The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-04-25
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Review of the Week by The Manu'
 facturers' Record.

Baltimore, April 24.-(Special )-Paral leling wholesale financiering in New Iork
 affecting directly and indirectly grea railroad systems in the South and the steady work of those lines to improve their physical condition, there is d con- stant seeking to bring the railroads into closer touch with the raw material for industry. Considerable activity IS mani fested in Eastern Kentucky in efforts td reach the coal fields, and The Manufac- turers' Record is informed that the Ches- apeake & Ohio Railroad Company con
 templates building a line through th' breaks of the Big Sandy River, though full definite arrangements have not been made, It is understood, however, that this line will be an extension south ana southeast of the Big Sandy division of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway. Engi- neering parties have been locating the line and at one point about 2OO men are said to be at work upon actual construc- tion. Other surveying parties lh the hse. same field are credited to the South x Western Railway Company of Pike Coun- ty, Ky, which it is expected will connect with the Virginia X Southwestern Rail- way and the Ohio River and Charleston Railroad with an ultimate outlet to the Atlantic Coast by Way of l.incolnton, N. c. The South & Western Railway also has its eyes on the Kentucky coal helds' and 1t is thought will be co1lstructed to the Ohio River for connection with tne Cincinnati Hamilton X Dayton Railroad.
 In Kentucky. too, the movement TOT inter-urban lines of electric railways IS quite active. One of the systems proposed Lexington to the cities of Georgetown Paris. Winchester, Mt. Sterling Rich mond, Versailles. Frankfort, Nicholas vile and possibly liarrodsburg and Dan vile. An officer of the system writes The Manufactures Record: These cities are all county seats in the centre or the counties surrounding Fayete 0i whcn Lexington is the county seat. me Sys- bA Grass region of Kentucky which IS rec, oreapized as one of the most fertile ana beautiful districts in America. l,.ou,ot,o
 The recently incorporated &harioltt o,,, Farmville and James kiver HaneE n.,.- ar- road Company. which has alreaoS ar ranged for its rolling stock ana pdruH for it's rails. contemplates constTucuns il line about l25 miles long rom ttosiieS y : in Buckingham County tne teIlny,l"s ali,a and U n branch line of the Chesapeake ana Ohio to Danvtlle. through a mlneral ana timber section, crossing the Nortolk anu Western Chesapeake and ono Southerh roads. ... ,,,,
 way Company are to meet within the next ten days for the purpose or authorZlhS the issue of bonds for an eNtCnslo!i VI the road from Lafayette Aia'' to Mot- IeX touching a rich territory iNine be- tween Motley and Ashland in Clay Coun- ". The company has already contracted for sixty pound steel rails for the im- provement of it's strackage between Ope- iika and Lafayette.
 Business men of Raleigh. N C., have subscribed S2l 000 toward the proposed Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina Railroad to extend AboHt ninety miles from Raleigh to Washington, N. C.. by way of Wilson and Greenville and giving Raleigh a direct route to tide water through fine timber and agricultural belt The Manufactur ITS Record Is in formed that the plan for road between Wilson and Stantonburg, for which about enough money has been pledged, Is de- layed pending the possibility of the con- struction of the Raleigh and Eastern North Carolina roads.
 Other projects of the kind are an eN- tension of the Darien and Western Rail- road in Georgia from Walthourville to Vidalia through a fine timber belt, tho extension of the Caney Valley branch of the Southern Pacific system in Texas, twenty miles beyond Van Nlei k, it's pres ent terminus. the extension of the Mis- souri, Kansas and ToiNs Railway from Stevens To Guthrie and Oklahoma City. a distance of about 700 miles and an eX- tension fl tho Mississippi River. Ham burg and Western Railroad. twelve miles to the town of Crossett. Ark.