The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-18
BUILD new line
Santa Fe to Connect From
Bazaar to EIdOradO.
Start Work as Soon as Right of
Way Is Secured.

A number of small inland towns
south of Cottonwood Falls, including
hatfield Green. have been all excited
the past few days. 1t is not an oil
boom that has struck them, altho
hatfield Green. especially, still enter
tains hopes of oil some of these days
What has put the several communi-
ties on edge is the report that the
Santa Fe is going to give them a
railroad.
1t has all been caused by the sud-
den appearance at hatfield Green of
r ". Stewart chief engineer for the
santa Fe, and squad of from fiji
teen TO twenty surveyors, who have
pitched their tents there and have al
ready spent several days in going over
the old Orient grade which at one
time was TO have been the link in a
line from Wichita to Kansas City.
OF course, il is synonymous with the
appeaSance of Stewart anywhere in
Kansas for a report TO start that
railroad is to be built but in this case
the people of hatfield Green and the
other towns between Cottonwood Falls
and EIdorado have made good
guess
\ Fast Freight Line.
Attic not confirmed by Santa Fe
officials in Topeka. it has been estab-
1fShed from authoritative sources u hat
the line is going TO be built and that
actual construction work will start
Just as soon as Stewart and his men
are successful in obtaining the right
Of way The line will not only serve
a new territory and place several adj
Ctitional towns on the Santa Fe system
but il will also enable the company
10 clip about fifteen miles from the
distance in moving fast freight from
Wichita to Kansas City.
. While il has been reported that the
rev line would start at Bazaar, at
present the southern terminus of the
Strong City branch. the line in fact
will start from Elinor. the first town
on the main line east of Strong City
but a connection with the Bazaar
line will be made about four miles
north of that city. From Bazaar the
new line will extend south to Mat
field Green. then in a sOuthwesterly
direction to EIdorado. total distance
Of between forty and forty-five miles.
Fine line from Bazaar to EldOrado Will
follow closely the old right of way of
the Orient which was graded twenty
years ago but which was as far as
that line ever got.
hatfield Green Is Celebrating.
hatfield Green is nine or ten miles
from a railroad and is in the heart of
the Flint Hill grazing section and the
rich valley of the south fork Of the
Cottonwood river. 1t is the headquar-
trrs of the famous Crocker Brothers
lsanch. consisting of several thousand
ascrcs For more than forty years,
hatfield Green has been wanting a
rslilroad and now that the hope is
a7bout to be realized celebrate are
in order. other Chase county towns
thru which the new line will pass are
Gladstone, Bazaar and Rural. In
Butler county the towns TO be favored
are Cassidy. Altman and Chelsa-
This is zhc third important piece
of railroad line which the Santa Fe
is making preparations to build this
ycar and the second in Kansas. Con-
tracts have already been let for the
Construction of fifty-five miles of new
road from Satanic to the western edge
"a Stanton couny in the southwestern
part of the state, and for a new line
fcrty-one miles long from Owen to
Pawhuska. Okla No other road in
the country has taken up extension
work to meet the demands of the
country on a scale with the Santa Fe-