The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-12-20

News entirely satisfactory to Pensa-
cola people is the brand that w. 2.
Dickinson, promoter of the Pensacola
and Memphis railroad, has for the pub
lie interested in the success of the pro
posed road. Mr.. Dickinson has been in
Pensacola since Sunday night and was
one of the thousands of interested
spectators at the silver service presen-
tation. Last night he said he had
bought a block in Pensa cola for a
depot site and had contracted for 1000
teams to begin work.
Mr.. Dickinson says he feels satisfied
with the turn things have taken for he
is assured by many that the council
would have given his road the fran
chise asked for at the last session il
he had not asked for a delay until a
new charter and name could he Sc
cured which changed the name OF
Memphis and Gulf to Memphis and
Pensacola. The change, he says, was
made because Memphis and Gulf did
not mean anything while Memphis and
Pensacola does. Pensacola is the
| nearest gulf port to Memphis, and for
business and sentimental reasons Pen
sacola needs to be on every car, en-
CINE and the stationery Of the road
CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN.
''Forty-five men, divided into three
surveying parties. are making the final
survey for the road. Old surveys have
bCeiI oISIeSdTOGu ana already three
surveys between Pensacola and Mem
nllis have been made to ascertain the
| best route and the surveyors are now
making the final one. which will be
several miles shorter than it was at
irst thought could be done. As soon
! as the surveying party at work be-
tween Meridian and Pensacola reaches
here, and 1t is now within q few miles
of the Tombigbee river, grading work
viii begin in Pensacola and the work
will be rapidly constructed.
ONE THOUSAND TEAMS.
Some idea of the progress that win
| be made when the work begins NAV
| be reached when it is learned that one
| thousand teams will be used from the
start. A contract for this many has
been made to begin work just as soon
as the survey is completed.
I'VE can see where progress is now
being made in our work and we are
going about it in q way that will pre-
vent our having to do it over. The
public doesn't realize that building a
road as we propose to build il takes
time When actual construction work
begins, however, there will be no com
plant to make"
DEPOT SITE PURCHASED.
Although he would not give the To-
cation, Mr.. Dickinson said positively
that depot site Of an entire block
had been arranged for. This site, he
says is ideally located, and is one that
will please Pensacola people.
Men with large business connections.
bankers and railroad contra ctors are
members of the board Of directors or
the road recently elected at a. meeting
held in Memphis. This board of di-
rectors and other information In re-
gard to the road is given elsewhere in
The Journal of an account taken from
the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The
Dickinson q al
gether satisfactory.
He says that he did not care to talk
for publication in Memphis until
| everything was arranged at this end OF
the line. but the people became inter-
ested in the project and are alive to
the situation now. You have no idea"
he says, how Pensacola is being
talked of in Memphis and is being in
vestigated by Memphis people"
FIRST CLASS ROAD.
G. D. Smith, Of c. ID. Smith e. Co
the largest railroad building concern
and has the contract for building IL.
Ninety pound rails will be used and
| the grade of the track will he but one
half of one per cent The country
through which we come" said Mr..
| Dickinson, with few exceptions is a
| rich country which will soon be 4
| profitable business for the road but at
| first we must depend upon the through
business for export and ara building
road to handle this class of business.
Another feature which the road will
| lead all others in the south will be
that it will build absolutely proof
stations at the large and small places.
| This, Mr.. Dickinson thinks, will give
| better satisfaction and will prove eco
| nomical in the long run All financial
ARRANGEMENTS for the building of the
road have been completed and work
| will begin as soon as the surveying
| corps reach Pensacola
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