Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-12-13

We take the following extract from

| We take the following eAtIaC' 'ioA
The Hoxie Democrat:
The city of Colby has made pioPo
sition to the L. & G. Il. K. 10 give snen
| $50. 600 or more il necessary Tor osls
ion station While the railroad company
| is n ct ready to locate divisions yst.
will do no harm to investigate ana see
what can be done. Our people cannon
afford TO give any more money ana tneS
deserve tue division. for everything, the
railroad has asked of them has peer
given and now they should have it, ou'
~ .Ig 10 past history it is impossible L.
get it. The dog will lick the hand tina,
whips him. and Colby has wnip, NV
kicked the l.. q {. on every OCCASION
took away Their freight patronage and
made them pay $22, 600 for right of way
into their city-refused to vote bonds.
but purchased right of way for Rock Is
land and gave 800 600 bonds to same road:
Now they want the L. & c. division and
Will without dOubt get it unless We s,n
ourselves and Try TO bring the railroad to
Time Wnt moi place the city bonds in
escro s. until such a time as we think the
company should have them! 1t would
serve as gentle hint that we would like
to have the division at our city and are
willing to pay for it. but won't stand any
fOOlishncss or allow any more coal
platforms to be moved.
When Thomas county or Colby
promise by bonds or otherwise to pay
a railroad company any money they
do so-they issue the bonds when the
work is done, and give them to the
party earning them. Thomas county
nor Colby does t ask railroad into
their limits promising to give certain
amounts and then try after the work
is done to defeat the payment by a
technicalitv. Can Hoxie say as much
for the township bonds voted in Sher-
idan county for the l.. & CT Il this
what the Democrat claims is doing
everything they can for that railway?
The officers of the l.. & &. Ry. came
to Colby and stated that they wanted
nothing from Colby except the vaca-
ton of certain streets, and at once
this was given them. The U. p. Ry.,
or it's branch, the L. & G.. Ry.. asked
for nothing else. Colby has ever been
a liberal patron of the U. P. and is
to-day. Without boasting it may be
truly said that the freight tariffs earn
ed by that road in shipments to Colby
merchants are larger than the tariffs
received from any town in Western.
Kansas. Colby has not offered $780,
900 or any other sum to secure the
division of the L. & c. Ry. The of.
ficials of the U. p. Ry. when they get
ready to locate the division, will 10.
cate with reference to the use they
can make of it. $4,000 is a mere
bagatelle to such company, and un.
less Colby be fit and proper place
Tor division she might offer in vain
double such sum. Colby fell short
of the necessary distance on the c.
K. & N. Ry., and consequently was
not made the division station on that
road. Colby is the proper distance
from Salina to be the best place for a
division in western Kansas, and ought
to be according to the nature of affairs
selected for that purpose. In case of
recognition of that kind from the l.
& c. Ry., Colby stands ready as she
always has to give the right and prop
er aid. Our sister city Hoxie should
not be pouting over the probable Sc
lection of Colby as the division sta
tien of the L. & c. Ry. Should Colby
not be selected, there is no place
where our citizens would sooner see
the station than at Hoxie. Kicking
railroad corporations or attempting to
brighten them, or attempting to escape
paymen, of justly contracted deb,
by technicalities, are all improbable
methods of gaining favors of railroad.
as our sister city will find.
I State Militia have been ordered tr
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