The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-05
LEGAL NOTICES. 
 NOTICE
Of Application of Alabama Westren Railroad Company for Franchises in the City of Birmingham.

To the Honorable. the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Birmingham:
 The Alabama Western Railroad com
 pany, d corporation organized and exist
 ing under the laws of the state of Ala
 bama, with power and authority to con struot and operate railroads in the state
 of Alabama and in other states, having
 its principal place of business in the city of Birmingham, Ala, contemplates at an early date operating a railroad over the
 tracks of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad company into the 1 city of Birmingham and proposes con- structing a freight depot or station on
 blocks 93. 91 and 95. in sad city, accord
 ing to the present plan thereof, as sur Veyed and Laid off, by the Elyton Land company for the purpose of receiving and 1 dScharging freight and transactng the i business of d common carrier of freight
 to and from said city of Birmingham, and in connection herewith it desires l ito construct q railroad track or tracks, upon and over which to operate it's en- i zines trains and ears, over and across | certain streets avenues and alleys within 1 the corporate limits of said city, as is
 hereinafter more fully set out
 | Your petitioner therefore respectfully prays that your honorable body grant
 unto it, and unto it's successors and as
 signs, the right to construct maintain
 use and operate its railroad for the pur-
 poses aforesaid, along, over and across the following streets, avenues and alleys | of the city of Birmingham, that is, to 1 say:
 | l. Beginning at a contemplated junction with the tracks of the Kansas City, Mem
 phis and Birmingham railroad, at or near 1 the intersection of Twelfth street and
 Ninth avenue, north. projected thence in
 a southerly direction along Twelfth street | to a connection with the existing rail- l road tracks now laid across Twelfth street. south of the southerly line of | First avenue, with the privilege of con-
 neetions in both easterly and westerly di-
 reetions, from a point on Twelfth street l between Third avenue and Second avenue l with the track or tracks on Second ave
 nue hereinafter described Also beginning
 at a point on Second avenue at the west 1 erly line of the city limits and running 1 thence easterly on Second avenue to i Thirteenth street, and thence across Thir- 1 teenth street to a connection with the
 proposed tracks of the said Alabama l Western Railroad company. in said blocks
 9S, 94 and 30. with the right to cross all l intervening streets and alleys along the ! routes named also the right to lay such l tracks as may be necessary in said blocks | 93, 94 and 90, across Fourteenth street and ! Fifteenth street and along the alley run
 hing through the said blocks, east of the 1 west Iile Ol lOI IL III DOCK 93, also the 1 right to lay a track in the alley through 1 blocks 96 and G, in said city, according
 to the plan and survey aforesaid from
 the westerly line of Sixteenth street to | the westerly line of Eighteenth street and
 across the intervening streets; and to
 construct, maintain, use and operate one
 or more tracks of railroad. as may be 1 desired by 1t. in the territory mentioned, | with the right to build switches spur | plS ap ] point or points in said limits necessary
 for the convenient transaction of busi-
 ness with the public. And also the right i to construct maintain, use and operate l either single or double track or tracks with all spur tracks, connections, switches and turn-outs, as said railroad company, | its successors or assigns. may determine,
 over, on and across said Twelfth street, north, between Third and Second ave nues and said other avenues, alleys and
 streets to any point or points contigu- ous to lots that may be now owned or
 hereafter acquired by the Alabama West l ern Railroad company it's successors or
 assigns, and the said two tracks to be
 constructed so as to have thirteen 0S
 feet between the centers thereof.
 ?. Your petitioner would also ask your
 honorable body to allow the following
 streets. avenues and alleys to be va
 cated
 Fifteenth street between the northerly
 line of First avenue and the southerly
 line of Second avenue, and the alley run
 ming through said blocks 94 and 95 and
 that portion of the alley running through
 said block 9S. lying east of the westerly
 line of lot seventeen QO, in said block 93 | All of which is respectfully submitted
 ALABAMA WESTERN RAILROAD CO
 By Frank S. White & Sons. Attorneys | 1-5-2t -fri-thur