The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-08
CALL MASS MEETING
NJ K. & G. R. R. viii Make
Proposal to Wichita
OFFICIALS ARE COMING
They Will Be in Wichita for
Meeting This Evening
COMMITTEE HAD MEETING
And Issued Call for Citizens to
Meet in Council Chamber

This evening in the council chamber a
mass meeting of citizens has been called
to listen to and consider the PROPOSE
tons to be submitted by the Nebraska.
Kansas and Gulf Railroad company,
which is being built south from Con-
cordia- Mr. H. L. Resting. secretary of
the Commercial club. yesterday received
the following letter from George F.
Wolfe, assistant to President Redding. Of
the company. at Kansas City:
kansas City, Mo. July ). 1903
mr.. H. L. Resting, Secretary Commercial
Club, Wichita, Kan.
Dear Strive are beginning construc-
ton on our line north, and I am pleased
TO say 1 viii be in Wichita next Wednes-
day, July sth, prepared to submit to the
city of Wichita and Sedgwick county
our proposition as to the aid to be
granted us.
Our proposition VIII contemplate a di-
rect line from Wichita to Omaha and
Chicago, and the southern coal and lum-
Der fields, the erection of shops at
Wichita, etc, the line to be built at
once.
will you kindly get your committee
together. for Wednesday evening, so that
prompt action can be taken in regard to
calling the necessary elections.
Owing to the volume Of other matters
I'm hand, we have been delayed in submit
ting our proposition to you. We wish TO
get the Wichita and Sedgwick county
matters in shape at once, in order not to
delay construction Of our line south from
Salina. Our proposition will be liberal,
and l trust the people of Wichita and
Sedgwick county will not overlook an OPP
portunity to secure for themselves the
one strictly north and south line through
the state. with its attendant benefits.
Very truly yours,
GEO. F. WOLFE,
assistant to the President, y, X. & G.
r. r. Co"
Notices were sent out yesterday by Mr..
Resing to twenty-five members Of the
Commercial club and an equal number Of
members of the Chamber of Commerce
for a meeting to be held last night in
the Commercial club rooms. A large
number of business men attended this
meeting, and it was decided to call the
mass meeting to listen to the propositions
TO De submitted ny MI W oIlC anu i''N
associates. The following call was issued
by the committee:
ITO the Business Men OF Wichita:
THE Commercial club ana Chamber of
Commerce have received letters from Geo
F. Wolfe, assistant to the president OF
the N. X. &, O. Railroad company, called
the North and South road. Tonight at
half-past seven O'Clock, in the council
s1--l1 ID
meeting Will be held
Let every business man be on hand
and push ihis along.
(Signed
THE COMMERCIAL CLUB,
.sBy. CHAS. G. COIN, President
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
by CHAS. L. DAVIDSON, Pres
The Nebraska. Kansas and Gulf Rail
road company is to be built from Con-
cordia. cloud county. on the north line of
the state. southeasterly to Wichita, and
TO the state line. thence in southeastern
direction to Spiro, /. T. on the Kansas
CITY Southern railway, about thirty miles
southwest of Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Spiro is about $50 miles southeast OF
Wichita.
The line will pass through the great
wheat belt of Kansas, through the coal
fields of the Indian territory, and tap the
great lumber districts of the south
through its connection with the kansas
City Southern.
In Cloud. Saline and Ottawa counties
bonds have already been voted toad TINS
road. and the company viii submit
proposition to Wichita and Sedgwick
county to aid in building the line vienna
IS to be made a division point and con
siderable money is TO be invested III
shops and terminals in this city ne
company claims that it is ready to begin
The work of grading the right Of way
pithin the next few days. and have Sc