The age-herald., 1900-12-19
THE SURVEY WILL
 BEGIN AT ONCE Birmingham to be Directly Con- nected With the Sea
NEW ROAD TO BRUNSWICK
Col. Machen Says All That Is Needed Is a Little Talk and a Good Deal of Work-ls Receiving Much
 Encouragement In Scheme.

Brunswick, Ga December 1S.-(Special)- Looking into the near future through the minds eye one can see picture of thrift and industry, in which Birmingham and Brunewick form the central figures. A closer examination reveals the details of this work of industrial art showing the two cities connected by a railroad and the products of the great industrial district of which Birmingham is queen unloaded at the wharves of Brunswick, where they are being loaded on to ships from the four quarters of the globe
 The optimism of the scene fades in the light of recent developments, and tbe dream picture is painted in strong colors of realism when the events of the past few days are reviewed. and the actual organi- zation of the Birmingham and Brunswick Railroad stands revealed.
 The launching of the enterprise which has given inspiration to the commercial in- terests of this city undoubtedly works an era in the progress and development of Brunswick, and there is much rejoicing here
 Colonel Machen, who has been elected temporary president, says of the enter prise: "ro build this railroad we need a little talk and a good deal of work Just talk enough to see if<it is good proposi- ton, and if 1t is, then work enough to do it. Let us see: Up in New York the down. town business lots sell at anywhere from $10o to $200, $500 to $4OO a square foot. One lot at Wall street and Broadway is held at $500 square foot, or pretty nearly ,22,- 100000 an arce, and if a man wants fine residence lot it costs anywhere from $50. coo to $500000. Commerce did it in the main commerce, industry and finance. The foun- dation of it all was laid in the lines Of transportation-the old Erie canal and then the railroad that brought trade to and through New York-international trade, in the main.
 Brunswick has as good a harbor as New York-in some respects better one, for 1t is free of ice and fogs. And Brunswick has a country back of her far richer in natural resources than lies back of New York.
 Now then, with your splendid water front, with ability to make what the other cities now lack, commodious modern ter minal facilities, it only needs to make Brunswick live, a good standard railroad, under the control of Brunswick and the cities and towns and country it will tray erse from Brunswick to Montgomery and Birmingham At the western end is your foundation of coal and iron, your connec- tions with the great roads thenceforward connecting you with the rich sections of the republic. With Cincinnati, Louisville Chi cago, St. Louis, Nashville, Memphis and with the center of the great cotton belt and all the natural wealth and the wealth created by man in the gulf states It would, in it's nature, be the great southern trunk line. It is based on the lines essential to a trunk line, at right angles with tine coast c,.I1 iron and other minerals which we call mountainsl
 Tt is not big job It is within the power of the country; it will serve to build 1t and own 1t. If you will take the lead and show the people you are bound to have it you can get all tine money you need for it. And more than that the outside investors will then climb a barbed-wire fencelt to get into your country.
 'The advantage is not confined to Bruns- wick, Montgomery and Birmingham. E,Y- cry little town, every plantation, every acre of land along the road will share in the wealth and increased value the road will make. Along it's whole mileage can be built continuous line of prosperous towns and industries based on natural wealth. Iron, coal and cotton are big staples to conjure with. But there are many others. You could draw to your region the skilled labor of the other States because you
  ing, greater comforts than they can ever hope for where they are. The farm haud, the factory opera tive, the lumberman, the miner, as well as the merchant and bank CT and planter and lawyer and doctor and preacher, can, from the products of the soil in the great winter garden that nature has given you all along the line, live at $4 a week on fresh vegetables, fruits, meats, poultry, etc, grown at home, better than they can live at the Waldorf-Astoria at $4 a meal. The dollar earned here will be worth two or three in New England and the Eastern States, and every pound of surplus raised can be shipped to the big Atlantic cities of the north at high prices. As local road there was no country beyond its western terminal, the road would pay from end to end from the laying of the rails. Conditions different from those which have heretofore prevailed assure this The foreign trade of the last three years has revolutionized the whole indus trial and commercial situation.
 "But at Montgomery and Birmingham you will connect with the whole South and West, bottled up and seeking an outlet It iS the trIe Inca tiOn for the great South