The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-11-05
WAS THAT HELD IN The COURT
HOUSE LAST NIGHT.
II Brought the People Face to Face
With Bare Facts Pertaining to the
A.. & c. Road and Their lndi.
vidual interests.

| TO order by Col Sidney Suggs. VIII
stated the object OF the meeting. IL
said that we had been led to believe
by the Arkansas & Choctsw railroa /
people that " we raised $4,000 that
they would build their road through
Ardmore; that we had been at wor',
at 10 for over week and yet lacke
nearly three thousand dollars OF hav.
ing the required amount and that the
A. & G. people were getting tired OF
waiting and had been instructed -
abandon the right-of-way through Arl-
more. II was now our last chance 20
secure the road-we could get IL by rails
ing three thousand dollars more, or
we could lose 1t If we did not.
In the meantime. while our cit-
lens had ben trying to raise the
balance, the railroad people have been
getting options on land on the right
of-way and others have been collect.
ing money already subscribed or taX-
ing notes in lieu of same.
Messrs Sam Noble and X. w Ran.
dol. who have been at work on the
latter reported that their work so far
had been entirely satisfactory
p. L. Soper. the attorney for the
road, who has been with MS for nearly
week said few things in regard
TO the rght-of-way. He said that the
most of the people whom he had come
in contact with on the right-of way
were very reasonable in their exact.
ments for their property while there
were others not so reasonable. and a
few were out of all reason in their
prices
Judge S. b. Bradford made a ring
ing speech in regard to whom he
thought ought to assist in building
this road. and was loudly cheered when
he sat down. He said that II the
property owners along Main street
would give one months rental of thei.
property that it would raise the re
quired amount. He said il was burn.
ing shame and something he did not
like to see, for committeeman to 60
around this town asking the poor peo-
pie to contribute money to get this
road when they had not given a dol
lar themselves.
w. c. Perry. the vice-president q,
the road. who had Just arrived i'm tkr
city was called upon and made few
remarks He said he hoped the people
would be reasonable with their prop.
erty along the right-of-way, as their
coming here largely depended upon
II. He said further that this gap, OF
this difference between MS and the
railroad must be closed up before he
left here, or the road would go else
where. The road did not have to come
here, he said. and the money being
subscribed to the railroad was not -
be used by the railroad. but would te
used to pay the people. for the land
that they claim is theirs, but which
the railroad claimed was not theirs.
Mr. Perry was asked where they
would possibly make their division.
and replied that he could not tell but
thought that the chances were good
that Ardmore would get II, as It was
about the proper distance from Wich.
ita Falls to have a division.
Mr.. Soper made few more remarks
during which he was asked. why he
had not made us promise that the
road would come II we raised the
$4,000, instead of saying TO us, raise
Sl5,o0o and the road will probably
come. He said the reason they had not
said they would come was: first. the
A. a c. proposed to do everything il
promised, that when they came no man
would have ii TO say that they did not
second, the main reason they had
not said so was because II they had
they would then be under obligations
TO come, and at the same time peop'e
along the rightof-way could hold them
] VIZ WIN hlkh pllttN lhl lutll plOptt
/ ty and they did not want TO put theri
selves in a position to be held up by
any man. All they wanted of the peo
/ pie was to be treated fairly and square
/ ly. and they would do likewise
The situation all around being under
stood. and the importance of us rails
ing the balance of the money starins
the people in the face, subscriptions
were called for, and by hard worl
Sl425 more was added to the $12.e2,
already subscribed. making Sl3,G5,
raised mp to the adiourning OF tn,
meeting, This left 1880 to be raise,
today and the following committee wa
appointed to raise that amount today
II. G Stong. Joe Robson. ID. T.. Al
len and Sidney Suggs
The hour being late the meeting
adjourned
The HACKER the coal tho hpteat