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State Journal: It has been decided to build the main line of the Sedalia, Warsaw & Southern railroad direct to Peirce City by way of Stockton, Greenfield and Mount Vernon. At Peirce City connections are made for the timber country of Arkansas. Branch roads will run to Lamar, Springfield and other points. The proprietors hope to have it completed this year.
Railroad Items
Yesterday, Judge McBeth received a letter from Kansas City which announced that work was satisfactorily progressing on the Kansas City and Southern and owuld be pushed vigorously. The writer enclosed the following poster:
100 TEAMS WANTED
To work on the Kansas City and Southern railroad. Wages $3 per day. Apply at Breevort House between 10th and 11th Streets, on Main, or on the work. FAIRCLOUGH & STEWART.
The Morgan County Gazette: In the event that the railroad from Jefferson City passes southwest of us we must form a connection at once with the narrow guage at Cole Camp, twenty miles distant. It is a natural route, skirting the Osage timber on the dividing line between the waters of the Osage and the Missouri rivers. The line is direct and cheap. For a narrow guage road the grading would cost less than $1,000 a mile. With this feeder, Sedalia would at once connect, on the north with the Chicago & Alton, thus giving competing rates for freight and travel. As soon as the connection is made with the Chicago & Alton, Henry and Bates counties will move to secure a connection at Cole Camp, which will give them also a competing route; and thence into and through the State of Kansas, would only be a question of time and a very short time at that.