The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-06
VIII Spend s4s,15O,OOO for I'm.
provements and Betterments.
Plans for 1922 Issued Today By
President w. B. Storey.
MILLION IN EASTERN KANSAS
New Twin Office Building for
Topeka Not Mentioned.
Topeka's Share Is Confined 10
improvements at Shops.

improvements at Shops.
! The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fs
Railway system will spend s4s.150,0o0
for improvements and betterments.
equipments. new main line second
/ track and new branch line in 1922 as
against 100000 in 1921, according
! to a statement made today by ". E.
Storey, president.
THE program of capital eXpendi-
lures by the Santa Fe for 1922. even
tho it is far from small. is limited
primarily TO items of equipment. new
construction and additions and better
ments considered vitality necessary TO
meet the immediate needs of the ter
A riJory which it serves" President
Storey said. 1.-The prospective de-
maj nds of this territory under favor
able conditions would call for a much
more extensive program Probably
100000, 900 a year for the next three
years ought TO be spent. However.
1 such a program is not possible under
present conditions. when financing Is
still expensive. cost well above normal,
{ the labor situation attended with
more or less doubt. and the legislative
situation. so far as it affects railroads,
\ far from settled"
Twenty-Five Millions for New Work.
/ OF the 1922 expenditures, $11.750.-
; 600 will be for the completion OF work
, in hand, $4,000 900 for new work. IN
! Guiding seventy-five miles of new sec
end track in Arizona from Yampai to
Griffiths; $S,000,00O for new equip
ment and $1.40O, 600 for n new branch
4 line from Satanta, Kan. fifty-five
miles west. In the construction of the
Arizona second track there will be =
1 grade reduction from 95 feet to z5
feet ta1she mile. saving Trom 20 to. 25
per cd8 in freight train mileage.
| amounting to upwards of 100000 a
year.
Chief Items In Budget.
! Following are some of the larger
items found IN the budget:
Additional main line..............$6G82 IS G82 2.ls
Bridges. frestles and cniyerfs, I 5i3 sls
Rails and other track material.... ! 1.1O1 .sfS
Stations and office buildings. ..... 1,056.63
Additi6na Adj yaFd tracks and sdines Sssiss
! Shop machines and tools-......... 725,2S1
Assessments for public improve -.
! Widening cuts fills. etc... 4so Y,st
Signals and interlockers.......... 80, 2sS
Spend Million In Eastern Kansas.
While admitting that the figures Tor
the Eastern lines are not final, Fred
( c. Fox. general manager, says that II
has been definitely agreed TO spend
approXima tely one million dollars in
Kansas this year on lines under his
/ supervision This includes the terri
tory extending as far west as Newton.
The largest single expenditure to be
/ made in Kansas is 100000 for new
office buildings. depots and other
buildings, but except TO state that
none of them were planned for To-
peka. Fox said he could not an
! nOunce definitely where the buildings
are to be located until later. The Of
flee building will be for division plr-
poses. Two new depots are in the list.
No New office Building Here.
f. Altho wanting il badly Fox or .i3
other Santa Fe official can offer a sin
gle ray of hope for twin office build
/ ing in Topeka. this year. in fact the
mechanical department is the only ouis
that seems to have paid any attention
to Tope6a's stocking when IL came 10
passing out the plums for 1922. -Four
small buildings will be constructed IA
Topeka for the store department for
storage purposes. to cost about S15,-
600. while a large part OF the $724. .zs1
set aside for machinery and tools viii
go to the Topeka shops
The Santa Fe has been strong for
automatic signals ever since their first
successful tryout, and Kansas will
have liberal share of the 1922 appro-
priation, amounting TO approximately
$500, 600, for that purpose. From Mel
vern to Ridgeton 33.425' will be spent
for signals and interlockers; Lebo 70
Point, $60.732; Wagner to Braddock,
S46,50O; Walton to Newton. sz2. 1000.
sf5O,OOO for Bridges
The next largest expenditure IN
Kansas will be approximately $3.50. .010
Tor bridges, including new structures
and those already in course of cor
struction. In building l. new bridge
over Stranger creek, a short distance
northwest of Potter, Atehison county,
the Santa Fe will eliminate the laAt
wooden span bridge on its entire eass-
ern lines. according to Fox. This new
bridge will also permit the use Of
branch" betwc en- Atchison and Leav-
enworth- Some of the new bridges
are to be placed on branch lines in
the southern part of the state. A
new bridge across the Wakarusa be-
tween Lawrence and ottawa, was COM
pleted few days ago.
From twenty to twenty-five thou
sand dollars will be spent this year
for eighty-five motor cars for section
hands on the eastern, middle and
southern division, and an appropria-
tion of Is. 900 feet of snow fence along
branch lines in Kansas Five addf-
tional brick bunk houses for section
men and their families are to be built
this year, three Of them at Cherrygzi ie.
Strong City and Ottawa junction.
7 These houses. which are built by the
/, railroad company and furnished freq
| to its track maintenance forces, cost
| about 81. 500 each They are long one
| accommodate several families.
| Very little train equipment or new
i rolling stock will be purchased this
/ year. according to Fox. The Santa FO
l recently placed into service sixty new
| locomotives which will be sufficient to