The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-06
Imnraxements hy .. and N.

ImprevementS by l.. and N.
 The improvements on the Mobile ana Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. spoken or by The Advertiser some time ago. VIII oe- gin in the near future,
 An approprlation of S7o0,0o0 has been made hy the Louisville and Nashville for the improvements eohtenplateu oh the Mobile and Montgomery diVislon' This win turn loose lots or money n the towns located along'the line in the counties of Montgomery. LowndeS' nutler. Covington. Conecuh. Eseambia' Baldwin and Mobile, A btG slice or the 9TO0.OOO will be put in 1he improve ments contemplated around Fort De- postt. ,,z
 From Calhoun to Fort Deposit dis tanea oE something over nVe mics there Is a heavy grade, the conformity ne tha land through the hills making naesasary numerous curves, some Of them so sharp as to be virtually re- verse curves. From Fort Deposit to fsresnvills. twelve miles further, the grade and curves are also bad. though nothing like the climb from Calhoun 10 Fort Deposit The grade for the eh- tire distance of seventeen miles rom calhoun to GreenVille will be reduced to as near a level as possible, In order 10 do this. tunnel will be built through the hills part of the way. and this tunnel will eat up big slice OF the $700,O00,
 For a number of years this mammoth task of cutting down the Fort Deposit hill has been under consideration oy the Louisville and Nashville, and they have tried in every way to get out or the expense of building tunnel, In the last year. however. 1t was found fKaf~she tunnel plan was the only tea- sible way of cutting down the grades and straiEhtening the track, ana the survey which includes the plans for the tunnel has been adopted This VIII materially change the topography or the country in that section. and some of the people living along the hhe or the present Louisville and NasnVllIe track In and around Fort Deposit may be caught in the same situation that a number of people living above Nash vilie were a year or so ago.
 Several wealthy citizens of Nashville had formed colony and built beauti- ful summer homes at place call"i Ridgemore. about twenty-five miles above Nashville. on the line of the Iouisville and Nashville. This section was on the crest of a hill, which was SO steep that heavy freight trains Of the Louisville and Nashville were un- able to get over 1t without doubling, taking half Of the train over the hill and returning to the bottom TOT the other half, which was taken over ana Joined to the first half at the top or the hIl. IL was finally decided to cut out this hill and the only way to do 1t was by building tunnel which would make the track some 80 feet below the one then running over the top of the hill, The tunnel was finally built, and the owners of the summer homes at Ridgemore suddenly found their resi- denees which had been directly on the line of the old track. now some SO-odd feet above the level of the railroad. Whether the same effect will be had on the homes and business houses of Fort Deposit. and that section, remains to be seen, but that they will ind a change of some kind seems to be as suFed,
 Another big part of the S7OO.O00 ap- propriation win go to the twenty six miles of track. mostly bridges, through the swamps between Bay Mtnette and Mobile.
 In view of the litigation going on between some of the stockholders Of the South and North and the Louis vilie and Nashville. it is not known the amount that has been appropriated on that division, though an enormous amount of work Is already going on there. A tunnel is now being cut through the rocks at Brooks Gap and an entire new roadbed and track put in for a distance of about eight miles, the tunnel. of course, extending only part of the way through the rocks. From Holmes's Gap, an almost entire new route VIII be laid past Cullman and about fifteen miles down to Hance- viue. and the fifteen miles from Blount Springs to Morris win also have lots of work done on It.
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