Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-23
PETITIONS ARE OUT.
The d. X. & G. X. r. Co. Ask 500, 900
County Bonds. Petition fOrSpecial
Election Now in Circulation.

vote aid for the Denver, Kansas &
Gulf railroad in the amount of
100000 are now being circulated
among the taxpayers and as soon
as the requisite two-hfths resident
taxpayers sign, the petition will be
presented to the County Commits
sionerS who will then call special
election and it will be up to the
voters to either accept or reject the
road. If the bonds are voted it is
an assured fact that the county will
secure the road; if they are defeat
ed it is equally certain that it will
go west of us. As stated several
times before, this road is an actual
and known quantity from Guthrie
to Cherokee, Oklahoma and it is
going northwest to connect with a
through line to Denver and Ne
braska as sure as night follows day,
the only question being the terri
tory it will traverse. To put it
plainly, it will not go where the
people do not want it. The D. K.
& G.. people have all the wealth at
their command they need and are
independent. There are several
ways they can go.
The main line through Barber
county will be a fraction over for
ty-seven miles in length, entering
at the state line south of Kiowa
and going out at the Barber-Pratt
Couty line south Of Coats. This
amounts to a practical diagonal
line through the county, embracing
some of the richest agricultural
sections and also opening up aven
ues to develop our almost unlimited
gypsum cement resources lying west
and northwest of Medicine Lodge.
This in addition to the "feeder" not
ed below, to extend from Medicine
Lodge through the northeast part
of the county and on to kingman
and Mcpherson, will equip Barber
county with railroad facilities sec
ond to no other county in Kansas,
giving it total of about sixty
miles of new railroad.
Another feature of incalCulable
value to the county is the fact that
Medicine Lodge is named in the
charter as the company's headquar
ters and by the very nature Of
things will be a central point after
the system with its tributaries is in
operation.
The incorporators of the COM
pany are: Breckenridge Jones of
st. Louis, who owns 5000 shares of
the stock; Ed. l.. Peckham of Black
we'll, Ok, who owns 5000 shares
and the following persons who own
one share each: J. S. Cunningham,
Enid, Ok; c. J. Rhoads, Denver;
w. c. Robson, Winfield;
c. 9. Chandler, Medicine Lodge
and Milton Brown of Topeka. The
purpose of the company as set
forth in the application will per-
NIT the new company to run feed
ers through nearly every wheat
belt. The estimated length of the
main line is three hundred miles.
1t is the purpose Of the company
to make this the big trunk line of
the country and looking to that
end the charter provides for three
feeders along the route.
Branch line No. one will begin
at Medicine Lodge and run north
east through Sharon township to
the creek in Kingman county, south
of Nashville thence northeasterly to
Kingman, thence northeast from
Kingman to Burton thence north to
Mcpherson. From Mcpherson to
Concordia the Union Pacific prac-
tically has line in operation and
by building from Culver across to
Minneapolis about s miles, and
from Glasco to Concordia about S
miles, there will only have to be