ORIENT LINE TO SAN ANGELO..
Track Laying Which Brings Kansas
City in Direct Connection
to Begin Next Week.
An order for 8,200 tons of steel rails was given yesterday by the Mexican & Orient Railroad Company. The rails are to be used in the construction of a track to connect San Angelo and Sweetwater, Tex., a distance of seventy-seven miles. Work will be begun on the track construction the first of next week.
This new line of track will bring San Angelo in direct connection with Kansas City, eliminating the necessity of going around by way of Fort Worth, Tex., and shortening the distance approximately 200 miles. It also makes a continuous line from Wichita, Kas.
San Angelo is the center of the greatest cotton country in America. It is from this section that Kansas City and midwestern markets are supplied with early vegetables and fruits.
According to Edwin Dickinson, vice president and general manager of the road, this extension is only a forerunner of future extensions which propose to connect Kansas City with the Gulf of Mexico.
