The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
Additional Expenditure Of $8OO,OOO Will Be
 Authorized
AMSTERDAM EDITOR
 REACHES CONCLUSION
MT. Simons Finds Conditions of COun- trymen in CuIlmnn Satisfactory and Will Advise Further
 Emigration

After thorough examination of the
 properties of the Cullman Coal and Coke
 company near Culman, G. I. M. Simons,
 editor of the Telegram of Amsterdam,
 Holland, representing prominent investors
 of that country. announced last night
 that work on the abandoned railroad con
 meeting Cullman and Julianna, a dis
 tance of 25 miles, will be resumed in about 10 weeks, and the railroad con-
 struction work completed without further delay.
 The completion of the railroad from its present incompeted end will cost about $S00,O0O
 MT. Simons has been in Cullman for the past few days studying the condition of the Hollanders of that county and look ing into the properties of the Cullman Coal and Coke company. He said last night that the president of the railroad company, G. Tenbrioek, will be in Gull man within a few weeks, and that all financial matters relative to the scheme would be strengthened out the work re- commenced and carried to completion.
 He said that very clear reason had been given for the abandonment of the railroad construction at Cullman. His analysis was that the Hollanders are very conservative in their expenditures of money and that when a plan exceeded the original estimate of cost the investors of his country were from that time care full of investing further. However, MT. Simons said the project at Cullman was not unlike the Panama canal in that es- inmates of both jobs were low, and new. money was required to carry the projects to conclusion. He said the money
 would be authorized soon.
 MT. Simons visited Cullman some time
 ago and looked into the condition of af- fairs connected with the railroad. On his advice 15,000 acres of coal land were
 purchased and the railroad projected. The
 engineers underestimated the work and stop resulted. MT. Simons has with
 him on this trip A. G. A. van Elder, one
 of the most famous civil engineers of Eu-
 rope. Mr. Elder has looked into the
 feasibility of the railroad and has made
 glowing comments upon the work. MT.
 Simons and MT. Elder will be in Bir- mingham for the next four days, during
 which time they will look into local con-
 ditions surrounding the employment of Hollanders In this district Both say that preparations for the immigration to this district of a large number of their fellow countrymen were being considered, and that information relating to the environ
 ment was being gathered.
 MT. Sfmons Interviewed In talking of the properties of the Gull
 man Coal and Coke company, he said: "The company at my suggestion pur- chased 15,000 acres about 25 miles from Cullman. We expended about s2,000, 900 on
 the railroad. The estimate fell away un-
 der what we saw would be the cost of the line completed. So we stopped work
 until further Investigations could be
 made. The completion will cost about sS0O,000. We think at this time that the work will be resumed in about 10 weeks However, MT. Tenbrioek, president of the line, will be here soon, and he will de- eide definitely about that. The line pene- trates a fertile but sometimes rough country. However, we propose to import enough Hollanders to the land to culti- vate the surface rights. With the inn mense deposits of coal that we have un- derneath our work will be immensely profitable. It is our aim to connect Gull
 man with Julianna as early now as pos sible. The terminus of our line is named in honor of Her Royal Highness the Princess Julianna, who was born unto our Queen Wilhelmina about IS months ago.
 "Our countrymen are very much inn- pressed with the possibility of the prop critics at Cullman and we shall not lose what has already been put into them. It will be recalled that even the Panama canal was greatly underestimated when it was started. So it was with our rail- road The greatest engineers of this
 country and Europe have looked at our pr operties and pronounced them among the best anywhere. We have here now Mir Elder, who constructed the greatest railroads in the Transvaal, Cape Colony. He says the line will pay as well as any enthusiast could claim.
 we shall not construct any niggardly