The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-05

AANAliA " NfulA W ANdlAahH AAA AftitA " hlf
county.
The Midland Valley branch to
Shidlcr is practically completed, and
| whether the line will be extended
farther into the field Is yet undecided
| The towns Of DeNoya, Kaw City and
Poncn city have all asked for an
extension westward. and 81 Is known
that the matter has been before the
road officials. a special charter with
R2bO,O0O stock wan secured 20 build
the Forak or- -Shidier spur.
Tho line being built by the Okla
homa a Arkansas, is 20 miles in
length. A special company was
chartered with S3O7, 500 capital stock
and the purpose Of the road Is to
open up wide eXpanse OF timber
land along the Oklahoma Arkansas
border at that point Several lum-
Der mills are TO be established
Work on the Oklahoma south
western by 4. Il. Slick and associates
began during 1920. and has been in
! progress the greater part OF the time.
! opening up the towns of Slick and
/ Nuyaka, and making II possible for
the development OF oil territory iu
| these Vlcinitics. The company was
chartered originally with $1,000. 900
capital, for the purpose of building
south from Bristow TO DenisOn, Tex
as, via Okmulgec. Later the charter
was amended to include a line south
west to Wsurika in jefferson county.
and a line northeast via Oilton to
the Ponca City district has also been
considered.
An East aud West Line.
The most prctentlous project now
/ inCubating, and that shows great
| possibilities OF materializing. is an
east and west railroad across the
northern tier OF Oklahoma counties,
/ from Miami to Ponca city. and per-
haps west to Enid. This proposition in
great part was originated number
/ of years ago by Ray Hoss OF Fair
/ fax. and at that time II looked al
most certain. In the meantime IL
| has been dropped until recently.
when it was revived by Samuel
\ Braselton, and other chamber of
commerce people of Nowata, the first
/ meeting being held at Nowata about
a month ago. Another meeting was
| held recently at Miami and repre-
sentatives OF the Northeast Oklahoma
railway OF Miami have been visiting
/ the various cities in between.
II was the Miami capitalists who
| agltated the proposition OF making
this an electric line. The Northeast
/ Oklahoma, north from Miami
/ through the big zinc field is electric,
/ and 1t Is the desire OF James S.
Mabon, j. +. Robinson, IL. B. Cob
! ban, and their associates to electrify
/ the entire east and west line, if u
/ is built. The proposed line would
start at Miami, on the Frisco and
Northeast Oklahoma, and build west
ward via Welch, Centralia. Nowata,
/ BartlesVille, bawhuska and possibly
DeNoya and Kaw City to Ponca City,
and thence west. if the Enid propo-
sition IL favored, via Tonkawa, Bill
lings and CARRIER to Enid, which is
60 miles west of this city. The pro-
posed road would intersect the Katy
at Welch, the Iron Mountain at No
wata, the Katy and Santa Fe at
| Bartlesville, the Midland Valley at
Pawhuska. the Eastern Oklahoma
line of the Santa Fe at kaw City,
the Santa Fo main line and Hutch
inson (kan) & Southwestern branch
at Ponca City, and the Frisco, Rock
Island and Santa Fe at Enid.
May Build Own Road.
a company is organizing at Ponca
| City at tho present time to build the
3O-mile gap between this city and
| Billings, the western terminus Of the
Enid Billings Rock Island spur, and
this VIII be done unless the Rock Is
/ land should decide to do the work it.
self. A chamber OF commerce COM
mittee has been named to have
charge OF this and all other railroad
propositions, and its work will in
clude the proposed electric line from
Miami. The Marland oil interests
| here guarantee a million dollars in
/ freight,
a railroad from Waurika, Okla.
| southwest TO Byars, Texas, making
U a n 30 NGs.V 4. l.
/ Falls, Texas, Is n project that has
been outlined by Frank .Kell, who
! says the road will be built. Kell
has been the most persistent rail-
! road builder In southwestern Okla
| homa and put over the KATY
/ (Oklahoma g. Northwestern from
| Wichita Falls 10 Forgan.
Tulsa is again revlving the prop
osltion to extend the Missouri Pa
| cific from either Claremore or
Oolagah to Tulsa, thus giving the
latter city another main line connec-
tion. This project looked certain
| prior 20 the war but was then
dropped.
Electric Line Projects.
In addition TO the electric line,
now being promoted west from Mi
! ami to Ponca City, several other
electric projects are now being con-
sidered. II Is certain now that an
| extension of the Shartel road will
be built from Guthrie northeast via
! saltwater to Cushing. Shartel now
/ has lines from Oklahoma City south
! to Norman, west to El Reno and
north TO Guthrie. Engineers arc
now working on the Guthrlc-Cush.
/ ing extension.
Two other electric lines that Nave
been partially promoted in this part
| OF the state include an extension
! south OF the Wichita Walnut Valley
! Interurban and a line from still
water west to Perry. The first would
/ come south from Arkansas City and
build via Newkirk, Ponca City.
| Tonkawa, Billings and CARRIER to
| Enid. This was another prewar
I project that went down during the
| depression. Numerous Enid capital
lists were interested in this extension.
| The Stillwater-Perry line was pro-
NOTED as late as 1920 by A. W. Ahr-
berg, q farmer living near the
Payne-Noble county line, who had