The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1906-08-25
PORT ARTHUR ROUTE.
Options Secured on Pro-
perties in New Orleans.
Proposals rIade to the Belt System
for Servitude.

| upon nnqucStl0ncu authority AHt
Times Democrat IS unable to announce
this morning that the great Southern
trunk line seeking entrance into
New Orleans. and concerning whose
identity there has been so much
con ecture, is the Kansas City
Southern Railway, known as the
Port Arthur Route. Various roads
had been suggested as the one seeking
terminals aud other facilities here,
including the Kansas City South
ern but it WAS not known until yes
terday that The Port Arthur Route
was the one that had applied to
Belt Railroad Commission for such
rights as are necessary for the
Operation of its trains To this city.
The Kansas City Southern has
already secured options upon proper
ty in this city for warehouses and
its various other purposes, and a
tentative proposition has already
been made to the Belt Commits
sion through Sol Wexier, member
of the commission The Belt Com
mission was asked to say upon
what conditions it would permit
the Kansas Gay Southern to reach
its newly acquired property on the
river front between Celeste and
Elysian Fields streets. The road con
tended that it would be absolutely nee
essary to have double tracks on the
river front, ard az all of is bust
ness would be handled by the
belt system, it has offered to
build the other track for the
| belt. This would make it Il double
instead OF "A single track road, as
now obtains. and the company
agrees to be reimbursed for this
additional track by using the sys-
tenn in the transportation of freight
to the extent Of the amount ex-
pended by it in the building Of the
additional track proposed. This
was referred last Thursday night
| by the Belt Commission to com
mittee comprising the Mayor, mem.
bers, the City Attorney and the
| attorney Of the commission. The
formal report of these has not yet
been received by the commission.
Straight as the Craw Flies" is the
motto of the Kansas City Southern,
| and it is more true than of any other
line in the United States. 1t has been
correctly. called the only road of pro
tentious length in the world that runs
all the way due north and south. The
railway extends from Kansas City to
Port Arthur, Tex, on the Gulf of Mex
ico. A branch from the main line goes
out TO Lake Charles, La, and this is
the nearest point to New Orleans on
the line, although it has recently
been rumored that the road had Sc
cured control of one or more shorter
lines in Louisiana, giving the line a
more direct route into this CITY than
by way of Lake Charles. One rail
road man said Yesterday that in his
opinion the road would build from
Shreveport to Natchez or some other
point on the Mississippi river, and
thus would not only reach this city bv |
a more direct line, but would open up |
rich section in Northern Louisiana
not now traversed by railroad. But
as to how the road intends reaching
New Orleans IS not now definitely
known.
The country contiguous to the |
Kansas City Southern is exceptionally
we'll provided with agricultural, for
est. mineral and live stock resources
Nearly every product for which there
is demand in the markets of the
world is available and generally in a
large quantity. The country travcrs-
ed by the railway covers over nine de-
grees of latitude and it is practicable
to grow semi-tropical products at its
Southern terminus and semi arctic pro
ducts at it's Northern The road ira
verses the great mineral sections of
Eastern Kansas and Southwestern
Missouri ana does an enormous bust
ness In transporting zine and lead ores
1t also taps great live stock region,
and as is well known, reaches the
great oil region of Texas. With the
development Of the port here it is but
natural that the road seeks an outlet
to the Gulf from New Orleans, where
the largest ships of the world now
land. and which port promises to be
greatly augmented with the conple-
ton of the Panama Canal
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