The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-01-11
OKLAHOMA
RAILROAD
ACTIVITIES

Through the recent inc0rnOration
OF The Wichita, McphorsOn and Gull
railroad the Midland Valley, now op-
Grating from Fort Smith, Ark, TO
Arkansas City Kan, will he EXTENDED
during the coming year to Wichita.
g. e. IngcrsoIl of Philadelphia is
president Of both companies Com
me cia organizations of Wichita have
recently taken the matter up with
the Midland Valley officials and it is
understood that a bond issue viii be
voted to meet the requirements I'M
posed by the company A bonus OF
100000, ii is understood, Will le ask
cd of that city, The extension means
much to such oklahoma cities as
Muskogee, Tulsa and Pawhuska To-
Gated on the Midland Valley. The
ultimate northern terminus sought by
the company is Kansas City. Recent
mortgages. given by the Midland Val
ley In layor OF tns Girard trust com-
cany Of Philadelphia ead totalling
$1,000 600 were filed during the past
week at Pawhuska,
President William c. Kenefck Of
the Missouri oklahoma and Gulf has
returned from a European trip, meet
ing and consulting with French cap
italists who purchased the company's
last bond issue. In addition to the
proposed northern extension to Kan
sas city from Wagner. OKLA, the
plans are also being made for Il south.
era extension from Denison, Tex, and
n 1nnafipoD No 4 t5,r
ipg ,te past week the directors were
authorized to issue bonds in any sum
not to exceed $1,0O0,000 for an exten-
sion to the Gulf The Office of Gen
cral superintendent Fisher has been
transferred from Muskogee to Dent
son, as also have the traffic offices
Of the r0ad, in order to comply with
the Texaslaws A. r. Thornton has
been appointed general freight and
passenger agent, with headquarters
at Denison, and o. c. Parsley has
been made traffic manager at Kansas
city.
A contract has been signed in Paris
France, during a meeting there re-
Gently Of the promoters Of the Kansas
Oklahoma and Texas railroad for fin
ishing the southeast line from Vinta,
Okla. to Sloan Spring, Ark, and for
Fifty miles of the southwest line from
Caney, Kan, to Pawhuska, Okla,
passing via Bartlesyille The road
from Caney to Vinta is practically
constructed.
Chicago promoters of a new line Of
railway southwest across the state
are visiting Ardmore and other South
ern Oklahoma cities with their prop
ostion. The proposed line runs from
Sallisaw, in the Cherokee country,
south and west through Stigler,
Quinton, McAlester, Ada. Pauls val
icy, Elmore, Duncan, Lawton, Fred
erick and to point on the Orient
railroad, probably at Chillicothe,
Texas. Another line through Ard
more, connecting with the main line
at Duncan, is also proposed. Ardmore
citizens are asked to give the com
pany terminal facilities and a $780,
00O bonus. Rumor says the lines are
to be a portion Of the Gould system,
Much interest is developed in the
recent chartered Oklahoma Short
Line Electric railway with 100000
capital ami headquarters at Shawnee,
to build lnterurbans from Oklahoma
City via Shawnee and Muskogee,
Okla, and pittsburg, Kan, to Joplin
Mo, and from Shawnee to Denson,
Texas, at an estimated cost OF $780,,
0o0 per mile. Present street railway
companies at oklahoma City. Shaw
nee and Muskogee are said to be in
tercsted in the new organization.