The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-19

gress and about thirty miles more to be let very shortly. The Tidewater Rail- way which will be the Virginia end of the line Is now being surveyed. The packers of this enterprise are said to be Northern and Eastern men of large means, and with the exception of the in- corporators of the Tidewater Railway. the only persons mentioned in connection with the plan are Messrs William N. Page, president of the Gauly Mountain Coal Company of Fayette County, West Virginia. J. o. Green and Walter P. Bliss, who are trustees of the Loup Creek estate.
 Another undertaking looking to the bringing of natural resources in touch with tide-water transportation is the re- gently organized Tombigbee Valley Rail- road Company, that has purchased the Tombigbee and Northern's line of rail- road which extends from Nannahubba Bluffs on the Tombigbee River thirty miles from Mobile, fifty miles northward into the interior through a yellow pine forest. The road Is of standard glage and connects with the Southern Railway at Calvert, Ala. and with deep water at sive wharves and dock facilities for transferring lumber to vessels for foreign shipment. Mir. John T. Cochrane, presl- dent of the new company, is also presi- dent and general manager of the Carroll ton snort Line extending from Aliceville
 NLAT roIiton to Reform on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. And the position of rho two roads, now under the same presi- dency. Is such that the building of about w. W va.hII LniIes or line from Penny Mill in
 washington County through Choctaw
 sumter and Pickens Counties would realize railroad enterprise through western Alabama which has been dis cussed Tor several years.
 such enterprises are illustrative oF the COnfTihltinU fA = an enormous demand for railway sun- plles Tn the South. demand which must steadily increase for some time as mining A Htu lumber operations are extended AnohB the characteristic ones recentIv
 noted are proposals for several nJIes ny 70 ana SV pounds relaying rails and sorne | stauonary- machinery at Norfolk Va
 s SDout 50 tons of 50 pound relaying raii { to,,. Morth carolina quarry company. | TOUT miles Of 70 to 50 pounds raIa I,tne .
 raiIs Tor granite company of GeoTgis | roIImB stock and other materIaI For n North Carolina tramroad, second -bapd
 so-pound steel rails with splice bars and
 bolts for railroad IS or 20 nIIes lono In Florida, 12 or 15-ton Reared Iocornn9
 tive for logging road in North CarnIi- na, Iron and steel rails, mining care ana supplies for a West Virginia Comnsnv ana l6 or 20 ton standard gauge loco motive and 25O tons of 45 to 60- pound TO- laying rails for logging purposes in Louisiana. '
 Developments in the southwestern ou nelds are suggested in the fact that be- tween January lst and March llth the shipments of crude and refined petroleum from Port Arthur amounted to 1888 2S7 barrels and from Sabine Pass from Janu- ry ist to March 7th to 405.956 barrels In- cluded fin the shipments from Port Ar thur was a cargo of 5,602 barrels of water white distillateS consigned to Dover, England. Other shipments from that port went to New Jersey, while from sabine Pass one of the shipments went 10 Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, to be used as fuel on railroad extending across the lsthmus of Tehuantepec. The value of Texas oil for refining purposes Is at last