The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1881-02-17
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Ut Mr.. Spriggs win visit Benton township thi
week IN the interest Of the Gould road.
n Itlooks Is though the Gould road woul
= come direct from Eureka to e Dorado. Thi
d will give Rosalia township six miles Of roa
= and depot.
The county commissioners will meet il
;. special session on Saturday, the 10th, for tn
n purpose Of submitting the propositions Il
to vote bonds for the Gould road.
y +. A. Borden, who commenced circulating
the petition in Rosalia township for signer
to call the railroad election in that township
e for ten thousand dollars. fnisbed his worl
on Monday and brought in the petition Will
Is names Tuesday.
Rev. Isaac Mooney, Of Towanda, was I
= caller Tuesday. He is enthusiastic for the
Gould road and is talking up the proposition
lively.
From private letters from Benton township
D 1t looks like an even thing on railroad bond
. proposition in that township.
: The Flint Hills are full Of engineers look
ing out . route for the Gould road. A
|, straight line is what they are in search Of
The engineers Of the Gould road have com.
pleted the survey and set the grade stakes rs
far west as Burnt Creek, six miles west Of
!. Eureka. They will be on top Of the Flint
Hills next week; and it will take them still
another week to get to Ell Dorado.
A general consolidated mortgage bond
from the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Rail-
way company, to the Mercantile Trust Com
pany, Of New York, for sa5, 900 900, dated
December l, 1880, was filed for record ut the
ofice Of the Register Of Deeds Of this county,
by General Rodgers, Of Sedalia, Missouri, on
Tuesday evening last, at o'clock p. m.
This instrument covers s. pages Of closely
printed matter, and, of course, goes to show
that Mr. Gould is in earnest about building
our railroad.
| Col. A. A. Talmage, General Manager Of
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, says that Jay
Gould will add about 900 miles Of new rail- |
road to the Missouri Pacific system during |
the coming year. The extension will en- |
brace about $50 miles in Missouri and Kan |
sas, and equally in Texas, carrying the sys- |
tenn to the Rio Grande at Laredo. To meet |
the requirements ofthe extension fifty thous.
and tons Of steel and eight thousand tons OF |
iron rails have been ordered. Also forty
locomotives, three thousand freight ears
twenty passenger coaches and six baggage |
cars. The following being the Kansas and |
Missouri lines to be extended
Meme Of Road. No. Of Kiiss.
Kansas. Arizona and Pacific. LIE Roy
tn r,hr
Kansas, Arizona and Pacific. Ottawa
Lexington to Joplin, Missouri 65
Jefferson City to Lamar .125
Total in Kansas and Missouri .. ~,
The extension Of the Parsons road via In
dependence to Arkansas City, 40 miles, has
not yet been definitely determined.
From Eureka Herald
The Board of County Commissioners met
last Thursday aud canyasscd the petition Of
Taxpayers of Eureka township, asking that
an election be ordered on proposition to
issue bonds to the Kansas a. Arizona road.
Having found that sufficient number had
signed the petition they ordered the election.
The engineer having since passed over the
line named in the proposition, found that
the route through town was impracticable.
The proposition required them to locate the
road along Seventh or Eighth streets. This
would necessitate two heavy curves i'm get
ting IN and out OF town. Accordingly Judge
Spriggs came to town on Tuesday and re-
quested that the proposition be withdrawn
and changed in this respect. The committee
appointed to look after the original propo- c
sition, thought it better not to name any
given route through town, but simply re- !,
luire them to run the road through the
present town site. This will give them
range OF three fourths of a mile. A public 4
meeting was called at three o'clock yesterday
Afternoon, at which time the matter was dis
,ussed. The Commissioners are to meet to-
lay and II q sufficient number of signers are :,
obtained the election will be again ordered e
or another day. 1t is expected that the Pc
ition from Quincy township will also be
to-day and the election ordered :
here.
The following item, taken from the lie Roy
Reporter. explains what they are doing for :!
he Gould road in WoodsOn county: 7"
Petitions were circulated last week in Lib q
rty township, asking the County Commits
toners Of WOOdson to submit proposition
or that township to subscribe go, 900 to the d,
apital stock ofthc Kansas, Arizona & Pacific
Hallway Co. We understand that the re- =
uisitc number Of petitioners has been OBJ
aimed, and the Commissioners will be re-
uested next Tuesday to call the election q,
ariy in March. Although there has been :.
Considerable opposition manifested in that a,
ownshp, still 1t is conceded now, we be- :
eve, that the proposition will carry BY
God majority. Heretofore emissaries were ell
emit ont from Neosho Falls township and
ates Center to poison the minds of the yo-
ers in Liberty against the bonds, but lat =
erly the people Of that township have begun
see that 1t was not so much their welfare
hese emissaries were working for, as it was =,
he hope that they themselves might get the ="
rejected line Of road. BY defeating the ~
onds in Liberty the Falls and Center pco- -
le saw . forlorn hope Of getting the road
nd saddling 100000 of bonds upon the -
hole county. This nice little game our -
liberty neighbors begin to see, and they -,
ow very justly regard such sudden and &C. r,'
We interest in their affairs with no little -
ispiciOn. 80
There are, however, very many good rea-
ms why the proposition should carry in ~
lat township, and We ar, glad the citizens
'ereof are beginning to consider them. ri :
he bonds are voted we are assured that the
lad will Immediately be pushed forward. ter
they are defeated, it will not only DELAY
he work but would probably to a great :,
Itent change the whole route
From Fredonia Citizen lee
Eureka will shortly vote on proposition gr
issue bonds for the extension Of Gould.s I
'ad-called the st. Louis, Kansas and Ari- tn,
ma railroad-from lie Roy. its present ter =
linus. southwest. Townships in Green
God. Butler and Sedgwick counties along lin
&c proposed line are also preparing to vote ba
'nds TO aid the exten-ion. The road will
, built to Eureka. Eldorado and Wichita. he
the necessary subsidies are serured, with
the next twelve months. There seems no -
.ubt at present that any other than good ]