The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-03-22
RAILROAD BUILDING
TO Be REVIVED
One Statute Allows Roads to Domesti-
cate Another May Let lndepend-
ent Lines Sell.

Guthrie, Okla, Mar 22--The more
favorable attitude toward railroad
building shown by the Oklahoma leg
islature at its session just closed has
led to a revival of interest in num-
Der of railroad propositions previous
ly projected and some of them parti-
ally completed, but which had been
practically abandoned because of the
almost prohibitive provision of the
Oklahoma constitution and the sta
tutes enacted to put it into effect.
The two propositions adopted by
the late legislature which are espec-
tally inclined to promote railroad
building are the Norris law allowing
roadsealready incorporated which had
really made a start on their work to
domesticate and take advantage of the
Oklahoma laws under .more favorable
conditions than before, and the joint
resolution submitting to the people a
constitutional amendment Ehich will
allow Independent lines in Oklahoma
! to sell to the larger roads Incorporated
outside the state Such consoidatiV.,s
are now forbidden, but there is
though to be very little question in
regard to the adoption of the proposed
amendment
The revival in railroad operations
is therefore rather in the lines al
ready projected than in new PROPOSE
tions One of these revived compan-
les which seems to mean business in
the Kingfisher, Colorado & Gulf,
which has given bond for $4,000 to-
commence construction work within
sixty days from February 25, and has
bought 100000 ties for immediate
shipment. 1t proposes to build from
Oklahoma City northwest through
Kingfsher, Okeene and Guymen. and
on to the New Mexico coal fields. An
other northwest road, which has re-
ceived much encouragement here, but
which has hardly passed beyond the
paper stage as yet, is the Mountain
Valley & Plains, which proposes to
build from Guthrie northwest 1875
miles to Arnett. the county seat of
Ellis county
The Colorado, Texas & Mexico,
which had completed considerable
part of it's grade between Mangum,
Okla, and Abilene, Tex, when work
was tied up by the failure two years
ago of a Philadelphia trust company,
which was handling it's securities. has
reorgonized and Will again push the
work The company is
headed by Morris R. Locke of Abe
lene, Tex. b. c. Mason of Kansas |
City, Mo, and H. C Irwin of Pitts
burg, Pa. The Santa Fe, Liberal and !
chartered to run from Des |
Moines, n. NJ, east through the en-
tire length of old Beyer county, which
has done considerable construction
work near the west line of the state,
is also likely to resume work
Agitation has been renewed, but no
tangible progress made so far in con
nection with the Shawnee Central,
chartered to run from Muskogee to
the often-suggested link be-
.ween Okmulgee and Chandler, con-
Meeting the two branches of the Fris-
20 system and forming a direct line 4
rom Muskogee to Guthrie, and a pro
posed line south from McAlester to H
Paris, Tex. to connect with the newly II
Paris & Mount Pleasant
inc.
A new Observation-Disclosures project
which its promoters claim is financed
~ Canadian capitalists. is the Okla
iona & Golden City. organized to
'uild from Golden City. Mo, south
vest to Pawhuska, Okla This first
lection of the road to be built will be
rom Golden City to Stockton. L. c.
.ohman of Jefferson City. Mo-: w.
/. Reed and w. P. Burnes of Golden
'i'y. and E. ~ Dempsey of Pawhuska
re pushing the proposition p. LII
'oper and James H. Huckleberry, for
ner Frico general attorneys in Indian
territory. have organized the Musko-
zee Belt & Terminal Railway com
any. with S50.0e0 capital to build
alt limo at Nustooaa