The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-15

to the town or the inability of the Southern Plantation Development Com pany to induce settlers to come to Summerffeld. The fact Is Che com pany has so far refused to sell q To, within the town limits. The company Is waiting for the railroad to be fin- ished. The town will then be opened the lots put up for sale and 8 rush of buyers Is expected.
 The movement for the new County is biding its own good time. The Con- stitution of Alabama provides the way in which a new County is to be cre- l ated. Half the qualified voters of the territory of the new and the old Coun- ty must. favor 1t. The Constitution provides further that a man must be a resident of Alabama for two years before he can become a qualified voter A majority of the voters of the south ern portion of the County are new corners. men who have not qualified themselves as voters because they have not been in the State long enough. But their qualification and their registfation will all come in due time and then the fight for the new Coun- ty will be sprung and fought to Q fin- ish. All of which is to happen in the next four or five years.
 The prosperous Northern section and the prosperous southern section of Baldwin County are being linked to- gether by the Bay Minette railroad. The railroad builders. the engineers. the superintendents and their helpers have the center of the stage. They are the Bedouin tribe in the indus trial family of nations. Today they are in the pine woods of South Ala bama laying the pavement for the tri- umphal march of progress. Tomor- row they may be in Maine or Oregon Scream of the engines whistle over the new road is the signal to them that their work Is finished. and silently they fold their tents and silently steal away for new work in some other wil- derness.
 Interesting Engineers.
 Richard Harding Davis in his novel has thrown the glamour of romance oyer the work of the civil engineer and the industrial pioneer. He invested them and their work with a peculiar interest.
 In truth they are an interesting set. There is c. A. Denham, here in Bald win County, associated in the building of the new road, who has himself had an interesting career. He has built and help operate railroads in every section of the United States. year ago he was in Illinois building a branch line for tho Wabash. For twelve years he was an official of the Southern in Tennessee and Georgia. In '96 and '97 he was in Alaska. He has two frozen fingers as mementos of the survey work on the Skaguay and yukon railroad when he marked out the survey of the road on trees with the thermometer 60 degrees below. zero. w. W. Olney is another of the in- teresting characters the new road has brought to Baldwin County. Mir. Ol- ney is the roads chief engineer. He came from q railroad job in South Da- kota to take charge of the work in Baldwin County.
 For miles and miles through the nine woods there is 8 string of work men, grading. hauling and cutting ties.
 They are pushing on and on to the objective point. Fort Morgan, where in the future the promoters of the road see a million dollar terminal, new seaport for Alabama, a coaling station for the United States and slips and docks where the vessels of the world can come in for their cargo of South ern products.