The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-08-04
LEHORA BRANCH EXTENSION
GOODLAND SEEMS DESTINED TO
GET ANOTHER RAILROAD.
LcnOra Branch May Be Extended to
Denver, and the Burlington May
Come From Northeast.

The Denver News says that since
the announcement was made a few
days ago that George J. Gould, head
Of the Gould system OF railroads,
would personally attend the meeting
Of stockholders Of the Denver and Rio
Grande, which viii be held in Denver
during the latter part of October,
there has been considerable specula-
ton as to the real reason for his visit
The most plausible theory to railroad
men is that Gould intends to build a
new road that will give him a trans
continental line.
1t was given out that Mr. Gould is
coming to Denver to aid in floating a
$45, OOO,O 900 bond issue for the COM
pIetiOn Of the Western Pacific This
is not generally conceded, as the issue
has already been authorized and the
meeting next October viii merely rat
ify IT. It is believed that he is plan
ming to extend the Missouri Pacific
line from AtchisOn and St. Joseph to
LenOra, Kan, westward to Denver
and that his visit to Denver viii be
primarily for this purpose
The Gould people have had this ex-
tension under consideration for some
time, and il is believed that they have
decided to build. As most Of the
country DELH EEl LEW Ct anu LElDLa
is perfectly level, there viii be no en-
cheering feats TO COn5ure with, and
the building Of the road can be ac-
cOmplished cheaply and with dis
patch With this road built and the
Western Pacific completed, the Gould
system viii have a transcOntinental
road from San Francisco to New
York, and Denver will be on the di-
rect road TO such a line for the first
time in her history.
Besides the LenOra-Denver gap, a
road connecting AtchisOn and Omaha
will have to be built, and this VIII
complete the direct road The West
ern Pacific viii then be the route
from san Francisco to salt Lake, the
Denver and Rio Grande to Denver,
the Missouri Pacific to Omaha, the
Wabash to Chicago and Buffalo, and
the New York Central to New York
In addition to giving the Gould sys-
TEN a transcOntinental road, it viii
provide it the shortest road between
the two seaport cities, and. railroad
men believe, enable a reduction Of
the running time between the two
cities from ninety 10 eighty hours
If the Lenora branch Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, which ends at LenOra,
in Norton county. should be extern
ded west to Denver, GOOdland would
no doubt get another railroad, as this
town is approximately in line with
such an extension The building Of
this branch line westward has been
matter of railroad talk for several
years, and where there is so much
smoke, there is very liable to be a
little fire.
However, if that project should fail
to materalize, GOodland has still an
other hope coming for a second road,
that Of the Burlington, which is also
after Pueblo from the northeast Of
here 1t has been correctly reported
that surveyors Of the Burlington are
now at work on a survey from the
branch line OF which Oberlin is the
terminal The survey has been run
from there into Rawlins and viii ex-
tend into Sherman county on the
northeast corner, near the Mortified
pOstOffice- A Sherman county man,
living near Northfield, says the sur
now, and that he saw a map Of the
proposed line on paper, which indi-
Gated that. the survey would cross this
county slightly diagonallE. running to
the north Of GoOdland for several
miles and touching Kanorado, in this
county at the state line
People who can put two and two
together VIII readily see that that Is
the first play on the chess board for
GOOdland- In all probability the rail-
road company would like to be coax
ed TO come here. and ali they would
be waiting for would be perhaps the
prOIer OF a free site and maybe, a reG-
Sonable amount in bonds