The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-07-16
MANUFACTURERS RECORD
MAKES CERTAIN OF THE
PLANS.
HAS LINE FROM MOBILE
NORTH TO MIDDLETON.
TENN.

Tn an editorial on the race of rail-
roads to reach a gulf terminus, this
weeks Manufacturers Record, speaks
of the Hill lines move in the Herrin
Southern. It quotes ]. ]. Hill as say
ing there are a sufficient number of
roads through the south now, and
accepts this as indicating his purpose
to make an arrangement with the
Louisville & Nashville system for con-
nections at Paducah.
President Smith, of the L. & NJ,
has been known to express himself
as opposed to the entrance of other
roads into Paducah. But already pos
.sessing lines that reach from Mobile
to Middleton, Tenn, $50 south of
Paducah, and short distance direct
ly south of Jackson, the Burlington,
when 1t reaches here, will place the
L. & N. in a position where II will
hive to accept the alternative of
making an arrangement with the
Burlington or suffer another Compel
ing line with shipping points all
through the middle west and the
great lakes to enter the field II is
not believed by the Manufacturers
Record that the L. G. N. will do any
thing to encourage further COMPETE.
ton.
By using the L. & n. system south
from Paducah. the construction Of a
short line north from Middleton to
Jackson will complete the Hill sys-
TEN from Chicago to Mobile.
Hill Going South.
The Manufacturers Record says:
Concerning the proposed ccnstruc-
ton of line by the James J. Hill in
terests from Herrin to Metropolis,
Ill, on the Ohio river, opposite Padu-
cab, KY, to which reference was
made in the Manufacturers Record
last week. a report from New York
says that the object of this new line,
which is called the Herrin Southern,
is to connect with the Louisville G
Nashville railroad, and a bridge will
be built over the Ohio river. This
will enable the Hill roads such as the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, the
Great Northern and others, to estab-
fish through traffic arrangements with
points In the south not only on the
Louisville & Nashville, 1t is said. but
also on the Southern railway. II is
intimated that the Louisville & Nash
vile may unite with the Burlington
in paying for the construction of the
bridge. which cost 100000. The
so miles of road to be built In ILL
nois are estimated to cost 50 900 900.
1t is also expected that about 100
carloads per day will be Immediately
added to the Burlington's traffic by
this new route, and II would appear
that Hill is closely following up Har-
riman in getting entrance to southern
traffic territory.
While the connection with the
Louisville & Nashville (if the fore
going report be correct, which seems
reasonably will doubtless result In
immediate gain to both systems in
terested, 1t does not necessarily mean
that the Burlington would not ac-
quire a direct route south to the gulf
from Paducah, which might be OBJ
tanned, as previously reported, by
building from that city to a connec-
ton with the Mobile, Jackson G. Kan
sas City railroad at Middleton, Tenn.
Yet 1t Is said that people interested
In the Burlington consider an ar
rangement with the Louisville &
Nashville to be much more advantage
GUS than direct ownership of one line
IN the south, because the Hill roads
are thus enabled to handle traffic to
and from all the many important
points reached by the Louisville &
Nashville railroad and by the South
ern railway
Concerning the extension from Her
rim, Mr.. Hill himself is reported as
saying with reference to a gulf ex-
tension: "There are too many lines
down that way now to make II worth
while to build another"
southern Connections.
In another article the Record gays:
"James ]. Hill. as well as Edward
II. Hartman, is now turning his at
ltention toward getting traffic to and
from the eastern section of the south.
The Incorporation of the Herrin
Southern Railway in Illinois to build
line of about so miles from Herriu
to Metropolis, on the Ohio river op-
posite Padueah. KY, has given rise to
Expectations that the Burlington sys-
tenn, some Of whose officials are in
Icorporators OF this new road, will ex-
tend into Kentucky and make con-
nectlons with lines to various import
ant points in the southern states. The
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