The air is rife with railroad news just now and east and north Miss. is the theater of many projected enterprises. The Frisco and Southern are afraid of each other and appear to be bluffing heavy.
Every 24 hours brings some new announcement in the dailies of roads to be built etc. perhaps these bluffs may result in action from one of these companies and redound to the interest of some portion of Calhoun, yet there is little certainty about where the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City will run if built to a junction with the Memphis & Birmingham.
It is now reported that the I. C. has abandoned the Memphis and Mobile scheme, concerning which so much was said last week in the papers. So it is impossible for a little weekly local to keep pace and to chronicle the many reports and wild rumors afloat.
It is said that the Nashville & Mississippi Delta will be built soon from Helena, Ark., via Grenada, Houston and Okolona to the coal fields east. Well, we will watch and re-echo a few things said of these projected lines but not all.
Memphis, Tenn., May, 22 –
President Frank Merrill, of the Mobile, Jackson and Kansas City, has
closed a contract for the construction of an additional 100 miles of road
from Hattiesburg to Decatur Miss.
The work will go forward at once. The road is headed in a straight line for Memphis, to connect this city with deep water at Mobile. – N. O. Picayune.