The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-11
LEGAL NOTICES.
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 NOTICE
Of Application of Alabama Westren Railroad Company for Franchises m the City of Birmingham.

To the Honorable, the Mayor and Board
 of Aldermen of the City of Birmingham
 The Alabama Western Railroad com pany. a corporation organized and exist Ing under the laws of the state of Ala bama, with power and authority to con struet and operate railroads in the state or Alabama and in other states having US principal place of business in the clty or Birmingham, Ala, contemplates at an early date operating a railroad over the tracks of the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham Railroad company into the clty of Birmingham, and proposes con structing a freight depot or station on blocks 93, 94 and 95, in said 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 uischarging freight and transacting the business of common carrier of freight to and from said city of Birmingham, and in connection herewith it desires to construct railroad track or tracks, upon and over which to operate it's en- zines, trains and cars, over and across certain streets, avenues and alleys within the corporate limits of said city, as is hereinafter more fully set out
 Your petitioner therefore respectfully prays that your honorable body grant unto 1t, and unto its 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 say:
 l. Beginning at a contemplated junction with the tracks of the Kansas City, Mem phis and Birmingham railroad, at or near the intersection of Twelfth street and Ninth avenue, north, projected, thence in sontherly direction along Twelfth street to connection with the existing rail- road tracks as now laid across Twelfth street, south of the southerly line of First avenue, with the privilege of con nections in both easterly and westerly di- rections, from a point on Twelfth street between Third avenue and Second avenue, with the track or tracks on Second ave- nue hereinafter described. Also beginning at point on Second avenue at the west erly line of the city limits and running thence easterly on Second avenue to Thirteenth street, and thence across Thir- teenth street to connection with the proposed tracks of the said Alabama Western Railroad company, in said blocks 9S, S4 and 95, with the right to cross all intervening streets and alleys along the routes named; also the right to lay such tracks as may be necessary in said blocks 9S, 94 and 95, across Fourteenth street and Fifteenth street and along the alley run ming through the said blocks, east of the west line of lot F in block 93; also the right to lay a track in the alley through blocks 96 and ST. 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 tc construct, maintain, use and operate one or more tracks of railroad as may be desired by 1t, in the territory mention ed with the right to build switches spul tracks, connections and turn-outs, at any point or points in said limits, necessary for the convenient transaction of busi. ness with the public And also the right to construct maintain, use and operate 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 ant streets, to any point or points contigu ous to lots that may be now owned ol hereafter acquired by the Alabama West ern Railroad company, its successors ol assigns, and the said two tracks to b, constructed so as to have thirteen Q3 | feet between the centers thereof
 1 ?. Your petitioner would also ask you honorable body to allow the following streets avenues and alleys to be va 1 cated:
 Fifteenth street between the northerl, l line of First avenue and the southerly line of Second avenue, and the alley run ming through said blocks 94 and 95 ana that portion of the alley running througI said block 93, lying east of the westerl! line of lot seventeen QO, in said block 9S
 All of which Is respectfully submitted. ALABAMA WESTERN RAILROAD co
 By Frank s. White & Sons, Attorneys. | 1-5-2t -fri-thur