Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1911-10-12
THE ELECTRIC R. II.
Our Home People Should Own 1t
Backs The Claim of the
Message.

franchises, right-of-way and prop
erty lying south of this city, con
Meeting the three towns of Mexico,
Fulton and Columbia, for the pitt
full price of fifty or sixty thousand
dollars.
II seems that this sale is not
contemplated by the directors Of
the Traction Company from any
special desire on their part to sell
the south end of their road, but
entirely on account of the present
financial extremity Of the comp
any. and because some other
company wants to buy this end of
the road for the purpose Of max
ing money out of it.
Now the question fought this
sale to be made" is a question
which should interest not only the
stockholders, bond holders and
directors of this Traction Co.,
but should interest every man,
woman and child in Audrain
county who takes an interest in
the prosperity of his community.
Mexico has had so many good
things just within her grasp,
which at the supreme moment
have been snatched from her by
the other fellow. One of her
thoughtful citizens conceived the
idea and framed the law creating
a Missouri State Fair. Mexico
came near securing that institu-
ton, and made a creditable effort.
But if the people of Mexico and
Audrain county will stop critics.
ing and quarrelling, and get to-
gether, with one determined pur-
pose TO build this road they can
easily build and own this grand
money making system extending
one hundred miles from Hannibal
on the north to Columbia and
Fulton on the south with offices
and car shops at Mexico, and that
will be worth to the bankers, the
merchants, the professional men
the wage earners, the farmers. an
to poSterity yet to come in this
section, far more than any state
fair that would bring money tC
town for one week in the yea,
while this electric line would
bring a stream of money to Mex,
leo every day in the year, AMI
would add many thousands of dol
lars to the value of Audrain couu-
ty land.
If Mexico and Audrain county
permit this company to part with
its splendid property and hold.
ings south of this town, not be-
cause the company wants to sell it
but for the sheer need of little
help, little money or credit witt
which to build the road to a point
where it will pay and have sufri.
cient credit of its own with which
to proceed, the people of this
town and county will make the
greatest mistake they have ever
made.
1t might be well for a new
company to be organized here to
help the old company out on safe
grounds, or to take over the prop.
erty from the old company if nee.
essary, and go on and complete
the road.
Under these conditions all sub.
scribers for stock or bonds would
willingly and gladly renew their
subscriptions, where it is neces-
sary and other people would give
assistance in the move.
Hold every inch of the right-of-
way and build the road 1t can be
done and must be done and when
the wise heads in this town and
county think over it, and look at
it right, it will be done.
NOW WHY9
First: Because our people here
would rather pay back to our own
people the vast sums of money
which are paid annually for the
transportation of persons and
property, than to pay these vast
sums to people living in East st.
Louis or New York City. They
would rather that this money be
paid to our own working men, and
deposited in our own banks and
paid to our own merchants, farm
ers and professional men, and our