The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-06
Contract Has Been Let for Gull,
PIainville g. Northern.
Work of Building the Line Will
Begin at Once:
W.C.ROSS, CONTRACTOR
Says Part of the Road Will BE
Completed Before Winter.
Other Items of Interest to
Railway People.

ePlainville- Kan. Aug. 6.-The Gulf
Plainville & Northern Railroad COM
pany has closed a contract with the
w. c. Ross company of Chicago 1of
the immediate construction of the road
Mr.. Ross has been in this city for some
days. He claims he will be able to
put the road through to the Rock Is
land railway before snow flies. How
ever he Is given the same time as the
company has to earn the bonds in the
various townships
He expects rails and ties to COM
rnence arriving next week. There is no
trouble in obtaining railroad material
at this time as there is scarcely any
railroad building going on at all in the
west The firms having material to
sell are anxious to dispose of the same.
What it takes is the cash to buy ma
terial.
Mr. Ross will sub-contract the grad
ing but will furnish his own track lay
ing crew. Rails will be laid as fast as
the grade is completed.
The road is being financed by west
ern and eastern capital No names are
given
1t is expected that the road will
eventually run from Phillipsburg or
Norton to Anthony. Kan, connecting
there with Orient, Rock Island, Santa
Fe and Missouri Pacific.
Work will be started at once on the
north end. 1t will commence at Plain
Vile Immediately and work north As
soon as the north terminus Is settled
Mr.. Ross expects to put crews at work
from there south.
The engineering corps will be here
Monday or Tuesday. Mr.. Pat Kilfoy of
Chicago will have charge of the
grading crew. He is here getting af-
fairs in readiness.
The matter of whether the road will
go east to Phillipsburg or west to Nor
ton will be settled soon.
No trouble is anticipated in getting
men. One of Stilwelis men with 60
teams has applied for a contract. Mr..
Thuvenall of Lucas will probably fin
ish the half mile contract on the old
Click place one mile north of town
which is the only unfinished portion of
the IA miles of grade extending north
of town.
Benz. Davis started last week to
build a house on the right away
foundation completed Mr.. Cochran
bought the place in order to avoid
trouble in securing the right of way.
Materials consisting of track laying
attachments, scrapers, rail benders,
etc, are expected next week.
The road is entirely independent and
the Rock Island and no other road has
a thing to do with it.. Arthur Stilwell
the great builder of the Kansas City |
Southern and Orient is greatly inter |
ested in the road in a friendly way and |
believes it will be a paying investment. |
He would like to have the privilege OF /
operating 1t in connection with the |
Orient system.
Mr. Ross, the new contractor for the |
road is a former Kansas man and has |
unlimited faith in the enterprise. He |
has built railroads all over the coun-
try and helped in building the Kansas
City Electric car line and in putting in
va terworks plants for various large
titles. At present he is building the
Canon City and Royal Gorge Electric
In "a
,fice force in Chicago which looks af-
er buying supplies and keeps things
moving on the various enterprises in
which he is engaged. He is a man of
ncreditable energy. He has been in
he contracting business for the past
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