The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-03-22
|GOING SOUTH IN
MIGHTY EARNEST
Railroad King Believes Land
Of Promise Is Now South
Mexico


tf3JNiAAN 'HhtAtf AihNnt
lsl paso. Texas, March AZ Follow.
liz 4 disptch sent from New York
b. The World. The 18Th. comes G.
TRY from Mexico. 10 effect tAat n
II, Hartman and lis agents have se
erred aluahle concessions on the west
Mexican ccast line. crossing tho va
qul country and Is far south as Cul
ncan, hundreds Of miles below HE
Orient outlet.
II IS known that Mr. Hartman and
associates have long been cOnvinc
I'd The richest and Birongest undevel-
oped railroad pisneer domain nes on
The west coast and he at q banquet.
once declared The Huntington lines
wOpla some day reach CoahnayAna,
tie coast city Of colima.
The Mexican government has or,er.
ed va.uahle concessions to railroad
builders fr a line which would ex.
tend almost due east from Acapulco
or southeast TO Santa Cruz, The PACK
Hc coast terminal Of the cross sall
way line whlcn runs between the
two seas, and which is, by lhe way,
one 0f the richest paying lines oil
railroad II The wcr.d
10 extend from Soulhern paclnc
west coast terminal % the narrow Isl
lhmus which separates the two greal
bodies OF water ID not as FAR as from
Denver 70 Sacramento. and engineers
melntain the rou0bed would be eas.
isr constructed than any other p.int
on tAe North Amarieln continent, ass
the slope from The siarfe Malra noun
teins to tse sea Is. III almost al OF
the second rise tahle.laud backbone,
magnesia sock and would compare
witA the Denver & Rio Gmnde tracks,
between pueblo ana Denver for solid
lty Of tr ckage and small cost OF
maintenance efter being plared.
che World dispatch, unleh ars
aroused all southwestern railroad
points to unusual activities follows.
Hsrriman Active
E Il Hartman rasilea3ly hilllnE
through iha Southwest. astanslaly ln
selrch Of resi- and dealih. Is never
Tout Of reach 4 certain trUai6G aubor
llnaiea, who are fealIzlas laf lim a
lrpamed ai project which bids 'air
i 20 rank with iAe most ambitious rail.
road plans ever conceived M iiar
i riman #as never buster 'n BITS nee
/, laea he ss today Is prOWat ienlul
" g slury igOm les angeles @ lle
eject That AZ soalempeles retiring
u0m aetlve business contains ihe
lstulemeut that he expects "a continue
/ IA thp harness several years
Shreva men who have noted the
i rapid extension of the Southern PA.
cillc down alnng iae western coast 4
MeynN have been making enquiries,
They are convinced that NJ Il linrrt
man Aas started Tellroad llin that
/ aili, within few yaays by the time
ihe pauama oinal Is finished xient
Hin an unbroken line from Nasr,es.
on tho MexlchNArlgena border down
ihc Pacific coast through Nicaragua
and Costa Rica to the city 6f paBl.
ma and there connect With The Pan.
anna railroad which parallels the Pan
anna canal over 70 Colon
The Hartman extension into Mex.
leo already has completed mere than
zoo Mules, A line 800 Miles tong Is
now under construction and the work
( lE bolne pushed Within q short Time
the line will De finished 10 enadala'
! lara
From Guadllaiara to Sallng Crug Is
virgin county From aalina Cruz
there Is already under construction
a railway line 10 The GuatemaIan bor-
der, which Mr. Hartman has acqulr.
e, or csn easily absorb And from
thc Gnatemalan border down e Pan.
anna there remains only about 500
miles Of actual railway construction
work 70 be done to evolve complete
system
The Central American repnbllcs
have built, or TIRE construcilnA eal.
road ilnea Of their own . eonblne
these into system By which The Iar.
rlnan interests could have trunk
llne from Panama up into Mexico
w0ud Be a simple matter and II Is
believed that the combination already
Is under way