The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-30
OKLAHOMA
RAILROAD
BUILDING
Perfect Network of Tracks
viii Cover Territory
WHAT JUDGE BIERER SAYS
Choctaw Road May Become a
Rate Cutter

Guthrie, 0. T.. April Z7.-There is every
indication that Oklahoma is to have a
boom in railroad building which wiz be
unprecedented in the histories of terri
tories older than this. In fact this boom
is beginning at the present time and after
the new country opens. the race in rail-
road building viii be on in fun progress.
Dirt is being thrown on a number Of lines
and the construction wiz be rapidly
pushed.
Judge J. c. Biever. OF this city. who is
the attorney fer the "Bes" line is consid-
cred a good authority as he has been
closely watching the maneuvers Of the
different roads very closely. To a cor
respondent for the Eagle he said:
81 fully believe that within the next
few years. Oklahoma VIII see one Of the
greatest booms in railroad building that
any state in the union has ever seen
There viii be a perfect network Of rail-
roads in Oklahoma ard IL would be hard
TO estimate the benefit it win do the
towns in this country / do not know that
there VIII be any great railroad centers
IN the territory. Oklahoma City seems
TO have the lead now. with the Santa Fe,
Frisco and Choctaw, but other towns win
forge ahead TOO. Enid has many railroads
for a new town and so has Blackwell.
Watonga is getting the Choctaw, and the
Rock island is running line from Enid
to Anadarko, and Fort SlL The Orient
road, which IS now In actual construc-
ton. VIII prove an important factor in
the upbuuding Of the territory"
1.-THE railroads Of Oklahoma VIII be bet
ter arranged than those Of Kansas, and
VIII be so that all points of the terri
tory can be easily reached. In fact, be-
lieve that Kansas viii be outdone in the
matter Of railroads when Oklahoma gets
through with her building boom"
Guthrie VIII have more railroads and
it IS my impression that the Frisco viii
build here from Wilson This city is sure
to have plenty Of railroads, there is no
question about that. and it win rank
along with the rest Of the railroad towns
in oklahoma"
The Choctaw extensions, the Orient,
the Rock Island and the "Bes" line are
good things and VIII DO much benefit TO
the territory
Regarding railroad building. J. i Isen-
burg in the Enid Wave says.
The railroad situation south aud west
Of Enid presents some very peculiar and
funny circumstances that may lead to
monster cut rate war The Choctaw
began The building of a line from Geary
via Wat0nga, Cleo Springs to Kiowa.
KAN for the purpose Of heading off the
proposed orient road; now comes the
Rock Island with a line from Enid to
Anadarko ana Fort Sill for the purpose
OF holding what 1t pleases to call its own
individual traffic and to head of the
Choctaw. This has raised the ire of the
Choctaw people and they threaten to
break the Rock Islands neck with cut
rate. However another trouble appears
on the surface, quite unexpected by
either the Rock Island or Choctaw. being
another new southwest line which viii
cross the Rock Island and Anadarl1o line
twice in reaching Its destiny, which is
Vernon. Texas. The new line is the
Blackwell, Enid & Southwestern Railroad
company. fnanciered by the Mississippi
Valley Fruit company, and already in op-
Grafton from Blackwell 10 Enid. Judge
A. G. c. Bierer. of Guthrie. has been in
washington securing a charter for the
building Of this line from Enid through
the Wichita and Caddo and Kiowa and
Commanche reservations. Neither the
Choctaw nor tae Rock Iisland can hardly
afford TO make an agreement between
themselves that win tic their hands while
booty is carried away by a third party.
The builders Of the Blackwell, Enid G.
Southwestern claim TO have unlimited
capital behind them and are promised
much more by towns and cities enroute.
This great rush of three trunk lines into
the southwest means much for the city
Of Enid. When the local trade is cut
on 10 some extent in the west by one
railroad we might just as well have two
as one. These lines viii make Enid q
distributing point equal to any city in
the territory. Let the railroad people
rush around ard fight and push on into
the new country from this point it is all