| Show THE WE IVELL LI IiSAK EU when the general manager manager of the missouri kansas and texas texts railroad was pushing that great enterprise southward at the rate or of three miles a day he came across a veteran farmer who for nifty fifty years had lived on his frontier plantation undisturbed even by wars wan pestilence and famine so far from disease and telegram a was he ond ona night the a advance T vance men came upon his farmhouse farm house when the following dialogue ensued then ye re gwine to build a railroad are ye yes 11 whar am it comin from an whar am it gwine to go I 1 from sedalia sedalla Be dalia dalla in missouri down through missouri kansas hansas the indian territory Airy antl anti so on through texas to the city of mexico are ye gwine to run it through my rny plantation yes do ye hear that old woman weve go got t to to in auve 1 I ve not nece arlly Y all we want is the right of way you can have that air but ol 01 0 thought a railroad would ever bit lilt us u youve got a good abood farm here cef yes nir gir ir to how many acres about four foun thousand not many improvements no it takes so long to lo look after the cattle that I 1 can t improve much have you got a good well weli on th the premises yes a clappin good one only it leaks a little leaks hows that metee ye see vee we dug down forty feet when we came to rock but no water then I 1 walled it up and we haul the water from the river about forty barrels a day an fill into it we dont use moren five gallons a day all the rest leaks out somehow I 1 was gwine to dig an other othen well next year but araps I 1 can hire the water hauled on the cars camm chea pern I 1 can build for thirteen years this old planter had bad hauled forty barrels or of water a day to empty into that roc bottomed hole rather than dig a new well or bring water in a pipe from a spring only a mile away |
