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is also extraneous to the usual customary works incident 

 to railroad direction, and has therefore an apparently 

 speculative character which directors are unwilling to 

 assume. 



The Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad 

 Company, under the direction of its wise Superintendent, 

 O. Chanute, Esq., has instituted a system for the purpose 

 of encouraging settlers along its line, in planting hedges, 

 which is well worthy the consideration of many other 

 roads. 



The nature of this system may be best explained by 

 the following circular, which is sent to every land pro- 

 prietor along the line of the road : 



SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE L., L. & G. R. R., ) 

 LAWRENCE, KANSAS, November 8, 1871. ) 



The killing and injuring of stock by trains, proving not only a 

 great loss and annoyance to farmers along the line, but a source of 

 considerable danger to the trains and the traveling public, the 

 Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company is desirous 

 of beginning the fencing of its line in advance of any legal require- 

 ment to do so, and for this purpose makes the following proposal to 

 the proprietors of the land adjoining its right of way : 



1. The railroad company will, upon application, furnish at the 

 nearest station, during the proper season for planting, osage orange 

 plants in sufficient quantities to set out a hedge on the right of way 

 lines through each cultivated farm, and will, when the hedge is grown 

 and in condition to turn stock, as ascertained by actual examination 

 of a skilled inspector, pay the proprietor, or his assigns, the sum of 

 thirty-five cents a rod. 



2. The railroad company will, about the time the hedge is ready to 

 turn out to stock, fence up at its own expense such short gaps as must 

 be necessarily left where there is no soil to grow a hedge, and will 



