Las Vegas optic., 1914-12-17
SANTA FE PLANS
TO GET into
SACRAMENTO
AGREEMENT is BEING PERFECT
ED WITH THE WESTERN
PACIFIC RAILWAY

San Francisco, Cal, Dec. Ill is
reported that the Western Pacific and
the Santa Fe railways have at last
entered into an agreement by which
the Santa F'e gains entrance to sacra-
mento.
The Santa Fe, according to the re-
port will buy half interest in the
Western Pacific track between Stock
ton and Sacramento, and also its ter
minal facilities at Sacramento, effec-
tive Janary 1, 1915, by which time the
Santa Fe will have complete detail
for train service.
The new arrangements will give the
Santa Fe through service from Sacra-
Imento to the east and also local
service from Sacramento to San Fran
cisco, Stockton, Los Angeles and
points south.
Horses from Kansas
The Kansas railways are rushing
horses to the ports as fast as possi-
BILE to serve in the European war.
I'VE have steady stream Of horses
to the eastern ports, TO Galveston and
New orleans and points in Canada"
u. G. Burnett, assistant general freight
agent Of the Santa Fe, said this morn
ing. There seems to be heavy de-
|mand for American horses abroad"
These horses are for the most part
recruited in the Missouri valley, Okla
homa and Texas. Kansas has sent its
full quota of horses to serve in the
armies of Europe. The horses are
concentrated at Dallas, Kansas City,
st. Paul. Denver, Omaha and in a
smaller degree in other western cities.
Here they are placed in stock cars
and sent on their way.
Gentle Kansas farm horses will
soon be transformed from tame and
domestic animals to fierce, charging
Isteeds of the British and German cav
AIRY. Few of these Jayhawker horses
win enlist in the German army.
When the war first broke out, a
Ipefoeptible increase in the movement
Iof horses was noted, The movement
at first was almost exclusively to Can
ada, perhaps on account of unfavor-
able shipping facilities on the gulf at
that time. Now a large per cent of
the war horses are going to the south
from this part of the country. The
horses from the northern states are
being rushed into Canada and those
from the middle west and eastern
states are being shipped to Newport
News.
1t is said that the horses from the
western states, sturdy, reliable and eff
|ficient animals, are more in demand
by the English cavalry officers than
the famed ones from the Kentucky
blue grass region.
Needless to state, the biggest eX-
portation of mules for war purposes
lis not from Kansas, but from Mis-
''sou1.
The Westmoreland Road
An amended petition was field in the
federal court Of Nebraska few days
ago and brings to the front again the
famous Kansas, Southern and Gulf
railway. The title Of the Gaze is w.
IF. Challis and the City of Westmore-
land, kan, VS.. o. J, Collman, J. F..
Smith, S. C. Smith and G. E. Morris.
The city sues for $4,000, alleging
that is the value of the road between
Blaine and Westmoreland, which the
defendants agreed to operate for a
certain number Of years. 1t is claim
ed the road was abandoned in 1909
This road has been the subject of
more newspaper publicity than many
roads having many times its mileage.
It has been in financial difficulties for
several years. At one time it was
thought that this 12 mile stretch Of
road would prove the beginning of a
great trunk line reaching from Yanh-
ton to the gulf coast