The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-06-04
VERY IMPORTANT
RAILROAD PROJECT
Southern Mississippi viii Reap
the Benefit
TWO DEEP WATER OUTLETS
Mobile, jackson and Kansas City Road
Is Behind the Enterprise and it
Means the Opening Up of
Rich Territory.
TWO DEEP WATER OUTLETS

Jackson, Miss, Jun 3.-(SpeciaD-
ether new railroad, and an important one,
at that is among the probabilities of the
Fear future for the rich and undeveloped
Pine region of Mississippi and Louisiana.
j. C. Rich, general, counsel for the Mo-
bile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad.
was in Jackson toda,-, and filed with the
attorney general an application for per-
mission to organize the New Orleans Mo-
bile and Chicago Railroad company, the
applicants being w. F. Owen. G. W.
Crazy, H. M. Hood, w. H. Mcintosh AMI
j. c. Rich, all of the city of Mobile.
The northern terminus of the line is
fixed as at or near the town of Ovette,
Jones county, Miss, the southern terml-
nus at or near the city of New Orleans.
it will extend in a southerly or south
western-drecton from Ovette through the
counties of Jones. Perry. Pearl River and
Hancock, crossing the line between Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana a Nicholson, IN
the last named county, after having trav-
ersed So miles of Mississippi territory, and
through as fine a pine region as there is
left on earth.
This means that the Mobile, Jackson
and Kansas City Railroad company and
it's associates on the northern end are
behind the enterprise and that the road
will be built. The application for per-
mission to organize states that it is hoped
to have the road completed in two years
from date. The Importance of the line s
readily seen when it is remembered that
it gives the Mobile. Jackson and Kansas
City two outlets to deep water, one at
Mobile and the other at New Orleans.
The completion of the Panama canal will
open up the way for a vast business
through Southern ports, and those rail-
Dads which take time by the foreloclx
and prepare to handle this business will
get the cream. This is a fact that seems
to be wel-known to all The railroad lead
ing south, and they are getting in shape
to handle it-building feeders and making
traffic connections with roads to the great
wheat fields of the West. as well as
tc the business and manufacturing GEN.
tiers of the country.
Sergeant McLendon of the Rankin
county convict farm, who was in town to-
cay to attend the meeting of tlfe board Of
prison trustees. Is bewailing the loss of a
very large portion of his cane crop, and
states that the convicts on the other state
farms will not get much in the way Of
home-raised molasses next winter. He
had more than 30 acres of as fine cane
as was ever seen in the state, and would
lave made many thousand gallons If
syrup-enough to do all the convicts. but
the terrific rains have deluged his crop
and "a acres have been destroyed by
water standing over it. This leaves only
six or eight acres, and will hardly make
enough for seed and to supply the white
convict farm with molasses.
At the meeting of tie state board Of
Iublic contracts yesterday the Pratt Con-
Solidated Coal Company of Alabama Sc
cured the contract to furnish the state
capitol with about $500 tons of coal, the
run of the mines, at $3.50 per ton.