The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-03-18
RAILROADS WILL WEAVE
NETWORK IN OKLAHOMA

Mountain Valley & Plains railroad
now being graded between Guthrie
and Kinghsher. The permanent To-
cation of the right-of-way between the
two cities has been completed and
Chief Engineer Conlin is now work
ing westward from Kinghsher towards
Hitchick in Blaine county. Construc-
ton is also in progress east from
Cimmarron, N. NJ, or this line and it
is expected to rush the work as rapid
| ly as possible from both sides Ohio
and Pennsylvania capitalists are be-
hind the new road
The Kansas, Lawton & Gulf rail-
road with headquarters at Walters,
has filed amended articles of incor'
poration providing for an additional
branch line 800 miles in length start
ing in the southern part of Comanche
county and running eastward through
Stephens, Logan, Pawnee, Payne,
Grady, McLain. Cleveland, Oklahoma
and Usage counties to the state line.
The line provided for in the original
charter Of the company is 250 miles
long, running from Randlett, in Co
manche county, northeast through
Klowa, Caddo, Custer, Washita, Dewey
woodward and Harper counties to the
Kansas state line, The company is
capitalized at $1OO0,0OO and the di-
rectors are DR.. w. A. Green II. f.
Crossman, DR.. c. NJ Beckham, of
Walter and ]. M. Bellamy Of Law
ton.
State Senator Franklin Porter of
Caney, Kansas, has returned from
New York with the announcement
that he has interested French capital
sufficient to build two lines of rail-
road in Oklahoma and that work viii
be started Immediately. One of the
roads is to run from Caney south
through Usage county, and the other
from Caney southeast across former
Cherokee nation, touching Vinita, and
TO Fayetteville, Ark, passing possibly
through Sloan Springs. There has
been considerable preliminary work
done in the latter road already in the
way of surveys. With the additional
capital that has been interested It
seems certain that actual construc-
ton is about to begin.
At meeting held in Mangum dur.
ing the past week an agreement was
entered into between the promoters
Of the American Central railroad and
the people of Mangum, whereby the
road is to be built to Mangum from
Vernon, Texas. The company is now
building the road from Miami, Texas,
to Vernon and later will be extend
ed to San Antonio. Contracts have
already been entered into by ma
iority of the towns along the line be-
tween Vernon and Mangum This
makes three railroads for Mangum
The citizens of Lamar, Colo, have
given a $4,000 cash bonus, the right
of-way through town and 20 acres Of
land for terminals TO the Denver &
Gulf company, which proposes to build
a line northwest from Texhoma in
western Oklahoma, to Lamar and
have the line completed by May |,
1911 This company will have 30
miles of line in Cimmaron county, Ok.
lahoma, going in a straight line from
Texhoma to Twin Buttes. The citi-
zens Of Carthage, lahoma, Lave
raised a bonus Of $4,000 for the com
pany. to be paid at the rate Of $4,000
per mile as fast as the road is com.
peted from Lamar. Twin Buttes has
raised a bonus OF 100000 and ranch.
men along the line have subscribed
a bonuo Of $4,000, payable when the
road Is completed from Lamar to Tex
homa.
The extension Of the Midland Valley
railroad. now operating between Fort
Smith, Arkansas, and Arkansas City
Kansas, to Sapulpa has been decided
upon. The matter was brought up
during the past week with the sapul-
pa Commercial club and a committee
OF citizens named 70 make whatever
arrangements are necessary to pro-
cure the extension.
c. G. Jones OF Oklahoma City is
one Of the promoters of the Kansas,
Lawton & Gulf railway to be built
from Wichita Falls, Texas, to Lawtoni
Oklahoma, has submitted proposition
to the Lawton Chamber of Commerce,
whereby he guarantees to build the
road into Lawton within a year The
is to build this line. north
east from Lawton to Oklahoma City