The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-11
CHARTER IS GRANTED
To Arkansas Valley Interur-
ban Railway Company
MILLION DOLLAR CAPITAL
Electric Lines to Be Built Be-
tween Two Cities
WORK WILL SOON BEGIN
Line Will Be in Operation
Within One Year


sued a charter for the Arkansas Valley
5 Inberurban company, with headquarters
in Wichita. The capital stock is one
million dollars, fully subscribed, and the
following is the board Of directors Sc
lected for the first year:
c. L. Davidson, J. NJ. Knapp, o. A.
Boyle, James Allison, J. E. Howard, c.
G. Cohn, c. H. Smythe, S. S. Noble, J. /.
Johnson, John Diehl. r. l. Holmes. of
Wichita; w ". Spencer, Geuda Springs;
w. E. Wilcox, Arkansas City; George r.
Hunter. Wellington; A. L. Barner, Belle
PLANE; a. H. Barnes, Oxford; S. c. Ar
nett, Belle PLANE.
This is the company that viii build the
electric line from Wichita to Arkansas
City and branch lines 10 Wellington and
Winfield. Every detail of the company's
affairs has been arranged and all that is
necessary now is to begin work securing
the right Of way and making contracts
for material.
For two months the men whose names
may be found in the board of directors
hate been quietly working on the plans
for building this road. Several meet
inss were held during the winter but
about all that ever came Of them was a
whole lot of talk and no definite action.
Finally those who believed in the road
and desired to have it built went to work
They interested others and a company
was formed and men were put 10 work
arranging details of organization and
other matters. These arrangements were
completed last week and the company
applied Ior a charter.
An expert civil engineer was brought
here from St. Louis. He was a man who
has built several interurban lines and
stands high in railroad circles He was
taken over the proposed line between
Wichita and Arkansas City. He pro-
nounced the route chosen q most FEAST
bic one and in order to make a correct
report asked that the population, re-
sources and other data from the country
through which the line would pass be
furnished him. This was done and the
engineer made a lengthy report, includ-
ing cost of right of way, construction of
road. equipment, and power plants and es-
minated the expenses and receipts for
the first year, which. of course, would
DC iilt AbhtSL EtEtlplS- II mas Dctu
found that abundant power can be pro-
cured from streams along the route and
the charter includes the furnishing of
electric light and power to towns through
which the line viii pass.
The engineer who made this preliminary
survey reports that here was a pros
pect for the best paying interurban rail-
way system in the west 1t Will not be
costly owing to the generally level coun-
try through which it viii pass-directly
down the Arkansas river-and as the
communities are prosperous. the business
IS expected to reach large numbers in a
short time
The main line will be eighty miles long,
with branches which will make the total
mileage about 100 miles. The line Will
run southeast in the heart of the Arkan-
sas valley for ten miles, and then 90
straight south to Belle PLANE. From this
point It will be run southeastward through
the bottoms of the Minnesota and thence
20 Arkansas City. Winfield and yelling
ton Will be connected
The men who are backing the PROPOSE
sition are among Wichita's and south
ern Kansas most substantial business
men All are well known throughout
this part Of the state and the company
as organized has the confidence and sup
port Of everyone in this city and the
counties through which the line viii pass.
They are men who can and VIII build
this line.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
with eastern capitalists to furnish the
necessary capital and this money viii be
on the road.
II Will require some weeks to get things
tn shape to begin construction, but dirt
viii be flying before the summer is over
and the entire line will be in operation
within year from the day the first
shovel of dirt n thrown.