The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-31
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StilWeIl's Mexico g. Orient Line
VIII Reach Topeka.
Present Plans Are to Get into
Kansas City First.
THIS CITY SOON AFTER
Work of Permanent COnstruc-
ton Progressing Rapidly.
Will Give This Town Another
Outlet TO the Sea.

and this purpose will be accomplished
ultimately. But it is likely, however.
that the trains on this road, through
traffic agreements with other lines.
viii be running from the southwest
into Kansas City before they are rum
ming into Topeka.
This Mexico and Orient line. which
was projected and is being rapidly
built through the endeavors of A E.
Stilwel, viii run from Kansas City to
TopolobampO, Mexico, will lessen the
distance from Kansas City to an ade-
qCate port on the Pacific ocean by
more than five hundred miles.
Within the last few days an
nouncements have been made from
the offices of Mr.. StiIwell in Kansas
City that by october of next year
Orient trains will be running from
San Angelo, Texas. into Kansas City
and with this announcement came the
and a half dollars worth Of bonds
would be foated to complete tho con-
struction Of several portions of the
line, that is to put them in shape for
the operation of trains, from San
Angelo to Emp0ria, Kansas.
1t is understood that these bonds
have been gobbled up by investors al
ready and that the work Of perfecting
the line from San Angelo to Emporia
will be prosecuted vigorously. AS
soon as it is accomplished the Orient
trains will be run from Emporia to
Olathe over the cutoff under traf-
fic agreement with the Atchison. To-
peka e. Santa FNe over its line between
those points and from Olathe into
Kansas City over the lines Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. =-y 4-
AS soon as the road from San An
gelo to EEnpOria is completed in toto,
work will be started at once on the
construction of the individual line of
the Orient road from Emporia to
Kansas City. The route Of this road
swings up in a curving way from EN-
pOria to the northeast, through part
of Lyon county diagonally through
Usage county and cuts through the
southeast corner of Shawnee county
and directly northeast through Doug
las county 10 Lawrence, where it will
cross the Kaw and then run easterly
on a trif1e northerly bent through
Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties
to Kansas City.
In going through Shawnee county it
touches Richland and when this line
has been built, the Orient cor sEany
proposes to make direct connections
into Topeka through traff1c agree
ment with the Missouri Poetic, which
has already been promised
There is every likelihood that the
Mexico & Orient's own line from Eln-
poria to Kansas City will be mp1eted
within another year after that por-
tioa of it IS completed from San An
gelo to Emporia, and as soon as II IS
completed, or that portion Of it from
Emporia to Richland, Topeka Will De
in direct communication through the
untapped country to the southwest
that this road VIII open up
A considerable portion of the road
from Emporia 10 San Angelo is al
ready constructed and under opera
ton. There are about two hundred
miles completed and in opera ton
from Wichita south into Oklahoma,
and from Sweetwater. Tex, east TO
;t-fo of ~ 6icrl1
miles the road IS in successful opera
ton The gap between the Texas and
Kansas lines is 162 miles. all of which
is graded and forty miles Of rails on
the ground. The line is also practi-
caIly GRADED from FL Dorado to En-
poria distance Of 8 miles and from
Sweetwater to San Angelo, a distance
of a miles.
With the proceeds from the million
and a half dollars worth of bonds
added to half million dollars on
hand from the sale of other bonds the
parts of the line from
Fmporia to San Angelo can be finish
ed This will give the road 591 miles
Of its own line completed in this coun-
try and through the traffic agreements
with the Santa Fe to Olathe and then
with the Missouri Pacific from there
to Kansas CITY distance from En-
be able to operate trains for a con-
tinuous III miles in this country. Con-
sidera BILE of its line through Mexico is
already under operation and work is
progressing on the unfinished
parts.
There IS no doubt Of the intentions
of the Orient to get connections with
Topeka" said Frank Grimes, who is
one Of the directors Of the Kansas
city Mexico & Orient railway. in dis
cussing the progress being made in the
of the road
when the road was first planned |
Topeka was one of It's original OBJ
jective points, and I am Informed that
the Missouri Pacific has already
agreed to give US trackage facilities |
from Richland into this city. It is
likely that the Orient trains will be !
running into Kansas City before they 1
reach Topeka. but as soon as our own !
line is built from Emporia on into
Richland, why through trains Will be
running from Topeka down as far as |
San Angelo. It will not be long be- |
fore the road will be built from San |
Angelo down to connect with its ex-
sting lines In Mexico BY that time |
all the lines tn Mexico Will have been |
and there will be direct /
communication between Topeka, and /
through a fertile and hitherto un- /
tapped country down through the /
southwest and 10 port on the Pa /
-if7c ocean"
The advantages that will accrue to /
Topeka when the Mexico & Orient /
eventually gets in here are untold, and /
give additional evidence from the /
plans of other railroad companies
which have recently come to light that I
before many years. in fact within two /
Or three Topeka will begin to take on +
the aspect as one of the most frnpor- /
-ant railway centers in the middle
vest :
Delayed shipment.