The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-01-27
ALL ABOARD FOR HAYS,


day to Sunday, of the proposed new
railroad to Great Bend, with the
maps OF both cities, and the views of
Great Bend, showing that pretty city,
the above became the slogan on the
streets of Hays. cit must come to
Hays" No putting Hays on a Spur
we must cross the Reservation"
Let's give our Home men a chance
TO bring this road to Hays, we did
that with Byers," were common ex-
pressions. As one big taxpayer put
it, "Why, the interest on the $50, 200
bonds they ask is less than so cents
Tor each Hays resident, and it surely
would be worth many times that to
get another railroad in Hays for the
next 25 years" Was he right? Were
they right? He might have added
that the taxes the Company will pay
will be more than the interest.
So interesting did it become to the
farmers that a public gathering was
held on north Chestnut street that
they got Mr.. Penney, representing
the State Board and Reservation, and
Daddy Freese, representing the Dir
'ectors and Southern promoters, to-
gether and had the matter threshed
out. Mr.. Frees said all their company
wanted was an assurance from the
State Board that when the r. r.
company had carried out their con-
tract in Hays,-building $4,000
depot, buying five acres of ground in
the city, had their terminal facilities
in the city and the cars running from
railroad connection with the Union
Pacific south through the city into
Big Creek township, as the petition
and contract reads, that the State
Board would give the R. R. permits
sion and a suitable lease to cross the
Reservation to get to Munjor and the
Gulf Of Mexico with their cars, pass
engers and freight, and they wouldn't
be stopped at the Reservation line
and have to fight for that permission
then: Mr.. Penney promised the crowd
he would see that the railroad got
such permission and lease if ap-
proved by the Atty General.
Mr.. Freese was satisfied with that
promise and agreed to insert in thu
Charter before filing "That the Office
of the Company should be at HAYS,
Kansas and that was done within
fifteen minutes; and the people then
said, tsNow, bring on your Farmers
railroad"
Inside of an hour the railroad folks
were on their way to Munjer, ar
they staked off their so foot right-of-
way from there in a direct line from
the creek bottom near the church
direct to the corner of Section 10 on
the Munjor road just east of Henry
Schlyer's, and the stakes can be seen
there. Then across onto the Ward
land, and 50-foot strip right along
the road across Schlyers, Cochran's,
Thomas to Chestnut street, four
blocks south of the Hotel, and part
of the land they have already got an
option on. When the Interstate act,
the Charter secured and Council give
permission, they will lay out their
route TO the u. p. railroad track, and
part Of that is already secured.
AS you come out of the Munjor
creek bottom, clear view was had of
the City Water tower and Mill, and
the line run on direct line to those
spots, and Munjor has already signed
up their petitions and ready to vote
the bonds on the easy terms their
petitions offer.
This is the last week of the Publ
cation in the papers of the Interstate
Commerce Notices, and they will be
forwarded at once with the rest of
the QUESTIONABLE to Washington, and
it will then be for them to grant or
reject the petition.
The Charter is all signed up, and if
they grant it, inside of "a hours it
win be sent to Topeka to file and the
Company have engaged Miss Kath-
ryn O'Loughlin, the new Attorney, as
one OF their attorneys, and she will
present the papers to the State Chart
er Board, the Industrial Court, and
the Blue Sky security commission fol
their approval, so her first case will
be in the interest of her old home
township of Buckeye, and it will be g
proud day for her to telegraph then
she got them a railroad, a depot anC
elevator.
The Washington Questionaire
shows that the Directors will eacI
hold one share of stock, $4,000 vii
be in the reserve fund, and the two
cities are expected to take 10000
apiece, and each township $4,000 anC
that is all the stock they ask to issue
so there can be no Watered or promo
ton stock issued.
And they ask to be allowed to issue
$500, 900 of per cent, Is year bond.
same as the townships, and guarantee
to furnish the money for these bond
and the township bonds that may bt
voted. And that will build the road
That If any township fails to vote tn
bonds, the road viii be built on the
route promised, but no station, side
track or elevator viii be built in tina
township for ten years and the stool
not issued. So the trains would no
have to stop in that township.
The hotel was crowded Saturda!
and Sunday nights, bidders for thu
$3.50 tons of rails, 145, 600 ties
13D, 900 fence posts, the bridges, ele
vasors and others giving their figure
SO It could be entered IN that Cues
tionaire, as the Interstate have t,
know what It is going to cost to bulk
to see if there viii be money enough
TO build before granting the permits
sion. It shows the rails viii cost abou
$3.50, 900; the ties and fencing s265.
OOG: elevators over $50, OOc; Smoky
bridge ST, zoos Big Greek and Re
serpation draw bridges, $500; roll
ing stock, 135, COG: nght-of-way
s27. 900. So the papers are ready t