The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-01
Half Million Dollars Spent in
Improvements.
PAY ROLL is S3,1SO,OOO
Big Increase in Wages Paid to
City Employees.
What Santa Fe Has Contributed
to Topeka Prosperity.

More than $50 employees have been
added to the working forces of the
Santa Fe in Topeka in the last fiscal
year. The pay roll has been increased
by nearly a half million dollars and
100000 has been spent in improve
ments in this time
Not since the shops were built here
has the Santa Fe made such extern
sions to their interests. The road has
turned into Topeka for wages in the
last fiscal year S3,1S0,000 This is the
greatest sum paid out for labor in the
history of the city.
At this time one-fourteenth of the
pay roll of the entire Santa Fe sys-
tenn of II 900 miles remains in Topeka.
One-half of the entire force of general
office clerks on the system reside in
Topeka. Nearly one-halt oe the entire
shop force of the Atchisen, Topeka &
Santa Fe are employed in this city.
In the fiscal year which ended last
night the monthly pay roll in Topeka
amounted to $265,0O0. OF this amount,
$4,000 a month was paid to general
office employees and $175. 900 a month
to employees of the shops This totals
to S31SO, 600 annually, or half mil
lion more than was paid into the city
last year.
The number of employees in the
general offices now number 1880. This
is a gain of $50 over last year. In
the shops $500 men are now work
ing, making an increase of 800 in the
last fiscal year. This totals $50 in the
year It means, according to census
figures, an addition of 1900 to the
city. The total number OF Santa re
employees in Topeka, $500.
In Kansas alone the Santa Fe en-
ploys more than 10000 men. 1t will
be seen that Topeka has nearly one
fourth of the employees of the whole
state. In Kansas the Santa Fe pays
the employees in wages $11,50O,OOO
and the taxes amount to considerably
more than a million and quarter an
with the extension policy in the
shops where freight cars, locomotives
and passenger coaches will be built,
with the possibility of a new passenger
station, with the probability of max
ing this city a much larger official
HEADQUARTERS, Topeka has a bright fu-
ture mapped out by the Santa Fe.
General officers of the Santa Fe do
not deny that with the new History
general office building and with the
extra room in this structure, it means
that clerical forces from smaller ter
uinals will be transferred to this city.
1t is admitted that with all the work
ing forces centering in one city the
work is distributed more easily and
more economically.
With the constant encouragement
from the Commercial club and the
support of the business men of the
CITY. the Santa Fe will make extern
sions at all times in Topeka. 1t is es-
timated that 1900 people in Topeka
are directly dependent upon the Santa
Fe-and 10000 more are here as di-
rect result of the s3,1SO.O00 pay roll
that comes in every year
The Santa Fe is building up its won
derful Office and shop plants in To-
peka every year. Every season new
buildings are added and the head
quarters are made more substantial.
What is ahead for this city--not even
the officials can guess. But no one
denies that Topeka is due to become
the greatest shop and official center in
the country.