The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-25
DOUBLE TRACKING WILL BEGIN SOON l.. & N. Contractors Hold
 Meeting in Birmingham PROVISIONS ORDERED
Claimed That Actual Construction Work Will Begin in About Ten Days on Great Double
 Tracking Job

Tangible evidence was received in Bir- mingham yesterday of the beginning of the Louisville and Nashville double track work north of Birmingham when | a meeting of the contractors of that work was held here informally with local officials of the Louisville and Nashville and subsequently, orders for coal and supplies were placed in Bir- mingham.
 1 About six representatives of the con- tractors while in Birmingham dis cussed the general situation and seem | ed to be very well satisfied as to the outlook for the beginning of work. Several contractors made arrangements for coal for use while engaged in the work between this city and Decatur. Representatives of the contractors will consume a big tonnage of feedstuff, provisions and such requirements, and every bit of the goods will be pur- | chased in Birmingham from the local | wholesale merchants. The work will re- quire about IS months or perhaps long, | CT to complete. During that time much money will flow into Birmingham to merchants for supplies. Arrangements were also made for dynamite and other explosives that will be used in the ex- | cavations that have been contracted for by the men engaged to build a new track for the Louisville and Nashville.
 Work to Start Soon | It Is stated that within a week or | 10 days the first pick will be struck 1 in the beginning of the double track work, thus signalling that a venture to eventually cost $15,000,000 and vital | 1 yaffecting Birmingham has been commences The contractors while in | Birmingham seemed to be especially pleased that they would be near such a central market for goods where things may be secured at the lowest wholesale lprices.
 In connection with the double track ing it is announced locally that addi- tional jobs have been given out. In- cluded among them are four tunnels for the low grade line, three to be near Blount Springs and Cullman, totalling 4S00 feet. The tunnels will be far and away the longest holes in this end of the country. entailing much excavation and exceptional engineering genius.
 The latest contracts to be awarded as affirmed here call for 155 miles of double track, including excavations. In addition contracts for masonry, con crete work and tunneling have been awarded. JoIn Howe Peyton, assistant to the president of the Louisville and Nashville railroad who is handling the general engineering scheme, will doubt less award other contracts within a few days or as fast as they are reached
 Latest Contracts The latest ones follow:
 De Avonshire & Maxwell. Miamis- burg, O., to build three miles of road from Maplewood to the Cumberland river in Tennessee
 
 oke, Va, to build 2S miles of road, be- ginning at Brentwood, Tenn, and ex- tending southward.
 Callahan Construction company Knoxville, Tenn, awarded two con- tracts, one providing for road build ing in Alabama, north of Cullman, and another providing for road building near Nashville.
 The Ryan company, Portsmouth. O., to build 13 miles of road extending north from Athens, Ala. 1 Walton Mcdowell company, Knox vile. Tenn, to build PC miles of road. | extending north from Brentwood, Tenn. 1 W. J. Sparks Contracting company, Mount Vernon, Ky, to build 13 miles of road near Lewisburg, Tenn.
 T. L. McCurry, Marion, N. C.. to build three miles of road extending north from Brentwood, Tenn. S. Walton. Falls Mills, Va, to build six miles of road north of Brentwood and a tunnel 15 feet in width near | Nashville.
 Thrasher 6 Gunter. Knoxville, Tenn, to build three tunnels, total length 4S00 feet, and 12 miles of railroad, near Blount Springs. Ala.
 J. c. Garland & Co.,, Toledo, O., to build S1 miles of road, revise grade of | main line and do 100000 yards of ex- cavation between Garden City and ICullman. Ala.
 c. c. Kershaw Contracting company. Hartselle, Ala. to build ? miles of road north of Birmingham.
 | Langhorne & Waugh, Lynchburg, Va, contract for three miles of steam shovel work near Holmes Gap. Ala. | Asheville Contraction company, Asheville, N C.. contract for eight miles | of steam shovel work, near Athens, Ala.
 Adams X Sullivan, Louisville. Ky, to build 14 miles of road near Blount l Springs, Ala.
 | A. & c. Wright, Ashland. Va, to build eight miles of road near Delrose I Ala.
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