Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-26
Niger IN FENCE
According to Comment of La Sale
Tribune on kankakee a.
Moline Interurban.
IN WAY OF ANOTHER LINE
Chance to Make Illinois Railway Com
pany Pay Round Price for
Land.

A good deal of curiosity has been
expressed over the recent incorpora-
ton of the Kankakee & Moline Rail
way company. which was incorporated
at Springfield ostensibly 10 build an
electric line between the points nam
ed Locally. no one knew the incor-
porators and there was no intimation
that the road would ever be anything
more than a paper railway carrying
thousands of phantom passengers over
an undiscovered right OF way.
Suddenly the new corporation has
developed life in the vicinity of OF
tawa and by starting suit to condemn
the right OF way now occupied by an
operating interurban road between OF
tawa and La Sale, which road has lost
its title by reason of the reversal of
its condemnation proceedings by the
supreme court. The La Sale Tribune
says of the company:
The incorporation of the Kankakee
& Moline Railway company coming on
the scene at this particular time looks
like a proposition TO acquire this land
and dispose of it TO the Illinois Rail
way company, as a proposition was ten
dered Offering the land. amounting to
about 2SO acres. for SCI, 900, also re-
serving 100 acres of surface lands.
In all matters pertaining to the
Illinois company every action and ev-
cry proposition has been sQuarely met
and carried out in every particular to
the letter and there is little doubt ex-
pressed of the ability of the Kankakee
& Moline people to be n barrier to-
ward the progress of the new inter
urban.
Approaches IuacccSsibIe.
The approaches to the east and
west of the interurban line are wholly
inaccessible to any other company and
there is no possibility of a new cor
poratiOn procuring any of the immedi-
ate right of way to the lands in ques-
ton.
THE new company wants the mat
ter now settled i'll the courts, and asks
and is willing to pay what a jury says
should be a fair price
The road is to be built from Kan
kakee 10 Moline, but just what route
will be taken is not known. An air
line would so through Grand Ridge.
Jul II II - lllt0uhetl 10 DdIdllel the
Rock Island, the Big Four would be
followed to Seneca, and from Seneca
TO Ottawa, and west to La Sale and
thence west to Moline 1t is stated
that the road is an electric one. but
on several matters the papers filed at
Ottawa are very quiet.
AT the present time the Illinois
Valley Railway company is operating
over the properly of the Garden City
Sand company and \. l. HarthOrn, but
without license or title to the property
due to the reversal OF the condemna-
ton proceedings by the supreme court.
The company has recently reorganized
and will either settle with the respond
ents on an equitable basis or begin
condemnation proceedings anew"
Articles Filed Here.
Articles of Incorporation of the Kan
kakce and Moline railway were filed
today in the recorders office here
The stock of the corporation is cap
italized at 100000, to be divided into
1000 shares at 500 each. 1t is pro
posed to construct the railway from
kankakee TO Moline, the commence
ment of the corporation being July >,
1904, and to continue 30 years. Those
forming the first board of directors
and the incorpOrators are William r.
Burleig, LaGrange, Ill; Gideon S.
Thompson, Berwyn, H.; Harry Hamill.
w. J. Gilbert and c. c. Green, of Chi
cago. The principal business Office of
the corporation Will be established in
Chicago. The government of the cor
pOration will be vested in a president
vice president, secretary, treasurer
and general manager. to be elected
by the board of directors III accord
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