The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-03


The company proposes to swing a plan
taton covering MANY thousand acres.
There are other plans afoot on the same
general lines. but with variations of de-
tails, and the experience of pecan eul-
ture in this section in the past affords
satisfactory evidence that the enterprises
are built on good foundations
A., e.aI p.,da.s
When the Perry county board of super
visors meet here on Monday for their
regular February session, they will take
under consideration the constructing of
one or two more steel bridges, and this
recalls the fact that Perry county is now
the best bridge c--..e--- = - e of
Mississippi. II upper
visors during have
| built twelve ste found
| five already ii . the
| county now has seventeen of those struc-
! lures
The total expenditure involved has been
/ in the neighborhood of $4,000. and 1t Is
considered that the improvements have
4 been made in very economical way.
/ The county has made 1t a practice to
/ contract with the steel men for the steel
superstruoture alone.
The approaches and work of that kind
have all been done by the county IT.
self at a great saving Of cost The steel
bridges are scattered in all parts of the
county Seven of them cross Leaf river
two being at Hattiesburg; two are across
boule rirer ioul aeno d nas'e aornss pogno
! homo
! The Perry county hoard of supervisors
have been fayorably impressed with tn,
| contract system of working the public
| roads bnt have never found themselves
I
atm here successfully. They are now
WORRYING a system which appears TO af
FORD fairly satisfactory results. They have
a county road superintendent on an an
moi salary He sunerintends the work
ing Of the road hands, LAYING out tn,
worl, IN he done and supervising the do
irg ~ II
In cases WHARF there are not enough
hands IN do Justice TO a certain stretcl
~ road he is authorized TO hire hands
and n has generally been found that thu
Gosh Maid in nv those who preferred
Ia contribute cash rather than their man
nal Labor has suniced 10 nav the hired
hands Though this plan works we'll, I
i u,derstood that after tho FIRST o
NEXT wear. when Forrest county will hav,
been formed out of what is now Perry
county. with Hattiesburg as the seat O.
tho now Forrest county, the contrac
system will Mt once be put into opera
tion al least in this new county, will
the assurance that there will be plent,
of n,orev to in,nroye all of the roads o
the county alike at the same time
new RAT Sars'
The construction of 600 fiat ears on ont
order. which is now in progress at thu
shops of the Mississippi Central railroad
in this city makes this the most active
Industrial institution in the state at this
time The company has just finished Isl
cars for its own use, and has been 81
pleased with the economy achieved anf
with the quality of the cars produced
that it has engaged itself for unlimited
further work of the same kind The yards
i'm the vicinity of the shops are stacked
up with steel in the shape of wheels ant
trucks sent direct from the rolling mill!
of Alabama The trucks are made or
special orders from this company as they
involve some distinctive features that are
shown to make the Mississippi Contra
cars SUPERIOR to any others on the mar.
ket
The cars now under construction will
| all pe used on the Mississippi Central
which, in view of the rapid extension OF
its lines and the growth of its business
will need all the cars that the shops can
turn out for many months to come, while
AT tho same time ordering additional roll.
| ing stock from other companies.
General Manager Smith, who has been
| with this company only a few months