The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-06-21
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NEW RAILROAD
Permanent Survey Has Been Run to Haskell
County Line Survey to be Completed by
August First. Promise to Begin Grading
y 60 Days From That Date The Road is
Now Assured.

Work has been started on the Col
orado, Kansas and Oklahoma Rail
road, the north and south line
which will connect the Union Pacific
Aon the north with the Katy on the
south, passing through Liberal.
"Some good Democrat friend sent
me copy of the local paper this
week." said Bert Allen, formerly
chief engineer, but now superintend-
ent of the new road, at an informal
meeting held in Griffith & Baugh-
mans office Tuesday night, "and /
scanned it closely to see what was
said of the starting of work on the
line. When l failed to find any
thing about it, l concluded that the
news had failed to reach Liberal, and
l felt that l owed it to the people
down here to come and tell them what
we are doing"
And then he proceeded to relate
some of the best news that the people
of Liberal ever heard.
"We started work at Garden City
the first of the month said Mr.. AL
len. "At the present time the per-
manent survey has been made to the
Haskell county line. We are work
ing three crews of twelve men each.
One is extending the line already To-
Gated. One is working on cross
ing of the Cimarron and the other is
,.SWorking out of Forgan. We expect
Ito have the permanent survey to the
Cimarron by the Fourth of July, and
should be in Liberal by the 18TH"
Mr.. Allen said it was expected to
have the entire survey made by the
first of August. Other preliminar-
les are well under way. He promis-
ed that grading would start within
sixty days after the survey was fin
ished, and he said that they would
make quick job of it. Asked as to
whether or not the road had been fl
nanced, Mr.. Allen caid he was not
prepared to state positively, but the
fact that the promoters had ordered
the permanent survey made led him
to believe that if such arrangements
had not been made, they We're sure
enough that they were spending a lot
of money on the survey.
Accompanying Mr.. Allen was Mr..
Holbrook, who succeeded Mr.. Allen
as Chief Engineer of the road. He
made short talk and gave out con-
siderable information.
Messrs Allen and Holbrook drop
ped in rather unceremoniously, and
late in the evening. However quite
little crowd was brought together
to hear the welcome news.
Mr.. Allen made the first talk. He
said that he had been treated so roy
ally by the people of Liberal, that it
was always a pleasure to come here.
"Always before when l came," said
Mr.. Allen, 81 have come asking the
people for something, and you have
never failed to grant my request.
Now may be able to let you do some
asking, and l want to assure you
that if it is at all possible it shall be
granted you. A drive over the
country adjacent to the town shows
that the physical conditions are
equal for an entrance to the town
from either the east or the west. We
are going to ask you people which d.
rection would suit you best. When
the time comes to build, it is possible
we will run the line where you say"
No attempt was made at the meet
ing to discuss the most feasible en-
trance to the town. This is matter
that will require some threshing out.
When asked for his opinion in the
matter, Hon. A. A.. Farmer said that
he would have a preference in the
matter, but the greatest desire on his
part that they build the road just as
soon as possible and that he believed
the majority of the people were an
xious enough for the road that they
would not be greatly exercised over
that matter. From the applause
which greeted his remarks his hearers
evidently shared much the same opin-
ion.
Several other short talks were
made by Judge Etzold, Chas Sum
mers and others. The tone Of al