The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-04
HILL AT Fl. DEPOSIT
PROBLEM FACING woRKMEN or
 THE IL. q N.
Engineers Are Considering the Matter -9 of q New Grade--Engineer Court ney Reports on New
 Tracks.


 a lot of civil engineers with linemer and iaborers. are hard at work survey ing and making estimates on tho Louisville and Nashville track at tha place,
 From Cincinnati to New Orleans il is possible that the Louisville anc Nashville people have never faced a: knotty problem as this Ft Deposit incident, thirty-two miles south ot Montgomery. Along the entire Louis. vile and Nashville system grades have been materially reduced. and curves strengthened out but up to date 1t has been impossible to do anything at all with the Ft. Deposit puzzle. For five miles near Fort Deposit there Is a hill that makes the grade of the Louisville and Nashville tracks heavier than any tn on the system, grade of thirty five feet to the mile. Tn addition te regular tangle of curves. a veritable snake Iine."@
 Until the monster freight locomotives of the Mobile and Montgomery division were put into service there wasn't a freight train on the road that did not have to double the hill. Even as 1t Is now trains have to creer over the hill at a gait that makes the despatchers office in the Mont 8OuuSTy uAiOti ctdtlOH SlcWiy HI Wlt1 sulphuric haze oozing from the thoughts" of the operator whose trick it is at the time.
 A little over two years ago an at- tempt was made to cut down the grade of the Fort Deposit hill and straighten out the curves. but the attempt was a dismal failure The tunnel idea was even contemplated but quickly aban- doned. If it had been put into exc- -A ya have been wiped of the face of the earth as far as being a railrcad town Is concerned. Now a corps of Louis vile engineers is again trying to And out the easiest way to cut down the hill. They want.sto reduce the grada to i5 feet to the mile. The grade has not been reduced yet. however. and 1t will be interestin~ to watch the result of their deductions.
 New l.. & N. Tracks.
 w. H. Courtney, chief engineer of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. with reference to track laid on new lines and extensions of the system since January i, 1905 Cnclusive of sec- ond track and sidings) reports as fol. lows:
 \ Bay Minette and Fort Morgan Rail- road-Bay Minette. Ala, to Foley. Ala. a distance of 3s.52 miles.
 blTmlnRndm MtHGTdl FNdftTudu-L<A- tension of Huntsville branch No. ? from Altoona, Ala, to Morangue. Ala, a distance of 15.58 miles.
 Henderson 1division--Change of line. Bakers Hill, Goodletts, Tenn. to Green brier, Tenn. ST miles.
 Cumberland Valley division-Branch up left-hand fork of Straight Creek, approximating four miles in length. now under construction; track laid dor
 4.tA AnmAw Ia diverges from the track originally con- struoted for the National Coal and Iron company. at a point e295 feet from a connection with the Cumberland Val ley division at Pineville. Ky, and will extend into the coal property of the Straight Creek Coal Mining company. This branch for it's entire length will be in the State of Kentucky.
 "Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railway-Existing line re-eonstructed. Knoxville, Tenn, to Etowah. Tenn, S9 miles. New line constructed. Etowah Tenn, to cartersviile. Ga. a distance of se.2 miles. Of tho above. e2.2 miles are in Georgia and ST in Tennessee. >N
 Grading for the following construo- ton work is now under way but track has not yet been laid:
 Henderson division-ReVision of line and grades between Greenbrier, Tenn, and Guthrie, Ky, distance of 25.7 miles.
 Knoxville division-Revision of limo and grades from saxton. Ky. to Corblu. Ky, 25.9 miles.
 Atlanta. Knoxville and Northern Railway--Atlanta connection extending from Ellen N, on the Western and Att Iantic Railroad to a connection with the Belt Line. West End, Atlanta, 6.2 miles in Georgia.
 "The names of the contractors for re- vision of line Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Railmay are Willism J. oli- yer. Knoxville, Tenn; Wright Williams & Wadley, Dalton, Ga, and A. c. Wright and J. T. Pruden. Atlanta, Ga.
 'For revision of lines and grades Ba- kers Hill, Henderson division, Mason & Hoge Company. Frankfort. Ky. 6reenbrier to Guthrie; Walton, Wilson.
 "For revision of lines and grades Corbin to Saxton. Knoxville division. Eddington. Graffitts & Co, Knoxville. Tenn, and Southern Contracting Com pany, Ludlow. Ky.
 '"rhe contractors for the branch line up left-hand fork of Straight Creek are inc Callahan Construction Company, Knoxville. Tenn.
 4 rate of a fare. plus 25c.. has been quoted by the railroads on account of the convention of the Southern Cotton Growers, to be held in New Orleans, January ii to 13 inclusive. The rates are open to the public.
 Some Handsome Literature.
 The city passenger ofice of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad is dis k.tkvtins~ aouaa handaono Iffayafura Ha-