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university city. After the contests, the passengers could walk from the stadium
to hississippi Street where their cars would be waiting to take them home. the
entire distance from Kansas City, Kansas to Lawrence cost $1.08 for a one way
fare, Station to station fare was usually a dime where shorter stops were fig-
ured on an average of two and a half cents a mile.

The anticipated 25 of revenue from the carrying of freight was gradually
increased until it provided the greater share of profit sources, “ilk, sand,
cement, produce, coal, paper, flour, bricks, gasoline, livestock, grains, and
even carloads of automobiles were all products shipped on the Kaw Valley line.
After the post-world War 1 years had seen the rise of both passenger and freight
traffic on the Kaw Valley line, the sréclepreseion years looked bleak. In 1927
bankrupey proceedings began, although this did not interrupt service in any way.
by 1931, most of the interurban companies were going broke and were disappear-
ing from the Kansas horizon. In 1932 the Kaw Valley was forced into receiver=
chip, salaries were cut, services curtailed and small freight stations abandoned
in order to cut down costs. Finally, a petition was filed with the Kansas Corp-
oration Commission asking that trolley service be abandoned between the towns
of Bonner Springs and Lawrnce (21.4 miles). Soon after, a petition was also
filed for the abandonment of passenger trolley service between Kansas City and
boaner Springs, substituting a motor coach (ous) line in it's place. (n June
13, 1935, trolley service had been stopped between sonner and Lawrence and on
July 28, 1935, passengers were picked up by one of sixteen new buses. she new
buses would also carry mail between the two cities. Hach bus was labeled the
"Kaw Valley Stage Line".

For fourteen more years freight service was continued between Kansas city
and Lawrence until on August 14, 1949, permission was granted to abandon that
21.4 mile section of line. fherfore, on December lst of that year service was

stopped and in 1951, the 21.4 miles of track and overhead was taken down. *he

Kansas City to sonner Springs line continued to haul coal to the cement plant