The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-17
BUILDING RAILROADS
eREAT ACTIVITY IN ExTENslONs
 TO GULF COAST.
Nevv Trunlx LEnes Being Built In soutn Tn Secure Great Increase I'm Traffie--DcveIopment or
 ResOureess

psi.Iu,ors Nov. 14.--(Special.)- )--In .h,s weeks issue The Manufacturers Record says; .,,-.,a e, .a,,stons to ports on the Gulf Coast er,renaa aizes the importance of the traf- ec movement in that direction. But ,+ raad not be apprehended that, oe- aa,,sa ce this diversion of much rreight s'.h1oh had expert facilities on the gulf " at hser developed, would have found tts p,av eastward over the trunk lines. tba latter are going to lose some or tbeir great importance ae common ea' riers. o of di-
 aon the contrary, this charge or a Gi. rection in late years for part ol ts country's traffic, means slnlpls .,,a,. creation of new trunk ines III, nn ob ,sactton and the old ones still go on ,,iiins m their earnings year atter Year as shown. by their reports ana to +be qrafification of stockholders As those trunk lines grew ana pros -1arod so are we now seeing sOuth or tta potomac. other east and west tr,,nlr lines in their turn growing ana .a.asnerinr and carrying the coal, the iron tbe lumber and the oil or the south. inst as the older lines convey fine products or the North to market
 sgrvnical of this movement towaro the Gulf are the developments or ,, tns mast four years which, brought 10 Iui, completion will give the ROCK Aslan" system a short and excellehtiy cvn .tn,,otad line between Denver and other ,.,astern noiY1ts and Texas great tide water mort. The construction Of the Colorado southern, New Orleans ana Decide Railway, which is to be tbroueh liue from a connection with the Trinity and Brazos Valley Kali ,gav to New Orleans, is being raploly bIIiIt and will give the system an- ether outlet at Gulf port
 "The system is also constructing a line of it's own southward via Alexah- dria and Eunice, La, in dlrect course to inc Gulf coast of Louisiana.
 Moreover. the santa Fe system which has long enjoyed the Iacllltles of Galveston as port IS now @ sn. gagged in building a cross country line in the western bart of Texas, road which will finally connect the system so as to form a shorter route from the New Mexico and Colorado lines to the G,lif. It is also credited with having plans under way to enter New Orleans ana the Jasper and Eastern Railway a lumber road which the Santa Fe IS constructing, will, 1t is believed, prove to be the route, either by an eAten- sion or by connecting with some other protected road now apparently indepen- dently planned
 .srhe Missouri. Kansas and Texas Railroad is likewise feeling it's way toward the Crescent City, but lately it has been intimated that these two roads. as we'll as the Kansas City southern. would effect arrangements to enter New Orleans over William Endenborns route, the line of the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company, which is just receiving Its finishing touches, and which was for. merIy known as the Shreveport and Red River Valley Railway.
 srrhe development of the North and South trunk lines is not factor to be feared in our country's progress It means simply that an equalable de- velopment of natural resources IS un- der way; that new regions are open ing to industrial and commercial con quest. and that the future holds fal more in store for all our trunk lines than either the present or the past"