The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-22
CREATED LITTLE TALK
THE B., s. & N. o. AND [. & N.
 R. R. DEAL.
Reason Made Plain Now Why the Southern Fought the Birming- ham, Selma and New Or
 leans So Vigorously.
Advertiser Bureau,

AQNCTlIScE DuT6hu,
 Selma, June 21.
 The announcement in the columns of The Advertiser this morning that the great Louisville and Nashville Rail- road had secured the Birmingham, Sel- ma and New Orleans Railroad, created hardly a ripple here. for it had been thought by the general public for months that the former road was be- hind the extension of the latter. The Southern Railroad must have known all along that the Louisville and Nash ville was behind the Birmingham. Sel- ma and New Orleans. and that Is the reason 1t tried to prevent the latter get ting across the Southern at Smiths Crossing. Et.t
 For years the Southern and the West ern have been "scrapping" with each other for more favorable terminal fa- cilities in Selma, but the City Council has refused to give one the advantage over the other. and as a consequence neither one has been allowed to run it's tracks through the business streets. But by the deal by which the Louis vile and Nashville gets the Birnning- ham. Selma and New Orleans Rail- road 1t will have a great advantage over the Southern in having the right of way over the streets, if it be a fact, as Is believed by many. that the Street and Suburban Railway and the Birm- ingham. Selma and New Orleans are owned by the same men.
 The light thirty-dive pound rails are being taken up wherever they have been put down, and forty-five pound rail has been substituted instead by the Street Railway. This will be heavy enough to hold any loaded car that may be hauled into the business por- af tQ fraalxy SNrA dicted that 1t will net be long before the Louisville and Nashville will be delivering loaded freight cars at the front doors and back alleys oA the wholesale merchants on Water Street. thus saving them a large sum of money for drayage and handling freights.
 AS to what the Louisville and N sh- vile intends to do with the Birming- ham. Selma and New Orleans is yet all surmise. It is a well-known fact that the Louisville and Nashville owns half or nearly half of the stock in the Western of Alabama. The extension West is a straight line from the pres ent terminus of the Western into the rich cotton belt of West Dallas and Marengo counties. and some 30,000 or more bales of cotton are guaranteed the Western by gobbling up this valu. able feeder to Selma's commerce. Most of this cotton has heretofore been handled by the Southern, and of courss the Western or Louisville and Nash vile will now have a big advantage in hauling the freight that Is shipped into this sentien to be delivered along the line of railroad from here to Linr den and beyond.
 whether the Louisville or Nashville intends to extend the road on to Me riidan and connect with the New Orleans and Northeastern at that point is a mere me tier of conjecture. It is even hinted here that the Louis- vile and Nashville has an option on the New orleans and Northeastern and that 1t will gobble it up and thus re- w@e S[
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