The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-27
ELECTRIC ROADS
ARE BEING BUILT
Activity in Construction Indicates
That This Will Be Record
Breaking Year.
MANY INTERURBAN LINES
AT Least Fifty Plans in Various
Stages of Progress in the
South.

BALTIMORE. MD, January os.-In its
issue this week. the Manufacturers
Record says:
prevailing activity in construction in
dictates that 1907 will be prolific of new
electric railway trackage in the South.
Ever since it was demonstrated that cleo
trio interurban railways could be operated
with satisfaction to the public and with
profit to the companies, the South has
( been active in promoting them, and the
success of the lines between Augusta,
Ca. and Aiken. S. c.. and between Fort
Worth and Dallas, Texas. constitutes tan
gible evidence that such enterprises will
meet with success in this section when
they are judiciousIy and properly built
and efficiently managed
There are now about fifty electric in
terurban railway plans in various stages
of progress in the South, and some of
them are TO be completed within the next
few months.
These latter include such lines as the
Washington. Annapolis and Baltimore
Electric Railway. forty miles long, and
now about half built: the Charleston and
Summervlle Electric Railway. twenty
two miles long, In South Carolina; the
Fairmont and Clarksburg Traction Com
pany's line, twenty five miles long, in
West Virginia; the Richmond and Chesa-
peake Bay Electric Railway. fifteen miles
long, from Richmond to Ashland, Va,
besides extensions of other roads at va
rious points. 81
Long Road in Texas.
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CONSTRUCTION has begun in Texas upon
what willbe the longest interurban' cleo
trio, railway yet started in that State.
This is the line of the Texas Traction
Company, from Dallas to Sherman, Texas,
sixty miles; but the same parties are soon
to begin work on the line of the Central
Texas Traction Company, from Dallas
to WaXahachie, Ennis and Corsicana.
siXty-five miles, all of which. when com
pleted, will make practically one hundred
and twenty-five miles of electric inter-
urban railway, with Dallas as the con
Meeting point of the two divisions \
somewhat similar plan, but OF even
greater extent, is on hand in Georgia.
This is the proposition to build the At
lanta, Griffin ana Macon Electric Rail-
way, elghty-siN miles long, and the
Macon, Americus and Albany Electric
Railway, ninety miles long. making n
total of one hundred and seventy-six miles
of practically continuous electric railway,
With Macon as the junction point of the
i divisions.
TO build these lines the Interurban
Construction Company and tho Macon
and Albany Securities Company have
been organized Survey has been COM
pleted between Macon and Atlanta, and
is now being made between Macon and
Albany. 1t appears probable that ac-
tual construction will begin in the
spring. Another line which will doubt
less be built during the coming suns
mer is that between Houston and Gal
weston, TEX, which is to be constructed
by the Stone & Webster Engineering
| Corporation, of Boston. Mass, This line
will be ffty-five- miles long.
"One OF the most ambitious schemes
in the way of electric railroads that
ithas vet been heard of, is that OF the
South Carolina Public Service Corpora
ton, Just chartered in that State to
build about 525 miles of electric rail-
ways, connecting many important
points in South Carolina and also reach
ing to Augusta Ga. Some engineering
on this is reported done, but as yet
| the plan has not{progressed beyond the
preliminary stage
SO