The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-01-26
GUTHRIE is WESTERN
OBJECTIVE POINT
Combined Roads Said 10 In
voIYe Territory Containing
Nearly 100000 People

The annual meeting OF the stock
holders OF Inc Oklahoma and Golden
City railroad chartered two years aso
with capital of sla.a00000. wSS
neld in Pawhuska LAST week. E. NJ.
DeInpsy OF Pawhus&a is president. j.
A. WlmbeFly of Pawhaska and l.. G.
lOhman OF Jefferson City vice preSi-
dents, w III Reel ot Golden City,
Ma. secretary. NJ r. Burns neat
Golden CITY, treasurer: NJ s. Haw.
kins uf pawkDSka chief engineer. Il.
n. GFsnsiead general aivlsney AMI ].
A. GFisel Of Golden City general
manager The road Is chartered to
build through jefferson City. Golden
City aud Carthage, Mo. pswhuska,
Bartlesville am Miami. Okla II IS
claimed iha, Canadian. capitalists
have financed the road
Indications favor Sapuipa getting a
branch Os tne S5Rla Fe. A commit.
sse oi iae SapnlRa Commercial club
wls appointed last week 10 confer
with officers 0f the road and Il IS uH-
dersieod that pans are under way tor
The building OF line into that city
from Gushing. on the Eastern OAlaho-
ma line OF the Santa Re, forty miles
directly west Of Sap0lpa. This would
give Sapuipa direct connection over
the Santa Fe with Guthrie
A movement has been started bv
The Mnskogee Commercial club to So
cure cO-cne asian Of he commercial
clubs OF Shawnee. Oklahoma Cits.
Guthrie and kingf sher for the exten-
Sou OF the Fayetteville branch OF the
Frisco wess from Oknnlsee to .ae
towns mentioned This line now runs
from Fayetteville. Ark. through Nus
knsee 10 0amalgee. and ii is coasid-
cred highiy desirable TO have K ex-
tended The people OF Okmulgee are
also working on this proposition.
II is announced By President Ray
HosS OF me Usage and Western thai
work on The construction will cosl-
ln-Ece soon. The company expects
"a w0sk about fi.ty-nile stretches
ans w.ll SableF eonu-cts On al bat
the mo7e .Nsticnlt sections The ma.
e1inery for construction has been paE-
chased and is being placed on The
Fishs al way at vinisa-
Chief Engineer J. n Conian Of She
Mountain yalley and Plains road is in
Inih-ie with force Of men 10 beg.n
grading the road westward from this
ely 10 cinaFron. y NJ. He says The
eatire line has been surveyed and
Asuch oE the right of way purchases.
The firsf mileage bull, viii be be-
tween Guthrie and KingfISher. The
citizens Of Gutarse donatei s7s0ao
lsonus 10 the company.
The glialen ana Oklahoma Western
arncuneea thar Il Nln have lrains ran.
niRg from C!iagon 10 Butler. lhiriy
miles wess. by Feb. L. Tie steel
sang Is Al w3,k &sthsn few mites
OF Butler
TIE town Of Diamond. on the Mis-.
sour oslahomz aud Gulf, seven miles
north Ct DnFaat- wss opened iaSl week
L Is situated oa the Blne river.
Promoters q eleetiic railways are
plentiful in Northeastern Oklahoma
ntw and several cites are 10 be ask.
e5 for franchises. TraIiev projects
are hasei upon the desire OF capital
ISIS 20 build westward from Joplin.
Me.r ard other points Ia connect win
roads from the north
Guthrie Is the rsestern objective
poing on both lines az action. The
combined pfoiects sre said to involve
territory eoniaining nearly 9.a6a. eco
PEOPLE
Indiana and Illinois railway men
have been consulted bv those inier-
esred snt tie pushing OF the Middle
western trolley systems are leas; as
a, - Guthrie is contemplated.
Several servers are under way in
ine csaFrsi raFI Of ihe state