The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-02-21
HAS THE L. & N. CONTROLLING
INTEREST IN PLANT SYSTEM
Story from Pensacola to This Effect is Denied by the
Officials Rail Mills Cannot Fill Orders.
Other Railroad News.

The following telegram from Pensacola
appeared in The New Orleans Times
Democrat few days ago:
1t is rumored in Louisville and Nash
willie Railroad circles that a controlling
Interest in the Plant System of Railways
has been secured by the above mentioned
road. The story comes from good author
tty and Pensacolians are inclined to give
II credence. The work on the Geneva
extension of the Plant System will be
stopped. This Is another evidence of a
controlling interest of the Louisville and
Nashville. as the Geneva extension will
not be needed Il the company controls
an interest In the Plant System of Rail-
ways.
How the sender of the above telegram
got his information is unknown. but rail-
coad people bere do not believe one word
of the Plant System story. As to the
statement that work on the Geneva exc
tension has been abandoned The Adver-
tiser is enabled to state on the authority
Ut Louisville and Nashville official that
there Is not one word OF truth In 1t. This
official says that the work has been tenn
pnrarily suspended IN account OF the IN
ability. to get rails. The extension. he
says. is undoubtedly. going to some, point
on the P. and A. division Of the Louis
vile and Nashville-probabiy Mariana.
and just az soon a. the steel mills can
through. The following FROM The Iron
Age shows the condition OF things:
The Iron Age says:
1T appears that the steel rail mills
cry. about 2.s5O.0N tons which In pretty
naOr the full capacity. Under the CIR
cumstances 1t In not surprising that the
Mexican Central order for about 5000
have it that large order hrs been plac-
ed by an American road with foreign
makers for Gulf delivery. The Pacific
coast will probably be forced to depend
tn
imported rails. Some small orders have
already been placed. and larger quanti-
ties seem likely to follow"
The old story about the projected road
from Dothan. Ala. to St~Joe. Fla, Is be-
Ing revived, and a report has been pub
lished in gevera1 papers that the con-
tract calls for the completion of the 1856
miles in twenty-four months.
Several years ago when this road was
first projected it was thought that the
Central OF Georgia was behind 1t. but the
completion of the Centrars branch to Sell
theory improbable. Probably ono of the
finest NATURAL harbors in the world Is at
81 Joe and there Is not a railroad there,
tirn. It was supposed that the roadbed
OF the old railroad running out from lola,
Fla. through what is now Dead Lake
what BE n nsed n Dead the s Gs DAYS
a swamp. and trestle work was
built across it. During the civil war
q dam was built across the river some
miles below lola and the backwater thus
formed made Dead Lake-possibly the
finest fishing ground in the United States.
1t is confidently believed that there is
ne hing at all in the st. Joe road INV
and that the money of the projectors has
long since given out. The Advertiser was
told by a certain contractor that he went
SO tar as to put In a cut near Graceville.
" Fla. and to this day has never received
one cent of his money.
TIVE private cars reached Montgomery
yesterday morning-a Seaboard Air Line
car and Central Of Georgia car.
President Eagan of the Central and
Traffic Manager Peasants of the Sea-
board. Those two gentlemen have been
in New Orleans attending the Executive
Committee of the Southeastern Freight
Association. and arrived in Montgomery
onhthesL. and ". train at e:17 yesterday
morning
Mr.. E. P. Charlton. the new General
Freight and Passenger Agent of the
is making things hum in his department.
Montgomery representative of the Cen
some publication descriptive of the
large group picture of every vessel in
Memphis, the last one, being launched