The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-04
Gulf e. Northwestern Road in
Kansas Now Is Assured.
Promoters Getting Certified
Copies of Documents.
TO BEGIN WORK SOON
Construction Company Prepar-
ing for First Grades.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.

Syracuse, Kan, Sept. 4.-The Gulf &
Northwestern railway for which all the
ted bonds for construction aid more
than a year ago, and without question
the best proposed railway project In the
United states today, now seems practi-
cally assured, says the Hamilton Coun-
ty Republican.
Several letters have been received
from the officials of the company to
Syracuse people and the one to county
clerk of Hamilton county, Is perhaps
the most encouraging one. Mr.. keeran,
secretary of the company, writes that
the construction company having the
contract to build the Gulf q North
western railway, has requested The COM
lany to furnish it a certified copy OF
all the documents pertaining to the
bonds voted by Hamilton county
The County clerk Immediately put a
stenographer to work copying these ana
las by this time forwarded them to the
company, by request.
At the time these documents were
signed by our county officers, the com
pany claims they kept a duplicate copy
but sent them to France, not being
available at present. The reason gwen
is that at first French capitalists were
to have constructed the road.
The letter to County Clerk CrltCen-
den says that the construction com
pany wants to get everything lined up
end in shape to begin actual conStruc-
ton work within three weeks from date
and the Republican-News UNDERSTANDS
that the counties south of here are re-
ceiving the same instructions.
If the construction company should
begin work within that time 1t would
mean a big help to the farmers OF TINS
county. who need the work and could
put their teams to work, also. rms
paper though it reprinted some ortlcleS
appearing in exchanges recently dlu
not think there was anything to 1t other
than that the real estate business Was
getting dull in some portions OF west
ern Kansas. On the other hanu, II re-
alizes, like all other hard thinking peoa
;ple do and having stuuled 1t has come
to the conclusion there must De more
railroads eventually Kansas must nave
better railroad facilities in some poI-
tions of it and when such large roaus
as the Santa Fe, Rock Island and the
Union Pacific, or concerns of their ike,
see fit to build them then IS When tney
will come Slowly these lines are Dullu-
ing new lines and connecting tnelr
branches and it wouldn't be SURPRISING
TO this paper if one Of these lines Would
he the means of penetrating TINS rlcl
territory with this proposed north anu
south road -o-a7
road, perhaps, than any other IN the
United States, yet it costs money -
build and maintain railroad u
course if the people Of western Kansas
could construct railroads as cheaply as
Governor StuDDS eSll4laLeSB II NooAN
a yo1d thing for them to start into.
But as the Topeka state Journal al says says
the governor has been building ms rail-
rneds lately on the soft cushioned car
nets in his private office and alons the
right Of way of the foreful pen OF
n9va T.ea.hy on the states stationery.
Western Kansas needs this railway
badly, it is not wholly an untappeo 1a .
section. as all the large railroads ira
verse the state east and west, bu-
short cut 10 the gulf is what western
Kansas needs most just now. But Il
vii not get it unless the CONSTRUCTION
company is a large concern and the
railway company has so exps nded tnat
# can meet the proposition to finance
III This paper belie--s il has done tnls
now. The railroads built by the farm /
Or and the merchant makes lots OF noise
hut the roise doesn't come from the
roaring of a locomotive or the shrin or
the steam whistle. .,-,.7-
rc- person now, by the companys re-
ent action, there is something going
In be doing in railroad building-anu