The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-23
CENTRAL ,.OF ALABAMA
MEETING IN INTEREST OF PRO-
 POSED ROAD.
The Line Will Run from Decatur te Jasper, Thence to Tuscaloosa. The Decaturs are Great
 ly Interested.

New Decatur, Nov 2z--tSpeciaD-T was a mass meeting of the citizens Of Decatur at the court house last night held for the purpose of securing the Gen. tral railroad of Alabama. D. w. Speake, attorney for the road. addressed the meeting, stating that the road had been capitalized at $50OOO0 with an authorized capitalization of $2,000,0O0.
 The whole of the first half million of stock has been subscribed for and taken up. All that the railroad people required of Decatur was securing rights of way to the Winston county line, terminal facil- ities here and $2.500 cash donation to- wards building 5000 depot. The deeds to the rights of way. terminal facilities and the cash subscription are to be held by the people of the Decaturs until trains are running over the road as far as the La awrence county line. Not dollar Is required in advance, thus evidencing a good faith and earnestness of the incor- porators of the road. .Messrs. John Carlisle F. J. O'Connell and others. All that the railroad people require of the Decaturs are written assurances transferable when the road Is completed as stated The people of Lawrence and Winston counties have given assurance that the rights of way through those counties should not cost the Decaturs a cent. The road as projected and incorporated pro- poses to run from Decatur to, Jasper thence to Tuscaloosa The town of Jas per has pledged to the railroad company s15, 900 in money and lands. Tuscaloosa likewise has given substantial pledges of land and cash donations. The meeting inn mediately got down to business after MT. Speake's exposition of facts. by the appointment of three business committees composed of the most substantial citi- gems of the county, as follows:
 Committee on Right of Way-T. l.. Ba- ker. A. F. Howell. c. H. Austin.
 Committee on Terminal Facilities-H. K. Adams. H. B. Scott, J. D. wyker.
 Committee on g, 500 Cash Subscription w. R. Spight. B. L. Malone. George D. Williamson, M. c. Burch, Thomas Tur- ner.
 The meeting was presided owed by May or Harry A. Skeggs of Decatur.
 Following the transactions of the above business voluntary subscriptions were called for. and $1,5Oo was raised in ten minutes.
 The chairman of the three committees, T. L. Baker, H. K. Adams. and W.-R. Spight were elected trustees to represent the Decaturs.
 The various committees propose to com piete their work by December 1st and pc reauy to close Wltn the lncoTpOratOrs of the road at that time.
 It~was learned some days ago that the bank of J. w. Mallon. the Citizens Trust Company of Cincinnati. had obligated themselves to float all the bonds of this road. With the completion of the work of these committees December 1st. active work will begin on the road bed in a short time thereafter and the projectors propose to have the road completed and in operation by next March.
 This road will run through a large area of Alabama's richest mineral sec- tion. a section through which there is at present no railroad and practically m- developed.
 While the incorporators were making a recent survey of the line they developed a four foot seam of as fine coal as there Is in the State, the seam running through Morgan and Limestone Counties.