The age-herald., 1901-08-02
ID CONFER OVER RAILROAD SCHEME Tuscaloosa Committee Will be
 Here This Morning WANT TO GET NEW ROAD Proposed to Build Birmingham and Vlcksburg Through to That City.
 Meeting of Board of Trade
 Is Called.
WANT TO GET NEW ROAD

A committee from the Board of Trade of Tuscaloosa will hold a conference with the Board of Trade of this city this morn ing in regard to getting the Birmingham and Vicksburg railroad built through to Tuscaloosa President Colman Blach of the local organization received the follow ing telegram from Tuscaloosa yesterday afternoon:
 twill be with you on tomorrow morn ing's train. Can you arrange meeting to hear project?
 Birmingham and visksburg Commit
 tee"
 President Blach immediately replied that he would arrange for meeting of the Birmingham board to meet the Tus- caloosa committee at 10 o'clock this morn ing at the Morris hotel, MT. Blach urges that as many members as possible be present. It is supposed that the delega- tion will arrive here at 5:55 this morning.
 The scheme is to build the Birmingham and Vicksburg road through to Iusca- ioosa. Mayor Cochrane of the latter city is in receipt of letter from W. L. Din kins, agent of the Birmingham and Vicks- burg Ta1lWdy, suBBeslhlB sao foss>' of building the road through.
 Mr. Dinkins says that by little di- gression they can pass through that city and that the officials of the road ere open to any proposition from the Board of Trade and City Council. They ask for no money toward the survey until the work Is completed to Tuscaloosa, when they would expect liberal contribution
 This road would open up a new and un- developed country averaging seyenty-four miles wide between railroads. Mr. Din- kins states that not only Is Tuscaloosa sit- uated in fine agricultural district, but there is vast amount of valuable timber which would afford business for the road for twenty years to come. In addition 10 this 1t would give Tuscaloosa county direct line to the Mississippi river.
 Meeting in Tuscaloosa.
 A snecial ito the Age Herald from Tusca- loosa says:
 "A public meeting was held in the court house tonight, presided over by W. A. Collier, to meet with the committee or the Birmingham and vicksburg Railroad, con sisting of J. c. Searles of Vickburg and w. L. Dinkins and B. L. Roberts of the Mississippi State Bank of Canton. These gentlemen stated to the meeting that they are simply trying to get the right-of-way for road from vicksburg to Birmingham surveyed, which, when completed, will en- able them to secure the capital from Chi cago parties to build the road.
 They have been asking the towns along the route to contribute towards this sur vey and requested that Tuscaloosa give s250O, payable when the survey, which Is now at the state line, reaches Tuscaloosa. Several donations were made and a com mittee to raise the remainder appointed.
 The committee leaves at o'clock for Birmingham, which city will be asked to contribute about $S000.
 The engineer in charge of the works re- ports that the line has been surveyed from vicksburg through Canton, where the idea of building the road originated, to the Ala bama state line, 163 miles, at a cost of $11, 900, the estimated cost of this much of the road Is a little over one and half mittee will ask the sSO0O contribution from Birmingham on the survey on the same terms as they ask the $2500 from Tusca- loosa. The directors of the company are business men of Canton and yicksburg and three Chicago capitalists.