The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-01
NEW TERRITORY TO DEVELOP.
,uuFSTERN ALABAMA RAIL
80 v-,y TO BE OPENED TO-DAY.

Il
n,.tonce of Thirty-five Miles and
ns one of the Finest Cotton
naval stores Sections of Ala
,,o--IS a Part of the Plant Sys-
4 .n,--Win BE an Important Field
60. savannah Trade.
& The southwestern Alabama Railway, a
road now being constructed by the
8 me- Investment Company, from a point
:. nal. county, Alabama, near Newton,
\ -, trh7. IN Coffee county. will be formally
.oeced for business to-day. The road is
oronr rhirtv-fye miles in length, and
opens up one of the finest cotton and
naval stores sections of Alabama. The
.,r,oar IS said to be the finest virgin
timber in the South, while the lands are
very fertile. This is high rolling sec
+iop with great possibilities in the way
Of deyeloped water powers. all the streams
crossed by the road having swift currents
4 and deep channels, and, as a rule, per-
s. pen3icu,ar walls of blue mari
The important stations on the line
Il are Enterprise, half way between Newton
and Eiba, and Eba, which is the county
seat of Coffee county. Elba is now a
place of some 400 people but with fine
country surrounding it, extending fifty
miles south before another railroad is
reached, and having command of excel
lent territory on all sides of 1t, there is
no reason why it should not within a
short time become a prosperous town of
four or five thousand people.
This section of Alabama is destined to
fill up quickly with an energetic popula-
lion and will be to the interest of Sa-
vauuah merchants, cotton factors and
naval stores men to look well to their
interest in this direction. There is no sec
ton of Georgia or Alabama which holds
out greater promise to new corners than
the section of Southeast Alabama trayers-
ed by this road
To show how undulating this section is
the deepest cut on the Southwestern Ala
bama is over 10 feet deep, while the high
est embankment is over 40 feet high. The
greatest elevation above the sea is some
thing like go feet.
Mr. s G. McLendon of brownsville is
president of the Southwestern Alabama.
and the road being part of the Plant Sys-
tenn Mai B. Durham Is it's general super
intendent. Mr.. S. S. Fitzsimmons, whose
Headquarters are in Montgomery, is dfvis-
ion superintendent. There is already a
large naval stores movement from this
line TO Savannah.
The earnings of the Central of Georgia
Railroad Company during the third week
IN July were $ll7692, against $S1, 800 during
me same week last year, The total earn
inss from Jan. l 10 the end of the third
week in July were $2,743, 419, against
%6IS3A during the corresponding period
In 1897.
The earnings of the Georgia and Ala
bama Railroad during the third week i'm
July were $25,6 $40, against $40 226 during the
same week last year. The total earnings
from Jan. l to the end of the third week
IN July were $649,779, against S552O62 dur
ing the corresponding period in 1897.
The Atlantic Coast Line consolidation
VIII go INTO effect to-day. The officers
OF me new company are: President. c. 8.
Gaasden, Charleston; Vice President. II
waters Wilmington; Secretary and Treas
urer e. c. Olney, Charleston; Assistant
treasurer j. r. Post, Jr., Wilmington:
GENERAL Manager, j. r. Kenly, Whining
t2ni Iraflie Manager T. M Emerson.
yum nIniIhglon; General Auditor, w. A.
Roach Wilmington.
me safety Car Lighting and Heating
company Cthe 'Pintsch' SYSTEM. which
mas lor long time possessed the nouopoly
VI very valuable business. has finally
encountered what railroad men designate
a. d ulucn-needed rival And the opposi-
Ioh promises to make an interesting fipbt
Inc opponent is the LoveiovsCar Tdgbtf ng
company, which has been ORGANIZED with
0"Pltdl OF 100000. The new illuminant
9oHeuV ID mat the system generates its
H SaS' just as 1t is required, in the
esHelator under each car. The gas. how
49, ~ made only when the lamp is Hum
49, 80. Inc hight will burn sixty hours
"iNIOut recharging and the apparatl1s may
dIged at any station in three min
w. II appears that for years the rail
- - nave sought something in the way
81 Heauiights that would be more salts
80 than the present car system. This
S,ys3i invention, according to experts, will
IN tHe eXigency. The indications are
nol,,,a i I'm nscaI standpoint the Lovejoy
4eOpie nave an advantage over the Pintsoh
Io"d' The Pintsch light costs 81 per
t"g per car; the Lovejoy so cents-ornit-
~ ~ me by-product of sulphate of zinc
ne latter item is of importance. in that
" Is GAINED the by-pIoduct will almost
t t,'lIlate for the expense of manufac-
turing the gas '-''0
90 ne Workmen at the Horton (Kan shops
u lhe Rock Island road claim 10 have
IN Sn lhe worlds record for speed in
,.e matter of engine erecting, on an engine
w. Tlilcn recently passed through the shons
~, .,e norton Commercial says: From the
b, M We boiler was received from the
o "oler shop until The engine was turned
sr TO the painters, il was lust seven
, Ours and fifteen minutes, beating the best
~. 9,' zen hoursy by two hours and for
1--WE minutes. As a sepcimen Of the
"a aaPia way in which the work was carried
0n' II look one hour and thirteen minutes
, ION me time the boiler was received in
enc enc machine shop to have the engine ready
Fore 'ne application of her driving wheels
ayg 's,iien fitzpatrick and Boiler and their
e,,,d9'Sa,ni Us are very much pleased over the
b li5 record and are certain that they
,,os,, me banner record. The previous
$40 SoIlu record was held at Altoona. Pa.
- tltzgi5bon is much elated over this
OF the honor" wa 10 p'o"u
D3unNeys are being made for line from
wiz lsi"a ARK y c., southwest 10 a connection
Iir ,," lne Charleston and Western Caro-
una una probably at MARTINI. and that CON