The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-05-07
OUR RAILROADS.
The Amendment Passed Giving rs the
Wakarusa Valley Road.
EMPoRIA ALL RIGHT

In answer 10 letter to General Lane.
urging upon him to push through the
amendment to the Kansas Railroad bill, at
this. session of Congress, giving us the ter
minus of the Wakarusa Valley road, we
have letter from him dated the 9Th of
April, stating that the amendment had pass
ed the Senate, and would pass the House.
Also the amendment extending the Neosho
Valley road from Emporia, its starting point,
via Council Grove to an intersection with the
Union Pacific road at or near Fort Riley.
Here is the bill
A BILL making an additional grant of lands
to the State of Kansas to aid in the con-
struction Of railroad and telegraph lines.
Be IL enacted 6y the Senate and House Of
Representatives Of the United States Of
America IN Congress assembled:
That there be, and hereby Is, granted to
the State Of Kansas, to aid in the construc-
ton of a railroad and telegraph line from
EmpoEia, via Council Grove, to a point near
Fort Riley, On the branch Union Pacific
railroad, in said State, every alternate Sec
ton of land designated by odd numbers for
len sections In width on each side of said
road Provided, That this grant snail be
subject to all the provisions, restrictions,
limitations and conditions, in regard to Sc
lection and location of lands and otherwise,
of an act Of Congress approved March
three, eighteen hundred and sixty three,
entitled can act for grant of lands to the
State Of Kansas, in alternate sections, TO aid
in the construction of certain railroads and
telegraphs in said State''
Sec. 2. Ind be IL further enacted, That
the branch railroad and telegraph from
Lawrence, by the valley of tie Wakarusa
river, to point on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe RAILROAD, where said road in
tersects the Neosho river" to aid in the
construction of which grant of lands was
made by the said act of third of March,
eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be
so changed as to run from Lawrence to En-
poria, and lave and receive the grant of
lands made by said act.
The amendment offered by Mr.. Lane,
mentioning points on the Neosho Valley
road, was lost, because the Senate took the
ground that if it was to the interest of the
road to run to those points, it would do so.
We think it was well enough to leave out
intermediate points, es it would make more
or less of local fight of it.
The above bill makes Emporia the most
prominent railroad point in Southern Kan
sas. 1t gives her the terminus Of the Law
renee and Wakarusa road, with good grant
of land to aid in its construction, and with
the influence CT the Union Pacific road, and
st. Louis, Kansas City, LeavenwOrth and
Lawrence, all interested in its early com
pletion. 1t makes her a connecting point
on the Neosho Valley road, which also has
good grant OF lands, and big influence
interested in its construction, Over the
Lawrence and Emporia road tie Santa Fe
business is bc.nd to be done. 1t also in
sures a road from here up the Cottonwood
Valley in the direction Of Santa Fe: All
that remains for us to do is to unite in push
Ing the matter, and bringing it before the
Missouri river towns. aud the capitalists OF
the country. TIE roads will be putt.
There can not be a doubt about that The
Lawrence and Emporia road will be the fist
one built to the Neosbo Valley.
The people interested in these railroads.
are under Obligations to Senators Lane and
Pomeroy and representative Wilder for
their earnest efforts in pushing the bill
through Congress. They have labored
faithfully for US.