Volume 18 , Issue 35

1893 - Oklahoma Railroad

The Guthrie Daily Leader, out of Guthrie, Oklahoma, dated 16 December 1893, Saturday, page 3, reported on "Oklahoma Railroad." Secretary Martin's Line would soon be undergoing construction.

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From all indications Oklahoma territory will soon have a railroad of her own. A special dispatch from Washington to the Kansas City Journal of Thursday says:

Representative Hudson called up the bill granting a right of way to the Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern railway company through the Indian and Oklahoma territories, and it passed. He abandoned the bill introduced by himself covering the matter and took up the bill which passed the senate i November and which had been introduced in that body by Senator Martin. The bill is in the interest of ex-secretary of Oklahoma Judge Martin, J. R. Clark of Stillwater and R. Porter of Caney, Kansas. They have formed a company to act for the Missouri Pacific in constructing the line provided for by the bill. The corporation was created under the law Montgomery county, Kansas, and running southwest, taking in the towns of Stillwater, Guthrie and El Reno, thence through the Osage, Pawnee, Wichita, Comanche and Apache reservations.

The company was given the right to construct telegraph and telephone lines, and also the right to construct turnouts and sidings and the usual depot facilities. The right of way was 100 feet wide, with 200 feet for 3,000 feet at all stations.

The bill was supposed to be more favorable tot he corporation thant he usual form prescribed, in its terms relating to the Indians. It was highly satisfactory to those int he local corporation and also to the Missouri Pacific contingent. It was estimated to be more valuable by several thousand dollars than the grant of franchise in the usual form throughout that country, The bill needs now only the approval of the president to become a law.
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