The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-03-15
BOARD OF TRADE.

uses,nr >f the Railroad Committee
Lnss Night, and = thorough Oryani.
zaiiOn.
Lat evening, pur-uant to adj,urnm Of,
the rommIttre sppIint-d at the previous
mario. gauge meeting, sppezr.d before The
Board Vi Trade t report pr sr-s, as to the
correspondence with leading gentlemen in
the various COUNTIES in the state, and partial
colfere, &c with the oficsrs OF the Kansas
Central rosd. The board Was called to or.
b~r b, Vice President J. Richard and
The secretary, Or. Z. J. Brown, read the
ninut-s OF the Previous meeting, which
were, On motion, approved.
he rep,rt Of The cs.mmitiee being in
order, il "a. Presented BY The chairman,
Hon. II NJ Aiier, read, aud sf.er some dis.
cu--,on, adopted
The cun.. tuition and bylaws to govern
The Board we're read and di-cus-ed at Con.
adorable length, aud, on N ton Of Hon. E.
Stlilinxs, decisive ac,iun va p,-tponed IN
ui The next meeting, remarks being msde
by Hon E Wil-on, Hon E. St,ilins-.
Cpi. d NJ Swan, Hon. II NJ Ali-r. w.
Crsnc~r, Dr. X. J. Brown, DIR. J. l. Viewer,
J +. Richards, and uIhers.
PkoF. A. P. LEMON,
Of Winfield, Cowley county, who was
present in consequence OF corr~spondeoos
with the committee, was invited to address
the meeting. He. during = few we'll d.
rected rem .rke. defined the position Of Cow
-, tha
oy stating that he had not come here TO
talk, but to hear what Leaven worth had to
say. He said COwley county was tired Of
being tributary 10 other cities, especially
when, during the past few yesr, the cost of
getting the produce OF the county to .
market, had been $4,000 annually,
with the expense for the return of goods
proportion ately great. The county seat of
owley county, he said, il As miles from the |
nearest railroad, and one can imagine the
Inconvenience sexisting. "There are no I'M
OCCUPIED railroad lsnds in the county.
Nearly every quarter section Of land Is &C.
cupied by thrifty farmer, Who is now
APPEALING TO YOU
to give him some outlet for his products. |
There il no necessity for you to 20 to Cow |
" of building railroads. They are already |
interested and know their needs. They on |
Iy want eDcour sgement. |
The fact that the law requiring = two
thirds vote, before bonds csn be secured |
having been repealed, will in short time |
cause the country to be flooded with wild
cat companies" which are to be avoided,
and before any proposition will be submit
ted to the people, they must understsud
what they are TO expect. and what you are
doing. The people of Cowley county are
emphatically in favor of the narrow guage
system and Is per cent more can be voaed
for it than for any other system" He re-
ferred TO the fact of having seen reports of
the previous meetings in this city and said
the citizens of his county were in favor
Of building up h nsas town. They are
Kansas men, and would rather give Two
collars Ia Leaven worth thsn to give one To
Kansas Guy, but must have an outlet.
Some city Is destined to crap the inevita-
tle railroad eysteD, and that city will be
the queen city Of the Wet. We want
LeavenworIh 10 be willing to see q narrow
gauge road built through the Southwest,
running through Cowley and Sumner coun.
Iie-. All the counties in the Southwest are |
,uli Of crowded wheat and corn bins. The
crops are almost burden TO the people be-
Cause thy have Eo outlet.
Bonds have been voted to bnild . road
from Emporis, in Lyon county, south to
Eureka, Ia Greenwood county, thence SOUTH
w-.t 10 Timber creek, which, IT followed,
will lead 10 the be -uiifui city OF Winfield,
Inch contains 1900 Inhabitants and j.
growing Rapidly. We want an ASSURANCE
IrDm .ou that ia case he extension il made
from L-av-nworh 10 Emporia, thar it will |
l. Low tue lime dercrIb,d Then il Leavsb-
~uIth Il III earn--t AMI the syst N Inaugu-
stvd, the nm can easily be run through to |
m.cag"- Lesv.u~urrh has Eos golden
ngp it., a d ! h"pe liz people viii take
r"var.tas. f 1t for ihe next sky dHy-
vi d-rsTuiIn- the railroad Interests in the
the state for sewers, years To cpme.
bon. WHIT W. WALTON,
-" e w. fed. wa next allied for. Dur
Lag IT, ,rss, which ~ere filled With |
..nn-:rrt truth, ne said ne was SURPRISED |
/ a s.u, pc .,ans iucr,t the organ'z tuh
DO. b"rr.i Il radr should have b.en
ought f b, Nj. ) Iiiirg-, a. The pa. ell,
is the in,e TO W ,mpiuy,d IN ~ork, aud re-
f-rr-n 10 the IA i ot The organ Ia ion Of the
bogus Railroad cs'mpai.i-s In various
arts al 'he state. Co~iey county,
ne -sii, l. frvorsble to LeavenwOrth
Is the ming K ansas town. We
want Leavenwortl with IL, We must
have urtI Ell action and will succeed.
Al the conclusion of his -us gestions, Judge
-tillings moved to rsscind the previous
action Of po~tponen.enr. which motion was
III. tanned, and the c,nsti,u ion and bylaws
of the Board were adopted, retaining Hon.
Jno. Wilson, president, j F. Richards,
independently r J. Br"~n, permanent
secretary and Col. ID. NJ. Swan, correspond
Ing secretary.
On motion, the hospitality of the city
was rendered to the visitors present, and
committee was appointed 10 show them
through the city this morning.
The meeting was then, on motion, ad-
jlnrned, TO meet next Friday evening ..