The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1920-01-15
GRADING WILL
START FEB. l
Steel Contract Has Been Let, Ties
Are Purchased, and Everything
Ready to Start.
LINE TO FORGAN AND
BEAVER A PROBABILITY
Sentiment at Forgan Becoming Fav'
orable to Road, While Beaver
Is Anxious for Connection
With r. |. Here.

Surveyors on the Kansas & Okla
homa railroad will have finished run
ming the line to the Stevens county
line by tonight, according to Walter
Byers, who is in charge of the work
at this place.
The line has already been laid out
thru the west part of town. The road
will enter the city limits at the in
tersection of Cain and Locke streets
and run east on Locke street to a
connection with the Rock Island
right paralleling that line to
Kansas avenue.
Mr.. Byers informs the Democrat
that his father, o. P. Byers, president
of the road, let the contract for the
steel in st. Louis last Monday, and
that they have the ties stored in their
yards at Pratt,
LeMonnier Bros have the contract
for the grading in the city and will
start work as soon as they can get
things shaped up. The contract for
the balance of the line northwest has
been let and grading would have
started before now but for the fact
that bad weather delayed the COM
pletion of work on hand. In let
ter to the company the contractor
states that he will be on the ground
ready to go to work by February 1st
unless again hindered by weather
conditions.
The work of building the road has
progressed so far that it is looked
upon by everyone as certainty.
There may be little bitches here and
there, but these can all be ironed out
and the general opinion both of the
company and the people is that the
road is as good as built.
The company has the cooperation
of both the Rock Island and "Katy"
lines and this is going to facilitate
matters greatly.
With the starting of the line north
west the people of Beaver county are
becoming somewhat anxious for the
Forgan line to be built. Down at
Beaver City there is strong senti-
! ment favorable to building the road
into Beaver and we have it on good
authority that Forgan people are also
beginning to see where they will be
benefited by the building of the line.
1t has come to us that they want
the Forgan line built first, but in
talking to Mr.. Byers about it he says
this could not be, but that the two
lines can be constructed simultane-
ously if the people want to give the
necessary aid as they did in Seward,
Stevens and Morton counties.
The proposition to Forgan will
again be taken up and an effort made
to put it thru this year. Something
like two thirds of the necessary
bonuses have been granted between
here and Forgan and with that town
and Beaver both back of the propo-
sition there is little doubt but what
it can be successfully handled.
Officials of the road will visit the
Hoskinson neighborhood tomorrow
and select the location for the town.
site. The company co-operates with
the community in locating the towns
as far as possible. They will also
visit the Kriehble neighborhood and
locate elevator site and shipping lta-
tion.
Mr.. Fred Byers, brother of o. P.
Byers, prominent attorney of Ko-
komo, Indiana, will move to Liberal
and become citizen of the town, as
sisting the company with the legal
end of the work.
One of the benefits to Liberal will
be the locating here of forty or fifty
families, being the people who will
run the road. While we are going
to cut off some good trade in the
farming community the coming of
these people will make it up in good
shape and at the same time the farm
ers will have better conditions by
being closer to town.