Southern Kansas Railway Company
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Product Details
CompanySouthern Kansas Railway Company
Certificate Type
Income Bond Scrip
Date Issued
July 1, 1887
Canceled
Yes
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Signatures
Hand signed
Approximate Size
11 1/4" (w) by 7 1/2" (h)
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Guaranteed Authentic
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Additional Details
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Historical Context
The Southern Kansas Railway was the successor to the Kansas City, Lawrence and Southern Railroad.
By 1886, the line was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and under the ATSF's umbrella began to build 200 miles of new track from Kiowa, Kansas, southwest through Indian Territory to Panhandle City in the Texas high plains. The vast cattle ranches and agricultural prospects of the high plains motivated the AT&SF as did the potential threat represented by the expansion of a local Texas railway, the Fort Worth and Denver City.
An Act of Congress, which had been approved on July 4, 1884, gave the railroad company the right to locate, construct, own, equip and operate a railway-telegraph and telephone line through the Indian Territory . The company was given the privilege to construct its line, with a right-of-way 100 feet in width and with an additional strip 200 feet long and 3,000 feet in length every ten miles for stations.
No country could have been much wilder than the Indian Territory was at the time the railroad was constructed. There were no towns, nor even legal settlers, and curious Indians frequently put in appearances.
The final segment of the Kiowa Extension, a distance of 50.2 miles from Miami to Panhandle City , crossed the pasture of White Deer Lands.
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