The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
RAILROAD NEWS.
Edwin Hawley Believed to Have
Secured Place in Orient.
Rmmnrs Of Arreamant RetHaan
RumOrs Of Agreement Between
Magnates and Pres. Stilwell
WITH FOUR BIG ROADS
The G. & o., G. q. & L. and Alton
to Compose New System.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

New York. June 10.-Edwin Haw-
ley, who has been working on the
development of transcontinental
line, has gained his outlet to the Pa
cific through the Kansas City, Mexico
& Orient railway. To finish his line
from coast to coast it now remains
only for the Hawley interests to con-
meet Cincinnati with Chicago. This.
as has been announced. will be done
by making a trunk line of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, probably through
the purchase of the Chicago, Gin
cinnati & Louisville. The HawIey
lines are hitched up with the Kansas
City, Mexico & Orient through the
Chicago & Alton.
Last week the officers of the two
roads concluded working agree
ment whereby the trackage of each
system is thrown open to the use of
the other. Hawley interests are now
represented on the Orient board by
two men, George H. Ross, vice presi-
dent of the Alton, who was elected
at the last meeting of the stockhold-
HaWley'S closest associates 1t is said,
however, that the Kansas City, Mex
leo & Orient is not looking for any
consolidation with the. Hawley lines.
Take in Other HawIey Lines.
Indirectly. the new working agree
ment will extend to the other Hawley
lines; the Glover leaf, of which the
Alton is a part the Minneapolis & ST.
Louis, the Iowa Central, and when
the Chesapeake & Ohio is connected
up, with that road also. Traffic men
predict a vast diversion of freight to
the new transcontinental route.
The western end of the Kansas
City. Mexico & Orient is at the port
of TopoIobampo on the gulf of Cal
ifornia, almost opposite the southern
extremity of the peninsula of South
ern California. This port. the new
name of which is Port 'Stilwell SO
called in honor of the roads builder,
and president, Arthur E. Stilwell, is
500 miles nearer Kansas City by the
new line than San Francisco is by
the shortest line now operated. This
shorter land haul will enable the road
TO carry freight to Kansas City at
much lower figure than any other
road has been able to quote, and if
any rate wars arise it probably will
be able to meet all competition by
reason of an amended concession, just
granted to it by the Mexican gov
eminent, which has allowed the sys-
tenn to raise its rates from 20 to 40
per cent and continue them at that
figure ninety-nine years.
The water haul of this new line
will be made by the Hamburg
American Steamship company, which
has contracted to start a Trans-Pa-
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finished. This requirement will be
met, probably, in about eighteen
months. although the larger part of
the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient,
embracing that territory between
Kansas City and San Angelo, Tex,
together with practically all the
stretch in the province of Chihuahua,
Mexico, will be in operation by Aug
ust 1.
When the new traffic arrangement
with the Hawley lines goes into
effect, as it will upon the completion
of the Orient line, the two systems
will be able to supply the Hawaiians
and the east with practically every
import which those regions re-
quire The HawIey lines, almost five
thousand miles long, tap a territory
bounded by the Atlantic. the Missouri
and Mississippi. the Great Lakes, and
the Ohio. They tap Newport News,
Washington, Cincinnati, Toledo, De-
troit, Kansas City. st. Louis Min
neapolis, Des MoineS and Peoria.
In this territory are great grain
fields, soft coal deposits, steel and
iron centers and packing houses.
Further than this, the Kansas City,
Mexico & Orient runs through the
cotton of Texas and the mines of
Mexico. Within the territory covered
directly and indirectly by this traffic
arrangement, then the needs of the
Orient can be satisfied and can be