The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-24
SELMA WANTS ROAD
MAX SEND COMMITTEE TO BACK
ERs OF RAILROAD.
II u said That New Rail line VIII
Be Built from Mineral Fields
81 Alabama to the War
rier River.

selma April AL Especial. )--For
some days past there has been agitated
here a proposition to send committee
OF representative business men. COM
posed OF Messrs. Il. C. Melvin and j., b,
Ellis. TO Philadelphia 20 push the
claims Of Selma. with some business
men there who are financing q pro-
posed railroad. which II Is said win be
built from the mineral fields OF North
Alabama 20 point on the Warrior
River.
II Is said that this railroad venture
will be financed by Morse Brothers of
Philadelphia. who are bankers and who
will take the bonds Of the proposed
road. which II Is understood win be
built from the mineral regions Of North
Alabama down the survey OF the Ca
haba Valley to within short distance
OF Selma. when II win turn off and go
to i point on the Warrior River and
from which point barge line will be
established to Mobile. or some other
deep water city.
The Guesfion Of sending commit
tee to Philadelphia and laying the add
vantages Of this city before those who
are to finance the building OF the pro-
posed road. has been agitated for sew
eral days. II is rightly asserted and
claimed that selma offers greater and
more advantages for terminal Of such
point on the Warrior. That the Ala
bama River at this point Ia navigable
the year round and that the road would
have to-be only few miles longer than
II was first proposed to build IT.
II ia thought that special meeting
of the Commercial and Industrial AS
ISOLATION will be held In the next few
days. when this matter win be thor
oughiy gone over,
To. s~na <fn AZ hfa altar thta a rr.-
ing one OF the largest Wholesale gro
GERS here stated he thought that mis-
take would be made In sending COM
mittee to philadelphia to lay the az
vantages of Selma as a terminal before
the bankers who were reported as
laundering the proposed road. He
was Of the opinion that committee
going TO Philadelphia before these
bankers could do Selma no good. That
the proper thing TO do would be TO
send q committee to the company or
the people who were going to build
the road, and who were borrowing the
money to do II witt. from the Phiiadei-
pfiia bankers.
This selmian believes the road will
be built and he % Arm IN his belief that
Ii will be built by the Birmingham and
Gulf Railroad and Navigation Compa-
py. That with little announcement
they could be induced to turn and build
II to Selma and operate a barge line
from here TO Mobile, A bonus should
be offered the company by Selma. he.
thinks. and which would bring the new
road here. The bonus to be in the
shape OF terminal and wharf conces-
sions, and which. he thinks, would give
Selma the new road and at the same
time give Selma a good wharf. such
one as perhaps would never be enjoyed
here IL LETT to the city or citizens to
build.
II a special meeting OF the CONNER
cfal and Industrial Association Is held
to consider the question OF sending
committee to Philadelphia. II is very
likely this wholesale merchant will en-
large upon his ideas to that body. He
Is a Arm believer that better wharf ia
cilities would prove Of great advantage
70 the business interests and that IL
wharf concessions would be given those
who will build the new road that the
plans will be changed and It would be
built to Selma.