The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-11
News Notes and Gossip
 of the Local Railroads

accommodated, but as yet no necessity exists to work up an import trade suf- ficient to bring more bottoms to the wharves to take away the business that is offering over and above the tonnage now available.
 The Missouri Pacific has always been a friend to New Orleans and has been one of the most potent factors in its export trade. the movement of grain through its Westwego terminals being of enormous proportions. We are now after new business inward bound and with the assistance of the people Of this city hope to meer a rairly success full result. With the opening of the new St. Louis-Memphis-New Orleans grade line the Gould lines will be in a position to give New Orleans one of the most potential arteries in the country This new line will, we hope. be open for the free through operation of @ di- rect freight service by the middle of next summer"
 According to reports from different authoritative sources the finishing touches are now being applied to the Missouri Pacifics new water grade line from Memphis down. Very little of the line remains to be laid yet. but 1t Is
 thought that before the operation of service Is started the company will place its roadbed-in a condition that will make it possible to begin the phys ical operation of regular schedule at
 once without the danger of a delay en
 route. Memphis-New Orleans line runs south from Memphis on an almost
 straight line. following the course of
 the river closely. and will make the haul faster and less expensive than is
 now the case. With the completion of the St. Louis s-Memphis line now under
 way. New Orleans will be given a di- l rect water grade connection with that city by way of Memphis.
 During the recent visit of the South
 eastern passenger men to Washington
 they were assured by the head of the
 immigration department that if New Orleans would build its own immigra- tion landing station the government would be found ready to pay an annual rental for 1t the same as it does at oth-
 CT landing points out side of New York. They were also impressed with the fact
 that without a landing station New
 Orleans could look for very little in
 the way of increased share of the
 immigration movement into the United
 States. The recent attempt of Liguria
 to land 1.5o0 immigrants was an apt H.
 lustration of the impossibility of inc spection in midstream. It took seven
 days to inspect the immigrants in mid
 stream. whereas under ordinary condf-
 tions the inspection would have been
 completed in seven hours in a station
 on shore under government supervis- ion.
 The settlement of immigrants has al-
 ready begun in the Southeast. A Danish settlement has been installed on the line
 of the New Orleans and Northeastern
 in the vicinity of Lumberton. Miss, and along the Illinois Central in the vicini-
 ty of Haziehurst. The Danes are rec-
 ognized as the best class of immigrants.
 They are said to be thrifty intelligent, | and ambitious. The fact that nearly a
 hundred have settled on truck farms
 already recalls attention to the fact
 that the Scandinavian steamship line is
 said to stand ready to bring It's cargoes
 of immigrants to this point if it Is giv-
 en an immigrant station into which to | land It's passengers.