The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08
DECATUR TO TUPEL0
NEW LIFE INJECTED INTO RAIL-
 ROAD PROJECT.
Engineer and Representatives of Cspi- tai Leave Tor Lour SI Rnnse'

Deeatur. April 7.-(SpeciaLl l--New life has again been injected into the De catur, Helena and Tupelo haiiIoao'
 nof her of times and which has been char, tered by the States of Alabama ana Mississippi. ., rar whose Yesterday a numper oa ,ad mon to inc road were in the Decaturs and heiu a conference with many of the ieaaihs S
 citizens here as to the n1yisSR 1et with much % encouragement from Decatur and New Decatur city officials. business men any \ others. Those who came were EoWa
 Finley e ch,esso Sf st; LGq: Il and H. E. Over street. of Chicago. III MT: tlndey an ,s A civil engineer and the other two Hisnl ,s, represent Chicago capital Wno stea are i in terested, or who will DO intereseeo 4'' the financing of the road.
 The three gentlemen left Tn a priss vate conveyance this morning aru anu
 VII wiYi take Frem here ere they they went to Moulton, ths county seat of Lawrence County, twenty miles west From Moul14n tney will drive on to Tupeio. MISS srnne ne- ter place is about iio hiiies
 catur. .-,r ;. to get
 rough idea of the construction or thae eae
 inc road would likely receive in the
 event 1t Is constructed; ,,,,,,, tbe
 country through wnicns tfS inc popinion
 that it would be a paying lhVestitte'tt6s t,nt6
 1t penetrates a country ricn III oosn
 iron and coal fields which which, nave ra neno not
 toucbed by a railroad. It would also
 nenetrate forests of the finest or VII
 gin timber of almost every kinQ knowd sd
 to the South Besides Mnnitnn at, 'h1S Valley. in
 Lawrence County, Ala. one or the dim
 est farming sections in the northern rn
 part of the State and Whea fees,eh tSese timS. % CT. mining and farming sections tnrousn
 which this road would pass are taken
 into consideration, it would seem as though the road w9uiS Nsr, pay sDecatur orse of the. largest sole leather tannerles IT.
 the world and in connection Wltn sn nS tannery Is an oak extract woths ther"ands of cords of chestnut and chestnut oaA wood. from which is extracted ene t, Iau ming properties from the wood as vel wgd as from the bark. This road wouio nsss through thousands of acres of this Ii is said that if this road were built. pig iron could be made Tn Sa sne Du in anv citv in the South, or any where else, Limestone rock which Is necessary III the production of iron. can pc naa IT iH great quantity on the very ooroers oi The people of the Decaturs are very enthusiastic over the probable early construction of the road and aI,ahs are trsr fear noweE noyus Those in a position to know, pewetth say that right of way can be se- cuged with but little trouble, or ex- pense, as almost all the people along their wishes to see the road built.
 A few years ago it seemed that this road was in a goo. way va y61obs, t9 be snlft Msa. Ford at Tupelo, Miss, put a stop to all the plans Colonel Medford spent many .Styy years of his life, on working up up haaS tnis road and 1t would have doubtless oeeh built had he lived short time long er' As the matter now stands many or Colonel Medford's plans will of neces- sity have to be gone over again.