Volume 15 , Issue 34

Property Owners Interested In Proposed Interurban (1913)

Continuing looking through The Daily Ardmoreite dated 9 September 1913, Tuesday, we read the headlines: "Property Owners Become Interested Proposed Interurban Can Be Built."

There was some progress made each day back then on the building of the proposed interurban to Springer and Woodford. It would allow all those who would profit in the construction of the line to do a little work each day, the road would be a certainty and that within a short time.

It was reported that the coming of Dorsett Carter to investigate the proposition had added faith to the project and it ceased to be a wild dream and was becoming more of a reality.

Sherman Joins Stated that morning and gave everyone the privilege to publish it, that he would give $5000 out of his first sales of cement. Mr. Joins owned the cement deposits in the Hickory Cut which the government zoological surveyors said was the finest deposit of cement rock in the United States. This deposit was lying there doing Mr. Joins nor any one else no good, the building of the road to Woodford would mean the building of a cement mill to manufacture it, which would make a great enterprise for the county. The proposition of Mr. Joins was a liberal one and would be appreciated by all those who were interested in seeing the road built.

Robert F. Scivally was there on that day from Springer. He stated that he would be liberal in the purchase of stock of the company to assist in the building of the line, but would not state definitely what he would do.

E. F. Riser of Woodford was there the afternoon before and stated that he would count it a privilege to give $1 an acre on the land that he owned. He said much would have been saved him that year in marketing his wheat and oats and it would be a privilege and not a burden to give the amount.

Mr. Riser also stated that Charley Colcord owned a section of land in that community and he had heard Mr. Colcord say he would give $2,500 to secure a road to Woodford.

Mr. Morrison who promoted the asphalt paint factory in Ardmore, and who had a valuable asphalt lease at Woodford, had repeatedly stated that his company would give $5,000 for railway connection with Woodford, and he went further and stated that if some one else did not build the road, that his company would put in a narrow-gauge railroad to Woodford to give transportation to their products. Mr. Morrison sated that a road to Woodford would mean the building of a dozen paint factories in Carter county.

George F. Myers owned a tract of land within four miles of Woodford and he authorized to state that he would give as much as 50 cents an acre toward the fund to build the road.

Following was a letter that came on September 8, 1913, to the Ardmoreite from Fort Worth:

"Fort Worth, Texas, 9, 8, 13. Editor of the Ardmoreite, Ardmore, Oklahoma.

"Dear Sir: I have been taking great interest in the recent enterprise of the promulgation of the interurban from Ardmore to Woodford by the way of Springer.

"I am more than anxious to see this road built and fully appreciate and realize the great benefit it will be to the fertile and agricultural land adjacent to said road, as well as the commercial benefit it will be to your city.

"The Hurley Asphalt Co. owns fifty (50) acres of land near Woodford upon which we have some very valuable asphalt, which would furnish a great deal of tonnage for said road, and quite a financial benefit to us and realizing this and many other advantages to be obtained. I, as one of the board am willing to contribute one dollar ($1.00) per acre as suggested by Mr. Thomas, as a starter. I will be glad to co-operate with you and others int he planning and systematizing of this enterprise, and you may feel free to call on me at any time you think I can be of any assistance. Yours for success. T. M. Brooks."

There is another interested article in the 9 September 1913, The Daily Ardmoreite, related to the proposed Woodford road. It speaks of "Acreage Tracts On the Market," and property surrounding Whittington Park. One A. D. Shrewsbury, from Sherman, had secured office rooms with the Wolverton Company, and said he was interested in the campaign Ardmore was making for the interurban to Woodford. Shrewsbury offered to invest $100 in the stock and said when Ardmore was ready to go toward Sherman, that he would come in with a larger sum.

Shrewsbury engaged in the development and sale of small tuck tracts of land near cities and had come to Ardmore to promote a deal of this kind. Shrewsbury purchased from W. P. Poland, 230 acres of land adjoining the Whittington Park and had surveyed it and named it the Park View Addition to Ardmore. Tracts in five, ten and twenty acres would be sold on each payments to persons who desired to engage in dairying, gardening and in the poultry business.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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