The Randall County news. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1908-1926, 1909-01-01
RAILWAY LINE
TO SOUTHEAST
NEWS REPORTER INTERVIEWS LOCAL COM
MTTEE RELATIVE TO THE PROGRESS.
Practically all Of Subscription from Canyon City
Now is Raised-County Land
Owners Must Come Up.

1HcIc lldS Dccu qulUe q ldxlUy
in the work of procuring the
subscriptions to the bonds for
the new railway from this city
to the southeast during the past
two weeks, especially during the
holiday week. The local COM
mittee met again Wednesday
and discussed all the phrases of
the work in this county.
The News man secured an in
terview from l.. G. Conner, John
Knight and George A. Brandon,
members of the committee and
it fully sets forth the work done
and what must be done in order
to assure the building of this
project, and we give the inter.
view in full below:
The local committee is now in
a position to say that the bonus
required of Canyon City for the
railway to run from this place
via Silverton and on to a south
ern connection is about made up,
Of the one hundred and eighty
odd town property owners so far
approached all have signed, COM
ing up with their full assessment
especially on real estate, except
about twenty. This speaks ele-
gantly for the public spirit and
progressiveness of the towns
and if the committee could only
say half that much of the coun--
try the thing would be DOR,
the --Hilway a certainty; ,,,cation
SIN the country
VIZ II and the old
about Ceta, neafIy ali or the resi-
dent land owners have signed up
the necessary contracts, but be.
tween here and there the COM
mittee, so far, has met with
small encourage. The main
trouble has been with non-resi-
dent owners. These people, and
they represent near half of all the
land owners concerned, are ex-
tremely slow about signing up;
some of them, large owners too,
have even refused so to do. They,
these residents, seemingly,
either do not want the proposed
railway, or else they are bent on
letting the other fellow pay the
bill if it does go. To all such, the
committee here and now begs
leave to remark that without
their assistance the proposition
is, as Judge Haney would say;
ready to die right now"
THE committee has not tie
least hesitation in saying that
Canyon City will do her part to-
ward this enterprises ready
now to do 1t. The committee
also desires to say that the coun-
try too must come up and that
very soon or the project will be,
in so far as Canyon City is con-
cerned, abandoned
The benefits to the country, a
distance of twenty-four miles
from the town limits to the
southeastern boundary of the
county, through which this rail
way would pass, in the way of
increased market facilities for
handling farm products would
be immense, to say nothing at
all of greatly increased valuation
of the lands themselves. This
should be, and is clearly appar-
ent to every reasonable person
and just why such people with
hold the small amount asked for
as necessary to secure the road
is beyond the ken of this com
mittee unless, it be, as previous
ly stated, they think it will be a
go" anyway.
THE promoter, Major Gordon,
is getting impatient of further
delay in this matter and well he
may be. In fact there is already
on foot a movement to consider