacific coast and to FL Paso.
The YOakum-Haw wiley syndicate is al
ready a strong competitor of the Gould
and the Hartman lines. There is great
rivalry in the south and the west be-
tween Hartman and Yoakum. Won
F derful progress has already been made
toward realizing the extensive system
which is described above A line from
Marion, Ark, to Baton Rouge, La, and
/ several lines between New Orleans,
LQ4a.ar7 Neql nd
Fort Worth Will finish the enterprise
in the south, and this work is at pres
ent proceeding. Extensions of the
Colorado & Southern and the Denver,
Yellowstone & Pacific Will bring the
system up to the North Pacific coast.
Surveys have been made by the
Frisco for the line from Marion, Ark,
to Baton Rouge, and company has
been Incorporated, with a capital of
/ 100000, to carry out the project.
The building of this road. $50 miles
/ long, will give the Frisco a water grade
/ line from ST. Louis to New Orleans.
/ The new terminal system which the
/ Frisco is constructing IN New Orleans,
/ Jointly with the Southern Railway,
/ Morgan system, viii cost more than
+ $8s000,000.
The Fort Worth & Denver City is
building southeast from Fort Worth to
/ Houston and Galveston, and the Colo
RADIO Southern. New Orleans & Pacific
4 is to parallel the South ern Pacific from
4 houston 10 New OIlGdIlE. ne CL.
I Louis, Brownsville & Mexico is already
/ completed from AlgOa, Texas, to
/ Brownsville, Texas, on the Rio Grande,
/ opposite the Mexican city of Mata-
mOros. The National Lines of Mexico
propose to build from MatamOrOs
/ Mexico, to Tampico and the City of
! Mexico, and these plans include a
bridge across the Rio Grande to con-
meet Brownsville and Matamoros. By
i trackage arrangements the st. Louis,
+ Brownsville & Mexico enters Houston
and Galveston from Algoa.
The Denver, Yellowstone & Pacific
/ has let contracts for building from Den
! yer northwest to Walcott, Wy, a dis
| tance Of $50 miles Portland will prob
ably be the ultimate destination on the
4 North Pacific coast.
! A proposed line, which will form an
/ important LAX in the Rock Island and
Frisco system is a connection through
+ central Illinois from Peoria to a point
on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois. This
/ extension will connect the northwest
with the water grade line to New Or
/ leans.
The chief roads that are concerned in
/ the greater plans are the Frisco, the
! Rock Island. the Colorado & Southern,
! the Fort Worth e Denver City. the St.
Louis, Brownsville & Mexico and the
I National Lines Of Mexico It is implied.
+ of course. that the branches and extern
sions of these roads, and also the indie
I pendent lines owned or controlled by
them. which are many. are considered
as being strategic parts Of the whole
enterprise.
4 The Importance Of the work now be
/ ing done by the Yoakum- Hawley syn
dictate can hardly be overestimated The
/ syndfcates roads already comprise
great Southwestern system, reaching
from Chicago. Minneapolis. St. Paul,
st. Louis and Memphis to the Gulf Of
/ Mexico ports. to Denver. and to the
leading cities of the southwest. But, as
approved plans show, it IS designed to
be a still greater system, connecting
Chicago and St. Louis with all the
ports Of the Gulf Of Mexico. and with
/ the city of Mexico. and connecting the
city Of Mexico and all the ports on the
Gulf of Mexico with Denver and the
North Pc cihc coast. Minnesota. South
Dakota. illinois, Missouri, Arkansas,
Indian Territory. Oklahoma, Alabama,
Louisiana. Texas. Mexico. New Mexico,
Kansas. Nebra ska. Colorado Wyoming.
Idaho and Oregon are the common
wealths of the YoalSurn- F1awley syndi-
cate. and this syndicate is a powerful
competitor to Gould and Hartman
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