The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-15
NEW ROUTE FOR
 COAL SHIPMENTS Southern Road Gets Contracts
 for Business
GOES VIA. BIRMINGHAM
Output of the Pennsylvania Company Will Be c'..,-.scd to New Orleans Over Southern Railway Via
  Greenville and Columbus.

Columbus, Miss, July H.-(Special.)- Hally Hatcher assistant superintendent of the Southern railway in Mississippi, has made arrangements with the Penn sylvania Coal company with headquaf- ters in Pittsburg, to handle all their coal shipped to New Orleans which for merly has been routed via Birmingham and south from that city, over the Southern railway lines to Columbus. from Columbus to Greenville over the Southern railway in Mississippi and from Green vile Miss to New Orleans via line of barges. MT Hatcher lives in Colum- bus and has had charge of traffic on the Southern in this state about six months. He was sent here from Mobile as soon as the line went under control of the Mo- bile and Ohio and has been working on this project for many weeks.
 The traffic of this immense amount of coal will mean that the Southern will have to run many additional through freights from Birmingham to Greenvllle each day. as the mines In Pennsylvania have ar enormous output, which Is shipp- ed to New Orleans. The employees of the Southern out of Birmingham. and of the Southern in Mississippi welcome this traffic because 1t will be the means of keeping them always employed and none of them will have to be laid off on ac- count of slumps in business. new coal
  der the direction of MT. Hatcher
 This is one of the biggest deals which has ever been made in the south and will mean a profit of thousands of dollars each month to the railroad.
 News comes from Aberdeen, Miss, that the new proposed Columbus, Memphis and Pensacola Railroad company, which was widely heralded as "an lndeDendent line of railway Is to be built under the guidance of the Frisco and Illinois Cen tra. The question of either or both of these lines extending their tracks frofl Aberdeen to this city has been se- riously considered d number of times but each time 1t has gone up in smoke and stopped with map on paper. This time, however, there is no doubt at all but that the line will he built II. F. Reynolds of Aberdeen is in charge of the new company and the men have al- r,-ay begun grading. All rights Of way were purchased sometime ago and the line is a surety.
 A fact that lends color to the> story that the line will be under the lead ershp of the Frisco and Illinois Central is that the new line will use the Frisco g bridge across the. Tombigbee at Aberdeen an. save the expense of a new structure Oae gentleman who is in Aberdeen quite a good deal, and keeps in touch with the situation, says that he would not be surprised at all if the Frisco did nos run trains over the new line as soon as 1t is completed. These trains will just be continuation of the service now in operation from Amory Miss, where connections with the main line is made to Aberdeen, until it reaches tnis city This will give Columbus three lines of railway and a competitive ex- press company, something which the res idents of Columbus have been clamor- in for long tlme
 Those who have the deal in charge will say nothing, except that the line Is strict Iy an independent one. In any event everyone says t' line will rebound to the best interests of the town and all are lending helping hand to the move ment