The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-01-04
NEW RAILROAD A CERTAINTY.
up,I BE BUILT FROM HATrlES-
BURG TO GRENADA.
c.,,,,cl Entered lnto to Have the Road
in Operation Within IL Months.
THE SURVEY is UNDER WAY.

t..lson Claron-Ledeer' Dec So'h'
# looks like certainty that Mis-
.issinn is going to have a new rail-
ro,d and that it will be built within
tbe next year by recently organized
narty Of we'll known Eastern capital
ISIS.
The application for the organiza-
tiop Of the Memphis and Mobile Rail-
ro3d Company was approved by Gov
crpnr Longino this morning. The in
,orporators are Chester II. Pond, of
NIorchead, Edward II. Thompson, of
Baltimore. j. W.>Stover and W. E.
Allen. of New York, all being gentle.
men we'll known in the financial and
industrial world.
Surveyors begin at Hattiesburg this
morning to locate the road from that
point to Grenada, Miss, and will be
closely followed by crew clearing
the right of way and by the 10th or
18TH construction will begin and be
rapidly pushed forward by George
Arnold < Co., of Memphis, who have
given a guarantee bond to have a
train over the entire route from
Uattiesburg to Grenada. a distance of
about 200 miles, within twelve
months. The road will traverse a
portion of Marion, Jones, Jasper,
Newton, Neshoba, Choctaw, Webster
and Grenada counties. 1t will cross
the Alabama and Vicksburg some-
wl re in the neighborhood of Lake
and the Aberdeen branch about Weirs
Of Fentress and the Southern about
Tom holland. thence northwest to
Grenada.
The public is not informed rs to
The plan Of reaching Mobile from Hat
tiesburg, hut it is understood that the
company is amply able to reach the
gulf coast even il it has to construct
an independent line, and the same is
true of its purpose in reaching Mem.
phis from Grenada. The line named
IA the charter may be DETECTED, anc
the termini changed altogether by the
ncolporators with the consent OF the
railroad commission.
Mr. Chester II. Pond, who, perhaps
has brought more Northern capita
INTO Mississippi in railroad and manu-
facturing enterprises than any othe
man. is the promoter and leading
spirit in building this road, which Il
due almost exclusively, if not entirel,
50, to his energy and good Judgment
lie built the Yazoo Delta, which nov
extends from Moorhead to Tutwiler
with direct connections to Memphi
aud which will soon be EXTENDED
south by Belzona to Yazoo City. A
Moorhead he has one of the most com
plete up-to-date compress, oil mil
and cotton factory TO be found any
where in the State. Judge Byrd
who owns immense quantities OF long
leaf pine and hardwood lands in Ne
shoba and adjoining counties, is tn
most yaluable member of the corpora
tion. Between The points named i
this State long-leaf pine and all kind
of hardwood timber are inexhaustible
The virgin forests to be penetrated b
this road extend a distance OF eight
miles wide from Canton on the Ill
nois Central TO Scooba and Macon O
the Mobile and Ohio, and the so
itself is rich and responds readily
an kinds OF grain and fruits commd
10 this section, while stock and ha
raising is an immense industry
itself. \ glance at the map WI
show that the territory trayersed |
this new road is one of the most 4
ylting fields anywhere in the Soutl
and the wonder is that 1t has 7
NAMED without a railroad so lon
several lines have been prolect'
through this territory that were q
feated by that provision of the ne
constitution preventing counties al
municipal corporations from yotil
bonds to aid in their construction.
The road will be an independe
line not controlled by any other ra
road company, as the Incorporate
have ample means to construct a
equip it without cntangling alliant
with other railroad companies.
will be regarded as strictly a Miss
sippi railroad, and every endea,
will be used to develop and enri
the country through which 1t pass
and to have all OF the people along
line for its friends and neighbors.