TOWN SHIFTING IN U.S.A.
UNIQUE PROCESSION
LOVE OF SPECTACULAR
Four towns in Kansas are to be moved to new sites during the next few mouths, in order that they may be placed in touch with a railway line. A new railway is being constructed in south western Kansas, and the promoters have decided to follow a direct route without making any deviations. The country that is to be traversed is a level plain, and when the citizens of Santa Fe, New Ulysses, Hugotou and Richfield discovered that the new line would not reach them they proceeded to make arrangements for a series of moves. Santa Fe will be shifted six miles to the south on the first Monday in May, aud placed beside the railway line. The little town has a court house, a public ball, two newspaper offices, a schoolhouse, a bank, a dozen business premises and thirty or rorty homes. It is proposed to have every building on wheels ready for moving, and then take the whole town over at the same time in one long, spectacular procession, headed by the town church, a methodist edifice, with the Rev W. H. Stanley, the pastor, riding in front. The editor of the Santa Fe Republican says that he will mount his hand-press on a spacious platform and print a special edition of his newspaper during the journey. The gaol, m charge of “Sheriff Bill Lucas, will be at the end of the procession. The traction engines and trolleys that have been secured will proceed to Hugotou when Santa Fe has been moved. Hugoton has to travel ten miles in order to reach the railroad. New Ulysses and Richfield will be taken m hand later, tue former town requiring to be dragged twenty-five miles before it can attach itself to a railway station. Evidently the people of south western Kansas are animated by the spirit of enterprise that is characteristic of ti'ieir country. It is to be teared that a New Zealand town under sim'ilar conditions would have devilled all its energies to securing a de\ nation of the railway.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1002, 3 February 1912, Page 4
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350TOWN SHIFTING IN U.S.A. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1002, 3 February 1912, Page 4
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