The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-05
After Building 100 Miles Road
in Spite of State Opposition.
THE EMPORIA STOCK YARDS
Santa Fe Has Taken Them
Over and VIII Improve Them.
Denver & Rio Grande and the
Shippers Problem.

mission, in which he paid his respects
to those laws of Texas which in their
application are exerting a bad effect
upon railway construction in that state.
But says the Ell Paso Times in COM
4 menting, President Ripley points
proudly to the fact that he has just
completed 100 miles of new trackage in
Texas, in spite of the hindrance he
finds to railway construction"
President Ripley doubtless believes
in making the best of any situation.
like the young man who showed ur
for work one morning with a black
eye. Just the result of a lovers quar-
rel he explained.
You don't mean to say that Miss
Melinda did all that to your said a
friend in surprise.
NO" replied the young man. II
was her other lover"
The Times admits that there is much
truth in what President Ripley says
about the restraints upon railway
building in Texas, but insists that
these restraints are not insuperaole
He urges President Ripley to give
Texas further consideration. President
Ripley" says the Times, lis a great
railway builder and the Santa Fe
system under his management has be-
come one of the greatest railway syS-
TENS of the country-only needing a
little more rounding out and connect
ing up to become one of the greatest
west.
.'One of the greatest strategic moves
that could be made by the Santa Fe
system at this time in the entire SOUTH.
west would be the. building OF con-
Meeting line between Sterling City and
Pecos, Tex, together with the con-
struction of another connecting line
at Or near Artesia. n. M. The filling
in of these two gaps would give the
Santa Fe short line to the gull
from FL Paso, the greatest railway
terminal point in the southwest. 1t
would put the Santa Fe in the run
ming for the business from this sec
ton to the gulf and vice versa, that
would place it in an absolutely COM
manding position, and it would cause
such a turn of public sentiment i'll
favor of the Santa Fe system as
would make the expenditure of the
money involved, a wise investment.
The santa Fe has taken over the
active management of its stoekyards
at Emporia. For several years the
yards have been managed by pri-
vate concern. Some improvements
will be made at once to keep the. yards
up to the Santa F'e standard. Most of
west is unloaded at Emporia for feed
and water. New yards We're con-
structed at Emporia two years agoil
at cost of 100000.
f. N. wadleigh, general passenger
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande |
Railway company is giving publicity |
to the following communication lately |
received from an extensive shipper 20
Gated on his line. The communication |
follows:
rs there a more important calling |
than that of a railroad conductor? |
Is there anything more helpful to the |
nation than the building of railroad; |
opening up a virgin territory; develop
ing a new country; making farm lands |
advance in value from SIS TO $50 an
acre; forcing new ones to spring up
where happy, healthy school children |
greet US; witnessing the division into
farms of great territories heretofore |
devoted to ranching?
1--WE have been able to watch the |
young men, with a few hundred dol
lars venture forth into a virgin ter |
ritory, soon becoming prosperous mer-
chants or successful business men and
to witness the growth of newly risen /
towns to 5000 or 5000 inhabitants,I
with schools and prosperous business
esta blishmentS-
1T is given to but few to realize
the great satisfaction that comes TO
railroad builders, officials, stockhold-
ers and associates, who know they are
bringing growth, strength and wealth,
not alone to the individual, but to the
nation.
Notwithstanding the great bene-
fits that railroads bring to the coun-
trv. the railroads today are struggling
for their very existence.
ut is time for the people of Amer
ica To resent the attacks that are being
made on railroads. and efforts that
are being made to reduce tariff rates
now that labor demands higher
wage, and cost of material is adj
saThe general discrediting of railroad
Investments by state and federal officials
INST stop for on the success of railroads
h11SinHG7 world depends,
There can be no national welfare until
aiIroads prosper. In order that the rail-
dads NAV prosper, millions of dollars are
coded for extension and betterment. |
on fidence must be established money
or development cannot be secured
THE failure of late efforts OF American
aIannitv I understand that the New
TorIS CentraFs pay roll shows an annual
ncrease of S. COO 900 and that of the Eric
bout 81 100000
LAS The matter appears to me the gov |
rnment was willing to allow an increase
n traffic rates to OFFSET the increase in
he shippers The rate increase was en-
oined and afterwards referred to the in
erstate commerce commission
II do not believe that it really was the
hippers who objected but the secretaries
+ various commercial clubs, who saw an ,
unusual opportunity for pig noise,
hey were employed to watch railroads, |
nd realized that here was a chance they
must not foregO.
Nearly all railroads need to procure '
unds for development by additional Is s
ueS of securities; the wonderful growth {
f business in the United States demands
Extensions and Improvements. Stop rail- :
Dad development. and you paralyze the
wheels of progress Part Of the money
nent is now being used for payment IT
increased wages; therefore many extern
ions and improvements are postponed.
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