The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-12
ELLEN N IN NEW DEAL
ACQUIRES CONTROL OF CHArTA-
 N0O0A SOUTHERN.
If True It Means Choice of Two Routes From Montgomery to Cincinnati-News of Rail-
 way World.

AHe Anniston star is responsible for the following:
 Tt is reported in Birmingham and re- peated in Anniston that the Louisville and Nashville has acquired control of The Chattanooga Southern Railway and that the Chattanooga Southern will be added to the Alabama Mineral division.
 This consolidation will mean that the general office of the enlarged division will be in Anniston with MT. W. E. Knox. the present Superintendent of the Ala bama Mineral division, in charge as Gen eral Superintendent
 The deal means much for Admission in the way of through trains, better freight facilities and connections north and east.
 Mr. W. E. Knox was seen by Star reporter today and said he knew nothing of the reported deal and was not prepar- ed to give out any information
 Now if this is true, it means that there will be choice of two routes over the Louisville and Nashville Southern system from Montgomery to Cincinnati. The Chattanooga Southern Is a branch of ninety-one miles dropping down from Chattanooga to Gadsden-from Gadsden the Louisville and Nashville brings the connection to Anniston and at Calera the Alabama Mineral catches the main line of tn Louisville andr Nashville on the Montgomery. Mobile and New Orleans.
 The lease of the Cincinnati Southern road to the Southern Railway has been signed. and 1t is believed that the road will hereafter be known and recognized as portion of the Southern system The signing of this lease. which was done in Cincinnati last Saturday, was the final step in the formal transfer of the road, authorized by majority of voters of Gin cinDati at recent election held for the purpose. The Southern has secured lease to 1906, and by this lease it is ex- tended sixty years. terminating in 1866. By a supplemental agreement the sum of S25oo.0o0 Is to be spent on additional terminals. MT. Samuel Spencer Presi- dent of the Southern Railway, has been President of the Cincinnati Southern for some time. and this completes the Cin- cinnati link.
 Certain railroads which are blocked at certain places by high water two or three times every year have about decided to build wading engines. Superintendent of Motive Power l.. H. Turner of the Pitts- burg and Lake Erie, is a genius, and to obviate the trouble at Saw Mill run he Is about to get up a unique engine. This machine will be placed on four high wheels (driving wheels) with the fire-box so arranged that 1t will occupy part of the diameter of the boiler and be almost as high as the wheels which can be made 70 inches in diameter. MT. Turner has no plans to make public, but he ad- mits that it could be called an aanphib- ious locomotive. He will insist however that such an engine could be called with much more scientific propriety a batra- chian.-Torchlight of Civilization.
 Three miles of rail laid complete in five days is a pretty swift record, yet that is what Roadmaster Shields has done on the Alabama and Florida extension. Last Friday morning the work of laying the rail began at Blacks Station. seven miles the other side of Geneva. and yes- tcrday afternoon the track-layng gang had reached Highnote. three and half miles from Blacks. Do you know that the country all the way from Geneva to Graceville Is just about the richest farm ing land in Alabama?" said MT. Shields at the Union Station last night "The soil is rich and peculiarily adapted to the growing of cotton. and the crops in that section are about the finest I have seen anywhere in this section. The only trouble have had is in getting lahorers Never before has there been such a de- nand for labor. Saw mills. railroads and other indus tries have agents out all over this part of the country looking for help CTS. Notwithstanding this, we are rush. ing work as fast as possible. and I hope to have the track laid to Graceville by the early part of July
 Everything was on time at the station last night and the smooth manner in which things were running was some what startling. College boys and girls continue to form good part of the travel on incoming trairs.