The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-24
Cover of old Santa Fe folder issued
in 1873.

The Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e at
the time the folder was issued was
confined to territory within Colorado,
New Mexico, Kansas and just over the
Missouri line. Eastern terminals of
the line were Pleasant Hill, Mo-,
Kansas City and Atchison. It's west
tern terminals. were Leadville, Col,
Denver and Santa Fe, n. M.
Four branch lines were operated in
Kansas as early as 1873, the folder
shows. One line operated from EN-
poria to Howard City. Two lines
started out of Florence. A northern
branch from Florence extended to Nc
Pherson. A southern short line ran
to Eldorado. The fourth branch ran
out of Newton and went south through
Wichita to the little town of Ell Paso,
where it branched again, one line run
ming through Belle PLANE, yelling
ton and Caldwell, and the other
through Winfield and Arkansas City.
Advantages of Kansas.
Regarding the advantages Kansas
had to offer homeseekers the folder
announced:
''As an agricultural state Kansas
rapidly is taking the leading place in
the union. Its development is without
parallel in the history of food-pro-
ducing states. In 1856 it ranked
twenty -fourth in agricultural products
In 1878 it stands first in wheat pro-
duct and fourth in corn, while as yet
there is but one-eighth of it's ter
ritory under cultivation.
THE population of the state in 1870
was 364, 1893; in 1878, 70S,497 and on
January 1, 1879. by estimation, $780,
| 600, or an increase of 1913 per cent
in eight years.
The state is virtually out of debt
| It's government is honestly and eco
nomically administered. No other state
| hos n e.
cational and moral interests-one-
eighteenth of all the land in the state
| being devoted to the education of its
children.
Had ESQ Newspapers
Kansas now has 4,52O school
church edifces, ALA church organi-
cations and $50 newspapers.
The wheat harvest of Kansas in
1878 yielded 32,315,35S bushels and
the corn crop aggregated 89,324,971
bushels. The total value of all crops
and other farm products of the state
for 1878 amounts to $69,67706731"
In 1873 the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway made connections
with eight stage lines in Kansas
Three stage connections were made in
Colorado and two in New Mexico.
Kansas points from which stages
operated were Usage City, EIDorado
Wichita Hutchinson, Sterling, Great
Bend, Larned, Spearville and Dodge
City Denver, C"non City and Ala
mosa were Colorado points where
stage connections were made In New
Mexico stages made connections with
the line at Las Vegas and Santa Fe
Rates Twice as High
That rates have decreased since the
issuance of the 1878 folder is evident
from announcement of excursion
rates that then were considered unus-
ually attractive. In big, blackface
type it is announced that round-trip
tickets from Kansas City to Denver,
under a special tourist rate could be
| obtained for $3S. Tourist rates now
| effective are less than half that fig
ure.
Every official whose name appeared
on the old folder has since died or
gone to another road. Among the
old railroaders who were with the
Santa Fe in 1878 were w. F. White,
general passenger and ticket agent at
Topeka; Maj. T. J. Anderson,
then general agent at Denver,
and at one time mayor of To-
peka; W. R. Peabody. general agent
at Atchison; John L. Truslow, gem
eral agent at Kansas City: w. w.
Lord, jr., travelling agent, St Louis,
Mo-; Sam B. Hynes, general agent, st.
Louis, Mo-; John Sebastian. travelling
agent, later vice president of the Rock
agent, Chicago, and C. A. Seymour
general passenger agent, New York.
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