Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1904-07-01
THE GREAT BEND SOUTHERN
An Encouraging Outlook For Great
Bends New Railroad

and it IS practically a certainty that
the road will be go. We clip from
the exchanges of our neighbors who
are affected. as follows:
From the Pratt Union: A number
of gentlemen were here and held
public meeting in the court room
Monday night in behalf of the new
north and south railroad. President
Patterson Of Michigan and Engineer
Clifford, together with other gentle
men interested, were present. The
company wants Center township to
put up $4,000 and the right of way,
together with,good terminal grounds
A committee consisting of L. c. Mill
Ter, Geo. ". Lemon, P. c. Reed. Geo.
R. Smith, NJ. F. Briggs. W. H.
Thompson and J. S. Barnes was ap-
pointed to confer with the people and
report at a meeting that will be held
next Monday evening in the court
room.
The township can vote only s1SOO0|
bonds if it should decide ovote bonds
at all, and that would leave $1,000 for
the Pratt people to put up in cash be-
sides about SIS, 900 or $4,000 more
to secure the9right of way.
This division of the proposed line
of road runs from Great Bend to
Medicine Lodge. 1t is straight line
from Great Bend to Pratt.
From the st. John Weekly News:
A. A. Patterson and N. w. Clifford of
the Great Bend Southern. the pro-
posed new road north and south
through St. John, have visited the
city and have succeeded in interest
ing our people in the new enterprise.
| A meeting of the business men and
citizens was held at the court house
Tuesday evening and attended by
large crowd The gentlemen who
represented the proposed road, talked
| like they meant business, and placed
their desires before the meeting in a
Straightforward manner. They ask
S25, 900 from St. John and St. John
township, also the right o. way through
the township and city and terminal
grounds.
G. w. Grandy was made chairman
of the meeting, and John w. Lii sec
rotary. Those in attendance appear
ed to be quite enthusiastic over the
new road and by motion the chair
man was empowered to appoint a
right of way and a ways and means
committee, each committee to be
composed of four members. Chair
man Grandy then announced the
members of the committees whose
names follow: Ways and Means, r.
w. Thompson, VIM. Dixon, Edward
Weilep and H. F. Cornwell. Right
of Way, H. r. Ross, F. S. Vedder,
H. F. Sutton and J. Med. Martin.
| An effort will be made Immediately
to raise the required amount, and the
representatives of the road assured
the meeting that when all arrange
ments were completed the road would
be built with as little delay as poss-
IDLE, and that construction would COM
mence within forty-eight hours at St.
John, Great Bend, Pratt and Medicine
Lodge.
From the Medicine Lodge Cresset:
A very enthusiastic mass meeting
of citizens of Medicine Lodge town
ship was held at the court house Sat
urday afternoon to discuss the pro-
position of the promoters of the Great
Bend Southern railroad. There was
| also present a number of citizens of
Elm Mills township and along the
proposed line of the road in the south
part of the county. Samuel Stewart
was elected chairman and Seward |.
Field secretary.
A number of speeches were made
extolling the advantages of a north
and south road, its benefit to Medi-
cine Lodge township and Importance
to Barber county generally, and an
almost unanimous rising vote, on
| motion of ]. B. Gano, was given in
favor of the proposed line.
The Cressets report also states that
resolution was adopted to call a
meeting for the purpose of voting
$4,000 of bonds for the new road.
Messrs. Patterson and Clifford and
others interested, expect to be back
20 Great Bend in few days, and an
other effort will be made to arrive at
satisfactory solution of the situation
In Great Bend. This road will doubt
less trample on someone's toes in
coming here, but nevertheless every
effort should be put forth to secure
the llne. We need it and we want it.