Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-15
First Published ia The Barber County Index
December IS. 1909.
Notice of Condemnation

STATE OF KANSAS, BARBER COUNTY, IS:
In the matter of the appropriation of lands
The kiowa, Hardtner & Pacific, Railway
Company.
The State of Kansas to all persons interest
ed in or claiming any title to or interest in
any lands desired for the use of The Kiowa,
Hardtner Pacific Railway Company:
Notice is hereby given that we. the under
signed. commissioners thereunto duly ap-
pointed by the Honorable P. b. GIlIett, Judge
of the District Court of Barber County, Kan
sas, will, on
TUESDAY, the 18th day of JANUARY, 1910,
at 10 o'clock A. NJ. of said day, proceed to lay
off, according to law for The Kiowa. Hardi<
ner & Pacific Railway Company along the line
OF its proposed railroad, as now surveyed and
located by said company. such survey and To-
cation to be shown by the map of the road
line or route of said railroad, TO be filed in the
Office of the County Clerk of Barber County.
Ks.a route for said proposed railroad, through
and across the quarter-sections or other lots
or tracts of land which may be crossed by and
which may be desired by said railway COM
pany in the construction of its said railroad,
not exceeding one hundred feet in width. ex-
cept for the purpose of cuttings and embank
meDts it shall be necessary to take more
for the proper construction and security of
the road through as much of the lands. lots
or other tracts of land as may be desired by
said railway company. and of such width,
within the limits aforesaid, and upon such
location as may be desired by said company,
and also such lands as may be deemed neceS-
sary for side-trscks, depots. work. shops, wa
ter-stations, materials for construction. ex-
cept timber, the right-of-way over adjacent
lands sufficient TO enable the said company TO
construct and repair it's road and stations,
and a right to conduct water by aque-
ducts, and the right OF making prIper
drains. and will carefully survey, and will
carefully ascertain the quantity of land nee
essary for such purposes. out of each quar-
ter-section or other lot or tract of land
through which SAID route. side-tracks. etc, is
so located, and appraise the value of such por-
or tract of land so appropriated. and assess
the damage thereto, irrespective of any sup
posed benefits to that not appropriated, and
when we shall ascertain that such portion of
such Quarter.section or other lot or tract of
land belongs to different owners, we will ap-
praise the value and assess the damage of
each such owners interest. We will COM
mence to lay off the said route. side-tracks,
etc., as aforesaid on the line of said COM
panys railroad as located at the poiut where
said line of location crosses the main track
of the right-of-way of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway Company short distance
near the City of Kiowa, in said county. and
we will proceed with our duties from that
point at the above stated time. in either dfrec-
ton as may be desired. and we will adjourn
from time TO time and from place to place on
the line of said route until our labors in this
behalf are complete.
Dated at Medicine Lodge, Kansas in said
county, this 14th day of December, 1909.
RILEY LAKE. Commissioner.
B. 4. WADSwORTB. Commissioner,
j. 3. HARBAUGH, Commissioner.