The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-14
THE HOLDEN ROAD.

EDIToR NEWS I'm q recent issue OF
the Commonwealth, find the follow
ing extract from q communication from
Americas, upon which, with your leave,
/ wish to mako few comments:
Emporia will no doubt endeavor TO ''see 70
the building OF that read )" and her policy in
the past toward the II. X. & 7. company (the
most powerful railroad company in the coun-
try) has been such As to render any fayorl
from that company just about out Of the CUES
ton. Having studiously mensced this great
company from the beginning, by constantly
belittling the road and Its oficers, and by en-
deaVoring 70 destroy public confidence In the
company, while at the same time she has pet
ted and sugar-pIummed the A. T. q 8. Fe., il
Is hardly to be expected that the former CON-
pAny will go eight or ten miles out OF Its
course with the Holden road, 70 favor that
town-especiallV when franchises can be OBJ
tanned between Americas and the north line
NJ Fuller county, in the Walnut valley,
EIupOria TO the same point not = dollar can be
lad. AmerIcus will certainly vote the bonds
nd we shall soon know what town will get
Ne road.
AMERIcUs, JGly7.
hope that Americas, and all other
places in this, and other counties, will
get as many railroads as they can hon.
estly. But our neighbors will surely
reckon without their host, if they ex-
pect "favors' from railroad company,
will be purchased by such silly talk as
this. 1t is news to me that EmpOria
has ever "menaced" or Esugar-plum-
med" any body or any company. 1t may
be true that one or two persons conclu-
ded they could "make more money" by
working against, rather than for, rail-
road company. But take it that the
people of Emporia have never sought
to "belittle" any road or its officers. 1t
is very well settled fact that there
will be railroad running from Ottawa
to Emporia, within the next twelve
months, and thence down the length OF
the Walnut Valley, at an early day. Ii
the NJ. X. i T. Co. can see it to be to
their interest to build it, and will do so
on as favorable terms as other cOmpan-
les, should be glad to have them do it,
because of the extraordinary energy
they display in the building of roads.
But Emporla does not expect any "fa-
vors" from this, or any other company.
If the N. X. & T. Co. wish merely to
form junction with their present road
anywhere in this vicinity, they can do
so with .Jorty-tG0O miles Of new road
from Ottawa, over one of the very best
routes in the State. If they desire to
extend the line southwest, they can
reach Eldorado in JUty:fowr mites from
here, by an excellent route, following
vallies all the way, with the exception
of one short, low divide. If there is
any shorter route from Ottawa into the
Walnut Valley than the one indicated,
and if that shorter route is viG Ameri-
Gus and Cottonwood Falls, then 1 am
prepared to believe that the circumfer-
euce of Q circle Is less than its diameter.
Il may be that railroad company can
be fouAd to build . semi-circular road,
thirty uailes in length, through the
toughest part Of onr county, for the
purpose Of stunning Emporia, and Sc
uring $25, 900 in the bonds Of Americas
township.
It is q well known fact that Butler,
CowleY and Sedgwick counties prefer
that their first railroad should start from
here, for the obvious reason that at this
point they secure the benefit of compe-
ting lines which they can secure no
where else.
do not know the exact amount of
franchises that can be secured by the
route have mentioned, but it is fair to
presume that at least as much can be Sc
cured as by any other, while the first
cOst of constructing the line would be
moro than SOC, 900 less than by the one
by Cur Americas friend.
E. p. BANCROFT,