The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-25

Not only was Dodge City the gate
way to the Panhandle of Texas in
1878. and the Santa Fe the most di-
rect route, but the road was entirely
| Free from Bad Indians and Bad
Hills according to an old time table
| folder printed in May that year and
now in possession OF a Santa Fe Off
ciaI at Topeka.
An excellent government road
from Dodge City to Camp Supply and
Fort Elliott" the folder said, makes
this the only desira BILE route to north
west Texas. The Southwestern Stage
company coaches leave Dodge City
Mondays and Thursdays for. Camp
Supply, ninety miles, fare, $1,000"
And to accommodate the tide of i'm
migrants then setting out for that por-
ton of the state, the Santa Fe an
nounced thru the folder the following
low emigrant rates to Texas. via
Dodge City: From st. Louis to Dodge
City, SIG; from Cincinnati, $24; from
Chicago, $21; from Quincy, $14.40;
from kKansas City and Atchison,
$3.50. Under a special note immi-
grants carried on express trains were
given to understand they were making
as quick time as the first-class pas
sengers. Two hundred pounds of free
baggage was allowed with every full
ticket. and if the immigrant wanted
to know anything more about the trip
he was to inquire of W. r. White, gem
eral passenger and ticket agent at
Topeka.
Must Have Been Fine.
mo Line in the West,' said the
folder, equals the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe in elegance, extent of
modern improvements and general
luxurious comforts of its Pullman
sleeping cars. The car Granada, fam
Gus from the admiration it excited at
the Centennial. being Pullman's mas
terpiece at Philadelphia, is one of the
regular line, built expressly for this
road, and all the others are its equal
in superb appointment, magnificent |
finish and perfect arrangeme
The really wonderful part about the |
sleeping car service was that there |
was actually no change of Pullman |
cars firm Missouri to the mountains. |
the folder, with passenger
cars equipped with Westinghouse air |
brakes, Miller couplers and safety |
1t was the only line with |
continuous rail, the folder said.
''Try 1t and Be Convinced"
Look Before You Leap was the
heading on another page of the folder.
THE Kansas, Colorado & New Mex
leo short line is, by all odds, the short
est, cheapest and best route to the
wonderful mining regions of LeadvilIe /
and California Gulch. This is the rea-
son that other routes have so little
to say on the subject. Try it, Try it,
and be convinced"
At that time the Santa Fe consisted
Of a line from Atchison to Topeka,
Joining here with a line from Kan
sas City to Pueblo, as compared with
its II, 900 miles. today, but let the an
cient folder tell it, as follows:
zS6 Miles Then-11 900 Now.
1.-THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
company owns and operates
L line from Kansas City and Atchison
0n the Missouri river via. Topeka, the
"a pital of Kansas, where the two lines
mite, to Pueblo, in Colorado, 636
miles from Kansas City, SIS miles from
Atchison. with branch from Newton
% Wichita, the metropolis of south
western Kansas, 81 miles; branch
Florence. to Eldorado. 80 miles. and a ,
branch from De Soto Junction toi
Hill, Mo, As miles, making a
otal of 7S6 miles of road owned and
operated by this company. The track
5 excelled by that of no other road in
he West"
The health resorts Of southern Colo
ado and New Mexico were given glar-
ng headlines in the folder. 'Tnvalids $
nd tourists 1t said, will find COM
ortable hotels along the lines of the
\. T. & g +. and d. & r. G. roads, :
where they can stop and rest II they
he superb scenery. exhilarating at s
nosphere and medicinal waters of I
outhern Colorado and New Mexico I
fer to the afflicted a sanitarium l
QNdl TO southern OaltIOrnld, and are =
cached with far less trouble and ex- I
ense, over the magnificent line of the 5
-tchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway. !.
It our very doors stand these health
living resorts giving sure relief to the
sthmatic and the consumptive." I
Go West to Get Rich
At that time Mr.. White the general n
assenger and ticket agent at Topeka. Y
Tas giving away free copies of the O
inning laws of Colorado and the I
'nited States, bound in map form for (
ocket use, and the following was
rinted in the folder to further at
-act the miner and immigrant: g
The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe .
the only direct route, being I42 Z
lilies the shortest, and twenty-four z
ours the quickest to the San Juan =
lines Eighteen seventy-seven has =
zen great strides in the development :
this wonder of the mining world 1
lining experts from all parts OF the p
'orld penetrated its mountains during NJ
1e season, and confirmed the verdict =
the intelligent miners as to the r
wealth of San Juan. For B
ines have been made rapidly, and o
aims formerly to be had for hun
reds now command many thousands "
dollars. The poor miner of ia is D
ften the capitalist of 1T. To produce c
l. il - - !