The Natchitoches enterprise., 1921-03-10
NOTICE.


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the 18th day Of February. 1871, it file
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission at Washington, its application
for certificate of public convenience
and necessity to abandon a portion o
its line in the state of Louisiana.
Pursuant to the requirements of tn,
Commission, said application is nov
published as follows:
To the Honorable Chairman and Mem
bers of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission,
| Washing ton, D. C.
! The application Of E. X. Bernstein,
resident and whose postoffice ad.
dress is Shreveport, Louisiana, re-
ceiyer of the Louisiana & Northwest
Railroad Company with respect repre-
scnts:
i. That in the case of Baldwin Loco
motive Works VS. Louisiana & North
west Railroad No. 8O3 in the District
Court of the United States for the
Western District Of Louisiana he was
duly appointed and confirmed as Re-
ceiver Of the said Louisiana & North
west r. r. Co.. on October 1st, 1920,
by Hon. G. w. Jack, Judge of said
Court, and since said time has been in
the active discharge of his duties as
Receiver of said Railroad Company.
2. That said Railroad Company vas
organized under the laws of the State
Of Louisiana, and becoming involved,
George w. Hunter on August q, 1918,
was appointed as its Receiver and con-
tinued to serve in said car acity until
October lot, 1920, when he resigned
and your applicant was appointed and
qualified ~ Receiver Of said Railroad
Company in his place.
3. That the making and filing of this
application for certificate Of public
convenience and necessity has been ap.
proved by the Railroad Commission Of
the State Of Louisiana in part at least,
o will appear from copy, Of an order
issued by it which is hereto attached
and made part hereof.
1. That said Company is the owner
OF lire Of railway extending from the
town of Magnolia in the State of Ar
kansas to the town of Natchitoches in
the State of Louisiana and traverses
the Parishes of Claiborne and Bienville
and . portion of Natchitoches Parish,
Louisiana in the Western District of
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State Of Arkansas and that the portion
Of said line of railway which it is pro-
posed to abandon lies IN the Parishes
Of Bienville and Natchitoches in said
State. 4
s. That for the reasons hereinafter
stated your applicant desires to aban-
don that portion Of said road extending
from the town Of Bienville in the Par
ish Of Bienville to the town of Natchi-
toches in the Parish of Natchitoches,
or at least that portion Of said road
from Chestnut in the Parish of Nat
chitoehes to the town of Natchitoches
IN the same Parish.
6 AZ reasons Why to show that the
present OK future public convenience
and necessity requires the abandon
ment Of such portion Of said road your
applicant shows:
IN That the former Receiver Of said
Railroad has attempted to sell the same
- . going concern under orders and
decree0 from the said Court appoint
ment him % Receiver on fair and
terms, and after the utmost |
bublieity gwen Of the proposed sale no |
- was 81 cculo be obtained for the
purchase of said property because, as
1out applicant believes, that the opera
Eion ef said road has continuously been
Il ! ioes.
% That . net loss during said re-
which exceeds the total in |
,ouae of the whole failroad has existed |
lnd that dsoct has bssu due ID large |
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