Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1894-03-17
The Electric Road to be Ex'
tended to Galena and Bax-
ter Springs Soon.
THE CHETOPA BRANCH ALSO.
Galena Wants Them Both and
Will Try to Get Them.
Verify. the Day Of Salvation 10 Close at Ham
and We Must Hustle % We Want to Grow.

| tihiCt anu co ~ 10 WIN soNhc' SaN-
ter Springs, the best town of its size
in the Southwest, the prettiest town
in the whole country and the COM
ing town of this section, has been
hampered for years and years by a
scarcity of railroad facilities. The
time is near at hand, however, when
Baxter Springs, dear old town, will
be well supplied with all of these
things.
President Rogers of the South
west Missouri Electric Railway
Company says: "Pretty soon, now,
we will extend our road to Galena
and Baxter Springs" Mr.. Rogers
says he realizes, and so does the
balance of his company, that the
big reunions held at this place
would in a short time pay the ex-
pense incurred in making the extern
sion. And who shall say that Mr..
Rogers il not right! 1t IN well
known fact that Baxter Springs can
and does draw bigger crowd to
any public gathering than any other
town in this whole Western coun-
try. The Interstate reunions held
in Camp Logan, the prettiest camp.
ing ground in the world, are annu-
ally attended by from 5000 to 10000
people, and if the electric line is
built these figures will be almost
doubled. Baxter Springs has three
fine parks. beautiful scenery all
around her, magnificent drives, fine
fishing and boating and everything
else that goes to make place in
which il is pleasure to spend a
day. With the Southwest Missouri
Electric Railway running cars to
this city would come picnic parties,
hunting parties, excursion parties,
and people from all of the towns to
the east of us would come here to
spend day with nature. But the
reunions are what will bring the
road.
Our merchants need not be afraid
that the building of this road would
injure their business in the least
In Joplin the merchants are sub
jccted to heavy occupation tax or
license, they are compelled to pay
exhorbitant rents, they have to hire
more clerks and put on style in a
dozen different ways, all of which
brings their expenses up TO a high
figure, and consequently they can
not aud do not sell goods any
cheaper than do our merchants. II
our merchants shall keep what the
people want they will get the trade
No doubt of il at all.
The building of the electric line
to Baxter Springs will do ue more
good than will anything else that
we have n prospect of getting, and
our people will only stand in their
own light II they fail to get it.
Another candidate has entered
the field, however, but we shall not
have much to say about it yet. We
have been fooled too often by the
animal and do not propose to be
fooled again. The following from
the Joplin Herald is official aud nc
doubt true:
"For several years the people oi
Joplin have been anxious to have
the gap in the Missouri Pacific be
tween this city and Chetopa closed
up, seeing in such a thing the great
good that would accrue to Joplin
by putting her upon another
through line, and now the Herald il
pleased TO state that this much de.
sired state of affairs is soon to be
realized. When in 1891 the Missouri
Pacific was extended to Grand Falle
il was seen at once that the contem
plated extension to Chetopa had
been determined upon by the rail
road company, and II was hoped
that the extension would be pushed
but for some reason IL was delayed
The Herald is informed by q promi
nent and responsible gentleman ol
this city who has il officially from
Missouri Pacific headquarters, thai
the extension TO Chetopa will bt
made this summer. This il authen
tic as well as official and the fact il
a matter for congratulation."
II Baxter Springs secures the
electric road and the branch to Che
topa this summer she will start up
on a wave of prosperity such as sh,
has never known and our town viii
be "strictly in IT," and the chancei
are exceedingly good for just such
q state of affairs.
Many of our people have beer
afraid all the time that Galena woulC
refuse the electric line the right o
way through that town, but such il
not the case as is shown by the fol
lowing from the Galena Times:
THE Joplin Herald has reliable
| information that the Inter-Urbaf
electric road will soon be built from
Joplin to Galena and then on tC
Baxter. The Herald also has relia
BILE information that the Missouri
/ Pacific will close the gap betweei
, Joplin and Chetopa this summer
, Galenn wants the electric road ant
will be glad to see IL heading thiI
( way. The Chetopa extension is als,
/ an important matter to Galena !
/ our citizens look atitproperiy. Thi
] city il on the shortest and most dl
; rect cut from Joplin to Chetopa ane
r Il is likely that the Missouri Pacih
people will not overlook the advan