The Van Buren press., 1870-08-30
Arkansas Western Railway Company.


: ton our people against to readily takin
for granted the truth of any stories tina
|. were afoat touching the bad faith of tn
corporators of the above road, bclievin
them to be uncalled for and untrue. Al
: though Crawford County is made to par
ticipate in the resolutions of the Fayette
vile meeting, she had no part or lot il
0 the matter, and very few. if any of on
citizens, believed that the corporation
, were acting in bad faith with the people
along the line.
: We are permitted to publish the fol
lowing letter from Mr.. A. =. ROBINSON
e Chief Engineer of the Little Rock and
Fort Smith Railroad Company and one
of the Corporators of the Western Rail
way Company on the subject matter,
which speaks for itself:
LITTLE Rock AND Fr. SMITH RAILROAD,
CHIEF ENGINEER's OFFICE.
Little Rock, Ark, Aug. oath, 1870.
Messrs. j. NEAL & Co.:
GENrLEMEN-I am in receipt Of yours
of 22d inst, with a copy of the weekly
Fayetteville Democrat of the 10th, con
tanning report of Rail Road Conven-
ton, held at the Court House in Fayctte
vile on Monday, Aug. 18th, at which the
following resolutions were passed in re-
gard to the Arkansas Western Railroad /:
Whereas all efforts heretofore made by the
friends OF the Arkansas Railway Co., to in
duce the ineorporators TO comply with the
pledges made by them to the Beutonvle Con-
vention, and reiterated on repeated. occasions
since. have signally failed therefore be 1t
Resolred, That we the people OF Benton,
Washington, Crawford, and Sebastian coun-
ties cannot and will not submit to have a few
men interpose obsticles in the way Of an en-
tcrprise of such vast importance to us and
our state.
Resoired, That If the said Incorporators
still persist, after another effort, in their re-
fusal to comply with pledges so solcmnly
made. and SO honorably conlidcd in, and yet
so strangely disrcgared, we will then con-
slider ourselves at liberty to ignore their char
ter, and to take such steps toward procuring
u new one as we may deem prudent.
am entirely ignorant of the slightest
knowledge of any effort on the part of a
"few men to interpose obstacles " in the
way of this Road. Hence the final reso-
luton is all Greek to me.
The whole movement it seems to me is
an effort on the part of a few interested
individuals to create dissatisfaction in
the minds Of the people, with the Cor
porators Of the Arkansas Western Rail.
road, who are in good faith doing every
thing that devolves upon them in carry
ing out the project for which they have
obtained the charter, and very short
statement will serve to place the matter
in its true light.
At the Convention held at Bcntonville
on the 10th of June, resolutions were
passed, approving the Articles of Asso-
citation of the Arkansas Western Rail
road Company, provided they be amend
ed as follows, viz:
That said road be extended to Fort Smith,
Ark, as q terminus; that said road be COM
peted from the Missouri line to Bentoville by
the first day of July, 1872. and the entire road
be completed by the first of July, 1873, and
that there shall be freight and passenger
depot established at Bentonville, within fifty
rods of the public square, and that freight
and passenger depot be erected within one
half mile of the public square at Fayetteville
In said Washington county, provided the citi-
zens of said towns donate five acres Of land
for that purpose.
The Corporations at the earliest mo-
ment held meeting at Little Rock, at
which they adopted the proposed amend
ments. The following is the report OF
the proceedings, a copy of which was
sent to each member of the Executive
Committee appointed at the Bentonville
Convention
AT a meeting of the corporators of the Ar
kansas Western Railroad Company held at
their Office In Little Rock, July I, 1870, Mr.
Chas. G.. Scott was elected President and San
ford Robinson, Secretary.
On motion II was unanimously resolved
That the amendments to the Articles of AS
sociation of the Arkansas Western Railroad
Company proposed by the Convention held
at Bentonvillc on the 9th day of June, 1870
be adopted
That the Secretary be directed to forward a
certified copy OF this resolution to each MEM
Der of the executive committee appointed at
said convention. Adjourned.
Attest &. G.. SCoTT, Pres.
SANFORD ROBINSON, Sec.
| Az tllt ulCcllllS L WIS ltuucsttu W tuc
Corporators to cause Survey of the
route as thus fixed, to be made rs soon
as possible. l accordingly instructed
Major Pruyn, whom had then engaged
in the locations of the l.. r. and +. 5. II.
r., between Ozark and Van Buren, to
commence the Survey as soon as he
reached the latter place. Since then,
circumstances rendering it necessary that
Maj. Pruyn and party should return to
revise a part of their location near Pney,
] have organized an entirely new party,
under charge of Capt. j. ii llaney, who
leaves this city to-day with II complete
outfit and with Instructions to commence
at some proper point on the Little Rock
and Fort Smith Railroad, and make a
careful Survey Of the entire line to the
Missouri Boundary.
Capt lIaney who is one of the Corpor-
ators will be with you on this duty, pro-
bably, by the time you receive this letter,
and will be able think to convince you
that all these formidable and denunciato-
ry resolutions, passed at the Fayetteville
Convention, have not the slightest cause,
and that the charges of bad faith and vi
olation Of pledges, have not the slightest
foundation in fact.
am Very Truly, Yours,
A. p. ROBINSON.