The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-25
Mr.. TAYLOR IS BACK.
People of Brown County Greatly In
terested in Proposed Railroad.

w. L. Taylor, chairman transportation
committee of the Topeka Commercial
club has returned from Brown
comfy where he has been for the last
| two days in the interest of the North
and South railroad connecting with the
Missouri Pacific at Willis or Hiawatha
and then running through Horton, Mus
cutah, Larkin, Denison and North To-
peka and connecting with the Topeka
Southwestern here. The same financial
people who are backing the Topeka
Southwestern railroad have advised Mr..
Taylor that they would build this line
north if they could be convinced that it
would be a profitable investment to
them.
Mr.. Taylor says: The only thing that
we can do now is to get it in such shape
that we can present it to them for their
consideration. On Thursday evening 1
was in Willis and spent a couple of
hours with the agent of the Missouri
Pacific and he advised me that they
were operating about ten freight trains
a day from Omaha to Kansas City.
Seventy-five per cent of this business
was either south Lound west bound
and by the Missouri Pacific operating
their south and west bound trains over
our proposed line 1t would save them
las miles between Omaha and Pueblo.
1t would save them over 100 miles be-
tween Omaha and the Gulf and in addi-
wealthy territory north and northwest
of here in direct touch with Topeka. All
of the people up there that talked to
said that they would much prefer to
come to Topeka BUT If you look at the
map you will find that all of the rail-
roads through that country with the ex-
ception of the Rock Island from Horton
to Topeka run direct into Atchison,
Leavenworth and Kansas City. I be-
lieve that when we have gathered up
all of the data on this proposition that
Lamprecht Bros. s. Co. will build 1t in
connection with the Topeka Southwest
ern. 1 am anxious to get the matter
before them while they are buying ma
terial and equipment for the Southwest
ern line as they most assuredly could
handle the two together to better adj
vantage than they could to build each
of them separate"
II Mr.. Taylor succeeds in getting
Lamprecht Bros. & Co. to build this
north line it will mean that they will
use the same terminals in Topeka as
the Southwestern and that the bonds
voted to aid the Representatives,
in acquiring terminals will help secure
this north line. The Citizens and the
Commercial clubs of all the towns
north have raised sufficient funds to |
pay for a preliminary survey to the
Shawnee county line and 1T is now up
to this county to raise the amount to
pay the expense of this survey from the
Topeka. This will not take over $3.50 |
and Mr.. Taylor says that he thinks
North Topeka alone will raise half that |
amount and steps will be taken at once |
to secure this county's share of this |
expense money" Mr.. V. /
r. Parkhurst who is chief engineer for |
the Topeka-Southweste railroad will |
make the survey. Mr.. Parkhurst ran |
the survey to Council Grove and was |
very carefully checked up by the ex |
pert, Mr.. Herbert, Lamprecht Bros. &
Co. sent here and was highly compli
mented on his work.
Mr.. Taylor says: Il hardly think that |
Lamprecht Bros. & Co. will require
their expert to come out and go over
this north line but he will be willing to
accept Mr. Parkhurst's report together
with what statistics he can furnish
from the various commercial clubs
along the proposed line. We are very
ANXIOUS to get the surveyors on this
north line as soon as possible there
g nothing that can be done on the To-
oeka- line until after the
bond election. April 2"