The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1906-07-21
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MIDI AND ROAD
PROJECTED RAILROAD MAY
co THROUGH KOSCIUSKO.
Promoters Now at Work on Plans for
CONSTRUCTION OF Line From New
Orleans TO Cairo via Memphis.

Judging by the present outlook, 1t
seems that the New Orleans & Mis-
sissippi Midland Railroad will be
built through kosciusko, Miss, in
stead of through Alderman, as the
line was originally projected Mr.. J.
NJ. Oldham of this city made a trip
recently to Kosciusko, where he in
terviewed bankers and other promi-
nent citizens, including several mem
hers of the City Council, and met
with much encouragement
1t is now proposed, if proper en-
couragement can be secured from the
towns and communities along the
route, to carry the line north from
Carthage through KoSciu5ko to Pitts
boro. III Calhoun County, and thence
through Oxford to Memphis. There
are various rumors af1oat regarding
the system behind the reorganization
of the railroad which was originally
projected to run from New Orleans
to a point near Evansville on the
Ohio River. The most probable ru-
NOR, however, is that it is being sup
ported by the Vanderbilt interests,
which control the Big Four Railroad
system, whose southern terminals at
present are at Cairo, Ill. 1t is stated
that the Vanderbilt interests have for
many years contemplated an entry
by way of line through Central
Mississippi to New Orleans.
The original route of the New Or
leans & Mississippi Midland Railroad
was from New Orleans to Pontotoc,
where it was proposed to utilize the
line formerly owned by the Gulf &
Chicago Railway Company from
Fontotoc to Middleton, Tenn, and to
h',ild line from Middleton to the
crossing of the Ohio River near Ev-
the projectors of the Mississippi Mid
land secured an option on the Gulf &
Chicago Railway, but the death of
Col. Duncan. the president of the
company, at that time interrupted
their plans, the option was lost, and
the Gulf & Chicago Railway was Sc
cured by the Mobile, Jackson & Kan
sas City.
The death of Col Duncan and the
loss of the option of the Gulf & Chi
eago Railway caused the interruption
of the work on the Midland line,
which is now about to be actively re-
sumed under a reorganization plan,
and it is thought that the line from
New Orleans to Memphis, as outlined
here, and thence by an air line
through the unoccupied territory ly-
ing between the Mississippi River
and the Illinois Central Railway be-
tween Memphis and Cairo will fur
nish trunk line from the Ohio River
to Memphis that will have a shorter
mileage than any competing line, and
will traverse a territory not now oc-
cupied and rich in revenue producing
local traffic. 1t is thought that this
citizens of Kosciusko will make lib
eral contributions in the shape OF
stock contributions or in an outright
bonus to secure this line and thereby
retain their trade supremacy in their
richest trade territory-New Orleans
TImes-Democrat.
Mr.. Oldham has many friends here
who will be grati1ed to learn of ev-
cry enterprise he engages in, for il
is almost a certainty that whatever
he undertakes will be made success.
He was formerly in teh real estate
business in this city and was very
popular young man and well liked by
all our citizens.