The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-08
BIRMINGHAM AND
 V|CKSbURG LINE Will Soon Be Started, Says
 Announcement
0. AND c. COMPETITOR
Chicago and Foreign Capital Procur- ed to Finance Undertaking and All Arrangements Are Now
 Completed

The financial arrangements for the Bir- mingham and Vicksburg railroad have been completed and it is stated the con struction of that line will be started at nounced, has taken s7,Ooo,OOO worth of bonds of the new line as shown by re- cent survey of the route and nothing now stands in the way of immediate con- struction of the line.
 The new railroad, which will come to Birmingham, is to be 264 miles in length and will provide, it is believed, a com petitive route between this city and dis trict and Mississippi points against the Queen and Crescent route.
 It was stated yesterday in local rail- road circles that the new line would touch east through Flora, Miss, Canton, Carthage, Edenburg, Shuquelk, thence to Tuscaloosa. At that point it is stated the new railroad will make traffic arrange ments with the Louisville and Nashville or some other line for entrance into the Birmingham district or they may come direct to Birmingham. However, it is stated that if the new line does not per feet traffic arrangements. with some oth- CT line at Tuscaloosa the promoters will come direct to Bessemer, thence to Bir- mingham by the most direc. route.
 The new line has been talked of some time. It is remembered that several years ago an officer of the proposed Bir- mingham and Vicksburg railroad appeared before the Chamber of Commerce, which was then the Commercial club, and quested aid in the survey. That request was never acted upon, and it was be- lieved here that the proposed railroad had passed by the boards until the an nouncement was made that the financial arrangements had been made for the con struction. Subsequently, it was announced finances to secure the survey and had then enlisted Chicago men to finance the new line. This crowd carried the proposition to a French syndicate headed by M. Moricel Gallon and others. It was announced yesterday that all papers for the finances had been signed in the American consulate in Paris and that nothing remained but to begin the work.
 The proposed line is headed by the for- lowing officers:
 c. Searles of Vicksburg, president.
 I. Gross of Canton, vice president.
 E. Levy of Canton. secretary.
 The foregoing officers have been selecs- ed because of having promoted the line, but it is stated they will relinquish the offices to others who are to be named later by the French bond holders who have taken the bonds.
 The new line, it is stated, will open up a new and unexplored mineral dis trict. of South Alabama and Northern Mississippi, and will become in time an important feeder for the other lines touch ing the coast territory served by the new line. While the territory is rather neat ly served at this time by the Queen and Crescent route, it is stated the new line will diverge just enough to create traffic originating point removed suffi- ciently to permit of the fast accumula- ton of paying traffic.
 In local railroad circles the coming of the new line is looked upon as one of the newest but most important railroad developments which are daily expected as the Panama canal is nearing compile tiOn