The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1911-11-08
Encouraging View
OF Conditions In the South
Presented In Annual Re
port of Southern
Railway.

Washington, ID. c., Nov. a.
y most encouraging view of
conditions in the Southeast is
presented in the annual report
of the Southern Railway Com
pany, which states that one of
the most important factors in
the strength Of the company's
position is the industrial and
agricultural development of tho
territory traversed by it's lines.
The marked agricultural pro-
gresS due to the general adop.
ton OF approved methods by
the farmers of the Southeast,
particularly the increase of di-
versitied farming, aud the di.
versilication of industries are
noted.
The management of the com
pany, with "a broad conception
of its relations to the public, liz
making the railway not merely
a carrier of the people and pro.
ducts of the South, but also n
helpful factor in Southern de.
velopment The reports sets out
the efforts being put forward to
increase tho prosperity of the
people already in the South
east, and to attract investors
and desirable settlers to the ter
ritory served by the lines of the
Southern Railway. y review
is given of the work being done
by tho Cotton Culture Depart
ment, which is teaching farm
ers, in localities where il is pos
sible the boil weevil may
spread, to successfully combat
the insect should it ever appear
in their fields, and thus main
tain their production instead of
having to learn how to deal
with 1T after it appears. The
work of this department will be
extended to cover all the terri
tory along the company's lines
to which there ia even remote
danger that the weevil may
spread. The Importance to the
South Of maintaining it's mon
opoly of cotton production is
pointed out in connection with
the vigorous efforts being made
to raise cotton in other parts of
the world. The report shows
that the company is also en-
couraging live stock raising
and dairying in it's territory.
Recognition is given the news
papers of the Southeast for
their valuable assistance and
also to commercial organiza.
tions, banks and individuals
who have aided the company in
all it's efforts to advance the
agricultural prosperity of tho
Southeast.
The more important additions
and bettcrments completed and
undertaken during the year are
shown, among them the double
track lines through Lynchburg,
Va, and into Chattanooga; 3s
miles of double track between
Atlanta and Gainesville, Ga;
modern lap-sidings on the line
between Atlanta and Macon.
Ga, Knoxville and Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and Morristown,
Tenn, and Asheville, n. c.,
new freight station and office
building at Atlanta, additional
freight station and yard facili-
ties Mt Macon, and additional
wharf facilities at Mobile, Ala.
To provide adequate facilities
To take care of the increasing
traffic of the South, the report
shows that the company has in
the last two years purchased
the following additional equip
mant: 10s locomotives, 2O3 pas
senger train cars and 5,207
freight train cars.
In closing, the report en-
phasizes the loyalty which has
characterized the services of
officers and employees in all de-
partments during the year, and
it is stated that the standard of
efficiency throughout the SER
vice justifies the management
in pursuing u consistent policy
of filling by promotion vacan-
cies that may occur, thus pre-
serving Il wide field of oppor.
tunity for advancement of all
loyal and efficient employees.
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