The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1909-12-20
pAuRoAD PROPOSITIONS.

SheIHI NS
Buld a Road from Lumberton
to Elizabethtown if the Bond
Issue in Bladen is Defeated.
Two railroad propositions now
confront the people of Bladen
county. One is to vote bonds IN
tne sum of $40, 900 to help build
= road from Elizabethtown to st.
Pauls, connecting at the latter
DIace with the Virginia q Carroll
na Southern; and the other is a
road which ex-Sheriff Geo. B.
Mcleod of Lumberton proposes
to build from Elizabethtown to
Lumberton in case the proposed
bonds are not voted.
Flizabethtown, Bethel and
Hollow townships, Bladen, will
vote on the bond issue on Janua-
nv II next, instead of January IL,
as inadvertently stated in Thurs
davis Robesonian. These town
ships voted on a similar PROPOSE
lion last spring and it was defeat
ed by only two or three votes.
AS stated, it is proposed to build
a road from Elizabethtown to
st. Pauls and to operate trains to
Hope Mills. Mr.. j F. L. Arm
field, president of the Y. & c. S.,
in a letter to the people of the
townships named above, guaran-
tees to locate the first depot in
Bladen county about half way
between the Gallberry and the
Cape Fear river and not more
than one and one-half miles south
of the Cumberland county line,
beingnear Bladen-Unionchurch;;
to establish depots at Tar Heel
and Dublin and twoothers at some
points between Bladen Union and
Elizabethtown; to put in spurs
and sidings wherever the busi-
ness will justify; and to begin
work, in case the bonds are vot-
ed,o the proposed road not later
than the first day of March,
1910.
In case the bonds are not vot-
ed, ex-Sheriff Mcleod proposes
to build a road direct frorl Lum-
, berton to Elizabethtown. A
meeting of the citizens Of Lum-
berton was called to be held in
the court house last Thursday
evening, but owing to the fact
that it was not well advertised 1t
was postponed to Friday evening,
when Mr.. Mcleod explained his
proposition. A surveying corps
of II men, underMr. H. S. .Thomp.
son, a Seaboard civil engineer,
left Lumberton Friday morning
for Dublin, where headquarters
have been established, and the
work of surveying began on thai
day. 1t is proposed to breaE
dirt this week and to complete
the road within four months. Mr.
Mcleod states that he has leas
ed rails from the Seaboard ant
Will build a standard gage road
and that the Seaboard has not ;
dollar in the road. MIR. Franl
Cough interrupted Mr.. Mcleod
to explain that while the propos
ed road would give an outlet t.
Mr.. McLeod's timber in Bladen
Bethel township, the proposed
road to St. Pauls would give hin
an even better outlet, and Mr.
Mcleod stated that he had re
ceived liberal propositions in re-
gard to handling his timber owe
the other road if opposition to tn
bond issue were dropped. MI
Mcleod asked for the co-opers
tion of the business men OF Lun
berton in his undertaking.
Several of the business me
present at the meeting expresse
themselves as heartily in fave
Of a road from Lumberton t
Elizabethtown and a committe
was appointed to draw up resC
lutions to that effect and repol
to another meeting which will /
held in the court house tomorro
evening at 7.30 o'clock, the con
mittee being composed of tt
following: E. j. Britt, Mayor
A. Rowland. r. D. Caldwell, !
f. White, Frank Cough and
L. Lee.
All who expressed themselv
at the meeting regard favorab
the proposition to build a 70;
direct from this place to Eliz
bethtown, thinking it wou
mean infinitely more to Lumbe