The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-24
Train INTO GRANITE
First One Over the New Rock
Island Branch.
JURILATI0N BY CITIZENS
Enormous Stock Shipments
Thence This Season.

Granite, o. T., July 23.-The first
through train to reach Granite arrived
on last Wednesday evening at 49, SEIZED
ule time. 1t was met half a mile out of
the city by very enthusiastic crowd of
500 people who followed the train to the
depot on horseback, in carriages and on
foot, cheering every step Of the way
and long afer Engineer Ferguson had
brought engine No. 23S to a standstIl
and Conductor Nichols called out, CAN
out for Granite" The engine was at
tractively decorated with bunting. flags
and banners bearing the inscription: s"To
Granite, the Oil and Natural Gas iCty
Of Oklahoma"
Trains now leave Chickasha at 10 a. m.
arriving at Granite at 4:9O D. m; return
ing a, $50 p. m. arriving at Chickasha
at 1910 g. m
Stock pens to accommodate six trains
Of cattle are being built here. They are
the largest on the Chickasha branch
Over 10 900 cattle will be handled by the
Rock Island at this station during the
season. The 150-foot depot is nearing
completion. It is a handsome structure
and reflects much credit on the designer,
Mr. Cannon.
Guthrie. o. T, July 23.-The Rock Island
has reached Granite. The Chickasha pa
per says: The extension of the Rock
Island west from Mourtain View has
been completed to Granite. The road Is
nof being buiA from Granite to Man
lo g q
July IS tie train on the Mountai View
branch commenced running to Granite,
the new town or the extension west
from Mountain View. and a new time
card also went into effect This train ia
stead of leaving Ckickasha at 6 a. m.
and returning az 1:25 o. m, will leave
at 10 a. m. and arrive here at midnight,
making connections with Nos l and for
the north and south II is officially re-
ported that as soon as the grade is COM
pleted from Granite TO Mangum (Which
will be the last Of this week. that grad
ers will be shipped TO Chickasha and
work on the Paurs Valley road COM
menced at once.
OF he extension the Mountain View
Messenger says: Mountain View has
been the terminus OF the Chickasha
branch of the Rock Island for fifteen
months. until Wednesday when the first
regular train was run through to Granite
across the west line of the Kiowa and
Comanche reservation forty-seven miles
southwest Of here. The weStbound ira n
now arrives at p. m. and the east bound
comes through at 9 p m. This viii give
US a better mail service as business men
can now answer letters the same day
they are received. Trains viii arrive at
Granite a. $3.50 in the afternoon. The
trains going east make close connection
with trains AT Chickasha for the south
and north. The extension of this branch
will prove an important factor in the de-
velopment Of Southwestern oklahoma and
Is a decided advantage to Mountain View.
AS the line passes through an Indian res
ervation after leaving here for a dis
lance Of nearly fifty miles and as no
town can be built on Indian land. the
extension Of the road viii cut off but
little territory that was controlled by
this place and the increase dtrade re-
sulting from the development of the
country viii greatly exceed the loss.
The road is pushig rapidly on and will be
into Nangum in a few weeks. That
town is now on a boom and expects 10
become an important jobbing point for
the cattle business that comes to Okla
homa from Northwestern Texas"