Volume 11 , Issue 37

1905 - Guthrie Railway Gossip

On page twelve of The Oklahoman, dated December 2, 1905, the small headlines read, "Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 2, 1905 -- The Guthrie, Fairview & Western railroad company, building westward from Guthrie toward Denver, as an Orient feeder, has let the contract to John Harishorn to construct the first twenty-five miles of of the road west of Fairview, where it crosses the Orient main line.

"The final survey shows the road's course to be northwest from Fairview through the Persimmon valley to Woodward, Fort Supply, May and westward through Beaver county.

"The Orient is pushing the construction work on the main line, in Greer county, building north and south from Altus, where it crosses the Frisco.

"To the south of Canton the railroad company has opened a new town named Oakwood. It is expected to have the road completed from Altus to the Red River by January 1 (1906), Only a small portion of the track, between Nashville and the Orient main line is yet to be completed.

"From Cherokee to Kansas City the Denver, Enid & Gulf will use the Orient tracks. A. B. Sutton has been granted the contract to construct the Oklahoma & Northwestern railroad north from Berlin, in Roger Mills county, to Woodward, and the grading is being rapidly completed in Roger Mills county.

"President Stone of the Oklahoma & Texas railroad has closed a contract with the people of Lindsay, I.T., to build the road through that town for $26,000, terminals and right of way for five miles each way. This gives Lindsay three roads.

"The people of Comanche, I.T., have also signed a contract for the Oklahoma & Texas, giving a $10,000 bonus.

"J. L. VanCamp, of Oklahoma City, has made a proposition to the citizens of Woodward, Beaver City and Liberal, Kansas, to run an automobile stage line from Woodward via Beaver City to Liberal, something over 100 miles. There is no railroad at present through that part of Oklahoma. The stage line would connect the Santa Fe at Woodward with the Rock Island at Liberal."
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