The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-05
CONTRACT AWARDED FOR
 MAMMOTH RAILROAD SHOPS

sions of the plans for the shops that the buildings will not be completed within six or eight months under the most propitious circumstances. Tne and will include four departments. the blacksmith shops, the planing mins, the freight car repair shops ana tne oeach shops. Two smaller 2.,a 2hliaings l,,, shops will be of steel frame throushout: All the equipment will be the most mod ern and latest improved. ard the entire plant will be operated by electriclIy:
 The new Building will be srecteo on the site of the present shops in North MoutEurnery The freight car repalr shops will be built first and utilized for general work until the other PaIe P blaming mill will be built on the exact
 The entire work sf the company, Tn every branch win be done at the Mo'lt- gonery shops. All new work, all rS pair work of engines and of cars VIII be done here, and the working Lorce will be many times double the force now employed.
 The work of grading for Foundations will begin at once. and within two weeks materials will be on the grouEa and the work on the buildings VIII es under headway.
 Cook and Laurie. tho firm which mas the contract for the buildings wllt sup let a part of the work. They have lii their employ more than three nunui @ ,,o,., vs, at work completing the buildlng as Vandiver Park for the State Fair or the Alabama Agricultural AssoclaiiTi' and their force at that place VIII oe transferred at once to me Work oh e"S Western Railroad shops o,,,.
 The present force of workmen eln- ployed by Cook and Laurie VIII pc greatly Increased on the shop buildings raan,, ,yorLmen from out of Montgom- cry being employed, thougr, so i1 aa is expedient, the contractors Will uS' Montgomery labor. ho,,a
 orders for the new equipments nave beer, placed by the company to prevent unnecessary delay to the shop Worn when the buildings are compieteu-
 is not expected that any time VIII De lost in the shop work, due to the seda sesha ing down of the old buildings ana tne erection of the new ones, as plans have been made for the continuahce oA tS work without interruption.
 Eouiument to Be Thorough.
 One of the main features of the new shops will be the special signsnca,so9I attached to the importance oI seneia a as arrangement looking to the comtor1T Tba oa Huntsville and Nashville Railroad snops at Louisyille. Ky, are conceded 10 pc the largest shops in the south, and tne Atlantic Coast Line Railway Coitpihuts p.hts time at Waycross. Ga.. shops that are as large as any located in the south. hut the Western shops at Montgomery win be the largest in Alabama, and the best equipped railway sheps ln tho
 Mr' Cook left on the evening train for Pittsburg He will be away, about two weeks He was accompanied oy his wife and his niece, Miss Eunice HeIton, on the trip. When seen at the station by an Advertiser reporter. he l talked freely of the projected shops.
 we were awarded the contract yes terday." he said '"The plant. when completed and equipped, will cost tn Western Railroad Company more than | s200, 900, and 1t will be one of the nnest l and best equipped shops in the South. We will employ Montgomerv labor as | far as possible, in the building or the shops and use Montgomery materials as far as expedient. We have a force of 300 men now In our employment. ous | that number will be increased for the work. The force which we have used i on the buildings at the Fair Grounds will be transferred at once to the Western shops The new Western \ shops are going to be a great thing for Montgomery. I will return to Mont 1 gomery in two weeks and by that time | the work will be under headway. We hope, under propitious circumstances, to complete the buildings ip about | eight months"