The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1916-05-31
A Railroad Now or Never.

The terms of the proposed contract
between a committee of citizens of
Adair county and Dr. W. G. Hunter
and his associates are substantially as
follows:
DR.. Hunter and his associates agree
to organize, issue their own bonds,
make the surveys at their own cost,
and build railroad from CampbelIs-
vile or Greensburg, or some ihterme-
date point on the L & N. railroad
between said points to Columbia and
put it in operation within eighteen
months from the date of the contract.
The route for the road and the
points for stations will be fixed BY. the
joint agreement of the contracting
parties. When said road has been
constructed to Columbia and is in OPP
Grafton, they are to be paid by US if-
ty thousand dollars, and unless they
do this they will not receive cent.
The people at this end of the line
are also to pay for the right Of way.
OF course, if the road is not built,
there will be no need for a right of
way. So, if we pay our money eget
the road, and if we do not raise the
money we can not get it. That is the
long and short of it, and it is up to
our people to say whether this oppor-
tunity to secure a road shall be lost
or whether we will take
advantage of it. If the road is
built, it will benefit every part of the
county, and every citizen in it. There
fore, every one should aid in securing
it. We publish herewith the obliga-
ton which our citizens must sign in
order to enable the committee to con-
tract. 1t involves no complications.
Its provisions are plain: if we do not
get the road, we have nothing to pay
The money must be subscribed at
once. Let every one-man and wom-
an, help this enterprise. The paperto
be signed reads as follows:
"We the undersigned in order to Sc
cure the building and putting in oper-
alton railroad from Campbellsyille
or Greensburg, Ky, or some interme-
date point on the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad to Columbia, KY, prom.
Use to pay to E. H. Hughes, W. W.
Jones, Brack Massie, r. f. PAUL, ].
N, Coffey, Gordon Montgomery. N. NJ.
Tut, j. o. Russell and G. S. Harris,
whom we hereby appoint as trustees
and attorneys in fact to collect and
hold said money and enter into con-
tract for the building of said road, the
sum set opposite our names respect
lively, same payable upon demand of
said trustees, but same not to be due
or payable until a sum aggregating
$4,000 has been in good faith sub
scribed on this or similar papers.
Said sum is to be used in securing the
construction and operating of a rail-
road to Columbia, KY, and for no 9TH
er purpose, and no part of same is to
be used or paid out by said trustees
until said road is constructed and is in
operation to said town. When said
road is constructed to Columbia and
put in operation said trustees are au-
thorized as our agents and attorneys
in fact to pay to the person or persons,
company or corporation with whom
they may contract for constructing
said road, the said fifty Thousand dol
lars. If said road is not constructed
and in operation within twenty-four
months from date, this subscription
is to be void and the money paid on
same is to be refunded to US by said
trustees. 1t is understood that the
subscriptions recently made by US to
the proposed Columbia Railroad are
cancelled and of no legal effect.
May 1916.