The age-herald., 1901-04-28
OCEAN ID OCEAN
 RAILWAY SYSTEM Birmingham and Atlanta Air Line.a Connecting Link SURVEYORS STARTED OUT The Route From Birmingham to At. lanta Will Be Located at Once.
 Subscription Books To Be
 Opened in Every County.
iURVEYORS STARTED OUT

Surveyors will start out over the pro- posed line of the Birmingham and At lanta Air Line Railroad in a few days. and within few weeks the route to be adopted will be definitely known.
 Books of subscriptions to the capital stock of the company will be opened this week in every county in Alabama through which the road will run.
 All this sounds like business, and in the language of one of the promoters, it Is business It was learned yesterday from a source that would not agree to be quot ed that the Birmingham and Atlanta Air Line is to be a connecting link between two great railway systems. one that cov- CTS the southeast and Atlantic coast sec tion, and the other the great west and the mineral district of Alabama. It Is stated on the very best authority that interests that own large blocks of Sea- board Air Line stock going to build the road. and that in so doing they have an agreement with the principal owners of the St Louis and San Francisco Rail- road whereby the two systems are to make use of the Birmingham and Allan ta Air Line as a connecting link. The Bir- mingham and Atlanta Air Line Is to be operated as a separate line, but under the control of the Seaboard and in the inter- est of that system and the St. Louis and San Francisco
 The Memphis Route.
 As is well known the St. Louis and San Francisco recently acquired the Memphis route legally known as the Kansas City. Memphis and Birmingham Railroad, and the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Mem phis Railroad. The Memphis route has a direct line from Birmingham to Kansas City, but has no outlet to the Atlantic coast Tke Seaboard has a line from to Savannah and Brunswick, Ga, with a branch to Montgomery. By a glance at the map of the Southeastern it will be seen that both of these great systems are now practically bottled up-the one with out entrance to the West and the other greatly in need of an Atlantic port.
 The building of a line from Birmingham to Atlanta will fill in this gap and give both systems advantages they cannot oth- erwise secure.
 There is a rumor in railroad circles that George J. Gould Is mixed up in the 'Fris- co deal, or to be more explicit, the Mis- souri Pacific-Iron Mountain system has come into the possession of majority of the Frisco stock, and through that the Kansas City, Memphis and Birming- ham and the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis roads. The Missouri Pacific owns lines from St. Louis to Kansas City and Omaha and from St. Louis to Pueblo and Denver, Colo. The St. Louis and Iron Mountain has lines extending south ward from St. Louis to Little Rock and Texarkana and from St. Louis to Alexan- dria, La, with branch lines to Memphis and other portions of the South and the West.
 The Seaboard Air Line.
 Summed up, it would appear that large individual stockholders in the Seaboard Air Line are building the Birmingham and Atlanta Air Line under an agreement with the holders of majority of the Frisco stock that it is to be jointly used by the two systems.
 the Memphis Route, the Frisco and the Missouri Pacific would form a gigantic railway system extending from the At lantic ocean to Denver, Colo, and place about 10000 miles of track under the man. agement and control of friendly inter-