The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

gomery to the town of Eufaula, eighty miles away in the County of Barbour. At the outbreak of the war, construc- tion virtually ceased and was not really recommended until after 1865.
 In the year 1875, seventeen years af- ter Colonel Owens secured the charter, the road, under the management of Major Bradford Durham, was com pleted to Eufaula. Troubles came thick and fast for the new road, the Montgomery and Eufaula, in the next few years, and one morning, in the year 1878, there was a public sale by Auctioneer B. Young at the Artesian Fountain Court Square), at which the Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad was knocked down to the highest bidder. Early that morning a private car of the Central of Georgia Railroad had come into Montgomery with President Wadley of that road its occupant. He wanted the Montgomery and Eufaula road badly to complete the physical connection of his road (the old South western), at Eufaula. As 1t was for bidden by the laws for one corporation to buy another MT, Wadley had to bid in the Montgomery and Eufaula per sonally. The price he bid was the biggest that Auctioneer Young had ever gone up against, and almost stag gered him. It was $l,500,O00.
 "I haven't that much money in my pockets now, gentlemen" said Mir Wadley, but you will find it all right in your First National Bank" And that is how the road from here to Flu faula became a link in the chain of the Central of Georgia Railroad. But to this day, train conductors have to make out two sets of reports for their runs, one set from Montgomery to Eu- faula, and another for the main line from Eufaula to Macon and Savannah.
 Back in the eos Col. Frank Gilmer of this city secured a charter for a railroad to be built from Montgomery up to where the Elyton Land Company people were just beginning to start things in Jones Valley. ninety mics away in Jefferson County now the city of Birmingham. After a pretty rough time the road was started, the city of Montgomery taking some of the bonds and Henry Faber, who was Republican Mayor of Montgomery at the time, be- inG one of the Board of Directors. In the early 70's the road wss gotten as far as Birmingham, and then work had to he stopped for lack of funds. It was the intention to go on with 1t to Decatur, and with the assistance of the State of Alabama, it was put on its feet again. The promoters and direc- tors then entered into a contract with Jdlil ldlt anu HIS dSSOCldIGSt WneTeDY it was agreed that that firm or com pany should complete ana equip the road and receive In payment bonds and other securities.
 Prior to the war. MT. Tate had been a successful railway promoter and manager having been instrumental in the construction of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Mir. Tate had been it's President and Manager for many years and one of his associates was Campbell Wallace, also a railway promoter in East Tennessee.
 In 1872, twelve years after the in- corporation of Colonel Gilmer's road out of Montgomery, the road was com pleted to Decatur, where a connection was had with the Louisville and Nash vile.
 The Louisville and Nashville had road from Louisville to Nashville, and MT. Sloss and others had a road from Nashville to Decatur. so the Louisville and Nashville needed this gap from Montgomery to Decatur. President Milton IT. Smith and other directors of the Louisville and Nashville. entered into a contract with Sam Tate and his associates, who were to comH'e the South and North Alabama Railroad. the Louisville and Nashville to receive the