Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-09-02
The 6. c. 6. And N
R. II.

tory where large force is laying
rails, surfacing the track and doing
all the work required in the con-
structing of railroad will convince
anyone that the Garden City, Gulf
and Northern Railroad is fast be-
coming an actual fact and the prom
ise that cars will be running to Scott
City by the first of the year seems an
easy task and we are confident that
Messrs. McCue and Tennis will make
good their promise.
All along the side tracks at the
sugar factory thousands of ties are
piled up and thousands of feet of
lumber that will be used in con-
struction of the road, and in ad-
dltlon to this are stacks of switches,
frogs, fish plates, spikes and mater
ial of all kinds, The track extends
from the Santa Fe north for a con-
siderable distance and the "wye"
has all been completed, together
with the water tank and coal bins
for the engine. Looking north the
grade runs in a perfectly straight
line as far as you can see and where
the ties and rails are laid it looks as
though the track had been put down
with a level. The track is smooth
and the ends of the ties are all on a
line. This is the way it will run for
the 40 miles into Scott Guy without
a curve and no heavy grade, and
when completed will make as pretty
a piece of track as can be fond in
the country. The material used in
the construction of the road is of the
very best, all bridges are to be of
cement and the rails axe as heavy as
those used on the best cons ructed
roads in the coantry. The engine
to be used on the construction train
IS all ready to be fred up and will be
put into commission within a few
days. Grading and placing ties
down into the city is progressing in
a satisfactory way and there is now
no question that this much needed
north and south road across West
ern Kansas is TO be realized.
Messrs McCue and Tennis have
met with many difficulties and much
opposition from some quarters but
they have gone ahead meeting one
difficulty after another and settling
each in satisfactory manner and
now they can see the results of their
labors about to bear fruit.
i Garden City hardly realized what
ibis road will mean to. her or appre-
clates the amount of labor that
these men have expended upon the
project.-Extract from Garden City
| Herald, August 20, 1900.
In connection with the above, a
friend who has some inside ,infor-
nation handed us the following.
There is sufficient probability of the
road being built and being built
along the line indicated below to in
terest the people.
1t was the intention 10 enter
Meade Co, on sec 53o-2o running
thence southeast through Jaspar,
down Spring and Crooked Creek and
out of the county near the S. E.
corner. We are now informed that
since becoming cognizant of the
Mennonite colony and its success.
The Company has decidedto to change
the course of the road ane run from
Jaspar southeast crossing Crooked
Greek above the Salt Well. thence
southeast through the Mennonite
settlement and Lakeland. This
seems to be wis., change as it will
bring the road through Meade,
crossing Crooked Greek on the cas-
lest grade and cover the maximum
percent of agricultural land of the
county.
BORN: To Mr.. and Mrs. Tobe
Cook on August 81 10 pound boy.
Mother and child doing well and
Tobe smiling.