Clay County AlArchives News.....Ceremony Marking the Beginning of the Brimingham-Lineville Railroad December 16, 1903
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The Birmingham News December 16, 1903
LINEVILLE, Ala., Dec. 10. There is general rejoicing in the town on account of 
the starting of work on the Birmingham and Lineville railroad which la being 
built by well-known Birmingham gentleman and which will open up the rich 
agricultural and mineral resource of Clay County. A short ceremony marked the 
beginning of work in the presence of a huge gathering of Lineville citizens, the 
resident officers of the railroad and Ihe engineers, who have made the survey 
and who will superintend the construction, Col. John S. Jemison. vice president 
and general manager, presented with a speech suitable to the creation a shovel 
to Miss Alma Bell, one of Lineville's most popular young ladles, to throw the 
first dirt. A large force of men and team immediately afterward began the 
clearing of the roadbed and the moving of material. The shovel was presented 
afterward to Miss Bell and bears the following inscription: "This shovel 
presented to Miss Alma Bell by the official of the Birmingham and Lineville 
Railroad Company as a memento of December 14, 1903, on which day her fair hands 
threw the first shovel of dirt on the road at Lineville. Ala." "The officers and 
directors of the company are: R. H. Pearson, president: John S. Jemison, vice-
president and general manager; R L. Ivey, secretary and treasurer; Vasser L. 
Allen, counsel; Robert Jemison, S E. Thompson, W, J. Powell, Sr., director. 
Wilson & Alber, chief engineers; H. A. Jones, resident engineer".

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