Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — BUILDING JERSEY COW ROUTE [ARTICLE]

BUILDING JERSEY COW ROUTE

Kansas Farmers Building Electrical Railroad In Missouri With Animal as Mark. Kansas City, Mo. —The farmers who are building the electric railroad from Springfield to Joplin with branches to ML Vernon and Pierce City, have adopted a Jersey cow as their trademark and have named their road the Jersey Cow route. The cow appears on all the stationery of the company and will be spread rampant in yellow paint on all the rolling stock of the company. It is expected that the company’s line will be in operation by the latter part of 1911. Several attempts were made in years gone by to build an electric line over the route, but the regular type of lnterurban promoters never could get the farmers interested. Then J. I. Woodfill, a retired railroad man who owns a big farm near Springfield, took up the plan with his brother farmers and mare than a year ago the company was organised. Now the work is well under way. The stock is all owned by farmers who will be patrons of the road.