The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-04
STANDS BY GUNS.
Governor Stubbs Replies to Tice and
Copeland in One Breath.

Governor Stubbs has given out the
following:
''E. L. Copeland, secretary and treas
urer of the Santa Fe, at Garden City
gave out a calamity statement in which
he portrays horrible example of what
will happen to railway employees in
case the railroads are not permitted to
raise their freight rate. Mr.. Copeland
says:
"A retrenchment policy would mean
the discharge of thousands of en-
ployees and the curtailment of pur-
chaseS of material amounting to mil
| lions of dollars, all of which would
work a hardship on every line of bus1-
ness
I'm view of the fact that the Santa
F'e used nearly seven millions of dol-
lars more money last year in the main
tenance of way, structures and equip
ment, than it did the previous year and
had four million dollars set aside as
surplus to use for betterments and im-
provemerts, which means so much ad-
ditional value to the capital stock of
the railroad, with a credit to surplus of
profit and loss of twenty million two
hundred thousand and the additional
surplus carried to profit and loss for
the current year ending June 80, 1910.
of three hundred and sixty-five thou
SAND ana sixteen cents, II WOulQ seem
nothing less than ridiculous to make
such statements and expect the public
| or the employees of the railroad to con-
slider them seriously.
''It seems to me, that it is time for
railroad officials to begin to understand
that their employees, and the public as
| we'll, has some little knowledge of the
| needs of a business organization as well
as railroad officials. And this statement
from Mr.. Copeland which is nothing
| more nor less than a political scare
, crow made to control the votes of rail-
| road employees in Kansas, is unworthy
of him, and the high Office which he
| holds
Superintendent Tice also stated that
the Santa Fe standard amount of bal
| last used under the track was 3,740
| cubic yards which he figured at $1.35
| to $1.4O per cubic yard. The late gen.
eral manager, J. E. Hurley, made
sworn statement before the interstate
commerce commission that the Santa
/ Fe used three classes of ballast, one
| 2400 yards per miles another $500 and
under the heaviest traffic on the main
line was used $500 yards per mile, which
| cost 81 per yard in the track. Mr.. Tice
! had better explain wherein General
| Manager Hurley was mistaken when he
| made this statement Mr.. Tice under
takes to give the impression that the
| Santa Fe lines have 5000 ties per mile
in their line and that these ties cost
l73 cents to 81 each, not including cost
| of transportation.
"In the LOO miles of branch lines on
the Santa Fe it is my judgment the ties
do not exceed $500 ties to the mile, anG
are not worth $1,000 per mile. In the
main line most of the Santa Fe ties,
insofar as 1 know, are soft ties and
where the line has been rebuilt the tie
has been treated and the cost is about
20 cents per tie.
my estimate on ties is very much
build the Santa Fe or any other line
of railroad in Kansas. 1 insist that il
the Santa Fe wants the people of Kan
sas to know the truth, that they show
the actual bills which have been paid
by that company for material, grading,
| rails, ties engines, cars, etc. That is
all we ask and that we have a right to
demand from the railroads in Kansas -