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Workmen started on Monday tearing up the tracks of the A. S. between Hamlin and Anson. There was an extra crew of forty besides the regular work crew which will be thrown out of jobs by the dismanteling of a road for which Anson and Hamlin contributed right of way and furnished $65,000 dollars to build. The equity of the two towns in the road are gone. One Anson man, Rex Reddell, with a record of twenty years with the road without a single mark against his record, was thrown out of work or will be when the road is demolished. Four Radium men will also be out of work and one Hamlin man, L. O. Steele, was also been dismissed from Service. When the road was built Ham lin contributed $40,000 (Hamlin Herald Figures) and a part of the roadbed while Anson contributed around $30,000 and part of the road bed. Among the local commit tee which aided in raising contri butions to the road were R. J. Bar trett, C. H. Steele, B. S. Davidson, Albert Johnson, deceased, Dr. Stop pard, deceased, and Dr. Stephens. One Anson man, a poor man, gave $600.00 to get this road here and $500.00 to bring the W. W. road to Anson, I. H. Dean. At the first hearing in Abilene in May the rail officials testified that the line lost $35,359 in 1935. On the day of the abandonment of the line, service to Anson from Abilene will be continued for a few days longer, one Anson firm receiv ed a car of steel on which the freight terriff was $360.00 and this firm uses almnually about four such cars of steel. Besides there is an other Anson firm that uses approx imately fifty cars a year on an av erage which the line hauls. This year the freight received by Anson totaled 169 carloads, it is Stated, this does not count less than car load lots. During this past month ten solid carloads of freight have been received by Anson merchants while during the past year there have been 3,742 bales of cotton, over 100 carloads shipped from Anson, and 1,006,116 pounds of less than carload lots shipped from here. The Hamlin shippings have been estimated aft over 1,000 carloads be sides the freight received. Joe V. Boyd, local oil agent, will be left without a switch and he re ceives approximately fifty cars a year over the line. It has been estimated that the crew, after they get started will tear up a mile of rail a day, thus taking a little over fifteen days to remove the line of 17.1 miles in lensth.
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Anson Western Enterprise
Anson, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 11, 1937
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