The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-31
NOW FOR THE
CHOCTAW ROAD
Company Ready 10 Do Busi-
ness With Wichita
COMPLETED TO ANTHONY
Last Spike Driven There Sun
day Afternoon.
WAS IN AHEAD OF TIME
Work All Cleared Up Now for
Wichita Extension.
WAS IN AHEAD OF TIME

Now for the Choctav road. That road
IL now ready to do business with Wichita
and there need not be any delay in open
ing negotiations for the extension-of the
road from Anthony-to this city. Some
time ago one OF the prominent attaches
when the line was completed to Anthony
the Choctag and Northern people would
be ready to push it on to Wichita, pro-
vided the proper inducements were given
TO them. and they proposed TO be liberal
The road is now completed 70 Anthony
and the company is ready 10 do business
With wichita
Mr.. W. E. Blackburn. an editor and
prominent citizen OF Anthony. writes 10
the Eagle as follows concerning the driv-
ing OF the last spike there:
AT l o'clock Sunday afternoon the
construction train of the Choctaw and
Northern completed the laying Of steel
for the extension from Ingersoll. 0. T..
to Anthony. The driving of the last spsae
in the presence of a large crowd OF in
terested citizens was the signal for
series OF joyous blasts OF the engine whis-
tie and piercing shrieks from the whistle
OF tho engine perched on n flat car that
had been busily engaged all morning in
the operation OF the track-laying ma
chine.
..The Choctaw and Northern crosses
three other lines in entering town and
as the permanent steel crossings are not
in place. temporary crossings have been
~. h~fd
tracks which viii be placed or removed
by watchmen until the regular crossings
are IN.
Last summer the commercial club os
Anthony sent a committee OF representa-
tive citizens to the Choctaw Northern
people then building TO Anthony and Sc
cured from them proposition TO extend
to Anthony for a $4,000 bonus. The
amount was raised IN twenty-four hours.
with the stipulation that the road was TO
be here by January 1st. and they are here
three days ahead OF time.
1.-THE contractors. engineers and men
who have had charge OF the construction
OF the extension are clean-cut. able
lot OF fellows. who mean business and
rush things TO a finish.
THE completion Of the Choctaw North
ern gives Anthony four competing trunk
lines. which. with the construction Of
the Orient. will make Anthony the most
lines Of competing railways OF any town
in the state. save and except Kansas
City. Kan.
1.-The Orient engineer corps has returned
here and it is understood as soon as the
Choctaw Northern people get through
with back-surfacing from Anthony 10
waldron. on the state line. probably in
two weeks. their large force OF tracklay-
ers will begin work on the Orient.
"Anthonys salt works have been re-
built and are making three hundred bar
rels Of salt a day. The farms adjoining
town that were abandoned for free Strip
farms are re-occupied. Every store build-
ing in town IS occupied and residences
are being built by the dozen: no matter
how bitter the weather the work goes
on. Dozens Of families are camped about
town IN tents and wagons awaiting a
vacant building. while families Of SIX and
eight persons are frequently packed away
in two or three rooms. for want OF bet
ter shelter. Anthony Is enjoying a second
boom, and this one Is on a cash basis"
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