The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-04-01

and Gulfport line. The proposed new road is undoubtedly an effort on the part of the Goodyears to forestall the Edward Hines Lumber company, and observing persons declare that the antagonism be- tween the two corporations has been quite apparent for some time.
 Conference in New Orleans.
 President Goodyear, General Manager Pearsall and Chief Engineer Bishop of the syndicate railroads In Mississippi have been in New Orleans recently holding conference with their agents and repre- sentatives, at which definite conclusions were reached as to the pushing of work on the road and also the laying out of towns on the line. The first of these towns. it Is said, will be sixty miles out from New Orleans, where the Goodyear company proposes to establish a very large sawmill, also headquarters for the lumber company, and the railroad shops. This place will almost immediately have a population of some 5000. The officials while in this state made an overland tour from slldel to Monticello. covering the route of their proposed main line of rail road. which is expected to give direct connection between Jackson, Miss. and New Orleans
 Another new railroad that has been chartered to run through the timber coun- try is the Vicksburg Natchez and Gulf port. It's charter was granted by spe- cial proclamation of Governor Vardaman. The line Is to run from Vicksburg south easterly to Gufport, with a branch to Natchez and another to Hattiesburg. The scheme to build line from Vicksburg to the gulf is not a new one. The incor- porators named in the application for charter are numerous and inclue some Of I.. .t.1s -~f tnI.A hall port and the territory between. It is sur missed In some quarters that J. J. White. the millionaire umberman and owner of the Liberty-White road, which Is now be- ing extended to Columbus, Is interested in this proposition.
 Mysterious Railroad Plans.
 But the most mysterious railroad propo- stion that has yet been sprung, and the one which has given rise to the most con lecture and surmise, is one known as the Mississippi Garden Railroad company. This company has operated very quietly. It's application for a charter has been published, as required by law. in an ob- scure country weekly newspaper. It is projected to run from Hattiesburg d- rectly north to Carthage. in Leake coun- ty. through a country densely covered with timber and which has been com pletely overlooked by most or those Wno have been figuring on the development of this state. The incorporators are s. B. Floeter of New Albany. Miss. c. A. F'later of Toledo, O., and w. F. F'loeter of Fay lorsvlle, Miss. Attention Is called to the fact that the route of this proposed Miss issippi Garden road is practically the same as that which was originally proposed for the Gulf and Ship Island road in the days before Captain Jones took hold of the latter enterprise and ran it into Jackson, and the imuression is made in some quar- ters that the Garden road may be des- tined to form a branch of the Gulf and Ship Island.
 Million-Dollar Transaction.
 million dollar transaction in lumber property has just been consummated in Northeast Louisiana near the Mississippi line by which a 5000 acre tract of pine land in St. Helena and Tangipahoa par ishes. belonging to Day Brothers, has been sold to the Natalbany Lumber company of Rock Island, H., for the sum men tioned
 It is understood that the deal is the termination of the consolidation of all the saw mills and timber interests in that part of Louisiana which is backed by the Weyerhauser interests at Rock Island and Davenport. Ia.
 It will also give Northern Louisiana an