The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-10
IMPROVEMENTS IN
REGIONS
Railroads Still Spending Money
in Dixie Land TO Reach Their
Increasing Business.
ELECTRIC LINES IN VIRGINIA
Review Of the Contemplated
Works Of Various Lines Of
Southern Roads.
ELECTRIC LINES IN VIRGINIA
Especial to The Times. Dispatch.


BALTIMORE, MD. March e.-Though
retrenchment is being discussed in
some parts OF the country, several rail
road projects in the South OF more than
ordinary Importance are noted in this
weeks issue of the Manufacturers Re
cord. One OF the most notable OF
these looks to the expenditure of about
100000 upon union depot and ter
minals at Memphis, Tenn, by a COM
pany in which are represented the Iron
Mountain. the Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific, the st. Louis and San
Francisco. the st. Louis Southwestern,
the Yazoo and Mississippi VALLEY, tho
Illinois Central, the Louisville and
Nashville, the Southern and tho Nash
Vile, Chattanooga and St Louis rail-
roads. The new depot. which will be
reached by elevated tracks, will cost
about $4,000. 900 and other terminals
about $2.001,O00.
Another million dollars will be spent
for buildings and equipment Of ma
chinery for the new shops of the Gem
trail of Georgia Railroad at Macon. Ga.
The directors of the company have de-
cided to enlarge the present plant, In
creasing the acreage covered by build
ings, roundhouso and trackage, for
which plans have already been pre-
pared.
Tidewater's Great Pier.
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 Rail
way is to build at its terminals near
| Norfolk, and also the contract for the
4 substructural work. The pier, which
VIII be 1000 feet long 60 feet wide
and Is feet high, will cost between
S1.500.000 and 100000.
Other railroad improvements and en-
tensions reported include the building
by the Kansas City Southern Railroad
| or a line from Crowley. La. to connec
with the New Orleans, Crowley ant
| Western Railroad. of a second tract
on the Yazoo and Mississippi VALLEY
! limo for ninety miles. between Batoi
4 Rouge and New Orleans; 12b-mii'
4 extension of the DeQueen and Eastern
Railway. from DuQueen to Hot Sprlngs
4 Ark: the building of a low grade ltn'
for the Illinois Central between Biz
l mingham and Jasper, Ala; a siS-m
| extension of the State Railroad con
Meeting Rusk and Gallatin. Ten, an
the building at Martinsburg, w, va
of Yards to be used Jointly by "
Pennsylvania, tho Baltimore and Obi
and tho Western Maryland Railroads.
Electric Lines on Eastern Shore
This month the contract VIII De le
for the car repair shops at Odentor
4 Md, of the Washington. Baltimore an
Il Annapolis Electric Railroad Compan!
II This is one of the interurban electri
; lines to which the South is giving at
tention. Another project of the kin
!, for which rights of way and fran
chises are now being secured is to con
meet the more important towns J
y Northwestern Arkansas. Survey ha
begun for line connecting Dallas an
Greenville, Tex. and company rs OF
ganiZing to construct a nne 20 seIS
9 Onley. Onancock Taslcy. Aceoina
I I.ocustvilIe and WachapraEue on IN
Eastern shore Of Virginia. Street raj
Q way companies at Atlanta, Ga Louis
: vilie Nv. Huntsville, Ala, Lexington
ky., and jackson, Miss. arc also cor
g templating improvements of one kin
ana another