New-York tribune., 1922-06-11
Plan New Trunk
Line i'm South bv
Extending ia. & e,
Proposed Road Would Give
Chattanooga Another
Outlet 10 the Gulf and
10 the Atlantic Seaboard

CHATTANOOGA June "A new
trunk line connection between Chatia-
nooca and the Atlantic coast is prom
ited II plans for the extension of thc
Tennessee. Alabama & Georgia Rail
way. application for which was hled
with the Interstate Commerce Com
mission June I. are carried out.
The Tennessee, Alabama 4 Georgia
is the now title for railroad built by
Newman Erb many years ago between
Chattanooga and Gadsden. Ala. a dis
iancc % nincty-s.x miles. II was hrsl
called Chattanooga Southern. then Ten
ncssee. Alabama & Georgia. under
which name il passed under the control
of Russell Sage and was operated ~ a
great loss by his estate until three
months ago A. that time az reociv.
cr's sale. e. T.. James. ChatanooRl
capitalist. affiliated with Anthony
Brndy Interests. bid u in FOR 100000
The trouble with he 7. A. G.. was
that IL ended up in the air The local
traffic between Gadsden snd Cha,ta.
nooga was not enough N meet ~
financial requirements and the other
roads AZ the Alabama terminus com.
peted into Chattanooga as well, thus
making almost impossible a distribu-
ton Of through traffic.
However. the Seaboard Air L.ne runs
into Birmingham from Atlanta. II.
tracks arc only about 'wenty-fou'
miles from Cadsden. in = section whore
the cost Of construction would not he
prohibitive. Before the var srranV..
monts we're said To have been tenta
lively made for he Seaboard ~ bull
N Gadsdan. hut financial dificulties In
tervened. Darinr the war ncw con
siruction was not undertaken. Since
then - few railroads have made cN
pense. that they have not sought y
tuild connecting links.
Would issre More Stock
But Iames's plan. az outlined In 'h'
application % the Interstate Commercl
Commission for the issuac- Of $500 00'
additional stock. half common. hal
preferred - 20 build toward Birming
ham. or rather. toward the Seaboard 7
line into Birmingham. That would elv'
Commission for tho ISSUANCE OF SoO0.0 900
Chattanoogn another trunk Ike 10 M
Southwesi, % the Gulf and 10 the At
lantic scnboard.
James has smother projec, nov being
surveyed: a railroad 10 run dowr
Waldrn's Rdrr from Chattanooga n
Crossvllc. at that point connecting
with the Tennessee Central and tap
ping immense soft coal fields hitherto
unmined. The route along Walden
Ridge for nifty miles presents man.
engineering difficulties. but among 9th
or things IL would run along huge IN
covered surface seams ~ coal. The
Tennessee Central now taps rich
field in middle east Tennessee, but i'
more or less throt,led by its connec'
tions. which serve competitive mine
fields
II all James's plans go through. a
new coal road from the mines 70 tne
seaboard Is not beyond the range OF
possibility. and Chattanoogans are
hooeful that Tennessee Central Goa
may be shipped 70 Savannah or Mobile
for hunkerage. hy the extencI and
revivihed T. A. G.
Texas crop prospects this year ar'
excellent. despite bear tax OF the boil
weevil. according 20 J. W. Dawson
yiee.presldent OF the Southwestern Ad
ver,ising Company. Of Dallas, one o.
tho lafeest agencies OF the Southwest
~Of course. there is the boil weevll
nroblsm." he said. but the boil weefll
talk is alwavs worse than tne ~eeV'
Itself Planting was early this year.
the Brazos and Trinity rivers over
flowed. but the replanting made neces
sary mas been done. Labor is chesp
And then there is the cooperative.
This Texas Cotton Growers Coop
erAtive Marketing Association - nov
Two wears old, with Us. and doing ex
eellently. This wear believe Il wil
handle 2S per cent Of the states crop
and ne exnect 100000 CROP
The eo-operative movement - spread
nc 10 other products. under the gen
ersl leadership OF the Texas Farm ftd
.ration. The Watermelon Association
has already placed the greater part o.
is sc. 900 car crop. Wheat Is being SOLO
co-operatively. In our section th'
Thought is prevalent that cooperative
marketing means the economic s".Va
ton Of the South.
New oil fields are constantly osinl
byouoh, in. but In Texas we thinS -anc
knov-less about our oil than foiki
outside. for We have 50 many tfeneh
5ous farm crops 10 think about. Texai
now is nearly the largest corn groS n'
state in the country: our orehards raw
immensely profitable WELD; In fact
there isnt a national farm product w
don't raise. while many Texas product
aren't raised elsewhere
Steel Trade Better
The iron and steel industry of tn
South /. rapidly getting into shape: &C
eording 10 steel men from Birm inghar
here this week. Nearly very furnace
/. in blast. while the steel mills ai'
kent 70 capacity Birmingham hai
taken On new life; the city was hard M