The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-13
IMPORTANT CHARTER
 ISSUED IN GEORGIA
Means New Route Between
 Macon and Savannah
COAST LINE IS BEHIND IT
Seventeenth Infantry Begins March at 4 O'Clock This Morning From Atlanta to Chlckamauga.
 Other Georgia News.

| Atlanta, July 2-(SpeciaD. D.-One of the
 most important railway movements in Georgia in recent years is indicated in an application for the charter of the At I 1antic and Western Railroad company | which has just been filed with Secretary of State Philip Cook by Donald Frazer, well-known lawyer of Hinesville, and Liberty countys present representative in | the legislature.
 The Atlantic and Western, upon which it is said work Is to be begun at once will be the connecting link between the | Atlantic Coast Line and its newly ac- | quired property the Macon, Dublin and | Savannah.
 Through the construction of this line, | the Coast Line will secure a new through | line between Savannah and Macon, which will be, it is stated, some thirty to forty miles shorter than the present route by I the Central of Georgia.
 The Coast Lines next step, it Is stated. will be to secure connection between Ma con and Atlanta, either by forcing traf- fc agreement with the Southern or the Central; or if necessary, by building a. line of it's own.
 All this of course, is in the future, but the present actual fact is that the Coast Line is preparing to secure phyascal connection with the M, D. and s., which 1t recently purchased, thereby completing short line between Macon and Savan- nah.
 The incorporators named in the appli- T Long, Donald Frazer T. s. Layton and others, are all residents of Liberty and Tattnall counties, but there seems to be little doubt in the mind of anyone that the movement is one, as stated, to put the Coast Line in connection with its new purchase.
 The new line is to be thrty-five miles | in length. connecting with the Coast Line at Fleming in Liberty county. and run ming through Hinesville and Smiley in
 Liberty; Glenville. in Tattnall on to Vica-
 lia in Toombs, which is the present south ern terminus of the Macon, Dublin and Savannah. The capital stock of the new | company Is to be $2S0,0 The charter will | be granted within the next fews days, and | it is stated work on the new line will be- | gin at once.
 | The Atlantic and Western will give Lib | erty county a new and valuable railroad | line Hinesville has at present no rail- road at all, and yet 1t is soon to be one what is expected to become eventually, | a through line between Atlanta and Sa- | vannah
 Land in Liberty Is fertile and cheap,
 but the entrance of this new railroad is | going to stiffen prices of property in no
 small degree. It Is said the people of l that section are enthusiastic over the prospect, and that the new line cannot
 be built too soon for them.
 All Have Paid Assessments. All of the candidates for state house | offices have paid their assessments for | the state primary to Secretary J. w. | Goldsmith of the state executive commit 1 tee with the exception of two Secretary | Goldsmith has not yet heard from Hon,
 James M. Smith of Oglethorpe nor from | one of the candidates for state commits
 sioner. The time for paying these as-
 sessments is up tomorrow. It is reported, | however, that Col Jim Smith has sent 1 his check to Chairman Yeomans, under
 the impression that 1t should go through | him.
 March to Chickamauga. The Seventeenth infantry will begin its | march from Atlanta to Chickamauga at
 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Sev-
 enteenth goes to join in the big encamp-
 ment of regulars and state troops which
 will be held there early in August.
 Southern Will Reduce Grades. | It is stated here today that the South | ern railway proposes to expend $100'000 in | improving It's line between Atlanta and
 Macon The improvements which will
 be begun at once will consist in reduc- | ing some of the heavy grades and
 strengthening out several of the heavy l curves.
 Bell Is Commissioned. | Governor Terrell today commissioned A.
 p. Bell as ordinary of Burke county. MT
 Bell was recently elected to this office
 to succeed Judge George F. Cox. re-
 signed In the election MT Bell received
 S5S votes as against 1S2 for J. M. Ward