Unless otherwise indicated, all sources cited are from the original records and correspondence of the Agricultural Development and Publicity Department of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the Kansas State Historical Society. The Agricultural Development and Publicty Department records are found in the series RR 393-419; Santa Fe Collection records cited here but not in this series are so noted.
(1) Joe Jagger, "Railroad Reminiscences," Pipe Creek Shirts Newsletter 10 (winter 1986-87)
(2) Student's Herald, April 20, 1905, p. 381. Sources held at Kansas State University indicate that "Farmers' Institute" trains were operated as early as 1905 by the Santa Fe;Rock Island; Union Pacific; Missouri Pacific; St. Louis and San Francisco; and Grand Island railways. For schedule example see, Industrialist, February 19, 1906, p. 334. For reference to early Santa Fe "Farmers' Institute" trains see, Industrialist, March 5, 1906, p. 367, and June 9, 190, p. 583.
(3) Kansas State Agricultural College, 18th Biennial Report, 1910-1912, 45-46
(4) Dodge City Daily Globe, December 14, 1916; New York Executive Files, 1912, Santa Fe Collection, RR9.8
(5) Jarrell to Edward Chambers, February 2, 1922.
(6) H. M. Bainer, Report, April 1921.
(8) Frank Jarrell, Report, April 1917.
(9) Hill to Cruice, December 29, 1921
(10) Jarrell to Chambers, January 12, 1922
(11) Jarrell to Cruise, January 13, 1922
(12) Benjamin to Jarrell, April 21, 1922
(13) Cruice to Jarrell, memo in trip diary, May 1922
(14) Cruice to M. K. Lannon, May 2, 1922
(15) Cruice, trip diary, May 8, 1922
(16) Cruice to Chambers, May 15, 1922
(17) Sant Fe Railway Company, press release, March 18, 1922 Winfield Daily Courier, May 3, 1922.
(18) Emporia Gazette, May 11, 1922
(19) Jarrell to Chambers, April 24, 1923
(20) Jarrell to Davis, May 11, 1923. Jarrell was not the first to compare this work to a revival. Sources held by Kansas State University on the "Farmers' Institute" trains referred to those trains as "doing effective missionary work among the farmers." See Willard Scrapbook p. 840, Kansas State University, and Industrialist, April 15, 1905, p. 460.
(21) Jarrell to Umberger, May 11, 1923
(22) Gard to Jarrell, May 18, 1923
(23) Jarrell to Gard, May 21, 1923
(24) Smith to Jarrell, May 28, 1923
(25) Topeka Daily Capital, June 17, 1923; Chambers to Jarrell, June 21, 1923.
(26) Chambers to Jarrell, June 21, 1923.
(27) Umberger to Jarrell, June 1923.
(28) Jarrell to Umberger, June 27, 1923
(29) Jarrell to Chambers, April 29, 1925
(30) Chambers to Jarrell, May 22, 1925
(31) R. E. Scotts to Jarrell, June 7, 1925
(32) Jarrell to Scotts, June 12, 1925
(33) Pickard to Jarrell, July 9, 1925
(34) Jarrell to Stephens, July 18, 1925
(35) Jarrell to Purcell, July 22, 1925
(36) Jarrell to Chambers, July 26, 1925
(37) Jarrell to Chambers, August 2, 1925
(38) Porter to Jarrell, August 8, 1925
(39) New York Times, June 23, 1925; Kansas City Times, July 15, 1925
(40) Barber County Index, Medicine Lodge, July 23, 1925, Topeka Daily Capital, July 19, 21, 1925; Hutchison News, July 30, 1925.
(41) Hutchinson Herald, July 24, 25, 1925; Hutchinson News, July 27, 1925, Garden City Herald, July 3, 1925; Jarrell to Chambers, August 5, 1925.
(42) Santa Fe Bulletin January 1, 1926
(43) Chicago Evening Post September 14, 1925
(44) Large to Jarrell, July 28, 1926
(45) Howe to F.A. Lehman, July 29, 1926.
(46) Kansas Citian, August 3, 1926
(47) Capper to Storey, August 10, 1926
(48) Mohler to Jarrell, August 13, 1926
(49) Santa Fe advertising folder, 1926
(50) Catts to Bailey, May 22, 1928
(51) Ibid.
(52) E.B. Wells to Chas. Lane, July 31, 1928
(53) It was standard operating proceedure for the traffic department to be kept current on changes. Starting in 1922 and continuing into the 1940s, the Santa Fe president's office issued a weekly Condition and Operations Report on agricultural and rail conditions in all states served by the railway. These reports touched on every condition - weather, growing time, rail damage, etc. - which might affect the company. For example, the report of April 28, 1930, included such information as the continued harvesting of rice along the Gulf, the good condition of cantaloupe in Arizona, and the "excellent condition in eastern Kansas" of winter wheat.
(54) White to Jarrell, June 6, 1928
(55) Crop Report, December 1, 1929
(56) Large to A. L. Clapp (KSAC crop specialist), February 18, 1930
(57) Large to Jarrell, March 11, 1930
(58) The number of trains includes those Jarrell organized on Santa Fe lines outside Kansas.
(59) F. A. Lehman, general manager, Topeka, mentioned cancellation as a possibility. See Jarrell to Houghton, June 3, 1930
(60) Umberger to Houghton, August 19, 1930
(61) Hove to J. R. Hitchcock (general manager, Amarillo, Texas), August 4, 1930
(62) Umberger to Houghton, August 19, 1930
(63)Jarrell to Houghton, August 12, 1931
(64) Houghton to Jarrell, August 16, 1931. "Scarface Al" is a reference to Al Capone.
(65) Jarrell to Houghton, September 7, 1931
(66) Moxley to Jarrell, September 30, 1931
(67) Bledsoe to Jarrell, September 30, 1931
(68) Jarrell to Lupton, December 24, 1931.
(69) F. C. Maegley to Jarrell, May 23, 1932
(70) Keith L. Bryant, Jr. History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974) 260-263
(71) Shaw to Lehman, February 17, 1937
(72) Houghton to F. D. Farrell, June 5, 1937
(73) Large to Jarrell, June 4, 1937
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