Hello Frisco Folks, Here are some photographs of the Frisco depot in Webb City, MO. Take care, Rich Ship it on the Frisco!
Webb City, MO depot. Mines in the Center Creek Valley at Webb City, MO. 1900 from Twenty-Second Annual Report USGS.
Webb City, MO depot. With a photo a rather cool looking light with the Frisco coonskin emblem. Photographs dated 2009.
Please see the following links for trackside views of the Webb City, MO depot. http://www.tristatemodelrailroaders.com/pics/main.php?g2_itemId=37&g2_imageViewsIndex=1 The depot's agent or operator bay faces the northwest. Note the corner lights on the depot mounted on Frisco coonskin brackets. This view is looking to the northeast. This depot was located on the Joplin Branch of the Carthage Subdivision at mile post 326.0. Web City is 5.5 miles northeast of Frisco's Joplin station. After the Frisco closed the depot it was sold to a local manufacturer of industrial scales. Please see http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...ZUYOeosomFFq6VWJagzPVw&cbp=11,96.67,,0,-10.08 The address is 929 West Daugherty Street (a/k/a 231 North Madison Avenue). The building is currently occupied by Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Company Hope this helps. Thanks! Mark
From Richard Crabtree on the Frisco Rails Across Missouri Facebook group. The Frisco played a key role in the mining boom that took place in Southwest Missouri from The Joplin Area including Webb City, Carthage, Granby, Sacrcoxie and Aurora. Photo 1) We are at Webb City, Missouri at one of the mines and we can see Frisco and Memphis Road gondolas on the line around the turn of the last century. Photo 2) We have a great map showing all the lines running through the Southwest Missouri mining district around 1910. Karl Brand: There were so many mines which crossed beneath the Frisco, that the Frisco employed a Mining Engineer/ Inspector long after active mining had ceased. Here is a page from the 1979 Frisco telephone directory.
From Richard Crabtree on the Frisco Rails Across Missouri Facebook group. Here we are at the Frisco depot in Webb City, now the home of Cardinal Detecto Scale. Webb City (Webbville) was platted by John C. Webb in September 1876 and incorporated in December 1876, with a population of 700. The city was located on a portion of Webb's 200-acre farm, which he entered in February 1857. There, in 1873, Webb discovered lead while plowing. With the assistance of W. A. Daugherty, he sank the first pump-shaft in 1874. Webb then leased his land to Daugherty and G.P. Ashcraft. In 1876, the Center Creek Mining Company leased the land and began operations. Some 20 years later, 700 mines were located within the limits of Webb City and adjacent Carterville, and the district ranked first in the production of zinc ore. Webb aided the city in its material development. He donated land for a school and the first Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He built the Webb City Bank and the first hotel. The St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, aka Frisco was built to Webb City in 1879, followed by the Missouri Pacific in 1881. The population increased from 1,588 in 1880 to 9,201 in 1900. After the success of the first Webb City sheet ground mine "Yellow Dog" in the 1890s, business boomed. The 100-room Newland Hotel was built and co-educational Webb City College was established. The Webb City Mining District was prominently represented at the Chicago Columbia Exposition in 1893 and at the 1898 Omaha International Exhibit. Webb City received for its mineral display the only silver medal awarded. A.H. Rogers built a mule streetcar line from Webb City to Carterville, 1889, the predecessor of the Southwest Missouri Electric Railway, established 1893, and expanded in the 1900s to a vast inter-urban system with a power plant, car barns and an employee clubhouse at Webb City. During World War I, zinc and lead concentrate produced in the Webb City, Carterville, Prosperity District were valued at more than $18 million. Webb City's population increased to some 15,000. After the decline of mining in the postwar period, Webb City turned to diversified industrial and agricultural production. In the 1930s and during World War II, explosives were manufactured by powder plants located near Webb City. Wikipedia Photo 1) The Frisco depot in Webb City, Missouri 1920s Photo 2) Frisco depot in Webb City, Missouri blueprint. Constructed in 1914. - Missouri State University (MSU) Digital Collection. Photo 3) Frisco depot in Webb City, Missouri. May 25th 1925 Sanborn Map - Missouri University (MU) Digital Collection. Photo 4) A more current photograph of the Frisco depot in Webb City, Missouri as Cardinal Detecto Scale Company. Click here for current view. It still standing! https://www.google.com/maps/@37.1477755,-94.4744857,3a,37.5y,82.12h,91.28t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sl68D5m_UHSy4esTHeJ09Qw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
