The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-25
A few DAYS MORE
Short. Time Left to Close Up
Railroad Proposition.
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: Meeting Will Be Held in Topeka
ar Monday.
OUTSIDERS COMING.
Bankers and Business Men From
Council Grove and Elsewhere.
What the Line Means to Them
and Topeka.
OUTSIDERS COMING.

A meeting of the board of directors
OF the Topeka northwestern Railway
Co, will be held at the Commercial
club rooms at p. m. Monday even-
ing, July 27th. All of the out of town
directors are expected to be at this
meeting and with them will come the
leading business men and bankers of
Council Grove, Eskridge and Dover
and the prominent farmers living
along the line of the proposed road
who are vitality interested i'm securing
communication with Topeka and want
the road built. These people need a
railroad to ship their. products to
market and with the proceeds patron
lie the business houses of Topeka, an
opportunity of which they are now
barred on account of poor transporta-
ton facilities. The Topeka southwest
ern is chartered from Topeka to Ma
rion and the agreement with the pres
, ent bankers is to finance it as far as
Council Grove. 1t will be an impor-
tant feeder to Topeka from the south
west, from which direction the vol
ume of Kansas business naturally
flows. Topeka man said of the pro-
position today:
I'm this particular instance nearly
all the business fro mthe above ter
ritory goes to other markets on ac-
count of poor railroad accommoda-
lions from Council Grove and Esk-
ridge and inadequate transportation
facilities from the balance of the line.
The country between Topeka and
Council Grove through which the
Southwestern is located is rich in va
rious products, of which gener->l
farming and stock raising are the
leaders. 1t is a territory about fifty
five years old. well populated and a
very productive section of the coun-
try.
THE proposed route of the Topeka
Southwestern is a natural one which
all engineers seeking a practical rail-
road survey have selected by reasons
of its natural advantage other rail-
road companies. including the Santa
Fe and Rock Island. have surveyed
this same route. but no railroad ever
materialized. probably because the
proper support and inducements were
not forthcoming from those who are
TO reap the benefits of a new railroad
through this territory.
"A mistaken impression seems to
prevail in the minds of the ordinary
citizen living in a community needing
railroad facilities in regard to rail
road building. without Investigating
the enormous outlay of capital they
seem to take it for granted that If
the bankers and capitalists want TO
build a railroad let them go ahead
and build it without any local assist
ance-.to- begin with. No railroad of
this character has ever been built in
this way in this country. The people
who take it. for granted the road is
coming their way anyhow, without
any assistance or local encourage
ment, will invariably be without rail-
road facilities. The people living in
country needing a railroad as badly
as the Southwestern is needed should
offer the proper inducements and lend
their encoura cement if they expect to
see it brought to a successful climax.
1.-THE Topeka-Southweste Railway
company is a Kansas organization.