Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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We Buy, Sell and Exchange
Improved, Unimproved City and
Acreage Property
THE W. C. POTTS LAND CO.
Aransas Pass Prod
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Prices are advancing rapidly/
Don’t delay investing in Aransas
Pass Property.
THE W. C. POTTS LAND f!D
Such is the Route Selected by
The Winnipeg, Salina & Gulf
Railway Company.—Work now
Going on.
The Progress has not had very
much tb say lately about the Win-
nipeg, Salina & Gulf Railway nor
has it previously made any ' dis-
play of this proposed road, which
is capitalized at $30,000,000.00
and which has recently is-
sued a prospectus and maps show
ing its terminus at Aransas Pass.
This railroad company was incor-
porated July 26, 1910, with prin-
cipal office at Salina, Kansas. It
will be readily noticed from the
date of incorporation, that this
is by no means a new venture.
Parties interested in this road in
the north have been working on
the proposition many years prior
to the date of incorporation, and
although unknown to many of
5, the entire distance
i road has been surveyed by
of first class engineers,
^one Miller, Salina, Kan.,
of the recently incor-
JVinnepeg, Salina and
7 company, states that
psposed of $30,000,000 of
London and Paris fi-
which completes all the
necessary financing for the por-
vt.|on of the road between Oklaho-
ma City and Salina,
The following is taken from a
prospectus of the road furnished
us through the courtesy of J.
Duncan, of Salina, Kansas.
The object of the Winnipeg,Sali
na & Gulf Railway is to provide
for the transportation of the ric
: roducts of the great Missouri
Valley, with already large and ra
- pidly growing population from
the Dakotas, Neb., Kansas, Ok-
lahoma and Texas, to the Gulf of
MexTCQ, by an independent new
•trunk line that will give the peo-
■ ale a direct short line to deep-
‘ <water navigation at Aransas Pass
It will be the shortest line that
can possibly be built from the
city of Winnipeg, in the province
of Manitoba, Dominion of Cani-
<ici, to the Gulf of Mexico. It
will pass through the center of
the United States—north to south
it is? 1,500 miles from Canada to
the Gulf of Mexico, and Salina is
only 700 miles from deep-water
navigation, while it is 1,500
miles to the Atlantic and 1,800
n iles to the Pacific coast; thus
the construction of this line will
shorten the distance to tide-water
at least one-half.
It will traverse the Jim River
Valley of Dakota; pass through
the great corn belt of the Blue
River Valley of Nebraska; the
Stoc,k feeders paradise of Nebras-
ka ahd Kansas; it will cut thru
the very heart of the great wheat
‘^pSlt of Kansas and Oklahoma.
many branches, a country where
the crops never fail.
There is no north and south
line of railroad -Between Salina,
Kansas, and Denver, Colorado—
a distance of more than 500 miles
and to the shipper as well as to
the traveler it affords only a
forced choice, to travel over land
by team, or, in many instanees,
travel 500 miles by rail to get
from one county seat to the other
When the Panama Canal is com
pleted it will give this line direct
connection with the markets of
the Orient and European vessels
to and from China-, Japan, and
Australia will, at a port on the
Gulf of Mexico, unload their car-
go from all foreign countries and
reload with American exports of
all kinds.
The surplus agriculturial pro-
ducts of the United States come
from the country tributary to
this line, and to give this product
an outlet by water the Govern-
ment is spending millions of dol-
lars to open additional ports on
the Gulf of Mexico. In addition \ veijts.
to the markets of Europe and the The first grand division of the
Orient it will 'give a market , to Winnipeg, Salina & Gulf Railway
the line as the first division to
be built, because it is practicially
a virgin field, suffering for want
of railroad facilities, and because
of the strong terminal connect-
ions that are offered -at each end
of the four terminals.
We have the moral and finan-
cial support, co-operation and the
friendship of the business men,
farmers and people in general
along the entire line.
The Winnipeg, Salina & Gulf
Railway will connect Omaha, Neb
its present northern terminus,with
eight trunk line railroads, viz:
Union Pacific, Chicago & North-
western ; Chicago, St. Paul, Minn-
eapolis & Omaha; Chicago Great
Westerly Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul; Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy; Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific, and Illinois Central, thus
givmg it, by traffic agreement,
rect connection with all points
Norili, East and West,
the many strong rivers, and ra-
pid streams, it will cost about $2,-
500 per mile for bridges and cul-
It will pass through as rich,
fertile and productive agricultur-
al country as can be found in
the great United States, much of
which is also noted for stock-rais-
ing, fruit, vegetables, sugar beets,
the many island countries to our
south, that will buy annually
hundreds of thousands of dollars
worth of foreign products, all of
which would be purchased from
the U. S. if the distance of
transportation were on an equal
basis. What has been bought
went first to Chicago, then to
New York, and thence abroad
and by triangle back to those
southern countries; thus travel-
ing 8,000 miles to get to a point
less than 2,000 miles from the
field of production.
The same facts apply to the pro
ducts within our own borders.
For instance: The Dakotas/Ne-
braska and Kansas are rich in
grain and cattle, but have no coal
and lumber; Oklahoma, New Mex
ico and Texas have a surplus of
coal and lumber. Thus it will be
readily seen t^at a direct short
line connecting these commodities
alone, will assure an immense in-
ter-state traffic,. as loaded ,cars
will haul both ways.
It will be the great trunk line
of the future.
A large amount of money and
several years of time have been
spent in finding the most feasible
route over which to construct this
trunk . line. The entire distance
has been surveyed by. a corps of
first-class engineers, and a por-
tion of the located survey has
been made, covering a continuous
146 miles between Salina, Kansas,
and the Kansas—Oklahoma State
line, on which we h&ve based an
estimate cost of construction and
equipment.
Data have been taken frqm of-
ficial records from, which w£ can
safely compute the physical pow-
er of the line when built. . The
entire right of way has been se-
cured, all 100 feet wid^ except at
stations and turnouts, where it, is
200 feet wide for a distance of
2640 feet; passing- tracks at all
stations will be one -half mile in
length ; freight house tracks will
be 1320 feet in length; distance
between stations will average six
miles.
The topography and geological
formation of this territory thru
which this line will pass over is
such that to secure a standard of
a maximum 6-10 of 1 per cent
ARANSAS PASS IS TO HAVE
A NATIONAL BANK SOON,
What Effect Aransas Pass’
Deep Water Will Have on San
Antonio and all of the Great
Southwest.
will include about 1080 miles of
track, and will be built between
Omaha. Nebraska, and Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, and between Sa-
lina, Kansas, and Kansas City,
Missouri, and between
The above is a cut of a map furnished the Progress by J. Duncan,
of Salina, Kansas, showing the route of -the Winnipeg, Salina &
Gulf Railway, with terminus at Aransas Pass.
JUNE TRUCK SHIPMENTS
ARE EXCEEDINGLY HEAVY
Sixteen Soli<| Carloads, and Over
50,000 Pount^g of Local Ex-
press Shipments Sent out Dur-
ing Month.
During May the shipments wer
heavy, but June was a bettpr
month.
Grapes are ripening now and
shipments will begin in earnest
next week.
grade and a maximum curvature
P
of 2 degrees it will require mov-
earth per mile, and being of a
and many other valuable farm |ng about 20,000 ciibic yards
products, ft will pass through a
country that is well watered by
the James, Missouri, Elkhorn,
~»up, Platte, Blue, Republican,
Goman, Salina, Smoky Hill, Ark
of
During the month of June six-
teen solid cars of tomatoes, pep-
pers and cantaloupes went out of
Aransas Pass, besides over 50-
000 pounds went out by local ex-
press shipments.
The low prices prevailing now
have caused the shipments to
drop off considerably during the
latter part of June, otherwise the
month’s output would have, been
Social at the Bayview.
The Woman’s Home Mission
Society of the Methodist Church
gave a social fit the Bayview Ho-
tel Monday evening for the bene-
fit of the church building fund.
A very interesting program was
rendered, consisting of ‘‘Methods
of Raising Money for the Church
Building Fund,” presented in
rhyme, by different members of
the society; a duet by Mrs. C.
Hi Porter and Miss lone Patter-
C.
San Antonio Express.
New railroads building to deep
water will still further help San
Antonio to regain and hold her
own. It will afford a one-line
rate and better service.
/But tire railroads are not, in
themselves, sufficient. San An-
tonio must ^ake advantage of the
new port. Aransas Pass, allied
with the railroads, offers the rem
edy. Vessels of the heaviest ton-
nage will soon be unloading and
loading at the extensive docks
at this deep water port. Unless
the Government foresaw the vast
possibilities of this South Texas
sea-shipping point it would never
•have appropriated the money
year after year to dredge the pas
build the jettie's and put it in
condition for use by the great
commercial steamships.
By San Antonio warehousing
and shipping all its heavy stuff
directUfrom the port, Houston wil
be fought on equal terms. The
San Antonio jobber will then be
in a position to compete for bus-
iness from Yoakum, West and
South, with a big advantage on
the Brownsville territory, be
cause Aransas Pass is half way
between Houston and Browns
ville with a corresponding rate
advantage.
And it is rates, not friendship,
that controls business. This has
been made apparent time and
time again,and most recently il-
lustrated on the - pleasant trade
visit to the Brownsville section.
The San Antonio merchants saw
what they were “up against,”
circumstances that friendly feel-
ing could not control.
But there is a dawn of a differ-
ent era. With the building of
the docks comes the selection of
locations of warehouses and it
will not be long before there are
two lines of railroad affording
quick easy and cheap transporta-
tion to and from San Antonio’s
own deep water port, and one of
these railroads, will also enter the
Rio Grande Valley in what is
almost a straight line from San
Antonio.
There is - a story^ about the un-
fortunate sleep. of Gulliver who
when lie^ awoke, found himself
bound helplessly by the Liliput-
ians. Incidents and circumstance
of Lilliputian character, apparent-
ly, have resulted in loss to San
Antonio. Now that the knots are
about to be united and San An-
tonio will come into her own it
behooves her to be wide awake.
She must be on the job! Awake
to her opportunity, with her new
railroads,her own deep water por
and (the richest territory in all of
Texas at her doors, the center of
as great an industrial develop-
ment as the Southwest has ever
witnessed, nothing can hold back
San Antonio, unrivaled, supreme,
the biggest city in the biggest
State in the Union.
Application Made for Charter.—
To have $25,000.00 Capital
Stock.—Local Men to be Con-
nected with Institution.-
An application for a charter
Avas filed Friday with the Comp-
troller of Currency at Austin, for
the First National Bank of Aran-
sas PasSj Texas, capital stock to
be $25,000.00.
L. T. Ayers, of Nashville, Tenn.,
and several prominent business
men of Aransas Bass signed the
application for the charter, and
will be connected with the insti-
tution. Officers and directors
will be chosen later when all de-
tails of stock, etc, have been dis-
posed of.
It has not been definitely de-
cided where the bank will locate,
but a building will likely be erect
ed on Commercial street, near the
post office.
TO SHIP 1500 CRATES OF
CARMON GRAPES SOON.
Oscar Blythe has Begun Market-
ing Big Crop of Delicious
Table Grapes.—Crop is Good
in This Section.
Oscai| Blythe, who ownes a nice
farm and vineyard west of town.,
was in to see us Monday and
said that he would begin shipping
grapes from his vineyard Friday.,
The grapes, which are of the Car-
mon table variety and very fine.,
were bought by wholesale mer-
chants^ at Gorpus Christi. A total
of 1500 4-basket crates were con-
tracted by Mr. Blythe. His crop
is exceptionally good this season,,
and sold well.
Building Residences.
G. T. Brannon is /having a,
nice residence erected on the boul
evard reseevation in the southern
part of town.
Dr. Hildreth is building a small
cottage on the reservation near-
er in.
A
A “Whopper.”
Decidedly the largest watermel-
on brought to town this season,
so far, is the one now on display
in the show window of the Aran-
sas Pass Realty Company. The-
melon was grown in John Hut-
to’s garden, on Commercial street,,
and weighs 77 pounds. No spec-
ial attention was given the vine
on which this melon was grown,
and several other good melons
are - now growing on the same
vine. The soil in which the mel-
on grew is of the white-sandy va-
riety.
Erecting Warehouse.
Workmen are building a large
warehouse
at the rear of the
Young &- Emery, and Warren
building to be used by the Hutto-
Mount - Tedford Hardware Co..
This concern, which will be know
as the H. M. T. Hardware Com-
pany, will move into these new
bujldings as soon as they are com-
pleted.
mixed surface formation, compos- reach northern markets, ahd the
ed of dirt, sand, shell rock and farmers are content to furnish
doubled. Truck is coming in all
over Texas, but our growers mai’jl son; a talk on Arkansas, by
good earlier in the game and sold j W. Hawkins; and a solo, by Miss)
a great deal of produce at top j gram, after which refreshments
prices. Vegatables from Aransas lone Patterson concluded the pro-
Pass were among the first to were served.
Tile evening was very much en-
rock, will cost about $5,000 per
mile for grading; and because of
joyed by all present and a nice
ansas, C imarron, Canidian, Red Kansas; and Des Moines, New
and Trinity rivers and ■ their Mexico. Wo select this part of
Ipcal markets. Many are canning;sum realized for the
flieir remaining vegatables fo j new church building.
home use and for sale to the1 ■__
wholesale houses nearby. j September 7 to 12.
proposed
Mexicans Fined. ,
During a dance at the Mexican
restaurant near the S. A. & A.
P. depot Saturday night, three
sons of the hot tamale republic
became unquiet and brandished
butcher knives in such a manner
that Marshall Barber thought
it best to interfer before a gen-
eral carving bee occured and
arrested the insuyrectors and
arrainged them before Mayor
Re-surveying Ingleside.
C. S. Corrigan, who has been
doing some engineering work at
Port O'Conner, came in Saturday
to visit his family.
Mr. Corrigan is now resurvey-
ing the Ingleside Townsite for
Burton & Danfortli.
Completes Bungalow.
Westbrook & Vaughn finish-
ed the new bungalow on Rife
street last week for Mrs. Fannie-
Black, who recently moved here
from Carthage, Mo., with her
Todd Monday, and a fine of $8.- daughter. This pretty home is a,
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Price, E. L. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1912, newspaper, July 5, 1912; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975344/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.