The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-09
SEVERAL NEW ROADS
RAILWAY CoNsTRUCTION PRO-
 DRESSING SLIGHTLY IN SOUTH.
Unfavorable Attitude of Legislatures Tn Many states to Comnion Cnr- riers Is Causing Retrenehment
 Along Some Lines.

RaItimore. March --lspeciaI. 3-- Though retrenchnent is being disous- sed in some parts Of the country, sew eral railroad projects Tn the South of more than ordinary Importance are noted in this week'ss issue of The Manufacturers, Record One or the most notable of these looks. to the expenditure of about $5,000.000 upon a union depot and terminals at Mem phis, Tenn, by a company in which are represented the Iron Mountain, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the St. Louis & San Francisco, the St. Louis Southwestern the Yazoo & Mis- sisippi valley, the Illinois Central the Louisville & Nashville, the Southern and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroads. The new depot which will be reached by elevated tracks will cost about $3.000,000. and other terminals about $2,000,000.
 Another million dollars will be spent for buildings and equipment of ma chinery for the new shops of the Gen. tral of Georgia Railroad at Macon, ca. The directors of the company have decided to enlarge the present plant increasing the acreage covered by buildings, roundhouse and trackage. for which plans have already been pre- pared.
 Contract has been awarded for the dredging to be done in preparation for the construction of the first of the big coal piers which the Tidewater Railway is to build at it's termipals near Norfolk, and also the contract for the substructural work. The pier, which will be 1000 feet long, so feet wide and 65 feet high will cost between $500, ,000 and $2,000.000. Oth- CT railroad improvements and exten- sions reported include the building by the Kansas City Southern Railroad of a line from Crowley, La, to connect with the New Orleans, Crowley & Western Railroad; of a secopd track on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley line for ninety miles between Baton Rouge and New Orleans; 125 mile extension of the DeQueen & Eastern Railway from DeQueen to Hot Springs, Ark. !; the building of a low grade line for the Illinois Central between Birming- ham and Jasper, Ala, and six mile extension of the State Railroad con- meeting Rusk and Galveston, Tex. and the building at Martinsburg w. Va, of yards to be used jointly by the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio and the Western Maryland railroads.
 This month the contract will be let for the car repair shops at Odenton, Md, of the Washington, Baltimore& Annapolis Electric Railroad Go. This is one of the interurban electric lines to which the South Is giving attention. Another project of the kind for which rights of way and franchises are now being secured is to connect the more important towns in Northwestern Ark ansas. Survey has begun for a line connecting Dallas and cireenville Tex, and a company is organizing to con struct a line to serve onley, onancock, Tasley, Accomac, Locustville and Wa chaprague on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Street railway companies at Atlanta, Ga, Louisville, Ky, Hunts vile, Ala, Lexington. Ky, and Jack son, Miss, are also contemplating i'm provements of one kind and another.