The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-24
RAILROAD NEWS.
TO Reach San Angelo by October
-i 1907.
Orient Line Builders Expect to
Accomplish That.
EVERYTHING PAID FOR
Million and a Half Needed to
Complete Road to Texas.
Gossip and Matters of Interest
in Railroad Circles.

Kansas City, Dec. 24.-Trains to
San Angelo, Texas. I'll miles from
Kansas City, by October. 1907.
The Stilwrl interests which are
building the Kansas City, Mexico &
Orient railway from Kansas City-to the
Pacific ocean have se- that mark and
President Stilwell Is sure that il viii
be attained. To accomplish it. It is
necessary to raise e million dollars
from the sale of bonds within d few
weekse. The Orient pays for every
thing as it goes. The track now in Use
is paid for, every cent of it, and the
cars and motive power and everything
else is paid for and every contractor
who has finished his 2cntroct On the
partly completed part of the road is
paid. This u millions is needed. now
because the Orient wants to get in its
oruers Tor ties. and rails and other
things early and know where. the,
money is coming from TO pay fe.>.it all.
q Million From Kansas City. Is,
1t is planned to raise in Kansas City,
the Orient's home city, sone-half or the
money needed to insure operation to
San Angelo by October. More than
one-half of this amount has already
been pledged, much of it by Kansas
City men who are already interested
in the securities of this enterprise, and
it is the desire to complete the Kansas
City quota by January 4. "A Kansas
Cityan who studied carefully what the
Orient railway meant to Kansas City
before investing in its securities said
yesterday to a reporter for the Star.
Nothing means more for the pros
perity and growth of Kansas City than
the completion of the Kansas CITY,
-exico & Oriena railway, so that
through trains may be operated into
Kansas CitS bg next fall. The new
progress<ulSa shows the remarka,ple
fapiditSs vii 115Sfhi ch this railroad is be-
ing buiit.4 Out OF. SO miles in Mexico,
over $50 miles are in operation In the
United States the railroad is nearly all
graded from Emporias Kan, to san
Angelo Tex and 27S. miles of the
rack is in operation. Fsronm Kansas
City to Emporia the road will operate
under lease, over The tracks of anothera
railway.
through trains into Kansas City by
next fall means more for the prosperity
of this city than any event that. has ]
occurred since the building OF. the Aan-
sas City Southern railroad py MI SUI
we'll 1t means the opening up OF
great empire for the merchants and
Wholesale houses Of this city: 1t means
an increase in the bank deposits OF Inc
II means an increase the Xalne
ofialJ tasat Wholesaler retail AND resAdepee,
property of thor city, and it.4vill sinsan
more for the. city than the Kansas CITY
Southern railroad meant, although that
was one of the most important factors
in the growth of the city
s.As the Kansas City Southern made
Kansas City headquarters for great
lumber and coal industries of the west
(Which did not exist here before IT'S
complexion and as it also made Kan
sas City a great grain center-seats on
the board of trade selling for $50 before
the completion OF the road and S. 500
AZ terSvard-so the building of the KAN
sasi City. Mexico & Orient railway viii
make kansas City the headquarters |
for all the industries that are bound
to build up on the Orient railroad It
will make Kansas City a great supply |
market for the hundreds of mining
camps which are destined to line the
Fajln9ad .ffroIllt the Rio Grande. TO the
Paeific. 80 Nothing could be more de-
sired bysthe people of Kansas city TO
add to- its greatness and Importance
tnan the operation Of the Orient rail-
road into Kansas City during the com
ing year.
s7While a great many people in KAN
sas city are interested in the Orient
road. it seems that the whole city ought
to be interested in it. The man VINO
lives in Kansas City. who is interested
in the securities of this road, not only
has the same profits that accrue to the
holders in any other part OF
the world. but he has the additional
nrofits which accrue to him in the en-
Iargement of his business, the grown
81 his city and the increase OF the city,
trade This is a profit that only those
who live along the line of the road Will
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