The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-06-13
NEW RAILROAD IS
 SURE ID Bt BUILT. Short line In South Mississippi
 Soon Begins Work CHARTER BEING PREPARED Mobile Jackson and Kansas City Off ciaIs Are su2r osed To Be Behind
 the New Road, Which Will
 Give Outlet to the Gulf.
CHARTER BEING PREPARED

Jackson, Miss, June 12-(Special. .)-The promoters of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago railroad seem to be .n earnest about building from Ovet, lit tie station on the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City railroad, to New Orleans, n certificate of organization having been filed with the secretary of state for record, and that means that the charter will be along in few days. This cer- tificate reads:
 "We, the undersigned, being all of the directors of the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad company, hereby cer- tfy:
 That the projectors named in the appli- cation addressed to the governor of the state of Mississippi on June l. 19OS Tor authority to organize corporation to os known as the New Orleans, Mobile and Chicago Railroad company, pursuant to the proclamation by the governor author i7ing said projectors to organize the said railroad corporation, duly met and or eanized the New Orleans, Mobile and Chi cago Railroad company on June g, 1908, and we do further certify:
 That pursuant to a resolution duly adopted by said projectors at said meet ing, the amount of the entire capital stock of the said company was fixed at, and is, seven million five hundred thou sand dollars ($7,5OO,OOO), divided into fifty thousand shares (5O00W of preferred stock Of the par value of one hundred dollars each, and twenty-five thousand shares of the common stock, of the par value of one hundred dollars each. The preferred stock is not subject of redemption.
 The holders of the preferred stock shall be entitled before any dividends shall be set apart or paid on the coE.- mon stock in any fiscal year. to dividends at the rate of per cent per annum, for such year, payable sem-annually but such dividends shall be non-cumulative and such preferred stock shall not be entitled to any other or further dividends for such year. In the event of any liqui- cation or dissolution of the company, the holders of the preferred stock shall first. be paid in full the par value of their shares, and after payment to the holders e the preferred stock of it's par value all the remaining assets and funds of the company shall be divided among and paid to the holders of the common stock.
 The common stock shall be subject .o the prior rights of the preferred stock as above declared.
 the said company the holders of the cap- ital stock shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock, whether com mon or preferred, so held by them.
 This certificate is signed by W. F. Owens, George W. Crary, H. M. Hood, W. H. Mcintosh and J.> c. Rich. They are all supposed to be connected with the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City Railroad company the power behind the proposed new road to New Orleans.
 Ovet is d station on the line of the Mobile Jackson and Kansas City rail- road, near Hattiesburg. The line is to run direct from Ovet to New Orleans covering about S5 miles in the state If Mississippi and penetrating magnifi- cent pine timber region. The object B supposed to be to get another outlet to the sea, so that when the Mobile, Jack son and Kansas City shall have made the traffic arrangements 1t expects to make north of the Ohio river, 1t will be able to handle all the grain and other produce that it can get from the north west.
 Governor Noel is very greatly inter ested in the international congress on tuberculosis which is to assemble in the city of Washington on September F next, and which Is to remain in session till October 12 He urges each and every municipality in his state to send deie- gate to this meeting believing that it will be to the best interests of the country generally. The governor says:
 "Every country in which the congress has been held was vastly benefited by its i-creased knowledge of the dangers of tuberculosis and the advanced methods of relief and prevention This congress came at the invitation of the National Association for the Study of Prevention of Tuberculosis. with the hearty indorse- ment of the federal government, and will be the second meeting of the kind ever held in an English-speaking country.
 .It would be we'll" says Governor Noel, flor municipalities and other organiza- lions which send delegates to give their address to Dr. John F. Sultan, secretary general, Colorado building, Washington.
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