When the road was first built into Sargent (Now Coolidge) it was shortly after made a terminal, but on November 15, 1892, terminal was moved to Syracuse and established. The Western Terminal of the road was stopped for time some distance west of Coolidge, the builders, thinking they were at the State Line and afterward took up and rushed the work west to the Colorado State Line. The state Line was established in 1872 by a party of U.S.G. Surveyors.
When terminal at Coolidge was first established waster was supplied for the terminal from surface well near the engine house and, in 1888, water was secured from E.H. Peck Water Works, which consisted of two artesian wells, located north and east of our present depot. The Railroad Company purchased the Peck Water Plant about 1893, at which time J.M. Meade lined the old stone storage tank with brick, Chase County Stone Company, Contractors. The Company maintained plant until Spring of 1903 when the Railway Company placed water facilities on their own property, drilling a well 312-feet in depth, the water from which the Railway Company as been using ever since. The peck Water Plant is still owned by the Railway Company. The pumps and equipment and part of the pipe lines have been removed. The Peck Plant originally consisted, of two artesian wells and flowed at the time the Company used this water, but deep wells at Coolidge do not flow water any more, owing to water level having been lowered.
A portion of page 94 transcribed in altered form for the web by Larry Green.