White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-06-27
The Railroad, and Hts Import


TY.e Railroad, and Hts Import.
ance.
The petitions asking the Comfy Board
to submit the proposition for subscribing
500, 600 stock in the Atchison and Ne
brsska City Rsilroad. to the voters Of the
County, has not been circulated as ener-
gstic.lly as it should have been. The
petitiou should have been submitted to
the Board, at its July meeting. but we
fear that it has not yet received enough
names to justify. We also hear OF jsal.
ousies and rivslries ss to points on the
route. One thing is pretty sure; the
road will not be located, until subscrip-
ton 10 made; and after it is made. the
County becomes . stockholder, and has Q
voics in the location. So that. il the
thing is qusrrelled and fought over until
the subscription fails. the entire County
will lose the road. The Hiswstbs SEN
tinel is already advocating the location
of the road through that County. leaving
this County entirely out. As to that be-
ing the most practicable route. and the only
one by which County aid can be received
10 Nebrasks, it is simply talk. If Doni-
phsn County desires the road, and shows
it by her works. Brown County will not
get it; but il we refuse to aid it, the
Company will undoubtedly seek aid else
where.
Probably very few persons have con-
sidered what sn advantage the building
OF that road would be to this County.
and the railroad connections it would give
them, by means of roads already built.
sud those certsin to be built-some ol
them before this can be. The road will
be completed from Lesvsnworth to Atch-
ison. long before ours is completed to the
centre of this County. That would give
us direct communication, without change
Of cars. with Leavenworth, Kansas City.
and st. Louis. From Leavenworth,
there is direct communication with Law
renee and Topeka. and with all points on
the Pacific Railroad, which will extend
to Denver. and on to California. A Wig
orous movement is making for road from
Atchison to Lawrence. by way OF Os.
kslooss. which would m Ike the commu-
nication between here and Lawrence al
most direct. The Leavenworth. Law.
renee and Galveston Railroad is q fixed
fact. and is already being pushed forward.
We would then be in almost direct COM
municatior with the Gulf Of Mexico. On
the north. we would have connections
with the roads to Chicago. through Iowa.
making that much the nearest route to
Che last named city.
A majority of the roads named above,
will be built as soon as ours. even il We
make the subscription at once. We now
seem to be separated from the rest of the
world. with scarcely any means of com
municstion. By means of this one road
through. the centre of the County, we
would at once become united with every
part of the Union. by a constant, easy and
speedy channel Of communication. Bus
insss could be transacted rapidly. at all
seasons. and we would feel as if we lived
in different and better country. Our
County. which only needs this induce,
ment, would gil up more rapidly than
any part ofthe State is now doing. for its
natural advantages are superior to any
other County in the State and we would
no longer have to complain that the emf.
grafton was passing by Us. These are
advantages worth an effort to secure, and
such as we cannot afford to lose by
wrsngling over remote and uuimportant
contingencies.