The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-03-31
Golden Belt Railro.d Not..

Easter Monday, and the Golden Belt
officers had an invitation IN attend
and meet their people, but as the per
mission had not been receiyd from
the Interstate the invitation had to be
declined until a later day. One of the
old Germans OF that neighborhood.
who worked on the section of the
Missouri Pacific near there. many
years ago, has sent the Office here an
old spike to be used in connecting the
Golden Belt with the Missouri Pacific
at that town next fall.
One of the Barton County assess
ors finds that one farmer near the G.
B. road had on hand March 1st, over
1000 bushels Of corn. If this road
was IN operation now he could de-
liver this corn on track in Ellis coun-
ty now at 45 cents a bushel.
The Great Bend paper of last
week says the farmers who have been
IN town the past week report their
wheat looks finer for the last half of
March than it did in either 1919 or
1920.
One Of the Galveston syndicates re-
ports this week that last week two
Italian vessels, one carrying $4,000
and the other 243,OOO bushels of
wheat were shipped out by them.
Another reports that the first of the
ships sailed for Greece, carrying
55O,OOO bushels, for their account,
and nearly million bushels would be
shipped to Grecian ports the next
thirty days. And they want the
Golden Belt fellows to hurry up and
send their wheat down there for ex-
port.
If arrangements don't miss, one
Galveston firm will control the ele-
vators Of Buckeye, Catherine and
North Big Greek; another firm there
will contol the ones in Pfeifer, Ill
inois and Pleasantdale townships;
and negotiations are now on for
New Orleans firm to own the one in
Munjor, North Freedom and the
Lookout-Pleasant Hill elevator. In
the deal they are required to guaran-
tee to pay at least the price paid by
the existing elevators, and this means
saving of 5 to 10 cents a bushel for
every farmer in hauling his grain to
an elevator (what it now costs them
to haul the six to twenty miles to
their nearest elevator). In the Bond
petitions THE GOLDEN BELT ELE-
VATOR CO. guarantee to every
township an elevator and it will be
one of the first things contracted for
when the permanent track location is
settled. The Direcors will require a
return contract that the farmers
along the line shall be allowed to own
these elevators, buy at cost, on their
guaranteeing to ship the grain re-
ceived to those Gulf ports who will
guarantee in return to pay the high
est market price. 1t would mean that
this Southern money would be
brought here, spent with the farmers
for their grain, who, in turn can come
to town and spend more money with
the business men of the cities.
It may be all wrong for the Golden
Belt Railway to talk of building a
road in these hard times, but the Sa-
lima paper Saturday announced that
the Hutchinson, Wichita-Newton In
terurban railroad, built many years
ago and is a great success, has after
five months waiting, got their permit
from the Interstate Commerce and
are now assembling in their yards at
Wichita the rails, ties, etc., to ex-
tend their line at once the fifty miles
from Newton to Salina. This road
runs half a dozen trains a day, car
ries freight, mail, express and passen-
gers and is doing a splendid business,
the electric power being furnished
from Wichita. They are talking of
extending their electric wires to
Great Bend from Hutchinson, and
their engineers gave the Golden Belt
an estimate of 100000 to electrify
its line from Great Bend to Hays. In
the western mountains the electricity
is run from the mountain plant hun
dreds of miles successfully, and it is
said it can be extended the 100 miles
from Hutchinson to Hays equally as
successful. But the pushers of the
Golden Belt are figuring, instead, for
the Motor Car system, which lets
them stop every two miles at least ex-
pense and pick up the passengers and
express of the farmers, where the
money is; for this is to be FARM
Frs Road.
POINTERS