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returns, and the city of Fort Payne affords a good market for all farm products. The principal industries of Fort Payne are: Fort Payne Coal and Iron Company ; Fort Payne Rolling Mill, for the manufacture of steel billets ; Fort Payne Furnace Company, for the manufacture of pig iron ; Fort Payne Stove Works ; Fort Payne Clay Works, for the manufacture of fire brick, sewer pipe and paving brick ; Fort Payne Basket and Package Company, for the manufacture of baskets; Fort Payne Machine Works; Fort Payne Ice and Storage Com- pany ; Alabama Builders' Hardware Company, for the manu- facture of builders' hardware; Southern Paving Company, for the manufacture of asphalt paving blocks.
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PART TENTH.
THE RAILROAD AND TELEGRAPH LINES OF ALABAMA
Besides its great river lines of transportation, the State of Alabama has forty-three railroads * entering or traversing her territory, with a Rotal length of completed main line in the State of 3,4:6.47 miles.i
The following table, from the report of the State Auditor, for the year 1592, will show the names of these railroads, with the length and value of their main lines and side tracks, and the value of their rolling stock, in the State, as assessed for taxes for the year 1892 :
. Of this number, thirty-one have been constructed since the close of the war, in 1865.
+ Of this number, 2.403.95 miles have been constructed since the close of the war, in 1865.
NAME OF RAILROAD OR RAILWAY.
Miles.
Assess- ment per mile.
Value.
Miles,
ment per mile.
Value.
VALUE OF ROLLING STOCK.
TOTAL VALUE.
Alabama Great Southern.
241.92
$16,080 00:
$3,938,313 60 61.09
1 $1,000 00
$241,360 00
$927,689 10:
$5,110,362 70
Alabama Midland.
175.08
10,000 00|
1,750,800 00 14.56
2,500 00,
36,400 00
160,260 87'
1,917,460 87
Birmingham & Atlantic.
30.90
8,000 00.
247,200 00: 2 00
1 2,000 00:
4,000 00
26,450 00
277,650 00
Birmingham, Selma & New Orleans
20.70
5,500 00;
: 113,850 00: . 50
1,375 00
687 50
8,920 00
123,4457 50
Birmingham, Sheffield & Tennessee River.
106,90
7,080 00;
756.552 00.15 30
1.450 00
26,775 00
156,030 00
939,657 00
Cababa Coal Mining Company,
8.10
12,000 001
97,200 00: 4.80
3,000 00
14,100 00
23,680 00
135,280 00
Chattanooga Southern
43.60
5,000 00:
218,000 00: 1.92
1.250 00,
2, 100 00
35,150 00
255,550 00
Ka-I & West
71.00
7,000 90!
407,000 00 8 00
1.750 00
14,000 00
51,100 00
565,100 00
E-cambia.
26.50
2,500 00,
06,250 00: . 50
625 00
8:12 50
9.760 10
76,322 50
Fort Payne & Eastern.
11.25
10,000 00
112,500 00: 3.25
2,500 00:
8,125 00
12,320 00,
132,45 00
Georgia Pacific.
209.60
16,000 00
3,353,600 00 45.94
4,000 00;
183,760 001
663.100 11 4 4,639,160 41
Branches
433 87
10,000 00
4:5,700 00:
Huntsville & Monte Sano.
8.00
5,000 00
40,000 00
Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
107.58
11,500 00
1,237,170 00:30 97
2,875 00
89,038 75
282,171 91,
1,699,330 66
Memphis & Charleston
151.00
15,000 00'
2,265,000 00 17.44
3,750 00
65,400 00
296,350 00'
2,685,910 00
Mobile & Birmingham. ..
145.93
6.500 00
948,545 00 12.09
1,625 00
19.646 25
43,910 00
1,012,101 25
Mobile & Ohio ...
60.2555-5280
12,000 00
725,806 81 13 206-5280
3,000 00
39,117 00
134,304 64
809,228 45
NASHVILLE, CHATTANOOGA & ST. LOUIS.
Main Line
21.00
18,000 00;
432,000 00: 5.51
4,000 00
22,040 00!
33.83
5,000 00
169,150 00 2.57
1,250 00
3,212 501
6,230 00
26:1,157 50
Jasper Branch. .
2.90
10,000 00
29,000 00;
.65
2,500 00}
1,625 00
Savannah, Americus & Montgomery ..
$0.10
5,000 00
400,500 00: 1 50
1,250 00
5,825 00
406,125 00
Seaboard Immmber Company
24.25
5,000 00
121.250 00 5.75
1,250 00
7,187 50
34,340 00
162.777 50
Talladega & Coosa Valley (for 1891) .
8.00
8,000 00
64,000 00,
.75
2,000 00
1,500 00
28,020 00;
93,520 00
Tennessee River, Ashville & Coosa ..
3.25
8,000 00
26 .00 00
8,250 00
34,250 00
Tuskegee .
5.50
5,500 00
30,250 00
. 1-6
1.375 00
229 16
5,525 00
36,001 16
WESTERN OF ALABAMA.
Montgomery Division. Selina Division.
85.31
15,500 00
1,322,770 00 10.43 500,280 00: 3.37
3,875 00
40,416 25 9,267 50
147,680 00
₹ 2,020,413 75
45.48
11,000 001
2,750 00
7,400 00
47,400 00
10.70
8,500 00
90,250 001
1
Branches
4.86
6,000 00
59,160 001 ..
241,700 00:
1.94
2,500 00
4,850 00
5-1,350 00
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MAIN TRACK.
SIDE TRACK.
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Tennessee & Coosa Branch Huntsville Branch ..
24 17
10,000 00!
25
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA SYSTEM.
Fast Alabama ..
36.75
9,500 00
39,125 00 1.25
2.375 00
2,968 75
17,555 00 14,350 00 44,630 001 .
369,618 75 378,096 60 755,442 50
Savannah & Western.
155.93
14,000 00
3,50 , 00
47,985 00
57,620 00 111,850 00
1,230,197 65 2,312,855 00
SOUTHWESTERN.
Eufaula Branch
.KO
16,000 00 8,000 00
12,800 00 $,000 00
.2441-5280 . 2,000 00
924 62
12,800 00 8,924 62
Columbia Branch
1.00
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EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA & GEORGIA SYSTEM.
Akron Branch.
53.06
8,000 00
1 424,480 00: 2.22
2,000 00
4,140 00
47,050 00
4.5,970 00
Blorton Branch
48.75
8,000 00;
300,000 00 4.60
2,000 00:
9,200 00 ...
309,200 00
Peratur Branch
43.00
8,000 00
344,000 00 .41
2 000 00
820 00
34,700 00
379,520 00
Meridian Division.
87.22
8,500 00
741,370 00: 7.25
2,125 00
15,406 25
235,800 00
992,576 25
Sehva Division.
171.76
14,000 00
. 2,401,610 00 23.16
3,509 00
81,060 00
1-17,050 00:
2,932,750 00
LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD SYSTEM.
Alabama Mineral
119.07
10,000 00
1,190,700 00:24.75
2,500 00
61,875 00
80,5:0 00
1,333,125 00
Birmingham Mineral
161.84
13,500 00
2,181,810 00:37.02
3,375 00
124,942 50;
349,070 06
2,658,852 50
Mobile & Montgomery.
178,00
17,000 00
3,026,000 00 16 34
1,100 00
65,360 00
367,770 00,
3,459,130 00
Nashville & Decatur.
26.01
18,000 00
468,720 00 2.17
4,000 00
8,680 00
84,113 42|
661,513 42
Nashville, Florence & Sheffield.
17.12
8,000 00
136,960 00 3.16
2,000 00
6,320 00;
. 23,631 83
166,911 83
New Orleans, Mobile & Texas.
29.24
16,000 00
467,840 00 7 32
4.000 00
: 20,280 00
56,101 47
553,221 47
Pensacola ..
.10
7,000 00;
700 00
.31
1,750 00
542 20
1,212 50
Pensacola & Selma
68.00
5,000 00
3-40,000 00: 2 81
1,250 00
- 3,512 50;
11.500 00!
351,812 50
South & North ..
182.66
18,000 00
3,287,880 00:56.33
4,000 00
225,320 00;
739,595 00
4,252,795 00
Total
3,426.47
840,480,972 41
$1,554,048 78 85,848,728 68|
847,883,749 87
RAILROAD AND TELELGRAPHI LINES.
Enlanla & East Alabama
60.10
360,600 00 2.516-5280
1,500 00
3,146 60
Mobile & Girard ..
83.00
6,000 00 8,500 00 14,500 00
705,500 00: 2 50 1,160,000 00: 3 2480-5280 2,183,020 00 13.71
2,125 00
5,312 50
Montgomery & Eufaula.
80.00
3,525 00
12,577 65
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The total valuation of railroad property in the State, as assessed for State taxation, in 1892, was 817,883,749.87, against $46,406,650.55, in 1891, and $10,528,060.43, in 1877 (the year preceding the publication of the first edition of this HAND Book), showing an increase in valuation, in 1892, of $1,477,- 099.32, over the year 1891, and of 837,355,689.44, over the year 1877. The railroads of the State pay about one-fifth of the taxes on property collected in the State.
Following the order in which they are arranged in the above table, the railroads of the State may be described, in brief, as follows :
Alabama Great Southern Railroad .- Wauhatchie, Ten- nessee. to Meridian, Mississippi, 290.21 miles; 244.95 in Ala- bam ... Uses track of Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, Wauhatchie to Chattanooga ; gauge, four feet eight and one-half inches ; incorporated as Northeast and Southwest Alabama Railroad, December 12, 1853, and as the Wills Valley Railroad, February 3, 1852; reorganized as Alabama and Chat- tanooga Railroad, October 6, 1868 ; present company organized, by purchasers, November 30, 1877 ; completed May 17, 1871 ; general offices, Birmingham, Alabama, and Cincinnati, Ohio.
Alabama Midland Railway. - Bainbridge, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama, 175.08 miles ; Luverne division, Sprague junction, Montgomery county, Alabama, to Luverne, Crenshaw , county, Alabama, 33.5 miles ; main line in Alabama, 175.08 miles; gauge, four feet nine inches ; incorporated, in Alabama, March, 1887 ; completed in 1890 ; general office, Montgomery, Alabama. The Montgomery. Tuskaloosa and Memphis Rail- way, an extension of this line, is now under construction.
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad. - Talladega, Ala- bama, to Pell City, on the Georgia Pacific Railway, in St. Clair county, Alabama, 22.9 miles ; branch, Cook junction to Kitson, Alabama, eight miles ; gauge, four feet eight and one-half inches ; incorporated, December 19, 1883, as Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad ; present company organized, October 1, 1890 ; completed in 1887; principal office, Talladega, Alabama.
Birmingham, Selma and New Orleans Railroad .- Pro- jected, New Orleans, Louisiana, to Selma, Alabama, 240 miles ; in operation, Selma, Alabama. to Martin, in Dallas county, labama, 20.70 miles ; gauge, four feet nine inches ; rail (steel,
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3.7 miles), fifty-two and fifty-six pounds ; incorporated, No- vember 16, 1886 ; general office, Selma, Alabama.
Birmingham, Sheffield and Tennessee River Rail- way. - Sheffield, Alabama, to Birmingham, Alabama; com- pleted and in operation to South Parrish, Alabama, 95.80 miles ; branches, 9.40 miles ; gauge, four feet eight and one-half inches ; present company organized in 1889 ; general office, Sheffield, Alabama.
Cahaba Coal Mining Company's Railroad .- Blocton, Bibb county, Alabama, to Woodstock, a station on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, in the same county, 8.10 miles ; gauge four feet eight and a half inches ; incorporated July 13, 1883; opened February 12, 1884; used to haul the product of the company's mines to Woodstock ; principal office and address, Blocton, Bibb county, Alabama.
Chattanooga Southern Railway .- Chattanooga, Tennes- see, southwestwardly through the States of Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, to Gadsden, Alabama, 92 miles : in Alabama, 43.60 miles ; recently constructed ; general office. Chattanooga, Tennessee.
East and West Railroad .- Projected, Cartersville, Geor- gia, to Birmingham, Alabama, 200 miles ; in operation. Carters- ville, Georgia, to Pell City, on the Georgia Pacine Railway, in St. Clair county, Alabama : gauge four feet nine inches ; incor- porated February 20, 1882; opened October 1. 1:52; general office, Cartersville, Georgia.
Escambia Railroad .- Located in Escambia county, 23 miles ; Conceuh county, 3.50 miles ; private logging road.
Fort Payne and Eastern Railroad .- Fort Payne, DeKalb county, Alabama, to Coal Mines, 11.25 miles : gauge four feet eight and a half inches ; incorporated November 21, 1888; road built in 1889; principal office, Fort Payne, Alema.
Georgia Pacific Railway .- Atlanta, Georgia. to Greenville, Mississippi, 462.52 miles ; in Alabama, main line, 209.60 miles ; branches, 43.87 miles; gauge four feet nine inches ; incorpo- rated in Alabama December 31, 1881 ; completed in 1 -$9; road part of Richmond and Danville system; general office, Bir- mingham, Alabama.
Huntsville and Monte Sano Railway. - Huntsville, Ala- bama, to Monte Sano, Alabama, 8 miles ; gange four ieet nine
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inches ; construction begun in 1888, and road completed in 1889; principal office, Huntsville, Alabama.
Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad .- Memphis, Tennessee, to Birmingham, Alabama, 253.24 miles ; in Alabama, main line, 107.58; branches, 43.87; gauge four feet eight and a half inches; road opened in 1887 ; general office, Kansas City, Missouri.
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Memphis and Charleston Railroad. - Memphis, Tennes- see, to Stevenson, Alabama, 272 miles ; in Alabama, main line, 151 miles ; branches, 9.86 miles; uses tracks of Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, Stevenson to Chattanooga, 38 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; incorporated February 2, 1816; road opened in 1858; controlled by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad through ownership of a majority of its capital stock ; general office, Memphis, Tennessee.
Mobile and Birmingham Railway .- Projected from Mobile, Alabama, to Birmingham, Alabama ; completed from Mobile to Marion Junction, on Meridian division of East Ten- nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway, in Perry county, Ala- bama, 145.93 miles ; uses track of East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway, Marion Junction to Selma, 14.1 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; road opened in 1887; road operated by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway through owner- ship .of stock; general office, New York; operating office, Mobile, Alabama.
Mobile and Ohio Railroad .- Mobile, Alabama to East Cairo, Kentucky, 493 miles ; in Alabama, 60 miles ; gange four feet eight and a half inches ; incorporated in Alabama Febru- ary 3, 1848; opened from Mobile to Columbus, Kentucky, in 1861 : from Columbus to East Cairo, in 1881 ; operates St. Louis and Cairo Railroad under a lease for forty-five years ; general office, Mobile, Alabama.
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway .- Chatta- nooga, Tennessee, to Ifickman, Kentucky, 320.21 miles; in Alabama, main line, 24 miles; Tennessee and Coosa branch, 33.83 miles; Huntsville branch, 24.17 miles : Jasper branch, 2.90 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; incorporated Decem- ber 11. 1845 ; completed from Nashville to Chattanooga in 1854; purchased Nashville and Northwestern Railroad, Nashville to Hickman, at foreclosure sale in 1871, and present name adopted
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in 1873, on the consolidation of the two roads; general office, Nashville, Tennessee.
Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway .-- Savannah, Georgia, via Americus, Georgia, to Montgomery, Alabama; miles in Alabama, 80.10; gauge four feet eight and a half inches ; constructed since 1886; general office, Americus, Georgia.
Spaboard Railway .- Located in Mobile and Washington counties, Alabama : miles of main track, 24.25; terminals, Nannahubba and Tuscarora; intersects Mobile and Birming- ham Railway at Calvert Station, in Washington county; owned by Seaboard Lumber Company, and operated mainly in con- nection with that company's mills ; general office, Mobile, Ala.
Talladega and Coosa Valley Railroad .- Now Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad, which see, page 378, ante.
Tennessee River, Ashville and Coosa Railroad .- Whit- ney, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, in St. Clair county, Alabama, to Ashville, in same county, 3.25 miles.
Tuskegee Railroad .- Tuskegee, in Macon county, Alaba- ma, to Chelaw, a station,on the Western Railway of Alabama, in same county, 5.50 miles ; gange three feet ; incorporated Feb- ruary 20, 18609 principal office, Tuskegee, Alabama.
Western Railway of Alabama, Montgomery Division .-- Montgomery, Alabama, to West Point, Georgia, 88 miles. Selma 'Division .- Montgomery to Selma, Alabama, 45.48 miles. Total miles in Alabama, 130.82; gauge four feet nine inches ; present company formed by the consolidation, in 1870, of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad (incorporated in 1834 and opened in 1854) and the Western Railroad of Ala- bama (opened in 1870) ; general office, Montgomery, Alabama.
East Alabama Railway .- Opelika, on Western Railway of Alabama, in Lee county, Alabama, to Roanoke, in Randolph county, Alabama, 36.75 miles; gange four feet eight and a half inches ; incorporated in 1868 as East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad, and road opened from Opelika to Buffalo, in Cham- bers county, Alabama, 20 miles, in 1871; sold under foreclosure in 1880, and reorganized under present title; extended from Buffalo to Roanoke in 1987; part of Central Railroad of Geor- gia System ; general office, Savannah, Georgia.
Eufaula and East Alabama Railway. - Eufaula, in Bar-
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bour county, Alabama, to Ozark, in Dale county, Alabama, 60.10 miles ; completed in 1888; part of Central Railroad of Georgia system; general office, Savannah, Georgia; standard gauge.
Mobile and Girard Railroad-Columbus, Georgia, to Troy, in Pike county, Alabama, 84.46 miles; in Alabama, $3 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; incorporated in 1846 ; road opened to Troy in 1870; part of Central Railroad of Georgia system, under lease for ninety-nine years from 1886; principal office, Girard, Alabama.
Montgomery and Eufaula Railway .- Montgomery, Ala- bama, to Eufaula, Alabama, 80 miles; gauge four feet nine inches : incorporated in 1860; opened to Union Springs in 1869; to Eufaula in 1870, and to a connection with the Southwestern Railroad of Georgia in 1873; operated by and part of Central Railroad of Georgia system ; general office, Savannah, Georgia.
Savannah and Western Railway-Columbus, Georgia, via Opelika, Alabama, to Birmingham, Alabama, 157 miles; in Alabama, 155.93 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; opened to Birmingham in 1888; part of the Central Railroad of Georgia system ; general office, Savannah, Georgia.
Southwestern Railroad, Eufaula Branch-Smithville, Georgia, to Eufaula, Alabama, 60.30 miles; in Alabama, 80 miles. Columbia Branch-Albany, Georgia, to Columbia, Alabama, 62.50 miles; in Alabama, 1 mile; standard gauge; leased to Central Railroad of Georgia, and part of that system ; general office, Savannah, Georgia.
Cincinnati, Selma and Mobile Railway, or Akron Branch of East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway System- Marion Junction, in Dallas county, Alabama, to Akron, a sta- tion on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, in Hale county, Alabama, 53.06 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; company organized in 1881, as successor to the Selma and Greensboro Railroad Company ; road acquired by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company by purchase; general office, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Brierfield, Blocton and Birmingham Railroad, or Bloc- ton Branch of East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway System .- Birmingham Junction, on Selma Division of East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway, in Bibb county, Ala-
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bama, via Blocton, in that county, to Mobile Junction, on the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, 48.75 miles; road owned by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company; gauge four feet nine inches; opened in 1891 ; general office, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Rome and Decatur Railroad, or Decatur Branch of East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway System .- Projected, Rome, Georgia, via Attalla, in Etowah county, Alabama, to Decatur, in Morgan county, Alabama, 135 miles ; completed, Rome, Georgia, to Attalla, Alabama, 62 miles ; in Alabama, 43 miles ; gauge four feet eight and a half inches ; opened in 1888; road acquired by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company, and is part of that system ; general office, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Alabama Central Railroad, or Meridian Division of East 'Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway System .- Selma, Alabama, via York Station, in Sumter county, Alabama, to a connection with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Lauderdale Station, Mississippi, 92 piles, thence over Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Meridian, Mississippi, 18 miles ; in Alabama, 87.22 miles ; gauge four feet eight and a half inches ; portion between Selma and York built prior to the war, and that between York and Lauderdale since 1878; road acquired by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway Company by purchase, and is part of that company's system ; general office, Knoxville, Ten- nessee.
Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad, or Selma Division of East Tennesse, Virginia and Georgia Railway System .- Dalton, Georgia, via Rome, Georgia, to Selma, Alabama, 194 miles ; in Alabama, 171.76 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; the por- tion of the road in Alabama constructed before the war; road acquired by East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railway by purchase, and is part of that system ; general office, Knoxville, Tennessee.
Alabama Mineral Railroad-Calera, in Shelby county, Alabama, to Attalla, in Etowah county, Alabama, 119.07 miles; consolidated company, composed of Anniston and Atlantic Railroad, Anniston and Cincinnati Railroad, and Shelby and Columbiana Railroad; road opened in 1891; gauge four feet nine inches ; road acquired by Louisville and Nashville Rail-
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road Company by purchase, and is part of that company's sys- tem ; general office, Louisville, Kentucky.
Birmingham Mineral Railroad-Located mainly in Jef- ferson county, Alabama, with Birmingham as principal termi- nus ; owned and operated by Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, in connection with its South and North Alabama Division ; gauge four feet nine inches ; incorporated in 1884; opened in 1884, but extended since; general office, Birmingham, Alabama ; miles completed and in operation, 161.84.
Mobile and Montgomery Railway-Mobile to Montgom- ery, Alabama, 178 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; consoli- dation, in 1868, of the Mobile and Great Northern and the Alabama and Florida Railroads, under present name; leased to Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for twenty years from 1881, and is operated by that company ; general office, Montgomery, Alabama.
Nashville and Decatur Railroad-Nashville, Tennessee, to Decatur, Alabama, 119.09 miles; in Alabama, 26.04 miles; gauge four fect nine inches ; consolidation, in 1868, of the Ten- nessee and Alabama, the Central Southern, and the Tennessee and Alabama Central Railroads; completed in 1859 and 1860; leased to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company for thirty years from 1872; general office, Nashville, Tennessee.
Nashville, Florence and Sheffield Railway-Columbia, Tennessee, to Sheffield, Alabama, 82.13 miles; in Alabama, 17.12 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; consolidation in 1887 of Nashville and Florence and the Tennessee and Alabama Railroads; completed to Florence in 1888; uses track of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, Florence to Sheffield ; part of Louisville and Nashville system ; general office, Columbia, Tennessee.
New Orleans, Mobile and Texas Railroad-New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mobile, Alabama, 140,39 miles ; in Alabama, 29,24 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; incorporated in Alabama, November 24, 1866; first ground broken, at Mobile, May 19, 1868; leased to Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, which owns all its capital stock, for fifty years from 1880, and is operated by that company ; general office, Louisville, Ken- tucky.
Pensacola Railroad-Pensacola, Florida, to Flomaton,
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Alabama, where it intersects the Mobile and Montgomery Division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 44.54 miles ; in Alabama, one-tenth of a mile; part of the Louisville and Nashville system; general offices, Pensacola, Florida, and Louisville, Kentucky.
Pensacola and Selma Railroad, Upper Division-Selma, Alabama, to Pine Apple, in Wilcox county, Alabama, 35 miles. Lower Division-Flomaton, Alabama, to Repton, in Coneculi county, Alabama, 32.39 miles; constructed since the war; owned and operated by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company ; gauge four feet nine inches; general office, Louis- ville, Kentucky.
South and North Alabama Railroad-Montgomery, Ala- bama, to Decatur, Alabama, 182.66 miles ; gauge four feet nine inches ; opened in 1872; operated by the Louisville and Nash- ville Railroad Company, which owns a controlling interest in its capital stock ; general office, Montgomery, Alabama.
STATEMENT
Showing the miles of poles and their value, the miles of wires and their value, and the value of instruments of the several telegraph companies transacting business in this State, as assessed by the board of assessment of railroad and telegraph property, for taxes, for the year 1892.
NAME OF COMPANY.
POLES.
WIRES.
VALUE OF INSTRU- MENTS.
TOTAL VALUE.
Miles.
Valne.
Miles.
Value.
Alabama Midland
175.11
$3,502 20
201.23
$2,515 38
$70 00
$6,087 58
East and West
71.00
1,420 00
71.00
887 50
70 00
2.377 50
Birmingham and Atlantic
22.90
.158 00
22.90
286 25
50 00
7944 25
Talladega and Coosa Valley (for 1891)
8.00
160 00
8 00
100 00
12 50
272 50
Atlantic Postal Telegraph Cable Company.
328.50
13,140 00
985.50
24,637 50
505 00
88,282 50
Western Union
2,233.62
117,344 80
11,335.57
283,389 25
11,120 17
411,854 22
Total
3,539. 131
$136,025 00
12,624.20
$311,815 88
$11,827 67|
$459,668 55
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GEOLOGY OF THE STATE.
PART ELEVENTH.
SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF ALABAMA.
By Engene Allen Smith, Ph. D., State Grologist.
The five great divisions, based upon the peculiarities of the Organic life of each, into which, according to Professor Gekiei, the geological record has been classified are: (1) the Archæan, sometimes called the Azoic (lifeless) or Eozoic (dawn of life) ; (2) the Paleozoic (ancient life) or Primary ; (3) the Mesozoic (middle life) or Secondary ; (4) the Cenozoic (recent life) or Tertiary, and (5) the Post-Tertiary or Quaternary.
The following table shows the order of succession of the stratified formations of Alabama, together with the position in the geological column of those formations either wanting or not yet recognized as occurring in the State :
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