 The lands were later sold to the White Deer Lands Trust of British bondholders in 1886 and 1887.Railroads began to reach the county by 1886 when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway subsidiary Southern Kansas Railway extended the line into Texas, making Panhandle City a railhead in 1888.In 1889, the Fort Worth and Denver Railway linked Panhandle City with Washburn in Armstrong County.