The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-08-18
ANOTHER ROAD FOR GOODLAND
BRANCH LINE TO BE BUILT IN
NORTHWEST KANSAS.
Come to acknowledgement
Has Been Chartered.

Topeka, Aug. 15.-Application was
made here today for charter for
railroad company, the purpose Of
which is to connect the Hartman
railroads in the northwestern part Of
the United States with the Hartman
lines running to New Orleans and
through southeastern states. The new
railroad will run throuh the Kansas
wheat belt and be chartered under
the name Of the Denver, Kansas and
Gulf. The capital stock Of the COM
pany is two million dollars, one-half
million Of which has been subscribed
The new railroad will connect with
the Burlinton lines on the north eth
/ er at OrOnOque, in Norton county,
Kansas, or Republican Junction in
Harlan county, Nebraska 1t will run
| south from one of these places to
Hays City and then through Great
| Bend or Larned to Pratt and out Of
1 the state at KiOwa. At Cherokee.
i Ok, it will connect with the Denver.
/ Enid and Gulf, a few miles Of which
Il Is IN operation. 1t will run east from
i Oklahoma City 10 Texarkana, where
i il will connect with the Southern Pa
/ cific. The headquarters OF the new
Il
/ The incOrpOratOrs OF the com Llny
l are: Breckenridge Jones Of St Louis,
1 who owns 5000 shares Of the stock;
/ Ed l. Peckham of Blackwell, Ok,
/ who owns 5000 shares, and the foi-
| lowing persons who own share each.
J. J. Cunningham, Enid, Ok; c J.
RhOads, Medicine Lodge; W. c. Rob
insons Winfield; c O. Chandler, Medi-
cine Lode, ard Milton Brown, T5De,.a.
The purpose OF the company as set
forth in the application will permit
| the new company to run feeders
/ through nearly every county in the
/ wheat belt These purposes are as
| follows:
The corporation is formed to build,
operate and maintain a line Of stand
ard gauge railroad in the state Of Kan
sas from the point where the Denver
Enid and Gulf Railroad cOmpany's
line Of railroad intersects the state line
Il between the state Of Kansas and the
/ territory OF Oklahoma west of the
! ninety-eighth deree parallel Of lOngi-
| tude; thence in a north or in a north
westerly direction across the state Of
Kansas to the state line between the
/ states Of Kansas to the state line be-
tween the states of Kansas and Neb-
raska at a point between said ninety
/ eighth degree parallel and the one
one hundred and second degree para
llel Of longitude as shall be hereafter
determined by final location and sur
vey, and traversing by said line Of
railroad such counties as shall be on
said line Of final location and survey
Of the following counties in the state
Of Kansas, tO-wit:
Barber, Pratt, Stafford, Barton,
Russell, Osborn, Smith, Phillips,
Rocks, Ellis, Rush, Pawnee, Lane,
Finney, Scott, Edwards, KiOwa, Com
manche, Clark, Ford, HOdgeman,
Ness, Trego, Cove, Logan, Thomas,
Graham, Sheridan, Norton, Decatur,
Wichita, Rawlins, Wallace, Sherman
and Cheyenne; the foregoing to be
known as the general route, main line
and line No. 1, and the points Of ter
minus; also to build, operate and main
tain in connection with said general
route branch line running from said
main lnie nOrtheasterly through such
Of the following counties in Kansas
as may be hereafter determined by
final survey and location, to-wit: The
counties hereinbefOre named and the
counties Of Kingman, Reno, Rice. Nc
PhersOn, Saline, Ottawa and Cloud,
to the Republican river in said last
named county, and to be known as
line No 2
Also to build, operate and maintain
in connection with the foregoing a
branch line running from where the
said the Denver, Kansas and Gulf
Railroad company shall cross the
main line Of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe railway, thence in a north
easterly direction through such Of the
following counties in Kansas as may
be hereafter determined by final sur
yey and location, tO-wit: The cOun-
ties hereinbefOre named and the cOun-
ties OF Ellsworth, Lincoln, Mitchell, to
the Republican river in Cloud county
aforesaid, and to be known as line
No. 3; also to build, operate and
maintain such other branch lines or
feeders as the board OF directors Of
the said Denver, Kansas and Gulf
Railroad company may from time to
time determine; also in connection
with said lines Of railroad to build,
operate and maintain lines Of tele-
phone and telegraph.
The estimated length OF the main
/ line IS three hundred miles.
POeflcaI Justice