The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-03
FIRST TRAIN ON
 NEW RAILROAD New Orleans Great Northern Has At Last Reached Jackson LUMBER TRAIN ARRIVES One Train of One Hundred Freight Cars Loaded With Lumber and
 Drawn By Three Engines
 Comes Over New Road.
LUMBER TRAIN ARRIVES

Jackson Miss, July 2.-(Special. )-Yes- terday was a great day for the city of Jackson in business way, and Is believed to have been the beginning of a new era of prosperity
 The first train from over the New Or
 leans Cheat Northern pulled into the
 union depot at 2:3O D. m., and amid the
 clang of bells and the shrieks of scores
 of switch engines and other whistles,
 came to a stop in the presence of about
 2o00 citizens of Jackson-men, women and
 children, who had gathered there to meet
 and to greet 1t.
 The train, consisting of a baggage car
 and two coaches, was pulled by engine
 Mo- 106-Engineer Heintz and Conductor Peschman. There were some 40 or 50 pas
 sengers on board, mostly from the smaller
 towns near Jackson, who came In on bus
 mess, but there were several officials of
 the road on board, including N. G. Pear
 sall general superintendent; Hugh Had
 drow, chief engineer; G. B. Auburtin,
 general passenger agent; O. K. Mullins,
 auditor, J. K. Beeden, assistant treas
 urer.
 Other railroad men on the train as
 guests of the officials of the Great North
 eru were T. E. Hill superintendent of
 the Illinois Central, and Superintendent
 Harvey of the Queen and Crescent
 This first Great Northern train left
 New Orleans at 63O a. m.. and arrived
 here at 2;30, thus covering the 1855 miles
 between the two cities in eight hours,
 an average of 23 miles an hour, which is considered very good in view of the fact that the roadbed and the track is new and has been pelted by terrific rains dur
 ing the past two months.
 Until further notice and until the track Is considered perfectly safe no fast time
 will be attempted, and only one train will be operated in each direction. One of these will leave Jackson at 1o:30 in | the forenoon and the other will arrive | from New Orleans at 1:30.
 | During the afternoon another train came | in over the Great Northern-the first | freight train-and 1t was worth looking at 1 One hundred cars all loaded to the guards | with yellow pine lumber, making the | longest and the heaviest train of cars | ever seen in Jackson, and extending from | the yards in the southern end of town
 to the depot. It required three big en- | zines to move this great load of lumber | two pulling in front and one pushing from | behind. Such load put the bridges and | trestles to the severest test. and the off ! cials of the road do not doubt their 1 strength and their ability to hold up all l other loads they may have to haul. l These 100 cars of lumber came from l the one town of Bogalusa, just across l the line in the state of Louisiana. This i town, which was built three or four years l ago by the owners of the Great North ern, Is the biggest lumber manufacturing | concern in the world, 1t Is said, cutting | hundreds of thousands of feet per day | It is situated in the midst of the great est long leaf yellow pine forest on earth 1 and the company owns many thousand | of acres in both Louisiana and Missis sIppi.
 The city of Jackson is going to malk' one more effort to secure cheaper fir insurance, and with that end in view [