J.W. Woolfolk
JOSEPH W WOOLFOLK. Columbus, Ga, enjoys the distinction of producing the two meu most conspicuous in railroad affairs today in the south. The record of Captain Samuel Spencer, of Columbus, the president of the Southern railway, is perfectly tamiliar to the people of the south. But there is another Columbuster whose name is marked today i in the railroad world. His name is J W Woolfolk, and he occupies today the proud and unique position of being the only man in the south able to float bonds and commence active construction of railroad.
It is no spur or branch line that Mr Woolfolk is constructing, but a line 200 miles in length, involving an outlay of $4,000,000 which he has absolutely guaranteed. The road with branches will run from Columbus, Miss, to Montgomery, Ala. The man in these times of depression and absolute cessation of railroad building, able to engineer such an important enterprise in the lace of apparently insurmount able obstacles, is worthy of more than passing notice. Colonel Woolfolk is a member of an old and distinguished southern family. He began his business career in Columbus, in 1870 and until 1885 was prominent in the business, social and political life of that city.
He wasoriginator, organizer and one of the builders of the Georgia | Midland and Gulf railroad. He accomplished the extraordinary task of securing $3,500,000 northern capital with which to build 209 miles of railway from Bainbridge, Ga, to Montgomery, Ala, and at about the time of the of the Barring Brothers, began the building of 110 milas of railway from Tuskaloosa, Ala, to Montgomery, Ala. He has constructed other importint railroads, and enjoys as he deserves too, the fullest confidence of northern capitalists. But the evidence of this latter is made plain by the fact that he is today building the only railroad in the south and that one is 200 miles long, requiring an outlay of $4,-| 000,000. Colonel Woolfolk 'is an engaging, attractive man of affairs.
Mrs Woulfylk, who was the beautiful Miss Josie Wilkins, is now on visit to S her sister, Mrs Howard Williams, in Atlanta, where Mr Mrs Woolfolk are both extremely popular. Colonel Woolfolk has one son a member of the junior class at Yale university.-Atlanta Journal. |.
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