Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-06-27
.SPEARMAN BRANCH
ABOUT COMPLETED
DECLARES PARKER
SANTA wv WILL TAKE OVER or.
HRATION FIRST OF
'RGAD IS OUT OF sAlTTyGk
Construction Began In Fan of fofzs
Hut Was Delayed Because of
Government Railway
Controi.

Construction of the new santa ~
line through north Texas In about com
pleted and the road win be turned over
To the operating department On July
and be operated as part II tho
plains division. X. J. Parker. vice pre>-
dent and general manager. issued the
formal announcement yesterday.
Construction Of this road was begun
In the fall of 1917. When the railroads
were taken over by tho government
January ]. 1918. further construction
vas discontinued. only about twenty
lght miles having been completed.
Work was resumed last year and tho
line completed into Spearman IN Hans
'ord county.
This branch leaves the main line at
Shaliuck. Oklahoma. and for about
thirty miles runs In n northwesteriy
direction through Ellis county. Okla
homa and for some distance into Lips
comb county. Texas. The line crosses
pchiliree county In a westerly direc.
ion and swings southwest through
Handord county 10 Spearman. The
line is about eighty-five miles long.
Crosses Rolling Country
After passing out Of the bottoms Of
Wolf creek. the road crosses q roll
INK country for nearly thirty miles.
1ecessitating much heavy construction.
The rest of the way into spearman n
1yer a smooth prairie requiring no
curves or deep cuts.
Follett In the first station ana is
about eighteen miles from Shattuck.
heing the first station 10 be built. the
buildings are already assuming q more
'ubsiantiai character. there being sew
sral brick buildings. There are two
grain elevators and a third is under
construction. When this citation was
laid out the country town Of Ivanhoe
moved there.
Darrouzett. thirty miles out. has sew
cral concrete buildings. including a
good school building. There are two
elevators.
Gaylord has made n start for a town
with a store and facilities for loading
grain.
Booker. near the west line Of Llps-
comb county. IL n town Of $50 people
and growing. Ia Kemp. Oklahoma. six
miles away. picked itself up and nov
ed here. There are five elevators at
this point
PerrSton u Metropolis.
Perryton h the metropolis of this
section. For a starter the town Of ochii-
tree moved here. bringing the court
house and city school. Gray. Oklahoma
followed. moving In from the north.
Practically every line of business is
Represented. Five elevators. q mill, and
warehouses are there 10 take care Of
F. the grain Pcrryton Is fifty-eight miles
from Shaituck.
Farnsworih ten miles west, Il just
making q start with n store and q cou.
pie II other buildings.
burnside. the next station west. r.
alSu just starting. an elevator and
other new buildings going up at pres
cnt
Spcarman. the terminus of the road,
claims n population ~ about zoo peo-
pie II locatei n few miles from the
rim ~ the ralo Duro canyon that cuts
through the smooth prairie IN a norm.
casierly course. The santa Re has two
rosd wells and iss.irillinx a third one.
five elevators and y warehouse o. two
Z have been built Hansford, located In
the hotiom of the canyon. slx miles
away. moved to this point. But many
new buildings have been built a. well,