The age-herald., 1900-06-17
". ]. OLIVER & GO.
 THE LUCKY BIDDERS Awarded Contract for Building 20 Miles of EnSIey Southern. WILL BEGIN WORK AT ONCE Contract Calls for Completion of Road Within Ten Months = Lincoln
 Green Mentioned as E. A.
 Neil's Successor
WILL BEGIN WORK AT ONCE

The contract for building the first twenty miles of the Ensley Southern road has been let to W. J. Oliver and Company, of South Carolina The contract price is said to be approximately $5OO,OOO. This amount is to cover the cost of grading, laying the ties, rails buildings bridges, or in other words the contract is of the lock and key order and when Oliver and Company turn the road over to the company it will be com plete and ready for the running of trains.
 The twenty miles covered in the contract is that portion of the road running between Ensley and the Little Warrior river, and will be owned jointly by the Southern and the Louisville and Nashville
 The contract was awarded yesterday morning, and immediately after it was signed Messrs. Oliver and Company con- municated with their maiager in South Carolina and instructed him to get every thing in readiness to ship men and teams by tomorrow. They expect to have them in Birmingham by the middle of the week, and within two or three days thereafter work on the grading of the road will begin at Ensley and other points. The contract calls for the completion of the road within ten months, and the first eight miles with
 
 in five months.
 Sub-contracts will be let for portion of the road but Oliver and Company will di- rectly supervise it's construction at every point.
 Where Joint Ownership Ends
 The joint ownership of the Ensey Southern will end at the Little Warrior river and from this point the Southern and the Louisville and Nashville will each build a line to connect with their main lines. The Louisville and Nashville branch will run through portions of Jefferson, Walker and Cullman counties, tapping the main line at or near Phelan's, in Cullman county, about three miles south of the town of Cullman. The Southern's branch will extend on to Parrish Walker county, where it will con meet with the Birmingham and Columbus division of the Southern and the North ern Alabama road
 The contract for constructing ten miles of the Ensley Southern, between Parrish and the Warrior river, was awarded to Chattanooga firm two or three weeks ago, and that together with the twenty miles let yesterday leaves but eight miles to be contracted for. These eight miles lie be- tMttH ln6 w dTTlOT anu lHe Illlle w var rior rivers, and will run through a very rough section of country. At either end will be big bridge, which will be very expensive. It is not known yet just when the contract for this portion of the road will be awarded
 The Ensley Southern was granted a charter last winter by the Secretary of State, and shortly thereafter perfected or ganzation by the election of A. G. Smith, of this city, as president The stock of the company is held by the Southern Railway. The North Alabama Railroad was char tered in the spring, and its stock is held by the Louisville and Nashville
 Lincoln Green Mentioned
 It is reported from Washington that Lincoln Green, formerly division freight agent of the Southern Railway in this city, but now assistant general freight agent of the same road, with headquarters in Washington, is to become general freight agent to succeed E. A. Mel. MT Green only went to Washington as assist ant general freight agent the 1st of May. He is splendid freight man, and his promotion to the head of the freight department of his road would please his many friends in Birmingham and elsewhere that he is known. The tee- gram from Washington does not state where MT. Mel goes or why he leaves the head of the freight department of the Southern He was formerly general freight agent of the Mobile and Ohio road with headquarters in Mobile, but when that road was absorbed by the Southern he was given. a place with the latter road and later promoted to the general freight