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Mining Link
~ Gets charter
The Missing Link Railroad Com
pany, incorporated to build and
equip a trunk line from Chatta
nooga to Wulhalla, was granted a
charter this morning by Secretary
of State Cook.
The company, capitalized at
three million dollars, with all the
money in hand, contemplates build
ing, nh the name implies, the con
necting link between the South
ern, which taps the proposed line
at Walhalla, and Chattanooga,
where traffic arrangements have
been made with the Western roads
and Chicago lines. The new com
pany proposes to do what has long
been dreamed of—connecting the
.. • South, directly with -the .West and
the great grain markets. .
The Missing Link Railroad will
be 150 miles long, will traverse five
of the richest connties in the State,
open up for developpment the larg
est quarries and mines in the State
ard bring another great feeder for
the seaboard cities of Georgia and
the Carolinas. It means the in
vestment of throe million dollars,
every penny of which will find
lodgement'in the State of Georgia.
Early this morning Mr. W. L.
Albright, of Ohio, and Mr. Vuulix
Gibbs, o f Georgia, called at the of
fice of the Secretary oi Stute and
asked for tbe granting of their ap
plication for charter. They gave
evidence that the money had been
actually secured and that all was
in readiness to to begin bona fide
lvorK on the proposed mammoth un
dertaking.
Attached to the application for
incorporation are the following:
W, L. Albright, Thos. F. Greer,
W. E. Candler, C. J. Wclborn, Jr..
W. R. McConnell, A. A. Camp
bell and Vaulix Gibbs.
•‘Theroad for which we have se
cured the charter will most assured
ly be built,” said Mr. Albright this
. morning. ‘’There is no doubt
about this, as the money has been
secured and all has been put in
readiness for the work to begin
and we have been only waiting for
the charter to be secured before
beginning the work,
“The proposed line will run
through ’the counties of Catoosa,
Whitfield, Fannin, Murray and
Rabun, which are rich in mineral
resources and will be excellent op
portunities for investment and de-
.velopements. Yes, we will begin
work ut ouce, |now that we have
the charter, and the road will be
built as .rapidly as possible. We
are thoroughly satisfied with our
investment and there is plenty of
money to carry out and execute all
that we have planned or may in
the future plan.”
It will be remembered that the
Secretary of State has been notified
that the inoorporators of the Chat-
tanoogu, (Augusta and Charleston
have filed application for charter
for this road.
By looking at the map it-will'be
seen that the two roads are work-
~ ing for almost the Bame territory
and connections-i-a line from the
seacoast to the West.
Rumor has it that the Missing
Link is being backed by the South
ern, which is working to get into
the West and probably as far as
Chiohago,-while the popular belief
is that the Seaboard is backing the
C , A.and 0- for a similar pur
pose.—Atlanta Journal Sept, 7.
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