The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-28
NEW LINES
NOW BEING
PROJECTED

In the interests of contract drawn
up two weeks ago in St. Louis with
the Development Corporation ot
Philadelphia for the construction OF
a line of railroad from Ardmore west
TO Lawton, a distance of 1850 miles,
r. II. sutton, representing the Phila,
delphia company has been in Law
ton, Ardmore and other cities along
the proposed line during the past
week. The contract was signed by
the company of which A. leighton
Howe of philadelphia is president, on
condition that Ardmore, Duncan and
Lawton meet the bonus conditions.
The road will cost about $2000,00O,
according to Rol Robertson Of Law
ton, who made the contract in St
Louis, with the Philadelphia concern.
At Lawton it connects with the Fris-
CO.. at Duncan with the Rock Island
and at Ardmore with the Frisco and
Santa Fe
An amended charter has been is
sued by Secretary of State Harrison
to the Kansas, Oklahoma and Pana-
ma railroad with $1000,000 capital
stock, and headquarters at Oklahoma
City, Indianapolis, New York and
Boston The directors for the ensu'
ing year, as just elected, are j. j..
Winton Richard M. Ruffin, f. A. Mo
sher, A. H. Syncox and John e. Du'
Mari The construction of a line is
contemplated south from Beaver, near
the Kansas state line, through Okla
homa to Frederick, near the Red riy-
er, and thence into Texas, with a
second line from Elk City, in Beck
la mcounty, east to Oklahoma City.
The total mileage is about $40 miles,
with the estimated cost of construc-
tion at 100000 per mile.
w. P Chapman, of New York City,
and f. NJ. Overlees of Bartlesville,
officials of the proposed Rartlesyille,
Oklahoma and Western, visited Paw
posed line during the past week. The
road was chartered and surveyed in
1907 10 build westward from Joplin,
Mo, across Northern Oklahoma,
through Bartlesyille, Pawhuska, Pom
ca City and Pond Creek, to a connec'
ton with the Orient.
A car of scrapers and other grading
outfit for work on the Cherryyale, Ok
lahoma and Texas, were unloaded
during the past week at Kingfsher,
to begin work both north and south
from that city. This is the road or
iginally promoted by Governor Stubbs
of Kansas and Senator Porter of Ca
ney, to build southeast to Sloan
Springs, Ark. and southwest to Geary,
okla, from Caney, Kas. Much of the
grade is completed on the Sloan
Springs line,
Eugene Tilleux. chief engineer Of
the proposed Buffalo and Northern,
recently chartered, is seeking Fris-
co connection for the road which is
to be built west from Buffalo, in Har.
per county, across old mo Mans
Land and east from Buffalo to q
Frisco connection, either at Enid or
Award. Tilleux and other officials of
| the company met with the Enid cham
ber of commerce this week and made
proposition to build the line into
that CITY, .Ytsiss af5a s sas "a.
! Several meetings have been held at
Alva recently in efforts to secure the
Winnipeg and Gulf road chartered
to build south from Saiina, Kas,,
through Western Oklahoma to Okla
homa CITY, and northward to Omaha
and Kansas City Cincinnati capital
is behind the project.
The Midland Valley Railroad COM
pany, which is contemplating an ex-
tension this coming summer from
Arkansas City Kas., to wichita, has
begun construction work for the Gre
alton Of division point at Skiatook.
Two hundred men were started to
work the past week, and according
TO the plaAs the Improvements in-