Albuquerque morning journal., 1920-11-29
HIGH OFFICIALS
Of ORIENT ROAD
TO VISIT MEXICO
Will Attend the Inaugural
ton of General 0bregon
and Then Study Plans for
Completing the System.
tBy The Associated press)


San Angelo, Texas, Nov. 2S.---The
inauguration IF Alyaro Obreg0n az
president of Mexico on December
/, is to be made the occasion of n
trip TO Mexico by hish officials and
stockholders of the Kansas City.
Mexico and Orient abroad for the
purpose of obtaining data upon
which to base plans for the early
completion Of the system as origi-
nally conceived by Arthur T. Still
we'll.
The party left Kansas City sun
day, November 81, passing through
San Angelo the following evening.
After spending a week in Mexico
City and attending the Inaugural
ton of President -elect Obregon,
the party will return to Chihuahua
City and make a survey of the Ori-
ent line of 1874 miles which ex-
tends north and southwest from
that point. This division, when
connected at Preside, on the Rio
Grande, with an extension from
Alpine, Texas, will form one of the
Orient's lines into Mexico.
An extension southwestWard
from Chihuahua City will carry the
road across the mountain to Topo-
lobampo, a port on the Pacific
ocean. A link in this system reach
ing from Topolobampo into the in
terror already Is in operation. 1t
will be the second piece of orien,
property to be inspected, the party
going to the west coast via El Paso,
Tucson, Arizona, and through the
Nogales gateway to the San Bias
junction of the Orient.s Pacific
division.
Officials OF the road, and Presi-
dent w. Il. Kemper in particular,
are confident that Ohregon will es-
tablish u stable government in
Mexico, which will give assistance
to the Orient in completing its con-
tinental line. The Mexican gov
ernment already has authorized the
extension of the MeXican Interna-
tionale northward from Allende, in
the state of Coahuila, to Piedras
Negras, opposite Del Rio, Texas,
and citizens of Del Rio and Brew
ster county are raising a $4,000
bonus to provide for the construc-
tion Of the road into that town, on
the Southern Pacific,
1t is still the Orients intention
to extend is mainline from San
Angelo to Del Rio, a distance of 40
miles, in order to obtain through
connection between Kansas CITY
and Mexico City, despite the fact
that the completed grade between
San Angelo and Sonora, sutton
county, point on the proposed
line. has reverted to the citizens of
Tom Green, Schleicher and sutton
counties through the Orients fall
ure to comply with its contracts.
Notable among the members of
President Kemper's party visiting
Mexico are. Sir Joseph Braith-
waite, of London, the largest in
.yestor in the Orient, and the Off
cial representative of the English
and Holland stockholders; Walter
S. Dickey, of Kansas City, clay
manufacturer and president of the
Missouri River Navigation COM
pany; C. @. Maggenheimer, of Los
Angeles, president Of the Southern
California electric railway; George
Theis, of Wichita, Kansas, electric
railway president, cattle baron and
oil operator; Judge John G. Pol
lock, of Kansas City United States
Judge for the district of Kansas;
Il. w. Zea, Kansas City ranchman;
Judge Haff, of Mexico city, counsel
to W. #. Kempar as receiver for the
Oklahoma and Kansas division OF
the Orient and general counsel of
the Orient's Mexican lines; Clifford
Histead, Of Kansas City, general
solicitor of the orient; DR.. Burris
Jenkins, Kansas City publisher,
who nominated William McAdoo
for the presidency at the last dem
ocratic convention; Ralph Stour,
Kansas City editor; State Senator
]. j. Strickland, of Eastland, Texas,
and Houston Hart, publisher OF San
Angelo, Texas.
Senator Strickland will be Gov
ernor Hobby's official representa-
tive at Obregon's inauguration.