Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-05
ON THE MAIN LINE.

ON the MAIN LINE.
A good many years ago Baxter
Syringe had chance TO get the
main line of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf road, but for reasons
we'll known to q great many people
the road veered of to the east and
went south via Joplin. Lately, how
ever, the officials of that road have
begun looking over the old route,
and according TO the following dis
patch from Muskogee II would seem
that We arc to get on the main line
of the Port Arthur Route anyway:
"Muskogee, I. ia deal is on
foot by which the Kansas City
Southern railroad may purchase
the Missouri, Oklahoma d Gulf rail-
road, thus giving the former road a
line running through the richest
section of Indian Territory and tap
ping the the big coal fields of the
territory. A. F. Rust, Of Kansas City,
chief engineer of the Kansas City
Southern, and Colonel L. J. Polk, OF
Galveston, traffic expert of the same
road, came to Muskogee today, ar
irving on the Missouri, Oklahoma
& Gulf from the north. They made
careful inspection of the road and
upon arriving here today they were
shown over the city by W. E. Row.
sey and C. N. Haskell.
1.-THE Missouri, Oklahoma & Gull
surveyed a line from Pittsourg,
Kansas, to Shreveport, La, and has
built the road from Wagner to
Dustin. The Missouri. Oklahoma d
Gulf officials are negotiating the
sale of their entire line from Pitts
burg TO Shreveport to the Kansas
City Southern and there is a strong
possibility that the deal will go. IT
this sale is made, the new route
would become the main line OF the
Kansas City Southern, the present
line of the Kansas City Southern
from Pittsburg running through
Ioplin, Fort Smith, and Texarkana,
becoming branch which would be
devoted to local traffic. This would
give Muskogee and other territory
towns a trunk line running from
Kansas City to the Gulf of Mexico.
The new line of the Kansas City
Southern, if the consideration 10
made, will run through Alton, Wag-
oner, Muskogee, Henrietta and Dns-
tin, passing through Collegiate coal
fields and possibly through Atoka
in Indian Territory, and passing by
way of Paris, Texas, in a southeast
erly direction to Shreveport. The
Kansas City Southern would be
compelled to build south from
Pittsbury, where the Missouri, Ok
lahoma & Gulf survey crosses the
former road to Wagner and from
Dustin, the present eouthern ter
minus for the Missouri, Oklahoma
& Gulf, to Shreveport. BY making
this purchase the Kansas City
Southern road would acquire a
main line through the richest Sec
ton of Indian Territory with Elk
tenths of l per cent. maximum
grade.
"Chief Engineer A. F. Rust, Traf-
&c Expert L. ]. Polk, of the Kansas
City Southern and Superintendent
IJ.W. Huffman and Chief Engineer
II. s. Moore, of the Missouri, Okla
homa & Gulf, and w. E. Rowsey, of
this city, will leave tomorrow morn
ing for trip over the Missouri, Ok.
lahoma & Gulf south of Muskogee
for the purpose of further inspec-
ton of the road with view OF the
consolidation. When the Missouri,
lOklahom & Gulf was fret built tt
was generally believed that IL would
be acquired by the Missouri Paci-
fc Railway Company. but 1t is be-
lieved that this deal has fallen
through, and that the Kansas City
ISouthern is the only prospective
purchaser"
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