The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-11
WILL BUILD TO PENSACOLA Central Of Georgia and
 Illinois Central
BoTH LOOK TO PORT AS GOAL
l. (. Has Tangible Evidence in Grenada Pensacola Short Line
Ehis would Give Harahan's Line . straight shot to the FIorida Port From Chicago and Lake
 Central Talk.

For a great many years the Louis vile and Nashville have had mo- nopoly on the valuable territory at Pensacola, but if indications amount to anything President Smiths big trunk line will have opposition in re- gard to the iPensacola territory. Ru- nor after rnmor has been started i,,l In itg of new roads into Pensacola, the central of Georgia and the Illinois Central being the roads talked of.
 Nothing new in regard to the plans af the Central of Georgia has been talked recently, though it is not de- nleds that they still Intend to get to the old Mobile and Girard division of the Central frems Columbus, Ga. to Troy, was extended by degrees until ehe line went dntq Florida. 1T. In tslR- 1dR hraf's going into Pensacola an official lof that line said that while nothing new had been advanced In. that direc- was any question of the fact that the Mobile and Girard would eventually be extended from. Floralla to Pensa-
 ii has been a wen known fact for some years that the Illinois Central Ewas making every effort possible to get line Into Pensacola and secure one of the most valuable ports in this country. The Louisville and Nashville Tnow has two routes into Pensacola, one from Flomaton the main line
 
 ni1e Pensacola and Atlantic division of the L. and N. into Pensacola. The Uth- Ter roHte is from gGeorgiapa. over the Alebama and Florida division to Vpp former Yellow River Railroad to tCresfvtew, a station on the line of the P and A. division and into Pensacola
 Es An Assured Fact.
 That the Central of Georgia and the Illinois Central will sooner or later - wr- "a. l.. snred fact, and with the Louisville and Nashville Central of Georgia and H. afnois Central having either their own Saiis or traffic arrangements into that nlty Pensacola is destined to be not only one of the most important port. but one of the greatest commercial cenfers in the south.
 Surveys of a line to run from Pen nacola to Grenada, Miss, have already been made and 1t is said that line will be built inside of the next few months.
 ana Gn ms ns it f evsh eF out iinSa that otitside capital Is to build the line from Grenada to Pensacolasit Is ad- mittedf that traffic arrangements win win get from Grenada up through Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois and in- to Chicago. This would give MT. liar cago and Lake Michigan to Pensacola. the Gulf of Mexico and the world at large, and with the completion of the |. EHUAL1h OAHhi tue uutQtQa NHfQG OIs AfiAd 10 the Illinois Central cannot be esti- mated.
 There is hardly any question of the fact that the. Illinois Central people will finance the road from Pensacola b Grenada. and If it is not actually pne of their properties at the start it will not be very long before they will own it in it's entirety.
 Speaking of that line a Memphis paper has the following:
 New Life fm Project.
 New life has been infused into the project of building the Grenade-Pen saeOla Shortlipe, following the visit to Memphis Tuesday and Wednesday of Chester H. Pond, prominent citizen of Moreh cad. Miss. Those on the in- side claim the money is In sight for the building of the railway. and if agents of capitalists who will come to Memphis to look over the propost- 1 tion find everything as favorable as ! 1t has appeared up to the present, the deal will go through. It is prophesied that actual work will begin on the line within six months.
 | According to one of those interest ed in the deal, the plan Is to build the line at present from Pensacola to Gre gments with the Illinois Central at that point. Negotiations have progressed So far that 1t is claimed the high l. C. officials, including President Harahan. view the proposed line with favor. and are willing to make suitable arrange sments for connections.
 ''Mr. Pond, 1t Is understood. has complete surveys and maps of the N