The Prescott daily news., 1915-09-18
MILLIONS BEING SPENT BY SOUTHERN RAILROADS
 FOR NEW TERMINALS
Special to the News.


 ern railroads are making heavy expen- ditures for improvements, indicative of their appreciation of great business development in the near future, which will make these enlarged facilities necessary. In a general summary of what the roads are doing, the Manu- facturers Record refers in detail to a few of those notable improvements, such as the big station and terminal which the Trans Mississippi Terminal Go. is building at cost of about S5,- 000,000 for the Texas & Pacific rail way and the Missouri Pacifc-Iron Mountain Lines at New Orleans; the docking and wharf accommodations which the Ocean Steamship Co.,, a subsidiary of the Central of Georgia Railroad, is building at Savannah at cost of $1,O00,O00; the $1,00O,0OO bridge which the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway is erecting over the Ohio River on it's northward extension from Kentucky to Columbus, and the big bridge and other improvements at Memphis, costing in the aggregate about $5,O00,O00. Even these few pieces of construction represent an ex- penditure totaling about $12,000,000, this not considering the 2S miles by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad from the river to a point near Columbus, and which will cost $3,500,000 more.
 But this aggregate is only small portion of what the lines have recent ly done or are about to accomplish. For instance, there is the completion of the first unit of the Finley Yard of the Southern Railway at Birming- ham, which cost $661 ,000 and which will be enlarged as soon as the de- mands of traffic make it necessary; the construction of an S5-mie eXten- sion of the Seaboard Air Line from Charleston to Savannah, just begun and to cost several millions of dollars; the award a week or two ago of con- struction contracts for new shops for the Seaboard at Portsmouth, Va, at a cost of S500,000; the letting of several million dollars worth of double track ing contracts by the Southern Railway in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina; the completion lately by the same company of large coal-hand- ling plant at Charleston for the eX- port shipment of fuel; the building of the Paducah X Illinois Railroad Co., s bridge known as the Burlington bridge to cost $3,000,000 across the Ohio at Metropolis, H., and which will con meet the Burlington system with the Nashville, Chattanooga X St. Louis Railway via Paducah; extensive yards being also constructed on the Ken lucky side of the river for the accom- modation of the interchange freight over the new route between the South and the West and Northwest. Then there are the two coal piers to be built at Baltimore by the aBltimore X Ohio | to cost about S1,000,000.
 A great bit of work finished this summer was the electrifcation of about 30 miles of the Norfolk & Wes- tern Railway between Bluefield and Vivian, w. Va, to handle the heaviest coal traffic over heavy grades on it's way to tidewater, and which has fully realized expectations in the matter of economy of operation and increase of operating capacity The opening to traffic of the Carolina, Clinchheld & Ohio Railways extension to Elkhorn City, Ky, must also be remembered It cost $5,500,000 and required several years to build, and down at Dallas, Tex, there is under construction a $5,000,000 passenger terminal for the use of all railroads entering there, while the Louisville X Nashville Rail- road has bought 43,0O0 tons of steel rails and the Atlantic Coast Line 20,- 900. These and various other better ments of different degrees of magni- tude are now in progress, affording encouragement and promise of gener- al improvement in industry and enter prise. They show that destpite many handicaps the railroads of the South are preparing for great things in the future.
 GERMANS LOSE TWENTY