The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-10-08
rHE RA1LRoAD QUESTION.
The Intereass Of EmlpOrIn and
she AOuGhVVesa adeASfeal.

u
she AOaGhVVesa adenSfeal.
The railroad correspondence
which we published last week lie
and suggestive tn all
our citizens, and to the citizens of
Greenwood, Butler, COwley and
Sumner counties. 1t is agreed that
these counties must and shall have
. railroad. The railroad which
they can get the quickest and the
and which after they do
get it, will insure them the lowest
freights and fares, is the kind Of
road that they want.
A narrow gauge from Emporia
to be eventually extended 10 Kan
sas City, there making connection
with the narrow gauge from that
point to st. Louis, and thus giving
Arkansas City, Eldorado, Enporia,
and all other stations on its route,
the sharpest kind of through compe-
tition to the east with the wide
gauge railroads sis the way out"
This is the plan which we believe
the great majority of our citizens
have concluded is the most practice.
BILE and advantageous, and whicA
The News, and Real Estate Register,
have been urging, and which Col.
Plumb has very happily sketched in
his letter to the parties who are ex.
tending the narrow gauge road from
Kansas City to St. Louis.
The Kansas City company, natur.
ally enough, replies to Col. Plumb'i
suggestions, by iniimating that il
would prefer to build from Kansas
City to Emporia first. 1t is, rs W.
say, quite natural that the Kansa'
City company should prefer the lat
ter plan, and we think it very inn
probable that they will take an!
other.
But the Southwest cannot afford Il
wait. If it can get narrow gaug,
road to Emporia, it reaches TIVE
roads here running east. and j
measurAbly relieved, and cOul'
then get along until the Kansa
City narrow gauge stretches out t
Emporia. 1t has immense crop
that it cannot hold, aud yet cannO
get a living price for until it gets
railroad.
Neither can Emporia afford to in
sist upon the Southwest waiting, be
cause there are various project
from other points tor running
road in there. In fact, we have n
doubt that the A. Il. Il s. F. wit
its usual shrewdness, has PROPOSE
tions all cut and dried, for bOb-tai
roads down the south fork of III
Cottonwood and the Walnut, O
down the Whitewater and Walnu
or down the Arkansas, to be pu
before the people of Butler an
. Sumner aud COwley counties jul
as soon as any bona fide propose
T ton for road from Emporia is al
ranged for. The A. L. s. S. I
proposes to keep out railroad CON
petition, rs a matter of course, an
il it hasn't got half a dozen takin
propositions all ready to throw OF
on q days notice, we entirely mii
. apprehend its able and wide-awak
management. IL would rattle
build a bob-tail than zee q compel
, ing railroad, and above all nal
row gauge road, get into thOs
= counties, and therefore EmpOri
, can't afford to daily longer wit
this matter.
i The policy of this city an
county, and of all Southwest KaI
sas, is to go to work harmoniousl
now, to put narrow gauge roa
, from here to Arkansas City. Oh
p ganize local company, on q bias
, that can accomplish the undertal
I ing, and when the road is in oper'
g ton here, the Kansas City road wi
not be slow to push itself to tn
point, and thus secure continuOI
4 line from st. Louis to Arkans'
City,-a line, too, that would pay
Kansas just as sure as it will
o Missouri. Bnt if we here refuse
3 combine our resources and effOr
q in building a railroad to the sOutl
v west, we cannot expect eastern pa
i ties to be in any hurry to do it for u
We believe that the best payiT
4 piece of railroad in Kansas, won
4 be this narrow gauge from EmrOr
4 TO Arkansas City, and that it can
r built in a very short time. 1t is f
Emporia to start it, and the amou
q of money required is 40 mOdera
!, that every dollar OF it ought to
v raised by individual subscription
II in thirty days from the time an Q
II ganizatiOn, satisfactory to the pu
lie, is effected.