Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-04-24


Plans of Jewell Hicks Cor Union
Station.--M. o. &. G. not Requir-
ed to be Party to Depot Building.
City Attorney Sam Kyle has re
ceived hits week from the Corpora
tlon Commission the formal order
of that body relative 10 tts DGrant
union depot, wherein the commis-
sion accepts the plans of Jewell
Hicks, local architect, absolves the
M. o. g.. G.. Ry Co. from participat-
ing in the building of the depot, and
orders the other roads, the Katy
and Frisco, to have the station COM
pleted ready for use by January LIST,
1915. IL is said that the commission
and the two roads have an UNDER
standing among themselves that
there will be no appeal taken from
this order, although none of them
have acknowledged this fact. The
order of the commission is as fol-
lows:
BY THE COMMISSIONS:
The original case was filed herein
more than two years ago. The Com
mission made an order requiring the
defendants to establish union depot
est of the "Katy" tracks, where it
could be reached by all three Of the
defendants without any unnecessary
expenditure. The case was appeal
ed to the supreme court and the or
der of the commission as to location
as set aside. The matter avs set
for hearing for the purpose of deter
mining the location. Under the
holding of the supreme court there
was only one place the depot could
/ be located and that 1t at the point
where the depot of the Frisco" and
katy" is now located.
The defendant, the Missouri, Ok
lahoma G. Gulf Railway, is now in
the hands of a receiver. 1t has no
money, other than earnings, to ex-
pend except as is authorized by the
Federal court. II ould cost this
company large amount of money to
condemn property whereby it could
reach the depot located by the Com
mission except over the katy"
tracks. For this company to pay in
terest upon it's proportional part OF
the maintenance of the depot at
Durant and in addition thereto pay
ed for one railroad using the track
age of another at a depot, would be
almost as much as the total passen-
ger ticket sales of this read at the
town of Durant. 1t could afford to
transfer all passengers from its pres
ent depot in Durant to the proposed
site of the union depot at much
less expense than 1t could pay inter-
est upon it's proportional part of the
investment and the expense of reach
ing the union depot. This road will
be exempted from the order for the
time being until such time as it's
financial condition is different than
it is at the present time.
Plans ere submitted by the de-
PENDANTS for union depot at Durant
for the approval of the commission,
which were rejected. Conference
was called at Durant on January "a,
1914, for the purpose of discussing
the plans for union depot The
City of Durant submitted plans, also
the defendants. The commission has
requested the defendants to submit
other plans which they have neglect
cd to do.
1t is hereby ordered that the plans
submitted by the city of Dura are
hereby approved on condition they
may be changed upon application of
the defendants or either of them so
as to more nearly meet the required
demands at Durant.
The defendants, the Missouri Kan
sas & Texas Railway company and
st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
company, James w. Lusk, w. c. Nix
on, w, B. Bidle, receivers thereof,
are hereby ordered to build a union