Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-02-14
vice President and Manager Peckham,
Judge Bierer and others Arrived Mon.
day. Mass Meeting Yesterday.
PUBLIC SENTIMENT
Strongly in Favor of the Roads Build.
ing under any Name. Resolution
adopted without dissenting vote.

Vice President and General
Manager Ed L. Peckham of Enid,
Judge Bierer of Guthrie, w. c.
Robinson of Winfield and several
other stockholders of the Denver,
Enid g Gulf Railroad Company
arrived in this city yesterday after
noon to personally take up the
proposition on the ground, with
reference to extending the line from
Kiowa to Dodge City. Their prin.
cipal purpose in making this visit
was to get in touch with local con-
ditions, meet the people and ascer
tain what public sentiment is with
reference to building the road un-
der the new order of things arising
out of the sale of the Okla homa
line to the Santa Fe, and with that
end in view mass meeting was
advertised last week to be held in
this city Tuesday yesterday after
noon. There was liberal response
on the part Of the citizens from diff
ferent portions of the county and
we think the visiting gentlemen
were thoroughly satisfied that Bar
Der county wants the work to pro-
ceed-that while they may have
preferred an independent line, a
Santa Fe main line and over fifty
miles Of additional road will am
ply compensate for the aid voted
In the fall.
The gentlemen were very frank
to say that if the road should be
built it would be sold to the Santa
Ne as sood as completed and that
it would not be built if the people
of Barber comfy do not want it..
If sentiment is against it, they said
work would stop and the county
not having paid cent would lose
nothingi and it and the county,
could part friends. On the other
hand, if the people are thoroughly
satisfied to deliver the bonds voted
in the fall, under present arrange
ments, work would be pushed as
speedily as possible and the road
completed inside of the specified
time which is now about IS months.
To show what the people think
about the proposition the follow
ing resolution was introduced and
adopted unanimously:
Be it resolved, by mass con-
vention of the citizens and taxpay
ers of Barber County, Kansas, held
at Medicine Lodge, Ka nsas, on the
18th day of February, 1906, that
we hereby adopt the following
Petition to the Denver, Kansas &
Gulf Railway Company:
Whereas, on the 9TH day of No
vember, 1905, the qualified voters
of-Barber County, Kansas, by a
large majority voted in favor of
the making of a subscription for
$1oo,ooo.oo of the capital stock of
the Denver, Kansas & Gulf Rail
way Company, and to issue bonds
in the same sum therefor to aid in
the construction of the Denver,
Kansas & Gulf Railway, from a
point on the state line near Kiowa,
Kansas, through Barber County
and in a northwesterly direction;
said line to connect at the State
line with the Denver, Enid & Gulf
Railroad, and,
Whereas, the Denver, Enid &
Gulf Railroad has since that time
been sold to the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe Railway Company,
and the Denver, Enid & Gulf Rail
road will become a part of the San
ia Fe System, and if the Denver,
Kansas & Gulf Railway is built
upon the line proposed in the prop
osition as submitted to the voters
of Barber County at said election,
IT will be sold and transferred to
the Denver, Enid s. Gulf Rail
road Company or the Santa Fe