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Two of three pages Death of David R. P. Roddy Railroading While in Pennsylvania he had had some experience in railroad grading as foreman on the East Broadtop railroad. It was not difficult, therefore, for him to secure a position as general foreman of grading and construction on the Santa Fe, which then was in the course of construction. He became general foreman for the firm of F. A. Butler, and began work in Rice county, Kansas. Later he was with the A. P. railroad at Laguna, N. M., from which he rejoined the Santa Fe forces close to Ft. Cummings and from there to Deming, N. M., where he graded for sidetracks and station. Following that he went to Olathe, Kansas, then between Las Vegas, N. M., and Hot Springs, N. M., at Raton, N. M., from Attica, Ks., to Kiowa, Ks., twenty-five miles of the line out of Kingman, and also some work at Saratoga. He then became general foreman with J. B. Colt & Sons, contractors, and was engaged in construction work on the Missouri Pacific from McCracken to Pueblo. From railroad building he and his sons next turned to the construction of irrigation ditches and they contracted and built sixty miles of ditches at La Junta, Colo. They built dikes along the Mississippi river in Arkansas and subsequently returned to railroading and did some work on the Orient railway in Kansa, and the line from Osage Kansas, to Cushing, Okla. Mr. Roddy had many thrilling experiences with the tough and lawless element that infested Bad Man's Land in Arkansas in the early days. All the towns and camps had their quota of horse thieves and gamblers and honest men as well as rogues had to go about heavily armed. Mr. Roddy at times had the responsibility of superintending the work of 300 men and an equipment of sixty teams. With this long and varied experience as railroad builder, Mr. Roddy returned to Larned, where he engaged in the real estate business, handling western lands. He remained in this business to the end of his life. |