The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-10
SITUATION IS IMPROVING
Alabama and vieksbure Road Opened for Travel-Southern and the Central are Having Practically
 No Difficulty-Other Roads.

still give trouble
 Superintendent A. Griggs of the Ala bama Great Southern received message yesterday stating that the Alabama and Vicksburg was open for travel from Me ridian to Vicksburg, and that the New Orleans and Northeastern. both being portions of the Queen and Crescent route, would be open by today.
 The land slide at Irondale was cleared away last night and by this morning the tracks will again be in excellent condi- tion and travel will be resumed. The Southerns tracks have been used for the past two days. #
 The wire troubles of the Alabama Great Southern are improving and it is | expected that they will be all right to- night. Linemen are out on the road and are repairing the broken lines, poles and connections as rapidly as possible.
 The Southern is having practically no trouble particularly from the high water, | but at late hour last night it had not been able to secure telegraphic connec- | ton with Atlanta. The water is high in several places along the line, but no washouts or landslides of any conse- quenee have been reported A large num- l Der of telegraph poles between Anniston | and Atlanta are down, and the wires are also down, and there IS no tellirg when the communication will be established. 1 The Louisville and Nashville wire trou- bles have improved rapidly, and so far the water has not effected that road very much. In several places or tne south and north division and the Birm- ingham Mineral have suffer | slightly from high water.
 The Central of Georgia and the Frisco are having very little trouble. In fact they have escaped with less trouble this time than any of the other roads
 The land slides in the Seaboard have rot yet been cleared away and the tele- graphic communication is still very bad between Birmingham and Atlanta The water has caused the track to settle in a number of places.
 R. M. coffey, travelling passenger agent | of the Seaboard with headquarters in Atlanta, left yesterday morning with ] Lieut. Cole, U. s. N. and fourteen new recruits for the navy The party goes to Atlanta over the Southern and from there to Savannah over the Seaboard. 1 The Seaboard and the Frisco will handle the Beauty and the Best" company from | Memphis to Atlanta via Birmingham on February 19 and 20. The company leaves Memphis on the 18th and reaches Atlanta on the morning of the 2Oth. The company | 14 over the Seaboard on February 27. A l special train will move the company on each occasion. The train will consist of a coach, two sleepers and three sixty-foot baggage cars.
 Among the smaller extensions of lines | throughout the country which have re- gently been opened for traffic, the Colo l rado and Northwt stern reports branch extending from Sunset northward to El- dora, twenty niles; the Florida East Coast an extension to Homestead, twen- | ty-eght miles, from Miami; the Western l Maryland, the extension of its third division from Big Pool westward to Han cock. ten miles; the St. Louis, Browns vile and Mexico, opening of Hidalgo branch. from Har.ingen, Tex, west to Fordyce, fifty-five miles; Mobile and Ohio, Oklahoma branch, extended from i Houston, to Vardanan. Mise. ten miles; | Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix, from Kelvin to Winkelman. Ariz., fourteen miles; Canadian Northern. from Oak Point Junction to Oak Point, Man, fifty four miles. On the Great Northern the l Mohall branch of the Dakota division has been extended from Mohall. N D., to Sherwood. fifteen miles; the Thief River branch, from Thief River Falls, Minn., to Greenbush, forty-one miles.
 The Louisville and Nashville under date of February 6, isues the following com parativa statement of estimated gross 1 earnings:
 For fourth week of January, | 1sOo ......................... s995 ,945 l Corresponding week last year,. 976, 49O
 Increase .......................... s1s,455 Total for four weeks oi January,
 1905 S3'lo9,24o Corresponding period last year 30bs ,2S5
 Increase s0,960 July to latest date this year .S22 69S, ,611 Corresponding period las: year,. H ,921 ,515 Increase 777,096
 Mileage, 19O4-19O5, 397S miles. Mileage 1903-19O4 3622 miles.
 The work of building the new pas- senger and freight station of the Ala bama and Vicksburg railroad at Newton, Miss, has just been completed at a cost of nearly s10OOO and the company h-; | begun using it.
 D. D. Curran. superintendent of the New Orleans and Mort heastern with head | quarters in New Orleans. was in the c.ty yesterday. This road is a portion of the | Queen and Crescent Route.
 C. H. Ogelve. commercial agent of the Missouri Pacific with headquarters in I Chattanooga. wss in the city yesterday
 R. F. Fife. travelling freight agent of the Missouri Kansas and Texas, with headquarters in Atlanta was in Birming- ham yesterday
 The tourists sleep from Birmingham to California which will be inaugurate1 by the Louisville and Nashville on next Mon. day, February 13. on train No. 3. which leaves Birmingham at 4:20 o'clock, is al- ready attracting travel. number of