The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-30
RAILROAD WORLD.

w. M. Gordon. president of the Bir-
mingham, Columbus and St. Andrews
Bay railroad, Columbus. Ca. writes
that twenty-three miles have been
graded out of chipley, Fla. on this road,
projected from Birmingham, Ala, to St.
Andrews Bay. Fla. About five miles of
steel are on hand, and it is expected
to begin tracklaying at once. Work on
the Alabama section of the road is to
begin soon. The mileage in Florida is
sixty-fve miles, in Alabama 100 miles,
ard in Georgia twenty miles.
L T. Preston, commercial agent of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and
the st. Louis and San Francisco at New
Orleans, La, has been appointed general
agent of the freight and passenger de-
partment of those roads at that place.
The Southern has ordered 1850 plain
box cars of $1,000 pounds capacity of the
Western Steel Car and Foundry COM
panv. These cars will be built at the
company's plant at Admission, Ala. It
is reported that $50 of the same kind
have been ordered of the Mount Vernon
Car Manufacturing company.
e. A. BUST having resigned as travel
ing freight and passenger agent or the
Louisville and Nashville at Atlanta, Ca
that office has been abolished and the
duties assigned to II. S. McDaniels, with
the title of commercial agent. c. l..
Whaley has been appointed soliciting
freight agent at Selma, Ala.
A series of intercollegiate debates has
been arranged between the universities
of Pennsylvlna, Cornell and Columbia
each institution to meet the two others,
upon the subject:
s'Resolved, That the interstate COM
merce commission should be vested with
authority, after full hearing of any Tor
NAL complaint, to prescribe tue maximum
reasonable and equitable railroad rates
to be substituted for those found unreas-
enable or discriminative; the order of the
commission. unless superseded by writ OF
Injunction of a United States circuit court,
to become operative at the expiration OF
thirty days' notice to the carrier, ana
to continue in force thereafter unless sus-
pended by order of a federal circuit
court"
Jackson, Miss, Jan. 29.-(Special.)-The
railroad commission received long letter
today from w r. Adams Machine COM
pany asking for a rehearing on the ma
chinery rates. At the last meeting of the
commission the Corinth rates were up Tor
discussion, and it was decided that the
rate on less than carload lots should De
81 cents and the rate carload lots was
fixed at 80 cents per 100 pounds. In the
letter received from the Adams company
complaint is made of these rates, tine
company stating that in some instances
il had lower rates than those fixed by
the commission The company submitted
set of rates ver.- much lower than
those adopted by the commission and
asked that the case be reopened at the
next meeting. The petition states that
the rates from Atlatna, Birmingham and
other places outside of the state to points
In Mississippi are much lower than the
rates named by the commission. The
company thinks the present rates do an
injustice. as they place concerns outside
the state in bitter position to compete
for the home market. None of the mem
bers of the commission is in the city, but
1t is probable that the whole matter Will
be reopened by the commission
The Gulf and Ship Island railroad has
submitted to the railroad commission the
blue prints for the depot to be built at
Lyman.
The Southern Railway company looking
for a shorter line from the Virginia coal
fields to the port of Charleston, have
placed a corps of engineers In the field
for the purpose of running a preliminary
line and locating same from Marion, N.
c., across to Johnson City, Tenn.
This line will give the Southern short
line to east Georgia, North Carolina and
South Carolina points from the Virginia
coal fields.
This gives the Southern new undevel-
oped territory.
The following is the comparative state
ment of estimated gross earnings of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad COM
pany, issued January rs:
For third week of January, 1905, S42,-
465: corresponding week of last year,
1851, 40; decrease, $S945.
Total for three weeks of January, 1906
81, 1853, 800; corresponding period of last
year, s2,09,, 1853; increase, $71,505.
July 1, to latest date this year, ST.
622,14l; corresponding period of last
year, 500, 945 025 increase, $677, 116.
Mileage 19O4-05 1878 miles, mileage 1904
1920 Mileage of 1904-5 includes from jan
uary l, 1905. A. X. & N. Ry. and X. l..
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