The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-01-29
ROADS GET MANY THOUSANDS
FOR CARRYING THE MAILS IN
GEORGIA FOR UNCLE SAM.
Government Pays Nearly Two Million
Dollars a Year for Mail Trans
portation in This State.


Dollars Year for Mail Trans
portation in This State.
The official register of the post
office department at Washington
shows that the railroads of Georgia
Ireceived from the government nearly
two million dollars on mail contracts
confined solely to Georgia during the
fiscal year ending June so, 1907.
The register shows that there are
in Georgia III railway mail routes,
each covered by separate contract
These are held by fifty-three rail-
roads, the Central of Georgia lead
ing the list with eighteen contracts
covering as many routes to it's credit
This company also received more
! money from the government on it's
I mail contracts than any other sys-
TEN, namely, $369,271.93.
1T should not be inferred, however,
that the Central receives more
pork" from the United States treas
ury than any other system operating
in Georgia. Such is not the caes. The
Southern Railway is, perhaps, the
greatest beneficiary, though in Geor
gia its mail contracts do not quite
equal those held by the Central. The
Southern, however, receives large
sums for mail carried in other states,
and it operates extensively in eleven
states The Atlantic Coast Line and
the Seaboard Air Line also enjoy big
mail contracts not confined to the
Georgia business alone.
The big Four"
Mileage considered, the Western
Railway of Alabama-the Atlanta
and West POint-receives more from
the government than any other rail
road in Georgia, which is probably
due to special subsidies for carrying
the New Orleans and southwestern
mail in record time. The company,
with fewer than 100 miles of main
line in Georgia, receives for this bus
mess alone $236,3O3.90, and ranks
as one of the Big Four, the others
being:
Central of Georgia $369,271 SO
Southern Railway. 49,. 36O,909 sc
Atlantic Coast Line. .. 300,753 II
Atlanta and West Point 236,303 80
Below is given list of all the rail
road mail contractors and the
amount received by each for carrying
the mails in Georgia:
Albany and Northern
Zone rOute) ......$ 1893 90
Atlanta and Birmingham
Air Line 1.-TWO routes) 1906 90
Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic Give
routes) ........ 22,O6S AZ
Atlanta and Birmingham
(six routes ..... 1901 OS
Atlantic Coast Line
(nine routes) ....... 30O,753 II
Central of Georgia
eighteen routes) 49,. 369,271 SO
Atlantic and Gulf Zone
route) ......... 1851 OF
| Augusta and Florida
Zone route) ..... 1913 OF
Augusta Southern zone
Bostwick railroad Zone
route) ........ 25 SO
! Chattanooga Southern
tone route) ....... S,11O SO
Collins and Reidsville
cone route) ....... GAS OS
! Darien and Western
1.-TWO routes ..... 1907 70
! Douglas, Augusta and
Gulf (two routes -. 1872 IS
Dublin and Southwest
ern zone route1 -. 2,o79 90
Fitzgerald, Ocmulgee
and Red Bluff tone
rOute) ........... I23 81
Flint River and Gulf
tone route) ..... 341 "A
Flint River and North
eastern zone route) 2,140 81
Gainesville NJ d and
(three routes) .... 6,952 is
Georgia, Florida and
Alabama Zone route) 16,112 Sc
route .......... 1893 10
! Georgia Railroad (three
rOuteS) ........... 92,S9U A
mont 1.-TWO routes 2.797 O3
Georgia Southern and
Florida 1.-TWO routes) 132,9S3 SO
HartweU Railway tone
route) ........ 96G II
| Hawkinsville and Flori-
da Southern Zone
route) ....... 1895 60
Lexington Terminal Rail
way tone rOute) 53l "A
Louisville and Nashville
lone TOute) ......... 1864 II
Louisville and Wadley
Zone rOute) ...... 9l2 90
Macon, Dublin and Sa-
vannah tone rOute) 11,21, SO
Macon and Birmingham
zone route) 80. 1O,O21 IS