The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-06
BAY MINETTE LINE
A NEW RAILROAD TRAIN sCHnD-
 ULE TO BE ADOPTED.
Trainm sster Misell h Planning te 1ive Baldwin County People hetteF
 servfce--Other News of
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Master of Trains T. H. Mixell of the Mobile and Montgomery division oi the Louisville and Nashville haIlLua1a haIS1a for a double daily train service on the branch line between Bay Minette ana Magn olia Springs ...,, {. day of, this line arriving at Bay Min. cite at 12 o'clock noon and leaving az { o'clock in the afternoon. It IS a
 mixed passenger seSeduie sna dress one of the trains will be run strictly as pas senger train.
 For the past year geo scores ,na of ,ims homef ef this new road, but the indications are that there will be in the next 1eW months tremendously heavy move Rebf bix or part h9mefeshs ef shsm will come from Chicago and the West generally ana the Louisville and Nashville officials are preparing for aaenf an nnusuds trsin service % on the new road Is thought to De to- tally inadequate to handle the busi- ness that is anticipated. ., s.,,,. daily service to the owners of the new road, and 1t will probably take enec' within the next few weeks.
 While most of the lands along the new road have been and are being con- verted into farms and orchardsItLuck farming being gone into extenslveiy- still numbers of wealthy Cnicosoans
 
 Monteomery's Mule Trade.
 Do you know that the mule trade in Montgomery is unusually cary 1onas rnss osad of the sS Mobile and ohio yesterday. T think it has opened earlier than ever before. and from the way it has start ed: it will be the heaviest S in tocE ysays Yards of the Mobile and Ohio on MouIt1n Street directing gang of men n wno were unloadint car load dno or bnaIthy mai1s looking animals. They had just ar rived from St. Louis and drovers were awaiting to take them up town 10 ata h . mules had been taken on run through h the streets. switch engine packed another car on the stock pen track ana twenty-seven horses were unioaoed They were also from St. Louis ana: ike the mules, looked as fresh as II they had never made the journey.
 l., and N. Annual Meeting.
 At The annual meeting of the Louis- ville and Nashville Railroad held in the comnany's office in Louisville 1t was shown that the Louisville and Nash yille Railroad system operated e.f2Z miles during the year, and the gross earnings were $3S.517,070 compared with $S6,943,792 for the previous year
 The net earnings. $12.027,04s. compar- ed with $1l,S02,Z44 TOT the pio''"~ year. =.
 The report made by H. Walters. oi New York, chairman of the board oi directors, and of President M. H. smith in writing, were brief and to the point Among other things President Smith says:
 '.The office building now occupied bS the general offices has become inade' orIate for their needs. The boards mas authorized the erection of a new ten story fireproof building at the corner of Ninth and Broadway. Louisville. al an estimated cost of s500,0O0. The building is now in the course of con struction."
 Of the Cincinnati-Atlantal line, Presi' dent Smith says:
 The company Is now engaged in thf reduction of grade on the old line oe' tween Corbin and Saxton, Ky. on tho Knoxville division. and between Knox vile and Etowah, Tenn, on the AL lanta division, and is constructing 2 new line with low grade to Cartersviiie Ga. A connection with the Western ane Atlantic Railroad. and has a contrac' 6rffackage rights over the Western and Atlantic railroad between Carters vile and Marietta, Ga.
 ''When the reduction of grades ane the new line mentioned are completed / this company will have direct lln'