Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-07-07
GREAT BEND &
GULF RAILWAY
A Trunk Line From The Wheat
Belt South to The Gulf
OF Mexico.
WHO ARE BEHIND THE ROAD.
The People of the Territory Covered
Will Be Asked to Give Financial
Aid in the Way of Bonds.
AN OPPORTUNITY, GRASP IT NOW.

On June 30th the Great Bend &
Gulf Railway Company was duly in
corporated under the laws of the state
of Kansas. The following named
gentlemen appear asthe incorporators:
Ralph c. Otis, B. c. Sammons, Her
bert S. Duncombe, Robert Pringle,
Marshall E. Sampsell, W. E. Phillips
and w. H. HORNE, ali of Chicago;
and F. V. Russell, E. w. Moses, J..
George Brinkman, G. L. Chapman,
E. r. Moses and o. w. Dawson of
Great Bend. The company is Capi-
talized for one million, five hund1e ed
thousand dollars and its avowed
object is to construct, operate and
maintain a standard gauge railroad,
with all necessary equipment, ETC.,
from Great Bend to Medicine Lodge.
This company is really the successor
of The Great Bend Southern and has
been created in furtherance of the
original project for north and south
trunk line through the wheat Ielt to
the gulf. The capitalization of TIE
Great Bend Southern was nominal
only and it became necessary to rein
corporate with capital stock adequate
for the completion of the first link in
what we trust will become a great
trans-continental system.
That the present proposition is
being developed in absolute good faith
is fully guaranteed by the high charac-
ter and standing of the incorporators
and those identified with them in the
enterprise. They are men represent
ing large financial interests. Many
of them are of national prominence
and their sincerity and their ability to
accomplish what they undertake can
not be questioned.
The men and the interests they
are in part the following:
B. c. Sammons of the Corn Exchange
National Bank; r. c. Otis of the
Chicago Savings Bank; Jas. H. Gil
bert of the Metropolitan Trust and
Savings Bank; w. E. Phillips of the
Federal Trust and Savings Bank; M.
E. Sampsell, Receiver of the Union
Traction Company; w. W. Gurley,
General Counsel for the Union
Traction Company interests; F. G.
Lydon of the dredging company; E.
A. Potter, President of the NATION
Electric Railway Company; H: S.
Duncombe, General Counsel for the
Chicago Life Insurance Company:
w. H. HORNE, ex-national bank ex-
aminer; w. T. Joyce, representing the
Lumber interests; F. S. Peabody, rep
resenting the coal and fuel interests;
and Pringle, Fitch and Rankin, bond
and stock brokers, all OF Chicago; C.
L. English of the First National Bank
of Danville, Illinois; John Crocker,
banker of Maroa, Illinois; H. D.
Watson, now of Chicago, but largely
interested at Kearney, Nebraska; and
many others of like financial and
business prominence. The local in
corporators are too well known 10
need comment.
All preli minary details have been
worked out. Franchises have been
granted by the various cities along
the line. Satisfactory surveys have
been made and are now being COM
pleted. Petitions will be circulated
Immediately in the various cities and
townships intersected by the road for
the calling of special elections to vote
aid to the enterprise and the result of