The Globe-republican., 1909-06-17
MAYOR AND OTHER REPRE-.
SENTATlvES OF DODGE
VISIT SOUTHWEST
COUNTIES
THEY'RE BUILDING A RAILROAD
G. C. Brown and Party Have
Been Conferring With Peo-'
>pIe Along the Line.


Monday morning for trip over the
proposed line OF the Farmers and
Stockgrowers 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 termination in the coal
fields at or near Trinidad, Colorado.
The plan is for the farmers through
this territory to build their own line.
Mr.. G. O. Brown Of Plains, who has
been interested for years in develop
ing Southwestern Kansas, is at the
head Of the project. He has made a
success Of everything be has ever un-
dertaken 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 later a
meeting was held at a school house
farther along, and the people in that
part Of the country showed enthusi
asm in q very marked degree. The
farther down the line, the greater the
need OF railroad is, and the interest
shown 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
ity 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 So per acre on the
amount Of land they own. The av-
erage man will jump at such an op-
portunity. The fellow who by nature
is inclined to pull 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 it. 1t means a developed coun-
try, valuable lands, improved schools,
and the ordinary comforts and con-
veniences enjoyed by other localities.
With a railroad they have q 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 we'll known over Kansas, and q
man that Kansas people have a great
deal OF confidence in. While Mr..
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 q boy, loves the state, and al
ways has had confidence in the west
ern part.
The Dodge crowd started from
town at about 8 o'clock Monday
morning with train Of automobiles.
Besides Mr.. Taylor, Mr.. Brown had
a friend with him who is an engineer,
and another man who is acting as his
secretary, and +. M. Steele, the
Dodge City photographer who went
with the party to make views Of the
trip.
Mayor Gluck went with the Dodge
crowd, also L ]. Pettijohn. A, Rus
sell, DR.. 0. H. Simpson, DR., @. A.
Milton, e. N Slocum, L. G. Gro
betty, T. j. Schall, M. M. Gwinner-
R. M. Hart aud R. s. Ogilvy. After
the first two meetings DR.. Milton,
nr S;mnaon and Mesara Grohaty