The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-09-14
GUTHRIE -KlOWA LINE
NOW BEING BALLASTED
Indicates That Il viii Be Used
As Main Line To
Western Points

Important and expensive repairs
have been made on the roadbed and
track of the Guthrie-Kiowa branch
1f the Santa Fe this year, one hun
dred and fifty miles of ballasting
operations having been carried GU.
on a larger scale than before and
surfacing of .he track has gone ahead
steadily all The summer months. a
daily average of thirty car loads OF
ballasting materials mas been receiy
ed and distributed over the roadway
during the last three months To dc
his work it has required the servic,
Of $50 men, divided into two gangs
Cuts and fills have been widened.
These men employed by the railway
viii not be turned off at the begin
ming Of the winter ard all repai
work will not cease then, but viii.
continue throughout the year, is tho
statement made. In fact, il is claim
ed that more repairing and building
viii be done this winter than has
zen accomplished during The su
ner
II present plans are not chang
The Santa Fe expects to make an i'm
,ortant branch line ont Of the Guth-
rie Klowa road and give it an impor
tant place in The system. This IS
! The statement made by officials In
| the course of a few months the heav
.er types of engine viii be put on
'alled the prairie type and in time
it is proposed to extend the line from
3elyedere, Kas., TO Dodge city, and
connect with the main line to Den
yer and also with Panhandle road 70
New Mexico Temporary ballast is
! being put down now, but the intan
ion is to lay a permanent stone bal
asst on top Of it, thereby increasine
he efficiency of the roadway The
widening of cuts and fills tends tc
strengthen belief in the proposed
plans and to indicate something OF
! heir nature.
Railroad Building in Oklahoma.
| A meeting of the board of directors
! Jf the Beaver Valley and Northwest
| arn railroad which was chartered one
year ago with $40O0000 capital C
| building 400 miles of railway, was
held in Beaver City during the las
week A proposition was received
from the Metropolitan lnvestment
company of Chicago TO finance the
building from Gage, in Ellis county
| north and west through Woodward
Harper. Beaver and Texas counties tC
Hooker, on the El Paso line Of the
| Rock Island. President KaatZ of the
| Chicago company met with the board
nd submitted the proposition, ask
ing the railroad company to give {
first mortgage on the entire road o.
100 miles. as called for in the char
er, and then float bonds to build the
DAD. Fifteen thousand dollars east
IS demanded with which to start con
itruction
The line of railway through West
arn Oklahoma, with Woodward a
temporary northern terminus. Is be
ing projected by Major E c. Cor
don of Atlanta, Ga, brother of th'
late Gen John B Gordon He il
travelling over the proposed route in
vestigating conditions and making
tentative proposition . towns inter
asted. He is m lis Oklahoma
headquarters at n dL His prOpo
sItion is to build north to a conneC
lion with the El Paso line of TIL
Rock Island in Southern Kansas an,
south via Cestos, Lenora and Taloga
in Western Oklahoma to Chickashs
Such a line will cross the Orient
Frisco and Choctaw railroads il
Western Oklahoma, and in Chickash
connection would be made with tn
main lines OF the Rock Island an
Frisco.
J. A. Kemp, president Of tn
Wichita Falls and Northwestern raj
road, has announced that the roa
will shortly be extended northwes
from Maneum, intersecting the Roc
Island either at Sayre or Elk Cit
The extension from Frederick ives
20 Mangum will be competed /
October. and the northwest extensio
by February. The line is now
operation across Southern Oklahom
! from Wichita Falls. Texas, to Fret
. eriek. in Tlllman county.
Promoters who are projecting
. railroad from Aransas Pass. Texa
I to Vernon. Texas, visited Chattano
+, ga and other towns in the Red riv'
= section Of oklahoma during the Ia
: week investigating conditions rel
iYe - building .he line across =
red river into this state.