The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-05

RAILROADS
PLANNED
TEN OKLAHOMA CAPITAL
lists ASKED TO AGREE
ON PROJECTS
GUTHRIE TO JOPLIN
PROPOSED MAIN LINE
Blackwell to McA|esteT, or Hugo,
With SapuIpa Line Over
to Muskogee

With ten Of the leading state cap.
tallsts of oklahoma comforting as TO
plans, and sufficient capital pledged,
providing the Oklahoma state men OF
I.discretion are all agreed on plans, It
appears as II an interurban electric
railway system may ba one OF the
striking transportation achievements
of the year 1910 Following announce
ment last autumn that there would
certainly be system extended east.
ward from Oklahoma City to Holden.
| Vile. others interested IN electric
railway building FASTENED East with
Il plan to connect Guthrie with
Northeast Oklahoma cities and build
across from Pawhuska to Enid A
conference with q ST. Joseph, MO-,
promoter and builder followed. where,
upon concentrated effort was pledged
IL possible. Later two prominent
Kansas men, who have been long
seeking railway line north to south,
were added to The list and they adj
vanced the proposition Of unison IN
extending an eastern division out OF
Guthrie straight to Tulsa. thence
northeast to Nowata and Miami, the
ultimate eastern connection being
! Joplin, Mo. Acting upon the theory
the Mountain Valley and Plains
steam transportation line will be Il
reality within the year end that The
Denver. Enid and Gull division OF
the Santa Re will PIT into effect
thrice as good service MS now ex.
lists, the electric men concluded Guths
rie should be the western basis for
the present. and the joplin line has
practically met approval
Conferences have been held as to
the south line, originally discussed as
extending south from Chandler to
Ada. thence taking southeasterly
route 10 Hugo. This plan was dis
cussed because Hugo local capitalists
have been seeking a route over 10
Coalgate, preferring a steam road In
event there Is difficulty In getting af.
fliated at Hugo, the proposition un.
der discussion Is for d line eastward
from Sapulpa 10 Muskogee ana n
cross line from McAlester northwest
to Blackwell.
would tap every trunk line railway
system in the eastern half OF the
state and be in direct feeding con
nection with a population estimated
at 1,720,0O0. Friends OF the last men
toned project argue that II would
reach 80 per cent OF the population
Of the state and would require but
a firth of the cost for bridges and
grades of all other projects advanced.
In event Of It's being adopted, a iifth
OF the cost would have to be borne
by the residents OF the new state,
stock to be issued therefor. In this
connection those In charge assert
there will be only common stock Is.
sued, with bonds issued against the
line, subject TO purchase by whom
soever has the purchase price, for
not less than par.
Since the recent trip Of very
| prominent Oklahoma transportation
man and public utility owner, a syn
dicate from pittsburg. Pa. two o1
whom own large property interests ir
/ Washington and Nowata counties
have advanced the tentative proposl
tlon, In case OF the line east from
Guthrie TO Joplin being financed Il
| Join issues and extend an electric
line from Bartlesville through Shaw
nee 10 Purcell. the latter made tn
objective point because on tho Cana
dian river.
Spent Ten Thousand Dollars.
More than $4,000 has been ey
pended by those who have been 10
four months seeking 10 arrive nj a
agreement The various munlcIpa
tiles have added TO prospects Ly O,
ceptIonal showing of growth In POI
nIation and wealth. and the scheme
visionary al first glance. has grow
upon those behind the preliminar
! investigation until Ii appears NOT onl
feasible but necessary. II can be ca
, ried into reality for less than on
, third OF the cost The Illinois Tractio
!, lines to William r. Mckinley, II
Il terurban electric railway king Of th
II United States, with at Least 234 mile
; more OF trackage. II could be bui
: and equipped for third Of the COS
OF the Indiana Traction company, an
!. 81 i,'s one line would have The exat
!. mileage nf the Hoosier concern. N
matter how much OF q dream II ma
appear" said Guthrie promoter. :"
|. will be reality before three year
aud Is already necessity II We col
slider its usefulness In state grow
: ing like Oklahoma al this time.