The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-14
TO OPEN NEW FIELDS.
THE ALABAMA MIDLAND COM
PLETED TO OZARK.

The Road to BE Opened From Balm
bridge Sixty Miles West on Monday
"A New Through Line From Savan-
nah to the West Approaching Com
pletion-The Connections With the
Savannah, Florida and Western--A
Fertile Country Opened Up to sa-
vannah Merchants.
The Alabama Midland railroad will be
opened from Bainbridge. Ga, to Ozark,
Ala, on Monday. General Manager Brad
ford Durham and Traffic Manager Smith
spent yesterday in Savannah in conference
with the Savannah, Florida and Western
officials in regard to the opening of the new
line. A schedule was arranged so
that passengers leaving Savannah on the
Savannah, Florida and Western fast mail
at 700 o'clock a. m. will 60 through to
Ozark, via cambridge. arriving at Ozark
at 800 O'clock p. m. Leaving Ozark east
bound in the morning, they will reach Sa-
vannah the same day at 7:45 o'clock p. m.
Two trains will be run daily.
The road beyond Ozark to Troy and on to
Montgomery has been graded and large
force of hands is at work on 1T, and 1t Will
be completed easily within the next four
months.
TO INCREASE COTTON RECEIPTS
The building of the road will materially
increase the cotton receipts of Savannah.
said a gentleman well posted in the topo-
graphy of the county through which the
road passes. South Alabama, near Ozark,
is one Of the best and most extensive farm
ing sections in the south. Decatur county,
and along the Chattahoochee valley, is
n 1F he
state have never been developed
and once they are opened up by a railroad
direct to the great seaport of the south all
the products of the country will come this
way. General Manager Durham is very
positive of the roads success, and his con-
sideration carries with it, weight. be is an
atle railroad man, having been at one time
general manager Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad and having filed the same position
with the Louisville and Nashville railroad
for quite long time.
THE NEW ROADS PROGRESS.
The road from cambridge to Montgomery,
which was begun last March, has been
moving along Notwithstanding its draw
backs however, but even with them it will
be pushed through by Dec. l, giving direct
line of i72 miles from Montgomery to Balm
bridge, an important point on the great
Plant system which centers in Savannah.
Close connections will DO made at Balm
bridge with tho Savannah, Florida and
Western railway for Savannah. The entire
line from Montgomery to Savannah will be
almost a direct shoot of a little more than
400 miles.
The shipments of the bulk of the Chatta-
hoochee cotton raised in the valley, and in
the Bainbridge and across in the Ozark sec
tions has been finding its way down the
Chattahoochee river to Apalachicola. What
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has been at heavy expense, since a very
great deal of hauling through the country
was required to get it to the sta
tons. The Midland traverses a section
through which railroads have never
been to open up and prove the
real wealth of the country.
At Ozark connection is made with the
Southwestern railroad, which runs up by
Americas to Fort Valley and Macon, and
at Montgomery all the western connections
are made. 1t is understood that 1t is the
purpose of the Alabama Terminal and In
Sestment Company, which is building the
new line, to extend it on to Tuscaloosa. a
distance of sixty mines farther into the west.
THE ROADS EQUIPMENT.
The new line will be operated by telegraph
and will have the best motive power and
rolling stock. The telegraph line has been
completed along as the rail has been laid,
SO LnaC connection with OZark from Balm
bridge is had now. The track is of the very
best 60-pound steel rail. and the en-
gines and cars are of the first-class
1t is understood that Sleepers will be
run through regularly when Montgomery
is reached, without change. 1t is expected
that the direct route and quick service of
the new line will make it one of the great
trunk lines of the south. Its freight depart
ment may reasonably be expected to be very
heavy. The country through which the
road passes guarantees this Ii Savannah
has lost some of her trace by letting other
roads cut her off, she will gain much more
now.
At the Y. NJ. Q. Association.