The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-29
Santa Fe Directors Authorize
the Sale OF $43,6S 900.
To Enlarge Capacity of Lines
Now in Operation.
DOUBLE TRACK PLANS
This Is Believed to Be a Part
of 1t.
Automatic Block Signal Will
Also Be Added.

New York. March 2S.-The directors
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway today authorized 'an issue of
$436S6,000 50-year per cent converti-
Bile bonds to enlarge the capacity of
the lines now in operation.
The local officials of the Atchison.
Topeka & Santa Fee have long been
aware of the mammoth improvements
contemplated by the directors of the
Santa Fe and bY the head officials of
the system. Not until within the last
year have the improvements been con-
coded to be under plan and advise
nent. Soon after an article appeared
in the State Journal a few months ago
which stated that the Santa F'e was
planning TO double track from Chicago
to Los angeles. the officials of the road
admitted this to be true for the first
time and ever since then active work
has been planned.
Following this 43 million dollar bond
Issue the officials expect all of the
plans to be made public and the work
tc be taken up with increased vigor.
1t is customary for railroads to plan
extensions and new work and authorize
the issue of the bonds afterwards and
the bond issue notice from New York
today is another matter of this kind.
The first thing the Santa Fe will do
is to complete the double track from
Chicago to Los Angeles. This work has
been done by jerks all along the line
at heavy traffic points have been con-
nected by the double track.
The connections have grown SO num-
crous that a bond issue of this kind
is supposed to be for the general con-
nection of these short stretches At
this time the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe operates over 5000 miles of track
and is one of the largest railway sys-
TENS in the world. TO improve their
unsurpassed service between Chicago
g, ~ bn
work will be con- pleted.
The automatic block signal system
is also one of the plans of the Santa
Fee At this time the Santa F'e oper-
ates about 1000 miles of block sig
nails and with the new lines the blocks
will follow as a means of safety and
better and quicker time between the
river and the coast When the report
states that the company intends to en-
large the capacity of it's lines it means
the double track connections, the block
signals and the new telephone system
that is becoming general over the lines
at this time.
With the general enlargement of the
operating capacity it y is expected. of
course, that Topeka will share in the
general prosperity of the road. The
Santa Fe has grown unusually pros
porous during the last few years and
its traffic has opened up the eyes of
the other roads from the east to. the
west. With the prosperity Of the Santa
Fe4 comes the prosperity of Topeka
and, although double tracking, block
and telephone installations
will not affect Topeka at once, as To-
peka as all of these things, increased
help and assistance in all departments
will be necessary.
The Santa Fe has under course of
construction over a half million dol
lars worth of improvements in To-
peka at this time and there can be
seen reason for such a mammoth bond
issue.