The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-18
RAUL SAYS HE IS
 NOT NEGOTIATING L. & N. Not Seeking His
 Tuscaloosa Road FOR ROUTE TO SELMA Understood, However, That Louisville and Nashville Is Working Out
 Plans to Get Into Selma
 From the North
FOR ROUTE TO SELMA

John |. Raul, president of the KauI Lumber company. gave out statement last night denying that he was negotiat ing with the Louisville and Nashville rail road to lease the Kaul Lumber company railroad in Tuscaloosa county or to as- sist in getting rights of way for the Louisville and Nashville through anv property in that vicinity. as was reported about the streets yesterday.
 The statement was made that the pres- enee of W. L. Mapother. vice president of tie Louisville and Nashville, here Tues day was to confer with Mr. Raul in refer ence to the proposed line of the Louisville and Nashville to Selma. Mr. Raul says that he did not hold any conference with MT. Mapother and that if the Louisville and Nashville is building to Selma it is more than he is acquainted with.
 His statement follows: ''rhe publishad statement that the Louisville and Nash vile was going to build line to Selma in connection with the Kaul Lumber com pany property is wholly without founda- ton so far as I know. If the Louisville and Nashville is attempting any sucn move. 1t Is without my knowledge. The Kaul Lumber line is being built for the service of that company and for no otn- CT purpose. The railroad that the Kaul Lumber company is building in Tusea- loosa and other counties is being pushed forward as fast as possible. If will he a standard guage railroad, with consider able first class side tracks and spur tracks leading from it. It is for the purpose of logging our tinbers to the mill that is now being erected near Tuscaloosa
 The report of the Kaul Lumber com pany connection with the Louisville and Nashville railroad efforts to get to Selma from Birmingham was circulated among interests yesterday in close touch with the industrial situation and for some time 1t was given considerable weight MT kaul has started about 90 miles of good railroad work and if that could be se- cured by the Louisville and Nashville, as a matter of course, it would save the Louisville and Nashville much work.
 In railroad circles it is Believed that the Louisville and Nashville will build rom Birmingham to Selma, announce piSHl o1 WHICH intention is to be made here within the next 60 days or 20 days The company has only one line into that place now, which is by way of loma- ton, and that is a very inconvenient and costly way of getting to Selma. It ls believed here that the Louisville and Nashville will follow the old Cahaba sur vey that has been passed upon favorabiy and that work will start during the pres ent year.
 There are many very weighty reasons why the Louisville and Nashville shoult go to Selma. It will be able to open II a considerable territory now untouched by railroad lines and it will enable tht company to touch one of the most pros porous of the smaller Alabama cities.
 The Louisville and Nashville is now en gagged in building the Tuscaloosa Mineral which will connect at Brookwood with tnt Birmingham line. From Tuscaloosa tf Selma is only a matter of building tc Myrtlewood there to connect with the Louisville and Nashville railroad brancl from Flomaton to Myrtlewood by way oi Selma.
 The company will undertake to double track it's line to the gulf within a short time and the proposed branch from Tus caloosa to Selma, thence down the pres ent main line to the gulf would form an identical situation to the double tract work begun north Of Birmingham and Decatur. A line from Tuseumbia to Tus caloosa, thence to the gulf, would be sub stantially as near double track as the line now being constructed for heavy freight tonnage north of Birmingham.