New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-08-25
LOOKING FOR TERMINALS.

Times Democrat is enabled to announce
this morning that the great Southern
trunk line seeking entrance into New Or
leans, and concerning whose identity
there has been so much conjecture, is the
Kansas City Southern Railway, known az
the Port Arthur Route. Various roads
had been suggested M the one seeking
terminals and other faciltiss here. in
GLIDING the Kansas City Southern, but it
wac not known until yesterday that the
Port Arthur Route was the one that had
applied to the 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 property in this city
for warehouses and its various other pur-
poses, and tentative proposition has al.
ready been made to the Belt Commission
through Sol WeIler, member OF the
commission. The Belt Commission was
asked TO say upon what conditions il
would permit the Kansas City Southern
to reach its newly acquired property on
the river front between Celeste and Ely
sian Fields streets. The road contended
that 1t would be absolutely necessary to
have double tracks on the river front, and
as all Of its business would be handled by
the belt system, 1t has offered to build the
other track for the belt. This would
make 1t double instead Of a single track
road, as now obtains, and the company
agrees to be reimbursed for this additional
track by using the system in the trans
portation Of freight to the extent of the
amount expended by il IN the building of
the additional track proposed. This pro-
position was referred last Thursday night
by the Belt Commission to committee
comprising the Mayor, members, the City
Attorney and the attorney OF the commits
sion. The formal report of these has not
yet been received by the commission.
Straight as the Crow Flies" In the
motto of the Kansas City Southern, aud Il
is more true than Of any other line in the
United States. II has been corr ectly
called the only road OF pretentious 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 Mexico. 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 IL has re-
Gently been rumored that the road had |
secured 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 railroad man said
Yesterday that in his opinion the road
would build from Shreveport to Natcbez
DR. some other point on the Mississippi
river, and thus would not only reach
his city by more direct line, but would
open up rich section in Northern Louis
ana not now traversed by a railroad.
But AZ to how the road intends reaching
New Orleans Is not now definitely known.
The country contiguous to the Kansas
1ity Southern is exceptionally well provid-
I'd with agricultural, forest, mineral and
i've stock resources. Nearly every pro-
luct for which there Ia demand in the
markets. OF the world il available and
'enerslly In large quantity. The coun.
ry traversed by the railway covers over
line degrees Of latitude and il is prac-
icable to grow semi tropical products at
70 Southern terminus and semi arctic
roducts at its Northern. The road ira
erses the great mineral sections of East.
IN Kansas and Southwestern Missouri
nd does an enormous business In trans /;
ortipg zine lead ores. Il also taps a ,
reat live stock region, and as is well
nown, reaches the great oil region of /,
exas. With the development OF the port
ere II is but natural that the road seeks {
a outlet TO the Gulf from New Orleans,
here the largest ships of the world now r
nd, and which port promises to BIO
'eatly augmented with the completion
the Panama Canal.