The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-10
M'BURNETT BUYS SH|NbONE COMPANY May Mean New Railroad
 for AnnistOn DISCUSS ROAD TAX County Attorney Declares That Cal houn Cannot Possibly Pay Money
 to City-Huger Defends Mayor Wikle


 tensive iron ore lands of the Shinbone valley company by James M. McBurnett | of the Great Southern Iron and Develop ment company, which deal was closed with o. M. Alexander in this city Tues- day afternoon may mean new railroad | for Anniston, furnishing an outlet to the south by connecting with the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic at Pyriton or | Linevile.
 | consideration of about s20,000 is in voved in this deal by which the Great Southern Iron and Development company | come into possession of deposits amount | ing to about 100000 tons of brown hema- | tite ore, which deposits are located in the | Anniston district just across the Horse block mountains.
 | It is said to be the purpose of the new | company to develop the property on a | larger scale, and it will be necessary to build railroad to further this project. | Capt. R. F. Kolb, now commissioner of | agriculture, organized the Shinbone Val | ley company about a year ago and was almost successful in getting the proposed 1 line located Such road has been want | ed here for some time, and 1t is be- | lieved that the company will receive en- couragement in their project.
 McCarty on Road Tax | Henry D. McCarty, county attorney, in
 which capacity he has advised the com missioners of Calhoun county to with | hold payment on demand of the city of | Anniston of a pro rata of the road and bridge tax as provided in the new code, gave out a statement Thursday in which | he explains his opinion.
 | MT McCarty says that there is differ | ence in the case of Calhoun county and Jefferson county, the latter being alone ar- | fected by the recent supreme court de- | cison. He says that the road and bridge | tax in this county amounts to only $1S,OO0 | and that if the claims of the several cities | in the county are met according to their demands the total drain on the county ' treasury will amount to S15,000, which, he | says, will mean demoralization in road | work
 County Commissioner M. B. Wellborn president of the First National bank oi l Anniston, coincides in the opinion of At | torney McCarty, and he says that the | county absolutely cannot afford to pay the
 demands of the cities. He says that the | county has expended it's revenues on im- | provementS as readily as the money was | received, and that a drain of $15,000 on | the treasury at this time would be dis
 astrous.
 The commissioners are lending mora | support to the measure which has beer | introduced in the legislature of the state | by c. D. Martin, representative from Cal houn, and former commissioner, to -dc
 away with this provision. All of the cities
 of the county. however, are equally ac-
 tive in opposition to this measure.
 Defends Mayor Wikle
 Dr. R. P. Huger former mayor of An
 niston, gave out statement Thursday | in which he makes a forcible defense o1 | Mayor J. l.. Wikle who has been criti.
 cised as being too lenient in the enforce
 ment of he prohibition law. Dr. Huger | attrih, the mayors lenency to un- whe' @ conditions prevailing at the
 city ,n, and says the present execu- tive sctuated solely by humane mo- | lives. N T. Huger says that the prohibit | ton law is being enforced here as well
 as it is being enforced in any city in
 Alabama, and he very forcibly resents the criticism that has been directed against
 the administration.
 The Rev. George L. Jenkins presiding
 elder of the Talladega district of the | Methodist church in the south, has | called an institute to be held at Syla-
 cauga March 2S-30. which promises l lO Dc dttellQcu Dy Q6ltSdlcS IIOI1 all | over the district, as the programme in . | cludes the names of some of the big gest men in the Methodist church in | Alabama.
 The convention will be opened on
 Tuesday evening, when the devotional
 sermon will be delivered by the Rev.
 R. M Archibald The laymens mis-
 sionary movement will be one of the dominant topics of the conference and
 this subject will be discussed by sew
 eral able speakers a general survey of the field being made by Dr. Jenkins on Wednesday morning as an intro-
 duction to the following discussions.
 The Wednesday sermon will be preach ed by Rev. H. c. Howard, D. D.,
 whose subject will be, "The Mission
 ary Motive" Among those talking We'd
 nesday afternoon will be Dr. E. P. Chandler. Rev. F. L. Aldredge, Rev.
 George Stoves and others. The feature | for this session. however. will be the | address by pr. J. H. Simpson, pres
 ident of Birmingham college, on "The
 Laymen and Christian Education" Another all-day service will be held on Thursday. when able addresses on all phases of missionary work will be heard.
 | At the session of the commissioner S
 court Thursday, Charles D. Kline, who represented the petitioners of Yelling ton was successful in securing the creation of a new Calhoun county beat which will be No. 22. The creation of l the beat came after heated fight.
 as the change was opposed by the peo-
 ple of Alexandria. the other end of the precinct.
 J. B. Darlington. one of the most ac | tive agents of the Anniston Chamber of Commerce. will leave next week for | New York city. where he will confer with capitalists in regard to big in-
 dustrial projects now under headway | in this city. He speaks with optimism regarding his visit and says he will
 probably have some good news on his | return home.
 KIRKPATRICK IS