The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-02-22
ACTIVITY
IN RAILROAD
BUILDING
INCREASED FORCE TO BE
PUT ON MOUNTAIN
VALLEY ROAD
MANY LINES PRE-
PAIRING TO EXTEND
Senator Porter, with French
Capital, 10 Build Two
New Lines

An increased force is to be put to
work Immediately in the construction
cf the Mountain valley and Plains
railroad, now bqng graded between
Guthrie and Kin2fisher The perm
anent location of The wight OF waY
between the two cities has been com
lloied and Chief Engineer Gonlin is
now working westward from King.
flsler toward Hitchcock in Blaine
county. Construction is also in prO-
gross east from Cimarton, N. NJ, on
t'is line, and it lis expected to rusn
The work as rapitly as possible from
both ends. Ohio and Pennsylvania
capitalists are behind the road
The Kansas, L.awton and Gulf rsil-
road, with headquarters at Walters,
has flied amended .articles of incor.
poraiion providing for an additional
branch line SEQ miles in length start
ing in the southern part Of Comanche
county and running eastward throug.
Stephens, Logan. Payne, ;awnec,
lafady, Mccain, Cleveland. Oklaho.
MA counties to the state line. The
line provided for in the original char
tel OF the company is $50 miles long
from Randlett, in Comanche
county, northwest through Kiowa,
Caddo, Custer, Waslita Dewey, Woo.
ward ana Harper coratics to The Kan
sas state line The company is cl,
/ allied. al s5.00c,000 and the di.ectorJ
are Dr.. w. a Green II. p Cross
man, Dr.. c. NJ Beckham OF Walt
er and j. NJ Bellamy Of Lawton.
State Senator Franklin Poller- of
Caney. Kansas, has fetnfleai fsDms
New York with tho sAMonpGelafnt
that he has interested French capr
ilallsts sufficient 10 buihl atwo "new
lines of railroad in Oklahoma ana
that work will be started immediate
ly. One OF the roads is to run from
Caney south through Os9ge county
and the other from Caney southeast
across former Cherokee Nation, touch
irg V,nita, and TO FAYETTEVILLE, Ark
passing possibly through Sloan
Springs. There has been consider-
able preliminary work done in tho
latter road already in the way of sur
yeys. with the additional capital that
has been interested il seems certain
that actual construction is about to
leg'n.
AT q meeting held in Mangum dur.
entered into between the promoters
Of the American Central railroad and
the people of Mangum whereby the
railroad is to be built To Mangum
from Vernon. Texas. The company is
row building the road from Miant
Texas. 10 Vernon, and laict viii b.
extended to San Antonio. Contracts
have already been entered into bY q
Lajority of he towns along the line
between Vernon snd NauGunl. This
makes three railroads for Mangum.
The citizens Of Lamar, Colo, have
given a $4,000 bonus. the right 0f
way through lown and twenty acres
O! land for terminals. 10 The Denver
and Gnlf company. which proposes to-
build line northwesi from TcNhomas
In western Oklahoma, 70 Lamar and
have Tho line COMPLETED by May, 1917
This COMPANY will have thirty miles
OF line in Cimarron county. 0klaho-
ma going in a straight line from Tex.
homa to Twin Buttes. The citizens
OF Carthage, Oklahoma, have raised
q bonus of $500 for the c0mpsny. to
lie paid at the rate OF $4,000 per mile
rs fast as the road Is completed from
Lamar Twin Buttes has raised
loAas OF $4,000 and ranehmen along
tie line have subscribed bonus or
$4,000, payable when the road is