Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1910-09-29
MUST ATTEND SCHOOL
Representative of Great Corporation
Faces u Troublesome Problem
Odrr BOYS solution.

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company of It's corps Of messengers
and The FOCAL manager is having no
end of trouble trying to solve the
problem
Manager Whiteney said Yesterday
that he did not know just what would
be done after the departure Of the
three days messengers Unless some
| scheme rs devised whereby the ques-
ton can be solved the office WIN
have To huut in other pastures for
| messengers than the one offered by
boys of school age. It Is probable
that the plan of securing older boys
as has been followed In other cities.
will have To- be- adopted In Tulsa,
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ana more miles from the south and
west of strong railway lines to this
territory of which Tulsa will bc an
influential point II will bring close
connection with one of the greatest
trans-contincntal arteries tapping
this division of the Southwest, the
Union Pacific system, and Will add
thousands Of miles of railway lines
as tributary feeders from the south
and northwest The Mcpherson
branch is expected To be opened by
the first of next july
Viewed in an optimistic light, il
II Is not easy to approximate what
these proposed added facilities viii In
sure to Tulsa, II win be a grain rate
making proposition to the Gulf, n
consummation long devoutly 10 be
wished, as It links with the NJ, Is, g.
~. and The Kansas Guy Southern.
and by these two systems puts In al
direct communication with New Or
leans and the Gulr II taps the zone
.of the coal fields and granaries, and
will reach out and take I'm the North
west ana timber sections of the South
west The Wichita, Kinsley Scott
city and Denver Air Lane will be al
valuable feeder to the West, and the
Great Bend and Northwestern Will
be an equally valuable property to theI
Northwest, while the wichita, Me-
Pherson and Gulf will In no way in-
wade the territory these two roads,
nor will the same Interests that con-
troll the latter cease to exert every
effort to aid the other two.
-Four months ago twenty lnfluen-
tal capitalists, with W. G. Edwards,
an experienced railroad promoter and
builder, commenced active and well
desined efforts toward preliminary
organization Of a company TO finance
and construct "A line from Wichita tol
Mcpherson, the principal aim at that
time being to push forward TO tap the
Union Pacific. Meanwhile G. II
Brooks, as local counsel for the Mid
land Valley and his directorate were
busy planning to push the extension
of the Midland Valley to the north and
west. IT was at once seen by both
groups OF operators and capitalists
that II was effort misplaced for both
to be seeking the same end when by
matchmaking their interests ana
making a common cause To the ident-
ical desired end, a much more power
ful organization could he establish
ed to effect exactly the same desired
results with that end In view the
Wichita coterie temporarily subsided
10 await the action Of the Midland
Valley, whose president, Mr., lnger-
soil. an influential eastern capitalist,
was then busy In New York and Phil
adelphla quietly laying plans for eN-
tensions. Meanwhile the group of
twenty In Wichita partially organized
with an executive committee TO rep
resent them and prepare for preliml-
nary surveys and make other prepar-
atory arrangements 10 go on nde-
pendently of the Midland Valley
should they not perfect arrangements.
This executive committee was em-
ployed to make an inspection of the
country through which the line was
to 60 and was about to commence the
preliminary surveys when the matter
was placed in temporary allegiance
until action was definitely determin-
cd by the Midland Valley Recently
Mr.. Brooks notified the committee his
road was about ready to confer with
the Wichita crowd. By the terms OF
the charter Of the Midland valley
they could go no farther than Arkan-
sas city under their own charter
rights
The road now runs 900 miles from
Fl. smith TO Arkansas city, ana the
situation becomes one, shall The
wichita. Mcpherson and Gulf NJ an
Independent organization build thisl
line of SO miles, or shall they pool
their issues with the already estab-
llshed road now on paying basis ana
the amalgamuted powers unite their
efforts? So the foregoing named In
corporators In the wichita, McPher'
son and Gulf viii be on tho director
ato OF the old Midland and by their
new Kansas charter make OF two le-
gal organizations one corporation.
The extension from Arkansas city
TO Mcpherson will be about los miles
The usual method Of township and
county bonds. private bond and stock
sales will be carried out to finance tho
extension
Tulsans who are conVersnnt with
the foregoing facts are firm IN the
belief that there are great things
about 10 occur in connection with
tho Midland Valley and entertain the
highest hopes relative 20 the local
nhnse Of the situation No more
strategIcal point could be wished for
n division point than Tulsa. and the
fact that within the past seVernl
months numerous yslts have been
paid West Tulsa by officials Of the
Midland who slip In and slip away