The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-06
PROGRESS IN SOUTH
MANY INTERURBAN ELEcTRIC
 RAILWAYS BEING BUILT.
The Manufacturers' Record of Balti- more Gives statfstics as to This Important IpdustriaI Devel-
 Opment in Southern

Baltimore, Md, July 5.-(Special.)---
 In this weeks issue The Manufactur-
 CTS Record says
 Activity in the construction of cleo
 tric fnterurban railways is manifest
 in several parts of the South. and by
 the end of the year not a little new
 mileage will have been credited to the total of this section of the country.
 The announcement of plans to build
 the Houston and Galveston electric railroad calls attention to the fact that
 in several other quarters work Is un-
 der way to connect centers of popu- lation by means of such transportation
 routes and also to develop intervening
 territory. Although work has not be-
 gun on the Houston and Galveston line. the syndicate which took up the plan to connect Baltimore Washing ton and Annapolis have construction forces now hard at work with the ob- Ject of doing as much as possible be- fore next winter towards connecting the chief city of Maryland with the capital of the country The grading on this job is proceeding at such rate as to elicit an expression from the president of the company that 1t is ex- pected to complete and operate the line by July of next year.
 Another electric railway upon which construction is being pushed Is the
 Richmond and Chesapeake Bay line of
 Frank Jay Gould. which Is now being
 built between Richmond and Ashland.
 Va As soon as this section of some
 fourteen or fifteen miles is completed
 q further extension is to be made in
 the direction of the bay. Over in West Virginia a line Is being built
 between Fairmont and Clarksburg. and In the State of Kentucky lines are pro- iected to connect Versailles, Shelby ville and other points with railways fhaGa nr0jaefa t0 be carried out by companies already in operation and which have the means at their command to insure the fuIfi1l- ment of their enterprises.
 Surveys have been made in South Carolina for an extension of the Au- gusta and Aiken Electric Railway from Aiken to Columbia, s. C., and the con- struction of this new road seems to be assured. The connection of High Point and Greensboro N. C., by an electric line is another project which at the present time is expected to soon bo realized. The Atlanta, Griffin and Macon Electric Railway plan Is one of the most ambitious which has late iy developed. but 1t appears to be de- stined to succeed. This road will be eighty-eight miles lang, and the pro- motors of 1t confidently express the opinion that 1t will be completed with in the next year or two.
 There IS not southern state witn- out an interurban electric railway plan. Maryland, for instance. has moi only the Baltimore, Washington and Annapolis line, but the proposed Balti- more and Frederick Electric Railway upon which construction may begin al any lime, not to mention several oth- CT plans of lesser importance In yir- l ginia the Washington and Winchester and the Salem and Roanoke are among the plans which may be carried out within a comparatively short period Tn West Virginia there are numerous electric railway projects, including one