Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-04-19
R. R. DEVELOPMENTS.
Representatives Of the Medicine Valley
4 Western Confer with Barber
County Citizens.
SANTA FE CUTOFF TO CALIFORNIA.

considerable activity among Barber
county people who are interested
in securing the Medicine Valley &
, Western railroad. Representatives
OF the new company were here part
OF last and this week to talk over
the situation and ascertain what
the different townships through
which the new road proposes to
:. build, are willing to do. This road
proposes to build from Independ
enCe, Kansas, to Trinidad, Colora-
do. There is not much doubt that
the road will be built, but whether
or not it will pass through Barber
county will depend largely upon
what the people do to secure it.
The townships in this county
which will be affected if the road
is built are Sharon, MedicineLodge,
Mingona, Lake City, Sun City and
Turkey Creek, and to get the mat
ter properly before the people of
those communities, meetings were
arranged as follows for the purpose
Of taking the matter up with the
representatives of the company:
Medicine Lodge, Saturday, April
18th, 3 P. M; Mingona, Tuesday,
April 18th, 8 P. m; Lake City,
Wednesday, April 10Th, 10 a. rn.;
Sun City, Wednesday, April 10Th,
e. 3 p. m; Turkey Creek school house,
Wednesday, April 10Th, p. m.
The Index was printed too early
to report the proceeding of any of
the meetings thus far held except.
ing the one held in this city on Sat-
urday. This one was fairly we'll
attended and everybody was ready
to take the matter up with the COM
pany and do all in their power to
bring it to a successful issue. T.
L. Lindley was chairman of the
meeting and Seward |. Field was
secretary. The following executive
committee was appointed to confer
with the company and to appoint
subcommittee if deemed neces-
sary:
CO. Chandler, Samuel Stewart,
F. B. Chaplin, !. N. Titus, !. P.
Hall, Jas. Dobbs, ]. B. Gano, John
MacGregor, Otis Lorton, ]. NJ.
Hall, U. c. Herr.
While there is nothing definite
as to the nature of the aid that the
company desires, it is agreed that
the only substantial assistance
which can be given would be in
the nature of township bonds.
Each township through which the
road is to pass can, if it desires,
; vote bonds to a certain amount.
Anyway it is proable that a def
mite proposition will be made this
week and it will then be up to our
people to either accept or reject it.
That the county needs better
railroad service there is no doubt.
That we would all like to havetan-
other road is equally doubtless,
and that it would be welcomed
without giving financial aid is
also true; but railroad builders are
not charitable institutions and
Medicine Lodge and Barber coun-
ty are no more to them than other
places, hence as long as other cities
and counties offer inducements to
secure railroads, we will have it to
do also or not get the roads. That
is the situation exact, and this is
the view every taxpayer should
take.
Regardless of whether a new
road is built or not, the people of
this part of Kansas, as we'll as those
residing in Oklahoma, are congrat-
ulating themselves upon the fact
that the Santa Fe has finally
reached a definite decision to build
the long agitated cutoff to the