The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-01-22
THE CONTRACT FOR
A new RAILROAD
|. & N. viii Build Forty-fve
Miles of Track.
ANDALUSlA TO GENEVA
President Smith Has Been Here Con-
sulting With Contractors. and it
is Expected Contract Will
be Let in Few Days

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad
company will let the contract one day this
week for the construction of forty-fve
miles of new road from Andausia in COT
fee county, to Geneva. in Geneva county.
President Milton H. Smith, of the Louis
vile and Nashville, was in Birmingham
two or three days last week consulting with
contractors who had submitted bids for
building the line from Andalusia to Geneva,
and also two or three other short branches.
1t is believed he will announce the award
of the contract within the next few days.
This forty-five miles of road connecting
Andalusia and Geneva is an extension of
the Alabama and Florida road a branch of
the Louisville and Nashville which, when
completed, will run from Georgiana, a sta
ton on the Mobile and Montgomery divis-
ion, in Butler county, to Mariana, Fla,
station on the Pensacola and Atlantic rail-
road. twenty-five miles west of the Chatta-
hoochee river
While in Birmingham last week President
Smith consulted with contractors with re-
ference to the building of half-mile spur
track from the Birmingham Mineral to the
Grasselli Chemical works. The Grasselli
Powderly and Cleveland, and about a half
a mile from the Birmingham Mineral and
the Southern tracks
The Southern railway. 1t is reported will
let the contract for spur to the chem
ical works in a few days
The Agency Soma
The establishment of an agency ait Selma
| by the Louisville and Nashville has revived
the rumor that vert the rounds some time
ago to the effect that the Louisville and
Nashville would build a line from Selma
into the Cahaba coal fields, connecting with
the Birmingham Mineral at or near Blocton,
in Bibb county. With the building of this
line the Louisville and Nashville would
have two routs from the Birmingham dis
trict to Flomaton, which is but forty-four
miles from Pensacola and sixty-one miles
from Mobile.
The new route from Birmingham to the
gulf coast would be as follows: From Bir-
mingham Ito Blocton over the Birmingham
Mineral from Blocton to Selma over the
new line to be built from Selma to Flona-
ton over the Selma and Pine Apple and the
Repton and Flomaton branches and the line
| connecting Pine Apple and Repton, and
from Flomaton ito Mobile over the main line
and to Pensacola over the Flomaton and
Pensacola division.
This report may not be we'll founded but
| it is being discussed a great deal in rail-
| road circles.
Williams is Transferred
Mr.. Williams, who has been travelling
! freight agent of the Louisville and Nash
| vile at Montgomery for long time, has
| general agent. Mr.. Williams will have
| charge of the freight and passenger bust
ness of the Selma and Pensacola division
of the Louisville and Nashville.
Passenger Traffic Heavy
Passenger traffic on the railroads in this
section continues heavy, though not quite
up to the business of December.
The unusually mild weather has opera
ted against the Florida travel to some ex-
tent and business in that line is a little
disappointing. With a cold spell and
good hard freeze in the middle west the
Florida travel would pick up 1T is stated
that the number of northerners in Florida
now is not nearly so large as Is usual at
this season of the year.
e. T. Wilcox, contracting agent of the
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham,
has returned from Chicago.
= Dan f. McDonough, travelling freight
agent of the Kansas City, Memphis and
Birmingham, of Atlanta, is in the city.