The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-08
SPECIAL TRAIN
Of OGDEN en- PARTY Ar
Passed Through Richmond OH
Yesterday Ovcr8tlic Atlantic
Coast Line.
FIVE MILLION FOR DEpoTs
Southern Railway Builds g Cut
OF Sixty Miles Long, Saving
liighty-four Miles.

The Armstrong Association excursion
from New York to l'uakegcc, Ala. pass
cd through Richmond on yesterday ut
midday on us return trip.
The special trainPo Of eight Pullman cas-
Travelled over the Atlantic Coast Line TO
l,irhmond, and over the Richmond, Fred
erlcksburg and Potomac north.
According To II report from Norfolk.
Va. tho Atlantic Coast Terminal COM
pai,y, chartered there several months
ago, proposes TO spend more than }5,-
UUy.UoO for freight and passenger terlni-
nnls not only for steam railroads, but
for electric railroads ~ well, on The
property known us the Swimming
Point Flats" near the Naval Hospital
The design Is said to be for quicker
service In the exchange of passengers
between Norfolk aud Portsmouth by u
ferry located VI, this property, Which
VIII have ~ landing directly opposite
The president OF the Atlantic Coast
Terminal Company Is j w. Perry, ana
the Vice president Is ". w. Moss. presl-
dent or the Citizens Bank, both VI Npt-
folk.
Word las been received here at the
Ufll~ey OF the Southern Railway Conn
piny that plans have been completed
for constructing sixty miles OF railroad,
connecting; tlet Cincinnati, New yOrlcans
and Texas Pacific Railroad with the
Tennessee Central This will cut OF
cIghty-four miles OF the Southern Rail
ways line between Cincinnati and Nash
VILE The new line will be built by the
Kentucky ana Tennessee Railroad Conf
JmnS, construction OF which was begun
about II year ago by Cincinnati capt
Htalists owning extensive mineral rights
III Southeastern Kentucky and North
eastern Tennessee. The line Will begin
at Stcrns, n small way station on the
Cincinnati. New Orleans and Texas Pa
cific, between Burnside nnd Soan's
Valley, and extend to Johnston stand. on
the Tennessee Central. near Monterey.
Tenn. Residcs shortening the Southcrn's
route between Cincinnati and Nashville.
the new road Will develop territory
known TO be rich in lumber and conl.5lt
win he owned b. the Southern hallway.
President Edward A. Buell., Of the
z Elizabeth River Railroad Company, 8
reported as saying that Tho line will be
constructed Immediately from Berklcy,
VA, into the Dismal Swamp region.
John Scir. OF Chilicothc. Ohio, Is also
said to bc Interested.
4 me CulTDcriRnd TRACTION AS0lnpdHS,sbt
Big Stone Gap. has been Incorporated
10 build n railroad. ". I. Goodloc Is
president. and j. $. Wright is sccrctarS
and treasurer, both at Big Stone Cap,
Va.
Information received from Plttsvile.9
Va. says that Mr.. j. III. G. Barr, who
has been building n mario W. gauge road
two and onennarter miles long into his
extensive hcmatie iron ore properties.
expects to have It in operation for the
shipment OF ORC about April 10th He has
built washing plant and has developed
the ore lands.
The Pennsylvania railroad Company
has given the Baldwin Locomotive
Works an order for 100 locomotives, MAX
ing s5o ordered for this year. Tho COM
pany still has space for another 100 en-
gincs. In other words. he company rst
placed an order for $50 locomotives and
then reserved space for an additional 200.
OF which 100 arc now ordered,