The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-09
TO GET TO PENSACOLA
CzHrRAL or GEORGIA FOLLOW
 INa THAT PURrosE.
survsy is Now at Lookhart Half . ,r~ 1ftle of EIoralla-Way Now
 Appears to Bs 'upsn.

Years and years ago when prairie sohooners' with mules for the motive power and clouds of dust under the,r wheels instead of steam, the motto was. '.Pike's Peak or Bust"-and 1t vas often s'bust." sXE
 The Central of Georgia seems to have metaphormised this saying into 'Pensa- cola or Bust" and 1t Is with the great. est interest that the railroad world. not only of Montgomery but of this entire section Is watching to see whether 1t will be bust with them or not. Some years ago when the Central began work on the extension of their line from Ssllersville, gossipy stories thicker than the leaves that futtered down into the streets of Montgomery after yesterdays gusts, oe- gan blowing around the railroad world. The Central has branch dropping down from Albany. crossing the Atlantic Coast Line at Dothan and going to Seileesvilie. They have extended this branch, crossing the Louisville and Nashville branch from Opp to Floralla, 6 mile and half south of Opp.5 The survey is now at Lockhart. about half mile this side of Floraiia. and 1t is claimed that the completed road will be built to that point within two weeks from now r
 Right here is where the puzzle seems to ret almost lost, but 1t seems that In the lexicon of the Central the word "fair' is an unknown quantity. By being next with the Jackson Lumber Company and by acquiring the Yellow River Railroad, the Louisville and Nashville was the whole thing in the neishborhood of the beautiful little town of Floraila- When the Central people reached Lockhart they found themselves up against something very herce-a high board fence. ngur" atively speaking, with the legend, Keep off the grass" stared them in the face.
 Some fourteen years ago . los road was projected to run from Atmore, tweive miles below Flomaton on the Mobile ana Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville to the big mills at Muscogee and into Pensacola. The road was strics" ly a paper road and stayed on paper <, never getting under the shade or the sheltering pines-but the original survey is there just as good as new. ana the probabilities are that after all these years the undergrowth will be cut away ana the old road-bed restored By making a pretty wide detour southeast of Floraila 1t Is caimed that the Central can get to the old road-bed, and that they will fol- low the original survey into the Mecca Of their hopes-Pensacola. Whether the Louisville and Nashville with their acres of terminals, will be able to keep the Central from getting into the town CT not remains to be seen. One thing seams 10 be certaln--Witn US Sup0IO hdA uoh oho water front, all that is needed to make Pensacola one of the most important towns of this section is the advent of one or two moro railroads. and the Central seems determined to get there.
 The trouble between the Seaboard Ar Line and the Brunswick and Birminshanl over the crossing at leila brings to mind the celebrated Battle of Clay Street" " in which the Western, Louisville and Nashville, Plant System tor Atlantic Coast Line), and Mobile and Ohio played leading parts. The Mobile and Ohio at that time was puny little infant Tn swaddling clothes, struggling not only to get into Montgomery, but for its very ex- lstence.
 It entered Montgomery from south easterly direction and in order to get into he big cut leading to the Union Station was compelled to get across the tracks of the Western. Louisville and Nashville and Plant System at the foot of Clay Street. The Plant System was friendly to the little stranger and was doing what 1t could to get over the pons asinorum, both the Western and Louisville with .., ,farocious. mein and blood in their eye, looked askance when the subject of cross- ing was brought up and said. Nay. nay, Pauline" How the Western and Louis vile and Nashville brought cars loaded with men and material to the disputed