The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-10
RAILROAD NEWS.
Rock Island Officials Ending In
spectIOn Tour.
Went Through Topeka Yester-
day After Northwest Trip.
HAVEBEEN SOUTHWEST
Progress of Country Is Revela.
ton to New York Capitalists.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Judge w. H. Moore and Francis L
Hine Of New York City and R. r.
cable of Chicago, members of the board
of directors Of the Chicago, Rock Is
land & Pacific Railway company, B. L.
Winchell. president of the company, H
U. Nudge, second vice president, F. Q.
Melcher, general manager of the north
west district Of the system, and Dan E.
Cain, general manager of the southwest
district, Travelled through here yester-
day afternoon about four o'clock in a
special train of six private cars. They
had just completed a trip of inspection
of the lines in the northwest district Of
the system and were en- route for Kan
sas City. where they remained during
the night and left this morning at eight
O'Clock for a trip over the St. Louis di-
vision
When ST. Louis is reached Judge
Moore, Mr.. Hine and Mr.. Cable will
have been escorted by the officials of
the company over practically all the
lines Of the system in the northwest d nd
southwest as well. This inspection "Trip
has lasted a couple of weeks and ,irst
included a trip through the southwest.
The party returned through here early
last Sunday morning and went on 10
Chicago and then came back from there
over the lines in the northwest and
west, reaching Belleville, Kan, yester-
day morning where they were met by
Mr.. Cain and Mr.. T. H. Beacon, the
superintendent of the Kansas division
Mr.. Beacon had his car taken from the
train here in Topeka but Mr. Cain went
on with the party
Mr.. Hine, who is one of the prominent
bankers Of New York had never made
an extended trip through the southwest
before the one of last week and the
progress of the district made a particu-
larly strong impression on him. In the
country visited in the southwest. par
ticularly In the territories and south
western and southern Kansas 1t was
learned by the party that all the crops
are, on an acreage, twenty-five per cent
greater than were last years crops. The
crops of some sections Of the territories
show a remarkably high percentage OF
gain Washington county, Oklahoma
probably holds the record as its agricul-
ture shows an Improvement equivalent
to eight hundred per cent.
Judge Moore had visited the south
west previously and he was prepared tC
observe great advancement. but ever
to him the development was a revela-
ton. Mr.. Moore and Mr.. Hine mani
Tested deep interest in the new oil fields
situated about six miles from Sapulpa
l. T. These. oil fields are reported as
being exceptional finds and they are
already classed as the best in the tar
(
we'll is one thousand barrels a day
Within a few months one hundred and
fifty to one hundred and sixty large
pipes will be IN use and then the out
put viii be enormous.
But the southwest did not occupy ths
entire attention of the party. They
found many things to marvel at in the
progress of country tapped by the line:
in the northwest district. Prosperity Is
evident on every hand there.
The executive and traffic officials Of
the company who were on the trip are
pleased with the condition of the prop
erty and the progress of the various
improvements to track and terminals
which are under way. They are elateo
over the crop Indications in the north
west as we'll as the southwest. They ex.
/ pect that the traffic will be so large as
to tax the systems total equipment
even with the great number of new
freight cars which will be delivered and
ready for use before the rush sets in
They look for an unusual movement O.
fruit and berries from the southwest
estimating that there will be easily be
4 tween ten and twelve thousand cal
loads to be handled by the Rock ISLAND
alone.