The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03
SELLING BONDS.
Topeka People Investing in
Southwestern Ry. Securities.
Committee Expects to Have
$4,000 Sold by Tonight.
GET RIGHT OF WAY.
Practically All Secured Mission
Township to ESkridge.
Will Begin at This End Next
Week.
GET RIGHT OF WAY.

The special committee OF the Com
merciaI club to solicit is meeting with
considerable of success and feel con-
hdent that the $4,000 can be sub
Ecribed by tonight. The fact that the
business men of Topeka are subscrib-
ing for these bonds should convince
the eastern capitalists that the home
people have confidence in this railroad
proposition.
When Mr.. Taylor. promoter of the
line, first took this proposition to
New York he had with him fifty let
tiers from the strongest men in the
three counties. Among them were
bankers. etc. All of these letters set
forth facts concerning the feasibility
of a railroad between Topeka and
Council Grove. When Mr.. Taylor
manager for Lamprecht Brothers &
Co. he remarked: These are strong
letters and no doubt the proposition
is as good as recommended by the
writer's of these letters, but the ques-
ton is. are these people who are en-
dorsing this proposition so strongly
willing to back up their recommended
tions with their money" Mr.. Taylor
assured him that the people of Shaw
nee, Wabaunsee and Morris counties
stood ready to not only vote township
and municipal bonds. but would fur
nish the entire right of way to build
this railroad on, and that there was
enough local people who would invest
in the proposition to that ex-
tent, and the manner in which the To-
cal people are subscribing for these
bonds substantiate Mr.. Taylor's state
ment.
Mr.. v. r. Parkhurst. chief engineer
of the a-Southwestern tele-
phoned from Eskridge today that he
and the right of way agent had closed
up nearly all of the contracts for
-
Mission township to Eskridge. He
will return to Topeka this evening
and Monday will begin recruiting his
engineering corps, and will begin the
permanent location of the line begin
ming at the city limits southwest of
the. city.
IT have been figuring over the
amount of money that will be spent
in Shawnee county during the con-
etruction of this line said Mr.. Tay-
Tor. land I find that great deal of
this money can be spent with the local
merchants. There is no reason why
our local hardware stores can not fur
nish all the hardware. There is no
reason why our local bridge company
can not build all the bridges. and
there is no reason why we can not
sell everything to this Construction
company that they will need. Of
course the merchants can not expect
full retail prices when the Construc-
ton company can buy direct from.
wholesalers outside of the city, but I
believe that the majority of the ma
terial and supplies aside from the ties
and rails and so forth will be pur-
chased in Topeka. Right in the be-
ginning II will probably be necessary
to spend 500 for hardware to supply
the engineering corps, as they will
have to be QUILTED with axes. brush
hooks, camping stoves, cooking uten-
sis. ETC., then will come the item of
supplying feed for that many men
which is no small item at the present
prices of supplies. then when the ac-
tual construction begins there will be
several hundred men and teams that
will have to be supplied by the To-
peka merchants. All in all Topeka
will receive during the construction
of this line ten times the amount of
these bond subscriptions to say moth
ing of the benefit they will derive af-
ter the line is put in operation