The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-04-07
Two RlehmOnds in the Field


in North Arkansas grows more in
teresting every week since the year
began.
The allusion, of course is not to
former enterprises, for, whether dead
or alive, a new order of things takes
the place of the old, which is that
of demonstration, if railroad pro-
moters are to hold the business at
tention of either mine owner or local
inhabit ant. And in consequence, if
they do not hear so much of the
MaeKay and Houkroads, they have
the compensation of time left on
their hands for setting their house in
order for the Eureka Springs and
Winner roads which, as so many
birds in the hand, areworth dozen
others still in the bush.
But while the satisfaction over the
Eureka Springs and Winner roads is
sufficient for the time being, there is
an exception to the rule, which is
not to remain unnoticed during the
next six months. It is that of the
Little Rock Northern and of the Ar
kansas Northern railroads, both of
which enterprises propose to con-
tend for the territory between Little
Rock, this state, and Springfield,
Mo-, and to this effect it is an
nounced that eight corps ofengineers
will be in the field during the next
ten days, in the interest of the rival
companies.
While the promoter of the Arkan-
sas Northern announces that he is
still identified with the enterprise it
is remarked that Messrs. Resented
and Martin are sending down their
engineers, not over the survey made
from Little Rock to the Missouri
line, but over route which leaves
Lead Hill and Dodd City a mile or
two out in the cold And if the
same route is held to, southwark to
Mineral City and Clear Creek, Yell
vile, will suffer the same fate, not
withstanding the large donation
asked from Marion county.
1t can't be, of course, that the pro-
| lectors are not certain as to their
destination, or that they are not
certain where and along what line
they can expect the most business.
1t was enough to announce on the
spur of the moment that they would
connect with some trunk line on
the aes.n,. but not to know
through what localities to build, is
to remind one of a certain Lake
Superior Southwestern & Cult R. r.,
which was to build from the lakes
to the gulf, but which came to
naught for no other reason than
that of having been without back
ing and without beginning or end.
This is of the Arkansas Northern.
OF the Little Rock Northern, the
worst that can be said of it is its
plain rivalry to the Arkansas North
ern, and if it is possible to get a
north and south road out of the
present agitation for railroad outlet
nothing should prevent such an issue
in fact. 1t is announced in its favor,
that it has beginning and an end,
with ample money behind the scheme
to build the road. And of the Little
Rock directors it is to be said, that
in their ranks will be found men who
know where they are at, or their
names would not appear on the side
of the new company.
1t is at all events plain to see that
something has happened to the Ar
kansas Northern, at Little Rock, |
since the subscription of 100000 |
was closed. For it happens that the
name first mentioned among the di- |
rectors of the Little Rock Northern, |
is that of a liberal spirited citizen
who had been foremost in the labor
necessary to secure subscriptions,
and who had given months to the
irksome undertaking. Something of
this nature was to have been sus-
pected when the ultimatum was
written to Mr.. Layton, which Col. |
Webber handled so neatly when
brought to his notice.
But whatever the reasons for the
two enterprises, there is no occasion
for citizens of the territory effected
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