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Wheel scraper outfits like this performed Herculean work on both the Southern
Kansas and the GC&SF projects (Courtesy AT&SF Railway)
AT&SF General Manager A. A. Robinson on the three routes which he and
his crew had laid out. The "A" route ran from Coffeyville, Kansas, to
Gainesville, Texas; the "B" route from Arkansas City, Kansas, to Gaines-
ville; and the "C" route from Arkansas City to a point near Salt Creek or
Red River Station, Texas. The "A" and "C" routes were judged to be the
most expensive to construct because of heavy grading in some places and
the absence of timber in others. The "B" route was recommended as the
least expensive.4
None of these routes were followed, however. In January, 1886, a party
of fifteen men, under the employ of civil engineer J. D. Wirt, began an-
other survey southward from Arkansas City. Though the party's destina-
tion was not publicly known at the time, it headed for Gainesville and,
unlike any of the Marvin surveys, cut through the center of Indian Terri-
tory's Unassigned Lands-lands which had become known as "Oklahoma."
4 "Reconnaissance of H. L. Marvin," The Chronicles of Oklahoma, Vol. XVII, No. 2 (June,
1939), pp. 212-228. Original copy in Archives, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas.
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Hofsommer, Donovan L. Railroads in Oklahoma, book, 1977; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc862892/m1/30/: accessed May 11, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; .