The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-26
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SOUTHERN TOWN BEING CONNECT
 ED nY ROADS.
Great Amount of C1nstruction BeIng Done and Planned For. Ia Joining Cities With Electric Car
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Baltimore, Jan. 25--(Special. )--In it's issue this week, The Manufacturers Record says:
 prevailing activity in construction new electric railway traekage fin the South. Ever since 1t was demonstrat- ed that electric interurbau railways operated with satisfaction to the pun lie and with profit to the companies. tho South has been active in promoting them. and the success of the lines be- tween Augusta. Ga, and Aiken, s. C., and between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas. constitutes tangible evidence that such enterprises will meet with success in this section. when they are judiciously and properly built and ef- flciently managed.
 There ire now about fifty cleo trical interurban railway plants in va- and some of them are to be completed within the next few months. These latter include such lines as the Wash ington, Annapolis and Baltimore Flee tric Railway. forty miles long, and now about half built; the Charleston and Summerville Electric Railway, twenty: two miles long. in South Carolina: the Fairmont and Clarksburg Traction Company's line. twenty five miles lons. in West Virginia; the Richmond and Chesapeake Bay Electric Railway. iit- tss HsSmd es ons besGes FS@ Ksh%ons o other roads at various points.
 "Construction has begun in Texas up- on what will be the longest interurpan State. This is the. line of the Texas Traction Company from Dallas to Sher- man. Texas. sixty miles. but the sarie parties are soon tC begin work on the line of the Central Texas Troetion Com pany. from Dallas to Waxanatchie. En. his and Corsicana. sixty-five miles. all of which, when completed. will make practically I25 miles of electric tnterur- ho with T1a1lRG c fha ting point of the two divisions. somewhat similar plant. but of even greater extent, Is on hand in Georgia. This is the proposition to build the At lanta, Griffin and Macon Electric Rail way, eigthy-five miles long. and the Macon. Americus and Albany Electric Railway. ninety miles long making total of ITS miles of practically contin- uous electric railway. with Macon as the function point of the divisions. To build these lines tho Interurban Con- struction Company and the Macon ana Albany Securities Company have been organized Survey has been comple ted between Macon and Albany. It appears probable that actual construction will begin in the sorinG. Another line which will doubtless be built during the coming summer is that between Hous- ton and Galveston. Texas. which Is to ba constructed by the Stone and Web ster Engineering Corporation of Boston. Mass This line will be firty-fve miles
 "One of the most ambitions schemes in the way Of electric railroads that has vet been heard If is that of the South Carolina Public Service Corpor- ation, just chartered in that State to build about 525 miles of electric rail ways connecting many important points in South Carolina and also reaching to Augusta. Ga, Some engi- neering on this is reported done. but beyond the preliminary stage. There are also number of other tI1Si proposed ed mentioned the Tidewater Development Company, of Birmingham Ala; which proposes to connect Ga6sCen, Blrming- ham. Tuscaloosa and other points; the Huntsville and Birmingham Electric Railway also in Alabama; the New Orleans and Baton Rouge Electric Rail way. in Louisiana; the Waco. Temple and Marlin Electric Railway and the Gainesville, Whitesboro and sherman Interurban. in Texas: the Kansas City and Northern Traction Company's belt line, twenty miles long, and the Kan sas City, St. Joseph and Excelsior Springs Electric Railway about sixty miles long, both in Missouri; the &c.,