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Show MGKffi)ADS A New Line Connecting with the Santa Fe is to Enter tbe Indian Territory Country. WHY THE R. G. W. 0FFICIAL3 SMILE What was Done in Five Minutes in Texas The News Among Local and Foreign Lines. The Choctaw Coal and Railway com- pany is pushing the construction of its connection with tbe Santa Fo road at Oklahoma City. The name of the Choctaw Coal and Railway company does not convey a particularly striking impression to the mind of the average man, but the road, nevertheless, is (intended to ultimately provide an outlet to the rich Indian territory ter-ritory country. The connection with the Santa Fe referred to above is at the eastern end of the line, and places it in connection with east and west traffic. It is the western end which is intended in-tended to bo carried forward until it intersects the Forth Worth at a point near Wichita Falls which has not yet been made public. Men with plenty of money are behind tho project, and all I the construction is oeing done in the most permanent way. The roadbed is solid, the rails heavy, and the ballasting superior to most of the great western trunk lines. The Choctaw railway is another example ex-ample of the rapid extension of the north and south systems of the country west of the Mississippi. It is a curious fact that the commercial relations of the southwest are being built up almost exclusively with the north instead of being carried east to the seaboard. The western empire may before long be in a position to carry on its business without much regard for the Atlantic cities. Cnck of the Walk. Manager Hill of the demurrage association asso-ciation of Denver, is entitled to consider con-sider himself "the people." Some time ago certain shippers in Colorado Spriugs undertook to demonstrate that they knew more about the time that tlinu IT ura Ant it l.n I r, hnlil o.rn than otii. demurrage association, or railway, for that matter. Suits were instituted and it looked like war. The wholo trouble has been lixed up and a definite understanding under-standing reached about delaying cars. The suits have been dismissed and the authority of the association is unquestioned unques-tioned in the laud. Little Fall, it Southern. A Little Falls, Minn., special says' Five St. Paul capitalists were in tho city in the interest of the Little Falls A Southern railway, which is to bo built from this point to the Iowa line, Jackson Jack-son county, this state, in the near future, fu-ture, and later is to be extended to Deliver. This road will afford a needed outlet to the south wost for tho lumber to bo manufactured here by the W' ever -hauser syndicate mills, w hich are to be built at once, the annual cut of which will be about lo:i,OUl),OU0 feet. What They Hid. At a meeting of (lie Passenger Agents association iu Denver, five lines were represented. The resignation of Secretary Secre-tary Horace Bird of the Midland was accepted and (I. W. IleinU of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande succeeded him. Among other business transacted was the issuing of a order for single fare rate inside of Colorado for the state G. A. K. encampment to be held at Man-itou, Man-itou, April St aud 2!i. Railroad Notes. The work of grading for an extension of the ll:o Grande H esteru road to Sa-lina Sa-lina has commenced. Tne new passenger agent of the Chicago Chi-cago iV Northwestern in Salt Lake will be H. II. Muarsof the C. II. & D. Vice-President Holcomb of the U. P. is iu Denver reviewing the matter of the proposed enlargement of the shoos in that city. While other railroads have experienced exper-ienced snow blockades this winter, the R. (J. W. has escaped and the officials smilingly say we are "the people." That the Business Men's club of Dallas, Dal-las, Tex., has nerve was shown when over .'."0,0J0 was subscribed in five minutes to aid in constructing a new road Jfrom that city to Alexandria, La. |
