The Hutchinson Tradesman from Hutchinson, Kansas • 1

Devoted to the Commercial Interests of Central and Western Kansas and of Northern VOL, a. HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1907. NO. 2.4. BUILDING PROGRESSING.

GUESS THEY NEED IT BAD. 'i always tinder way on The big brick chimney hUL.rJ.' hziu. torn down. Inside th-e. r.o pumps have been -placed and rie- nearly ready to work.

The nc': Favorable Starts Work Off Again With the Carpenters. The Santa Fe Wants to Spend Some Money on Its Road; fovnver' -icel the machinery, is running much cf the comp.niy'D trouble has been eliminai j-. increase in power has Iqt.i for these purposes rapidly" as the company can get the work done. In his lettee to the board. President Ripley discloses the policy of the company with regard to financial questions.

For instance, where a rail is taken up and a rair of the same relative weight is substituted; the cost of new rail is taken out of the earnings of the. company. 'Where a hQavier rail is used, the' difference in the cast, -of a rail of the same relativeweight and the heavier rail is charged to the bond isue. --Where an engine is purchased to take the' place of another, tire cost is "taken from the' 'earnings of the company, but when it is to add to the equipment, it is charged tothe bond -account. Everything that adds to the facilities and equipment of the -come pose: of.

the contemplated bond isue out of a bond. isue." That is, the pur' according to the information produced. Topeka, Jan. 23. It developed at the meeting between the State board of Railroad Commissioners and'the general officials of th-9 Santa Fe that the Santa Pa's proposed bond' issue of 200 dollars' is not for that amount but that it is for 98 million dollars and that 25 million dollars of this is to beisued at.

present. It de-. veloped further that the company claims that the whc'le amount is-to be used for bettering the condiition of the road. This meeting was held at the com The miserable weather of the first two-thirds cf the month neariy stopped everything in the line of building Outside and" inside work was largely at a standstill. Since the return of warm, and open days the builcleis have gotten busy, and progress is notedven many of the projects under way.

--At th-e Santa Fe hotel wbrkMs going on 'with the foundation' laying. The" icwer courses are ready for the builders on a portion of the building, but there is' still" much do' be: fore Hugh McDonald completes his Hugh -says that the -work on the -could be started on one side of -the building within a' few days Brick is oih the ground for the installing of a large boiler in 1I13 pqwer plant of the People's Water-, Light Power Co. The has irjt yet ar: nved. All oversown the.re are resi dences under way, mostly ccttagco, work that suspei.deil' 0.1 eii houses some- time ha bi-in' newed. There are 5s ihiri houses under vay, rjv ariousf mand of the legislature.

parts of ihe city. 7 C. L. Davidson of Sedgwick offered a resolution in the house; the -No ma-eriai. ha3 et ooeA to the soda asli piarit sitJ.

but tLy-sur. if the company fishes, but that it Jveying and setting of under adoption of which required the 'state board of railroad commissioners to call a meeting with the general offi vriiriikely be a' month boicre he has I way. and coiitra-cts are tu 1- in a few days for "tire building of the oflioa the foundation completed and all the CORPORATIONS PAY. concrete is set so -it tis. ready to be' and laboratory, built, upon! "Tliis its to-, be a building and the' work of setting" the j- For the -month of January bailding I nn-prations nntiv i "no oar.

cers of the Santa Fe and investigate the need -of the proposed bond or stock isue. It was Mr. Davidson's idea that -the "company to i tsstock. The legislature appeared to fear the same thing and foundations is as much as the build-; In Reno County Their Taxes Amount to" $60,000 in a Year. The corporations have to pay.a lit- ing cf a fair sized building.

i luv- couiiiig stJcisun is 10 U'3 ony 91 me Eennett 'of Topeka -has the busiest in the way of; construction adopted the resolution. tie tax money as well as' the common. work- that the city has -ever known. General Manager J. E.

Hurley and General' Attorney- W. RJ Smith were placed on the stai.d. Mr. Hurley pre- ELECTRIC WIRE SUIT. sented" a telegram from President E.

P. Ripley and a letter from the fourtn vice president explaining the, bond is people who work for -wages or farm a piece -land. For the -year 1900' the corporations were ixed 20 in the coutny, the amount being divided among many companies, as Fe, H. 3. brancn, Santa Kinsley branch, Santa Fe, line, Misouri Pacific, Lamed extension, Hutchinson branch, Rock Island St.

sue." The evidence showed wherein for putting up this, building." -A" number, of car loads of brick for the 'walls are new on "the ground biit work" pn the walls will not be' com: menced for some time. In the meantime the Santa Fe has nearly-completed the work' -of extending its depot platforms and the' platform now' runs from, Main street nearly to Poplar, a distance approaching two new brick telegraph pfficq. in, the rai'rcad 'is 'about under roof arid the improvements in the depet will soon" be completed. On Main street the VvTa)ker block is row unjier 'war and the brick walls the "mistake concerning the amount of the isue contemplated Possession of the irr Rora-- baugh Store to Bel Determined by Court. -In the district court' on.

Fridrt morning the Water, Light Gas and the People's Light Power Co. will "contest or. "th-i posse sion of the electric, wiring stem the Rorabaugh-Wiley dry goods store. Some time 'ago the eld company pot Santa Fe has not yet decided fully whether the 98 million dohars shall be in bonds or 'stock. It so stated in its announcement.

The general idea growing out of thisv announcement was that the road intended -to issue 98 dollars in stock 98 hls, going A modern front -will be in me wiring and nas beenfiirnisli- million dollars in bonds, making "a The rocm 'vnll be cccupied- ing "current. Recently the ircw- corn- put in, by the Glascock grcods zs it pany and the store, people buiiaiag tcrnfgether in some way and arranged" ib L. Hutchinson. Arkansas River, Nickerson Telephone Company, Neola Mutual Telephone Company, Uncle Sam Oil Company, Mc-Pherson Telephone Company, $2.61 Lyons t. Telephone Company," $3.40 Burrton Telephone Company, Postal Telegraph Company, Rock-Island Cars, Santa Fe Kinsley branch Pullman Cars, $128 Santa Fe main line Pullman Missouri 'Kansas Telephone Company, "Western Union Telegraph Company, dowB on that siie.

cut the store wiring off from the old Tho company's, feed and attach the nor. 'and IW.n is showing up v.el! new company's service. The work is "iprogreELQg on fnys' for the old company filed. rictico -it. The is jxpbrrs story," while that an injunction would be asked for rnast'cf the Is up to tb-a roof.

to restrain this action. The attorneys-. ThiMjHd'rr c-urie- by the -then got together and agree i to fill total vcloscjto 200 million dollars. Mr. Ripley states tha'C the company contemplates- getting authorization for the whole.

98 million" dollars at once, but that only. 25 million lars-will be isued ar once. He said that the 25 -million dollars as well-as the remainder was to be used in the double tracking work, ballasting and" building new ana adding new guipment. According to the -infor-" mation furnished to the board, the No 1 Co. agreement cf facts ani Co.

I-et the court decile tho matter, after Ok on tne rrgument. Tjiis will be done in tha Trtcn morn'ng. old light cmpan? -claims exclusive right to and control over the expect3 to col- the co' 1 -ii -r' An architect remarked to a Jady that he had. been to see the greai nave' in' the new church. The lady replie'd: "Don't mention names; I know the man to "whom you refer." Santa Fe will use the money to build a track; between Kansas City and to rock ballast 400 miles of track in Kansas, to increase terminal facilities in Kansas, to buiia an entirely new line between Texico and Galveston a distance of four hundred riilcs, and to tay 125 new Cove? A new electric sign has been erect llui( hinori rr-on -ed at the Cilver Moon cafe.

It shows he S7nds nf In electric tuta a a rivp. no buiMing blo'1 ificaticn in Viz tiziizzt.