. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ccurred, but in timethe radical measures taken by the Gov-ernment drove the Indians to their res-ervations, where they could no longerhamper the railroad or jeopardize thesafety of those who might settle theterritory along its line. Perhaps thereader may wonder why this article isnot continued and something saidabout the Union Pacific and its opera-tion after the Indian question had beensettled, in reply to which the writerwould say that he did not admire theindications for the immediate futu
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ccurred, but in timethe radical measures taken by the Gov-ernment drove the Indians to their res-ervations, where they could no longerhamper the railroad or jeopardize thesafety of those who might settle theterritory along its line. Perhaps thereader may wonder why this article isnot continued and something saidabout the Union Pacific and its opera-tion after the Indian question had beensettled, in reply to which the writerwould say that he did not admire theindications for the immediate future. It required but a few months toquite satisfy him that life on the plainswas conducive neither to comfort orsafety and instead of waiting for civ-ilization to expand over the GreatAmerican Desert he was only too gladto return to that portion of the coun-try where such already existed. Gasoline Motor unique and unusual train was runover the Kansas City, Clinton & Spring-held line last October, having on boardthe Kansas State Food and Dairy Commission, consisting of Messrs. T. E. Qui-. GASOLINE TRAIN OX THE K. C. senberry, secretary State Poultry Board;W. P. Cutler, State Food and Dairy Com-missioner; S. M. Jordan, State FarmersInstitute; Prof. F. M. Mumford, Deanof the Missouri University AgriculturalCollege; Curtis Hill, State Highway En-gineer. This train stopped at all pointsen route between Springfield and KansasCity, and short addresses were given tofarmers and business men on farming, This is the first trip of the kind, andnearly 5,000 farmers listened to the lec-tures by these specialists. The trip wa&made on gasoline motor cars furnishedby Fairbanks, Morse & Co., and not onlyproved a very interesting occasion, so faras the farmers along the line were con-cerned, but made it possible for thelecturers to time their visits to the needs^of the communities, and avoided the ne-cessity of either moving on regulartrains, which would have limited the time,or the expens
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