The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1920-10-15
ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI RAIL
ROAD COMPANIES

the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion at Washington an application
for a certificate Of public con
venience and necessity to abandon
their line Of railroad In Washington
County, Alabama, and In Greene
George and jackson Counties, Mis-
sissippi.
Pursuant to the requirements of thu
Commission said application is nov
published as follows:
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. COM
MISSION.
Application for
Certificate That Public Convenience
and Necessity Permit Abandon
ment of Railroad
Of
Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
Company, an Alabama Corporation
and Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
Company, Mississippi Corporation
To Hon. Commissioners of Inter
state Commerce Commission:
Come the Alabama and Mississippi
Railroad Company, an Alabama Cor
poration, and the Alabama and Missis
sippi Rilroad Company, a Mississippi
Corporation, and show to this Hon
orable Commission the following facts
FIRST.
The full name of the applicants are
identical and are Alabama and Missis-
sipp1 Railroad Company, one being
an Alabama Corporation and one a
Mississippi Corporation, and their
post office address is Vinegar Bend,
Washington County, Alabama; that
the name of the President Of both COM
panies is Noel E. Turner, whose post
office address is Vinegar Bend, Ala
bama; the name Of the Secretary OF
both companies is r. D. Busbee, whose
post office address is Vinegar Bend,
Alabama; and the name of the at
torney of both companies is Robert
H. Smith, whose post office address
is City Bank Building, Mobile, Ala.
SECOND.
Said Alabama and Mississippi Rail-
road Company, an Alabama Corpora
ton, was organized under the laws of
the State of Alabama, and the said
Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
Company, Mississippi Corporation,
was organized under the laws OF, the
State OF Mississippi.
The making and filing Of this appli-
cation by Noel E. Turner, on behalf
of the applicant companies was duly
authorized and approved at meetings
of the directors OF the respective cor
porations, held on the Goth day OF
August, 1920. The meeting of the di-
rectors of the Alabama Corporation
was held at the office of said corpora
ton at Vinegar Bend, Alabama, and
the meeting of the directors of the
Mississippi corporation was held at
the office of J. w. Backstrom at
Leaksville, Mississippi.
FOURTH.
All of the railroad of the Alabama
corporation on which it is proposed
to abandon lies in Washington County,
State of Alabama, and all of the rail
road of the Mississippi corporation
which it is proposed to abandon, lies
in Greene, George and Jackson
Counties, Mississippi.
FIFTH.
The railroad which it is proposed
shall be abandoned has its northern
terminus at Vinegar Bend, Alabama,
and from thence runs in generally
southwestwardly direction to Leaks
vile, Mississippi, and thence in a
southerly direction via Evanston and
Moss Point, to Pascagoula, Missis-
sippi.
The petitioning companies are COM
mon carriers of passengers and prop
erty by rail, engaged in transporta-
ton of passengers and property from
Alabama and Mississippi to other
States Of the United State and from
other States of the United States to
the States of Alabama and Missis-
sippi. The railroad of hese COM
panies connect at the line between
States of Alabama and Mississippi.
The railroads of the petitioning
companies are and have from their
inception been operated and used as
one continuous line railroad, and the
accounts of both companies have been
kept Jointly and have been so com
mingled that it is impossible to sepa-
rate them.
The principal points of traffic along
said route are Vinegar Bend, Wash
ington County, Alabama, Leaksville
Greene County, Mississippi, Evanston
George County, Mississippi, MOSS
Point, Jackson County, Mississippi
and Pascagoula, Jackson County, Mis-
sissippi.
Vinegar Bend is served by the MO
bile and Ohio Railroad, Evanston Il
served by the Gulf, Mobile and Chica
go Railroad, and Moss Point and Pas
cagoula are served by the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad, and Leaks
vile lies upon the Chickasawhal
River. which is suitable for rafting
of timber to Pascagoula-
The only large producer OF trafii'
at Leaksville is Bear Creek Mill Com
pany. Said company owns log road
,ho tarrfnus of which will be les