The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-04-15
PLANS FOR NEW ROADS
Interurban From Meade Kan.
to Beaver, and Three
Other Roads


Continued activily ID ralioa build
ins Is fore Swallowed bf several en-
ierprises now being shaped up ln tle
state Two of The plans now nearing
reality provide for a north ana south
road aud a ioad from mort west 70
southeast, while aoiher is that being
promoted by former Governor G. y.
Haskell and his Oklahoma CITY asso-
Gates 70 build line connecting .He
Missouri Oklahoma and Gulf ia east.
erA Oklahoma westward hrough Ok.
ahOma City ana KingilsheF. with the
Santa re system as Woodgara in the
extreme northwestern portion of -he
itae.
Haskell and Associates.
Tine Haskell road is being promoted
ii, fact on the provisions OF q DiIl en-
acted tine recent legislature which
gives 10 counties power TO construct
highways directly across their iuris.
dicti0ns and further gives them me-
right 10 sell such roads Ia 50 am or
electric railroads companies On this
basis the organization oil he comDan
is going forward u is usdcrsl0Od
too, tbat William A. DWant speaker
OF the las Oklahoma bogse is i'm cg
csted with Governor Haskell in build-
ing tic road, ana that Durant Nn
move from the city Oh Duran o Mus
kogce TO associate himself with tie
(p7mer governor
w F, 2 ~ w Railway Construction,
TIE wichita rails and Norihwcs
tfh II sfill building north aud wet
irom Altus and Hollis TO Elk City and
Hammond. and thence North o Wood
ward AND Buffalo near Inc Kansas
state line Another branch of tbe
ra ad is being constructed almost di-
rcctlr wesg from Hollis ito the TcSas
Panhandle country ID is reported
llai the Santa We system rs planlin
on q new line from Alston. near Wood
ward, d Selling. ia Dewey county.
and Hydro, in Cadd0 county, 70 Cidck.
as o. 60 a connection with lbe Okia-
hoWa Central wAich IS uow IN op"r-
atien eastward from Lohigd 90 Chick
0sna
Work on C.. o. e. r, Railway
Seuator Porter 0l Cancy. KAN, has
snurAed during tbc lasl week FROM
PaFj~. France where ne completed ii.
HaneialN ARRANGEMENTS Tor the cOn-
siruetloH Immediately Of tht Cherry
p8le Oklahoma and Texas. from
Cares. kan. 20 Fiuiia Okla The
r9adbeI is already graded 70 Waan
Okla, and during Dee week contract
Nas let Tor tie grading of the rOad-
bed ihr0uga C9ney, where the tenl.
mails and dcDot are to De located
Within siyty days work at having
steel @iil begin The mention u
Senator Porter is To build 10 N.Hita
this spring and summeg IN the south
ees5 liue charteredtOSiDam Springs,
Arka aud commence building he
southwest line toward r8Whusk3 in
The Usage nation The money for tae
erading and preliminary @efs Is ALL
ready IN Caney, Traits having arrived
from France
The Commercial club ot Frederick
has offered $4,000 u cash and an
additional $4,000 toward tic eleven
miles oi right Of was neeaed p buili
me Rock Island westward from C1at.
tano0ga, IN C0manChe county 10 FRED
erick
Me sde-6eaver lnterurbsn.
The citizens OF Meade KAN and
feaver. Okla have un Ger consider
elton a plas t0r an electric Tine be-.
tween tie two towns, and nego u.
tious are now under waS with r.,
Corp Of Hutchinson Kan. relative 20
& c0ntrae for tac cons ructipn Bcav
a. although iNe oidesi town IN Ok'a-
Iona is still without railway ,acil-
ities. all travel aud business being
done bY stage railroad towns along
the Kansas border