The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1904-03-10
Columbus. Memphis & Pensacola r. r.

| At last.
Columbus is to have another
railroad.
Our great commercial interests
are to have the benefits OF com
petition.
The people Of Columbus. weary
ing of waiting on others to build
a railroad, are going to build il
themselves.
On last Monday afternoon at
half past three O'Clock a meeting
Of portentious significance was
held at the office Of the Mer-
chants & Farmers bank OF this
city. It was a meeting of a large
mum Der of the leading business
men Of Columbus, men who are
identified with the leading com
mercial enterprises Of this city,
and whose support Of any move
ment is a guarantee Of it's sue
cess, who are determined to give
the most important town in
Northeast Mississippi another
railroad. There were present
Hon. Newman Cayce, president;
f G. Chapman, vice president;
Warren NJ Cox, secretary: John
A. Stinson, treasurer. and
Messrs. D. D. Stevenson, Nelson
Hutchinson, r. L. Lewis, W. @.
Mcclure, Simon Loeb and Bro,
Jos. Donoghue, @. F. Sherrod,
DR.. J. D. Mccullough, E. S.
Moore, e. T. Moore and Harry
Selig.
The purpose of the meeting
was stated and within a few min
utes money enough was sub
scribed to insure a survey to Alb
erdeen and Amory and to secure
the right of way for the proposed
line. The president was author
lied to correspond with Engineer
Foster, who surveyed the route
for the Frisco System a few
years ago, and should he fail to
secure his services another ex-
perienced and competent locating
engineer will be put in the field
to survey and locate a route from
this city to the points above. The
proposed road will run north to
a point within eight miles of Alb
erdeen and from this section two
routes will be surveyed, one to
Amory and one to Aberdeen
From Amory it is the intention
of the projectors to extend it into
Ittawamba county to Fulton, and
thence into the Alabama coal
fields, and north to the Tennes-
see river.
Nor will the southern terminus
Of this line be Colum bus. The
people Of the fertile valley south
of Columbus have long desired to
get in touch with the commercial
world through the medium Of
railway. 1t is the intention of
the builders of the line, if the
people south of this city. show a
substantial appreciation of the
enterprise in donations and sub
scriptions of stock, to extend it
south to either Fairfield on the
west bank or Pickensville on the
east bank of the Bigbee. Messrs.
E. T. Moore. w. G. Mcclure and
John A. Stinson were appointed
a committee to visit this section
with a view of interesting it's pee
pie in the undertaking. They will
leave TO engage in this work with
in the next ten days.
The line of railroad which this
company has undertaken to build
Is easily one of the most feasible
and promising in the South. On
account of the large railroad
business done by Columbu and
on account of valuable cOnnec-
tons with vast railway systems
which do not reach this city
which this line will secure at Alb
erdeen, this line of road has for
a long time attracted the atten-
ton of promoters and has been
considered by railroad com
panies. Now that it is assured,
it would not be surprising TO see
the Illinois Central or Frisco
System bid for it from the start.
THE DISPATCH believes that
this movement is assured of sue
cess and that it will speedily de-