The age-herald., 1897-11-19
MOBILE & OHIO
 IS SURELY COMING Surveyors Will Soon Reach tha Out
 skirts Of Birmingham. 1. c. KNOCKING AT THE DOOR H. 6 Q. Will Enter Oyer the Pow
 deFly Line.
BETWEEN BLOCTOu AND BESSEMER
The Surveyors Are Now Working g-The Southern Roads Are Watching the Working of the Interchangeable Mileage Tickets
 Trouble About Hauling Grain.

The Mobile and Ohio ra lroad is coming into Birmingham.
 A coIps of civil engineers are now at
 work on the Tine and before many days
 wall be at lth5 outskirts of the city.
 For seyEral weeks large corps of en- gineers have been at work surveying a route to Birmingham. They are' now at work between Blocton and Bess mer. The country in that vicinity is the very widest irpaginable and considerable
 time will be necessarily consumed in se- lecting the route and surveying small parts of it.
 That this great railroad system should seek an entrance into the largest city in Alabama is nlt surprising. In fact, when the extension, new under construc- tion, was announced it was conceded that the road had an eye on the commercial center of the state.
 President wcolfolk of the Hanover Construction company admitted while here early this year sub-leltting the c1r- tracts for the work on the extension, that the Mobile and Ohio people recognized the vast commercial importance of this city and district. Their line Is. so con structed that it trayerses the richest coal deposits in the district.
 The extension from Columbus, Miss, to Montgomery will be completed by March 1 and put into immediate opera
 tion. The rails are laid to within eight
 miles of Tuskaloosa and false work is
 being placed in on all the bridges and
 trestles on the line. This is done to al
 low the operation elf trains before the
 bridges proper are completed.
 ACROSS THE RIVER.
 Across the Warrior river alt Tuskaloosa the false work for the bridge is nearly
 complete, while only the piers for the
 main bridge have been placed in position,
 It is thought that trains will be in opera ton between Tuskaloosa and Columbus by January 1.
 The country to be traversed by the line into Bessemer is extremely hilly. It has
 been the scene of the operations of the gang of bandits under the leadership of
 Rube Burrows and Jim Morrison. These men terror.zed part of the country and would then retreat to their almost inac- cessible hills.
 OVER THE POWDERLY LINE. Of course this announcement naturally revived the talk concerning the Bir- mingham, Powderly and Bessemer dum- my lime.
 The Mobile and Ohio road is ex-ected to use this line as an entrance into the f f1nr,a 1atar int Bessemer. It has been announced re gently that the line would bs extended from Bessemer to the Howard Harrison pipe works, a distance of about three miles, and the present light rails re- placed by 60-pound steel rails. By strengthening out the kinks and curves | in the present. line about thre= miles ol | it's length will be saved.
 The distance from Birmingham tc | Bloeton via the Birmingham Minera | road, is forty-eight miles. This road goes to B5ssemer, and then in some. what of a round about way, extends | to Blocton. By the route the Mobile | and Ohio road will enter the egty, the distance between tfla two points will be reduced to about twerty-eight miles. Ii will connect with the Birmingham Powderly and Bessemer road at ths Howard Harrison pipe works, and use tIhat line into this city.
 One of the sub-contractors working or the extension near Tuscaloosa was il the city yesterday. He said the Han over Construction company had a large corps elf engineers fin the field, which is immediately followed by similar corps representing t1ls Mobile and Ohio Rail road company.
 ANOTHER TRUNK LINE. According to what is considered au- thentec information another great trunk line will be in Birmingham in the near future. Another great system, the Illinois Central has been credited with am attempt to enter the city and will probably do So eventually. THOSE MILEAGE TICKETS. The Western railroad officials speak in the highest terms of the Sebastian idl- Interchangeable mileage tickets" The sa>AnAAnnnHAnnAAn1nnA1nnnAannnnnf