The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-22
RAILROAD NEWS.
Farmers Planning a Railroad
Out of Garden City.
To Extend Through Southwest
ern Corner of State.
TO END AT TRINIDAD
Carr w. Taylor Is One Of Chief
Promoters.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.
TO END AT TRINIDAD

Dodge City, Kan, June ga
Dodge City party started out Monday
morning for a trip over the proposed
line of the Farmers and ockgrowers
railroad, the road that is to be built
from Dodge City to Santa Fe, New
Ulysses and Johnson City. and to the
Colorado line. with the ultimate ter
mination in the coal fields at or near
Trinidad, Colo.
The plan is for the farmers
through this territory to build their
own line. Mr.. G.. c. Brown of
Plains, who has been interested for
years in developing southwestern
Kansas, is at the head of the project.
He has made a success of everything
he has ever undertaken in this part
of the state. and is man of good
business judgment and untiring
energy.
The first meeting was held at En-
sign Monday morning and after a
meeting was held at a school house
farther along, and the people in that
iasm in a very marked degree. The
farther down the line, the greater the
SEeed of a railroad is, and the interest
tbhown in the road at the very start,
at this end of the line was very en-
couraging.
The proposition is simple one.
A railroad through this territory will
double the value of the land. South
western Kansas farmers, the major
tty of them, are pretty good business
men. Here is proposition that will
increase the value of their land $40
per acre. The most the road will
cost any of them is 81 per acre on the
amount of land they own. The aver
age man will jump at such an oppor-
tunity. The fellow who by nature is
inclined to Gull back is likely in the
end to follow the lead of his more
enterprising neighbors.
The matter is up to the people who
own the land. They want the road
and in fact they can't get along with
out 1t. 1t means developed coun-
try, valuable lands, improved schools,
and the ordinary comforts and con-
veniences enjoyed by other localities.
With a railroad they have a great
country. At present they are prac-
tically on the frontier as much as they
were thirty years ago, some of them
over fifty miles from a railroad. The
railroad to them means the moving
of their homes into the heart of Kan
sas. from "Arkansaw'' or something
to that effect.
The speaker with the Dodge City
party on the trip this week was Mr..
Carr w. Taylor of Hutchinson, who
is well known over Kansas and a
man that Kansas people have q great
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Taylor has nothing personally to do
with the project, and is making the
trip as the attorney of Mr.. Brown,
he is enthusiastic over the enterprise.
He has been in western Kansas since
he was a boy, loves the state. and al
ways has had confidence in the west
ern part.
The Dodge City crowd started from
town at about O'Clock Monday
morning with train of automobiles.
Besides Mr.. Taylor, Mr. Brown had
a friend with him who is an en-
gineer, and another man who is act
ing as his secretary and F. NJ. Steele,
the Dodge City photographer who
went with the party to make views
OF the trip.
Mayor Gluck went with the Dodge
City crowd, also L. J. Pettijohn, A.
Russell. DR.. o. H. Simpson, Dr. c. A.
Milton. E. N. Slocum, L. G.. Gro
betty. T. ]. Schall. NJ. W. Gwinner,
r. NJ. Hart and r. s. Ogilvy. After
the first two meetings DIR. Milton,
DIR. Simpson and Messrs. Grobety and
Schall returned