The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-28
Big Move Made by Santa Fe on
Coast Lines.
Incorporates Arizona and Cali
fOrnia Territories.
CAPITAL S5O,OOO,OOO.
Construction of New Branches to
Begin Soon.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

San Bernardino. Cal, Dee z.-With
the filing of articles of incorporation
mere either today or tomorrow, one of
the biggest railroad moves in the his
tory of transportation in the county
VIII come to light 1t represents the
OrSa MIA ton of the California, Arizona
& Santa F'e railway, with a capitalize
ton of $50,000,0O0, and follows the pur-
chase of the main line of the Santa Fe
between Needles and Mojave, hereto
fore operated under a SO year lease from
the Southern Pacific. and consondates
all its branch lines in the southwest.
The incorporation was confirmed by
President E. P. Ripley. of the A tchison,
Topeka & Santa F'e railway at his win
ter home in Santa Barbara.
The incOrporators are local Santa FTe
officials, acting under instructions from
the Santa Fe system, the direct object
of the incorporation being to organize
leased lines of Arizona and the main
line of the Santa F'e from Needles to
MojaVe into one company, subsidiary
to the great transcOntiuental system
and to sell bonds for the construction of
other lines in southern California and
Arizona.
The Needles and Mojave division of
the Santa Fe all of which is in the
county, is the most important piece of
track included in the list of leased
lines noted in the articles of incCrpOra-
ton. The new program of expansion
of the Santa F'e will, so it is said, cen
ter about this division. when the con-
struction of the new lines begins in
southern California. In Arizona, feed
ers of the Santa F'e will be strengthen
ed and many of the isolated regions of
the great copper producing state will
be connected with the main lines
The plans of the Santa F'e are being
withheld for the present, but the mar
Vicious growth in southern California
and the southwest generally has in
Quoted the railway officials to plan for
the future through the Organiza ton of
the California, Arizona and Santa Fe
railway, for meeting the expense of the
construction of new lines through the
sale of bonds in the new corporation.
Among the leased lines of the Santa
Fe included in the new corporation are
the LOrdsburg railway, the Barnwen &
Searchlight railway, the Arizona &
California railway, Perris & Lake View
railroad, The Bradshaw Mountain rail-
way Western Arizona and the S. +.
Phoenix & Prescott railroad. These
lines traverse several of the richest
parts of Arizona and are among the
best properties controlled by that state
The Needles and Mojave division
runs from Needles on the Colorado
river to Mojave, where the Santa Fe
connects with the Southern Pacific
The Arizona and California line ex-
tends from Wickenburg, Ariz.. to Cadiz,
Cal. 100 miles cast of Needles Oh the
main line of the Santa F'e and is
commonly called the Parker cutoff,
passing through thas point on the Col
orado river.
BY placing these leases and proper
ties under one management, with head
quarters in Los Angeles, the Santa F'e
it is officially announced, will be great
" facilitated in its operation.
With the new organization complete,
the Santa Fe will soon begin the con-
struction of other lines in southern
California. One of the 5ncorpOrators
said yesterday that there We're many
to be made. The incOr-
porators of the California, Arizona &
Santa Fe railway are A G. Wells, gen
eral manager OF the Santa Fe Railway
company; l. L. IIibbard, general SUI
perintendent: J. J. Byrne, assistant
Kempt and G. Hollenhoff, the two lat
ter Of the local legal department.
The Santa F'e," said Mr.. Kemp
has so many lines in California and
Arizona that are heIu under lease
that it was thought advisable to group
them under one head
From an official source it was
learned that bonds would be issued
and that the Santa F'e would soon be-
gin the construction of new lines in
California and Arizona, reaching pro-
badly, into New Mexico, and into Mex
leo. Now that the matter of securi-
ties has been cleared up by the South
ern Pacific and the Santa F'e is free
to go ahead with the organization of
it's new subsidiary company, it is said
that bonds will be issued to reimburse
the original Santa Fe company for the
amount involved and t. go ahead with
the construction of other lines deemed
necessary for expansion.
1.-The laws of California make it
to have the capital stock
of a corporation conform with the bond
issue and that is the reason the figure
was set at $50 600. 00O,'' said President
Ripley. During the period that we
have had this property under lease we
have added some improvements, but
not many, owing to the fact that it is
not good business policy to spend mon
ey on a road to which we have not got
a clear title We know that it would
be only a matter of time until the
Southern Pacific could complete the
transfer.
Now that we own outright the
Mojave- Needles branch we will be in
4 position to do with it whatever IS
found to be proper But just what
that will be I am not in position
now to state. We own no property
along the right of way that could be
made tiIIable and of course we have +
40 irrigation projects in mind"
SANTA FvE IN NEBRASKA.