The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-07-30
LOCATION OF DIVISION POINT
Marietta Makes Especial Effort TO
Secure Shops, Hospital, Etc. The
Lines Traversine the Territory
Have Significance.

Santa Fe towns In the southern part
of the new state by the statement
that the division now located at
Gainesville will be moved to some
point further north Marietta Is
making an especial effort to secure
the division II 1t is moved and has
offered the company all the land nee
essary for the erection Of shops,
roundhouse and hospital II n hos.
pital is located they will also do.
nate enough ground so that fine
campus may be maintained. A lib
oral cash bonus Is offered In addi.
ton to the donations of land. Ard.
more will also make an effort to land
the prize
Such a movement is given especial
significance in connection with an.
other report to the effect that the
Santa Fe was to use the oklahoma
Central now in operation from L"-
high to Purcell and under construc-
tion between Purcell and Chickasha.
as a part of the new line TO New
Orleans, in connection with several
other short lines In Texas that have
been recently purchased. Complete
confirmation of the statement that a
New Orleans line is to be established
has been made by officials of the
Santa Fe, and the Oklahoma Central
might very we'll he used as a link
in that line. II crosses the Santa Fe'S
Shawnee line at Byars and the main
Gulf line at Purcell II is claimed
that a short line north from Center,
Texas, TO connect with one Of the
smaller systems recently absorbed,
and connection from Paris, Texas,
to Lehigh. would practically complete
the line. Ohicials of the Oklahoma
Central have stated that II would
be extended on northwest from
Chickasha. probably TO woodward,
which would give It still another San
Ia Fe connection.
Denver Enid & Gulf by the Santa
Fe several changes have been made
In the officers and directors of the
former road. At the last meeting J,
]. Cunningham, o. +. Fleming and
J. l.. Soule resigned as directors and
were succeeded by Henry L. Asp,
u. c. Guss and +. =. Copeland. At
the same time O. J. Fleming resigned
as treasurer and was succeeded by
T.. p. Copeland.
Talk of the building Of a Dakota.
to-the-gulf line still continues. II. l..
Resing OF Wichita, one OF the pro
moters of the Yankton, Wichita &
Gulf, still claims that the construc'
tion of that road will be commenced
before the first of the year. A new
survey has recently been made b..
tween Wichita and Wellington and
Ponca City and Pawnee, Its pur.
pose was TO find route which will
avoid the rough country tapped by
the original survey. 1t will strike
the original survey at Cleveland, O..
r. II Is the intention of the road 10
build into Houston, Texas, from
which point It would have direct
connection into Galveston over the
Galveston. Houston & Henderson
line A rival to this line is the Amer
lean Midland, chartered last week,
which proposes to build from Lang
don. y. D., south through the Da'
kotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Indian Territory and Texas to Gal
weston.
1t seems to be definitely settled
now that the Fort Smith & Western
will take no steps, for the present
at any rate, toward the building OF
its proposed extension southwest
from FL Reno. In letter Of recent
date A. c. Dustin Of Cleveland, Ohio,
president of the road, says
This extension year ago was
/ seriously considered by our company
/ but II has been postponed until We
/ know what the attitude Of the new
state is going TO be toward railroad
corporations In the present attitude
OF the public mind in Oklahoma II
would be rash man, indeed, who
would venture any further invest
ment in railroad property"
The Santa Fe has also stopped
work for the present on the line
which was 10 connect the Denver,
Enid & Gulf with the main Colorado
line, and the gap still remain un.
filled.
Minor improvements OF various
sorts are being made by nearly all