The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-18
|NTER-URBAN LINE
 FOR CHATTANOOGA Will Connect Tennessee City
 and Dalton, Ga.
THE CAPITAL IS SECURED
s. w. Devine Returns From New York Where He Made Many Ar neements-Some of the
 Plans of the Road.

Chattanooga. December 17.-(Special)- l With the return of S. W. Devine from New York comes the assurance that prac-
 tically all preliminaries relative to the
 actual building of his interurban electric railway to Dalton, Ga, have been com | pleted and the announcement is made that
 the first dirt will be moved in it's con struction by the middle of January Mr.
 Devine returned from New York yester-
 day morning and he stated that circum- stances had developed in every detail as he had hoped
 l Tonight the engineer employed by the
 promoters of the enterprise will arrive in
 the city and during the next three or
 four days he will go over the route of the proposed road and will then examine all
 franchises and privileges, including rights
 of way, that MT. Devine has secured from
 the beginning of the line on Tenth street
 and including the entire route through
 the government reservation and to it's terminal at Dalton. Ga.
 The mission of MT. Devine to New York
 was to confer with the parties whom he
 expected to financier the enterprise. He
 took with him complete plats of the route
 profiles of the topography of the territory l to be traversed and documents showing
 the valuable franchise he had secured
 from the war department authorizing him
 to traverse the Chickamauga park reserv- ation. All these documents and blue prints
 were examined by the engineer, who will
 make personal visit here this week. and
 his preliminary report to the capitalists
 was favorable
 Capital Secured. i As result of this report MT. Devine
 secured the cooperation of the fnanciers
 and after stay of ten days in the metrop-
 oils returned home with his scheme as sured
 | For many months MT. Devne has been endeaVoring to secure for Chattanooga the l pioneer inter-urban railway service in l Tennessee. Long before a step was taken
 in that direction he nourished a plan
 to connect this city with points in north Georgla by an electric railway, the final l purpose of which was to produce a short
 line between this city and Ducktown. the copper center of the south Local support to his plans has been hearty. The city readily granted him a 1 franchise on Tenth street and stood in
 readiness to give him use of whatever other streets he might need for an out | let The county was even more liberal l than the city giving him free franchises
 on number of county roads, whereas. l his city franchises carried a provision of
 revenue. He chose his route and with a comparatively small outlay has secured 1 rights of way parallel with the Rossville l pike to the village of Rossville and has 1 also secured almost all necessary conces- sions for extension of the line to Fort l Oglethrope.
 To Traverse Park. 1 The crowning privilege, and one of 1 greater value. perhaps, than all the fore | going, was that granted by the war de- 1 padtment permitting him to cross the 1 Lafayette road and enter Chiclamauga 1 park. No other promoter has ever achieved 1 a like concession. and it has been often I stated that none but Sam Divine could l ever have won it. His road is to extend
 through the military reservation into the park. and, according to his present fran chise he is authorized to follow the :, Ringgold road to that town, the county
 seat of Catoosa county. and thence to l Catoosa Springs and the government tar I get reservation with terminal for the pres 1 ent at Dalton.
 I MT. Divine has a plan to change his route. if he can secure the privilege, and bullu the rOau straight through the pdTk 1 from the northern entrance, coming out ], at point near what is known as the Blue" spring in the Peavine creek coun- l try, and thence to Ringgold. The advan- 1 tage of this route is to produce for the l constant stream of tourists a means of
 cheap conveyance directly to many points of interest within the park, and it will
 add many picturesque features to the 1 trip.
 l This interurban electric road will con meet Chattanooga with the army post 1 the park reservation and other portions
 of the Chickamauga battlefield, the pop
 ulous portions of Catoosa county, the
 health resort at Catoosa Springs and Dal-
 ton. which is the metropolis of that sec l ton of Georgia
 Eventually 1t Is the purpose to provide
 a short line between this city and Duck | town and freight traffic at low rates. 1 1t will be the only line running directly l through the proposed maneuvering l grounds and the only means of shipment i of supplies to the United States target l range.
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