Show I I I I I I I RAILROAD RAILROAD ACTIVITY IN YOUNGEST STATE Old Beaver count county nl v nr V divided di into the three counties or of Beaver Texas and Cimarron is now the center of railroad activity in in 10 Oklahoma An Au east cast and west vest road through b the lon long and narrow strip which constitutes Oklahoma's Oklahoma s 's Panhandle andle has bas lon long been recognized as coed od territory and more roads have probably been projected for that strip than for any other port part of the state but lint none has ever been bem pushed to com corn Surveyors are arc now at work ou on three county lines one o of which has been much talked of for a year or more The Theother two are arc new propositions The Santa Fe Liberal En Englewood pro pro- to run from Ds D's ts t's Moines N. N M. M 1 to Liberal and Englewood lan Kan traversing traversing traver traver- sing the whole length of the old neutral strip has been brought to life again by bythe bythe bythe the exhibition of real activity on the part of some somo of its competitors and has its surveyors working in tho the vicinity of Beaver The new proposition which seems to tobe tobe toe be e exciting the most interest is the proposed proposed pro pro- posed Cimarron Valley road backed by bythe bythe bythe the Valley Coal company compan which will havo have its western terminus Inthe in inthe inthe the Johnson Mesa c. c coal C al field eld of New Ne Mexico and will wilI it is claimed O open cn up upa a very rich mining country countr all the way from that terminus to lo Kenton Okla nearly miles in iu in a addition d tion to toO much good a agricultural ric country The great treat aim of all the proposed lines is to got ot cheap coal for northwestern Oklahoma I by getting it into communication with the New cw Mexican i ceal fields The Oiin- Oiin arron arran Valley Talley surveyors are now no working in the vicinity of Mineral Okla Oka I The Beaver er Valley Valloy 8 Northwestern promoted by State Senator Joe Morris I and J. J S. S of Hooker is also ac ac- ac i tive tivo It proposes to build from a I I Santa Santo Pe Ft connection at Gage Garo northwest I by way of Beaver er Cit City to a Rock Island connection at Hooker m miles The rho promoters promoter claim to have havo financed the tho road in the tho territory which it is to tra tray trav erso cro anti and that t they o will begin wr-rk wr by January 1 The Thc latest incorporation for railroad work in Oklahoma is the Clinton Oklahoma Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa boama Western which also aims to tap tho the same territory Its proposed line hue is isto isto to run from Guymon to Clinton and from Clinton southeast to Lehigh It is capitalized at and backed by Clinton and Fort Smith capitaL Construction work ork is bein being on the thc ton Wichita Falls Northwestern North North- orthe e western teD from Wichita Falls to Lawton which is is now in in operation for about I half balf the distance and contracts have havo been let lt for the part yet ct to be built Surveyors ors are arc out for lor or the Southwestern stern another southwest Oklahoma Okla Olda homa howa project t which is to run from Butler But But- ler Jer to Gote Gotebo o. o The surveyors are arc working work work- lug ing between c n Gotebo nod and Weatherford Semiofficial Semi announcement announcement is is mado that the Kats Kat extension ion from Wilburton t to Little Rock flock by way of Hot riot which has bas been hel held up pending the election is to be bo started at once The Tho final surveys were made several se months n ago o. o The Missouri Ii Oklahoma Gulf is is till gushing shin southward and as soon as it reaches a Rock Island bland connection at Calvin will arrange c with that roa road to run through h sleepers le from irom Okla OkIa- homa City to Kc Now motor car service sonico is to be in the tho near future futuro by two roads The Rock Island will put on a J. J motor motorcar car from Guthrie to Kingfisher sher and from Guthrie to Chandler malin making bet betS ter connections at those points th than n at present and a similar service w will bo inaugurated on the tho Midland Valley VaHey from rom Pawhuska to to make connections with the Ie Katy Kat at the tho latter point |