The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-01
Road From Beloit to Kearney to
BE Built Soon.
Line Will Be a Short Cut From
Cheyenne to IL. C.
PROMOTERS ACTIVE
Now Completing Arrangements
For Letting Contract.
Other Items of Interest in
Railway Circles.

| Beloit, Kan, July 1T is the genera
crinion of the promoters of the Dakota
Kansas & Gulf railroad that it will be
constructed at an early date The road
as now proposed will run from Beloit
to kearney, Neb., passing through the
| counties OF Mitchell. Jewell and Smith
in Kansas, and Franklin. Kearney and
Buffalo in Nebraska. The distance from
Beloit TO Kearney is about no miles. L
is claimed that the construction of this
line will complete link in the Union
Pacific system which would make the
| distance between Kansas City and
| Cheyenne over 100 miles. shorter than
| by way of Denver. This new linz will
run from Beloit to Solomon Rapids, in
Mitchell county, thence to Ionia, in
| Jewell county, and Smith Center or
Lebanon, Smith county, thence to
Franklin, Neb., and continue on to
Hfldreth, Minden or Axtell, and to
Kearney.
The Beloit stockholders who have al
ready been over the proposed line say
that the country from the Platte river
about three miles from Kearney, to the
Republican river at Franklin, about 81
miles, is as beautiful as it is fertile
and prolific. The same is true of the
Ionia country as well as that in Smith
county.
F. 7. Burnhana, Who is pushing the
Garden City and Stockton project, and
motors in the state, is director in the
Dakota, Kansas & Gulf, and also as
sistant general attorney.
The towns through which the Beloit
& Kearney road will run have already
guaranteed not less than $4,000 for the
preliminary work alone. Besides there
is no doubt but that Beloit will vote
rot less than $40. 600 bonds for termi-
mails.
The Interurban Construction com
pany, of New York. of which Leslie M.
Shaw is president, has agreed and sign
ed a contract to finance&and construct the
Dakota, Kansas & Gulf road inside of
two years.
At a meeting of the directors held
here recently a subcommittee of three
consisting of John w. Patterson. mayor
dent of tie First National bank of
Beloit, and c. Hildreth. a banker of
Franklin, Neb, was appointed to nego-
tiate with other railroad construction
companies. 1t IS expected this com
mittee will make it's report July IA, to
the full committee at a meeting to be
held in Kearney. Neb. Immediately af-
ter this meeting another one will be-
announced for Beloit, when it is be-
Ieved that some construction company
will receive the contract for the actual
comme1cen ent of work. The object of
the subcommittee is to determine the
companies, and to recommend the best
one to deal with. The Beloit stock |
holders believe the Interurban Con-
struction company, of New York, will
be awarded the contract to build the
road. The men who are in position to
know claim that the Sc, 900 already
guaranteed in the towns between Be
lott and Kearney for the preliminary
work alone, that not less than one-half
of this amount has been paid in and
deposited in the several banks. The
balance and more, if necessary, can
be collected at once.
The entire country is aroused over
this proposed railroad project, and the
feeling is general that it will be con-
structed, and that work will commence
H. the next few weeks.