Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1920-10-08

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Pursuant TO the requirements of the
lished as follows:
Copy
iNTERsTATE-comm
COMMISSION
Application
Certificate that Public Convenishes. and
Necessity Permit Abandonment OF
Railroad OF
Alabama and Mississippi Railroad Conn
pany. an Alabama Corpor1tion,l and Ala
bama and Mississippi RIA lroad Com Is .iy.
a Mississippi Corporation. an
To Hon. Commissioners uf Interstate
Commerce Commission. .f,a
Come the Alabama and Mississippi
Railroad Company. an Alabama Corpora
ton, and the Alabama and Mississippi
Railroad Company Mississippi Corpora
ton, and show. to this honorable COM
mission the following facts:
First
The fun names OF the applicants are
Identical and are Alabama and Missis-
Alabama Corporation and one M.ssis-
slppi Corporal on. and their post office
aodress Is Vinegar Bend, Alabama; the
name OF the President of both companies
dress is Vinegar Bend Alabama; the
NAM, ~ OF the Secretary OF Doth companies
dress is Vinegar Bend, Alabama, and
the name OF the attorney of both COM
panies Is Robert IL. Smith, whose post
office address is City Bank building, Mo-
bile, Alabama.
SAID Alabama and Mississippi Railroad
Company, an Alabama Corporation, was
organized under the laws of the State
or Alabama. and the said Alabama and
mississippi Railroad Company, Missis-
sippi Corporation. was organ zed under
the laws of the State of Mississippi
Third ..yII
The making and filing OF this applca-
ton by Noel o. Turner on behalf Of the
applicant companies, was duly author
lied and approved at m ,etings OF the di-
rectors OF the respective corporations.
held on the goth day OF August 1890. The
Corporation was held at the office OF
said corporation at Vinegar Bend, Ala
hama and the meeting Of the directors OF
the Mississippi CORPORATION was held at
the office OF 7. w. Backstrom at Leakes-
vile. Mississippi. .1p4.
All of the railroad of the Alabama cor
poration on which it is proposed to aban-
don tes In WASHINGTON County, State OF
Alabama, and sll Of the railroad OF the
Mississippi corporation which II Is pro-
posed to abondon. lies in Greene, George
and Jackson Counties. Mississippi
Fifth
Inc TdlflOdd WHICH IL Is pfOD09ed shall
De aDanuons~ has it's nol,uern lei minus
at vinegar Bend. Alabama and from
thence runs In q generally soutnwesterly
d ahsnca 20 Leaxssvil.e. Mississipp, and
snston and Moss Point. to Pascagouia.
AAississippi. 3* etts ~
sixth
The petitfoning companies are common
carriers OF passengers ana property by
rail, engaged in TRANSPORTATION OF pas
ssngers. and property fro-o Alabama and
Ml8SiSSiDni of .ra.f
States and from other states of tho
United States to the states Of Alabama
c com nopnact M n. ns q ba, ines.
States Of Alabama and Mississippi.
The railroads OF the petitionins compa-
! MES are anu have from their incep.lvn
been operated and used as one continu-
! Gus line Of railroad. and the accounts
Of both companies have been kept jointly
and have become SO commingled that IL
| Is impossible to separate them.
said route are Vinegar Bend. Washing.
Greene Gre County County, Mississip,pi; Evanston.
! George County n ississipp: Moss Point.
| Jackson County Mississippi, and Pasca.
| goula, Jackson County, Missss ippi.
/ Vineyard Bend is served BY the Mo-
bile & Ohio Railroad, Evanston is served
by the Gulf, Mobile and Chicago Rail-
road, and Moss Point and Pascagou,a are
served by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad. and Leakesville lies upon thu
| Chckasawhay River, which Is suitable
| LOT TdItlHk Oh tlnlpcT 10 1dSCjtBoutd.
The only large producer Of traffic at
Leakesville is Bear Creek Mill Company.
Said company owns a log road, the ter
minus of which viii be less than a mile
| from the terminus of a log road now In
course OF construction by Turner I.ltm-
Der Company, which two log roads II
ns fa% p %qaa Of cfeef Mn
| pany to the branch line OF the New Or
ieans Mobile and Chicago Railroad Com
The petftioning companies receiv. a
very small proportion of the passenger
traffic tributary to their ines because OF
| the fact that the distances to the larger
railroad systems are short and this traf-
fic moves largely by automobiles to
points on said larger larger systems large
route moves by automobile trucks. so
that the entire territory through which
the lines OF FORTHCOMING companies oper-
ate Is and could be adepnately served.
should the lines Of petitioning companies
be abandoned. 4, il, Nat.s Nsre $50
to Ieskesville was put into operatior N
| A. d. 1903 and trainssfir operated over
the line TO PAscasoula on July LIST. 1915.
o spss sps Ssss s a ss ines
no prospect OF sufficient business over
profit nom m thsir cnerstion in the nssr
future; the road beds Of the roads have
derrecisted and the companies have ne
them: the companies have defauitsd IN
the payment OF int srest on their sHnded
debt. and owe large outstanding floating
debts . portion 81 which have been re-
duced to Judgment and the time for Is
suance Of execution thereon has arrived
end the comran iss have no avaiiabis
cept by the sale OF their property Tho
companies could by the abandonment OF
their railroad and the sale Of their. rails
| bridges and other property. nay all OF
their outstanding debts and desire to do
this.
| TlA ~ Seventh
Applicants desire hearing at sstch
time a. fre Commission nav anboint.
| 1T which they NAV, rresert evidence sus-
tanning thes~ ontarfson that public con-
| venierre and nrcee~stv WI hermit of the
rhantynunent ~. their railroad.
ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI RAIL
ROAD co. .s.A a1
(A1 Alabama Corporaticn)