The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-24
Paducah Northern Railroad Co.
Files Incorporating Articles
Surrey is Now Being Made.
Original Capital Stock of
$4,000 Will Soon be In.
creased to 100000 it is
Announced.

Articles of incorporation of the Pa
ducah Northern Railroad company
were filed today with the capital
stock at IS ,O'00, but which will be in
creased in short time to SO 600, N00.
The object of the company Is to in
terest other railroads to come to Pa
ducah, and make this city a railroad
terminal. The civil engineers who
are in the field working now, are in
the employ of this company, and are
not engineers of the Big Four rail-
road as has been stated. Mr.. Mark
Wymond, an experienced engineer of
Chicago. is chief of the party and the
line will extend out of the northern
part of the city. and a bridge will
be built over the Ohio river at some
favorable point between Paducah and
Metropolis
The road will be built on the Ken
lucky side and the bridge will be
built to the Illinois shore. This will
draw all northern roads, to make Pa
ducah center, when the money mar
ket has regained former confidence
all roads will begin constructing south
and with the Ohio river bridged. Pa
ducah will be their center. The in
|ccrporators are: George c. Wallace,
II. c. Overbey, l.. NJ. Rieke, James
&C.. Utterback. Joseph l.. Friedman.
Earl Palmer. Richard Rudy, l.. p.
Hummel, Muscoe Burnett. o. l.. Greg
DRY. w. f. Bradshaw. Jr., John w.
Keller, Max B. Nahm. of Bowling
Green, Samuel B. Hughes. Probably
ten other directors will be added In
several days. Officers of the COM
pany will be elected tomorrow at a.
meeting of the directors. The COM
pany has been organized in the past
30 days, and in this short tine all the
prominent business men of the city
have been interested in the company,
and it has sound financial backing.
These business men realize the pos
sibilities of Paducah and the need of
more railroads in order to develop the
wonderful resources of Paducah and
West Kentucky. The company is
composed of men who have the bet
terment of Paducah at heart.
The Lakes-to-the-Gulf Improvement
will mean that Paducah must be the
city fartherest north that will receive
all the trade when the mighty Missis-
sippi river has "a feet the year round,
as 1t is the only n-the-year-around
harbor. At present all the Wheat
from the great western fields is ship
ped to Chicago, and there placed
aboard lake vessels and reshipped,
but floating ice ceases this trade early
in November, and with the deepening
of the Mississippi river, Paducah will
become the center of this trade and
the wheat stored in large elevators
here.
The construction of the Panama
canal has forced all northern rail-
roads to cast their eyes southwark,
and with Paducah's river advantages
and inducements they will come here
The agreement entered into between
the northern and southern railroads
not to enter this territory has expired
and in the next five years 1t Is pre-
dicted Paducah will have six new
railroads.
Rumors have been current that en-
gineers of the Big Four railroad,
which is owned by the New York Cen
trail railroad, were surveying a road
to this city, but they are engineers of
the Paducah promoters. The Big
Four railroads nearest point to Pa
ducah is Parker. ILL.,, and for several
years that road has surveyed lines to
Metropolis. The engineers working
on this side OF the river have in their
possession a map of survey made in
9O6 out of Paducah to Metropolis
landing.