Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-13
OUR NEIGHBORS.

and Albany Railr0ad-The Cole
System - Macon and Brunswick
DfvIsiOn-The New Agent-C0lone1
Fremont aud Governments Hnn-
prOvement OF Brunswick Harbor.
BRUNSWICK, October 12.-EditoT MornsaQ
Nescs: The change in temperature has made ir
very pleasant, and people seem TO move about
with more vigor than is their usual won't I
am glad to find our neighbors in good spirits,
although business is not as brisk as it might
be. Several new buildings are In course Of
construction, while a good many have recently
passed under the hand of the repairer. There
are fair number of vessels in port loading
with lumber and naval stores This business
Increases continuously. The prices for tur-
pentine and rosin have been very good the
whole season. The average price for turpen.
tine has been accents per gallon during this
year
Among the improvements is the Catholic
Church, the basement being about completed.
This is to be the finest brick house in Bruns-
wick. Our Catholic friends build more wisely
e. an most any one else. They build not for TO-
day, but for the future, and hence they are
putting up the most substantial structure In
the city.
The Methodists during the past year have re-
painted and in some respects remodeled their
church and parsonage and they now present
cheerful and tasty appearance Rev H p.
Myers, son of the late DR. Z. H. Myers, OF Sa-
vannah is pas or here. and is greatly beloved.
Several families from the up-country have
moved here during the past month, and the in
crease of population is steady, although NOT
rapid Brunswick is on the up grade, and
trust her prosperity will continue
The public school system is being worked ad-
mirably in this county, so far as the means at
their command will allow. Superintendent
Kendrick is enabled, by the economical man
agement of the board. to pay off the teachers
every month. The schools in Brunswick are
doing well among both races.
THE RAILROADS.
The Brunswick and Albany Road. recently in
corporated into tae Erlanger system, is des-
tined to be the benefactor of this city. This
system has facilities to enhance and contribute
to the interests of Brunswick that the Cole sys-
tenn doe4 not possess. This is the only Allan
tic port reached by the Erlanger, and into
which must flow the immense traffic coming
from Cincinnati, from Memphis, and from their
Texas connections. Mr.. Wolfe was here
some time ago, and has projected
some vast improvements, and as soon
as the lease of the Cincinnati Road Is COM
pleted and things moving in the proposed
channel, attention will be directed at once TO
the extension from Albany to Selma, Alabama
The distance only being one hundred and sixty
five miles, this gap can be readily nlled up and
connection. Among the early advantages to
this city will be the establishment by Mr..
Wolfe of banking facilities commensurate with
the wants of commerce here This line COM
ing through some of the richest cotton sections
of the South this port will at once become q
great shipping point for the fieecy staple. This
company mean business in the fullest sense OF
that term, and here, / think, is Brunswick'a
greatest opportunity If they fail in this can
see no help for them for many wears to come.
The Brunswick and Albany Road has beeM
managed well, and has been constantly in
creasing in business, the result Of its own de-
velopment 1t is entirely dependent upon
local traffic, and the management have extend
ed every facility for the opening up of the
country, and encouraged every industry along
it's line, until to-day its receipts are every way
satisfactory, and supplies Brunswick with the
chief articles of export. The management
deserve well of the country, and no doubt have
more than met the expectations OF the former
owners of the road.
The Macon ana Brunswick division of the
Cole system are making large improvements
here in WharVeS and other cOnveniences me-
creaSing business over this Well-managed road,
They are building an extensive wharf on Tur-
tie river, three miles above Brunswick, where
their grain elevator will be built. 1t is claimed
that they will have at this point thirty feet OF
water at low tide thus enabling the largest
vessels at all times to approach it, This inn
provement, it is thought, will be finished by
the first of January next, when all their ship
ping will be from that point. In the city this
road will build depot ia front of Littlefield g.
Tfson's warehouse. ami have it fitted up in
good style and affording every convenience for
both passengers and freight, which will be
great improvement. When the Atlanta exGen-
sion is completed, and through trains come de
rectly from Atlanta, the business of the COM
pany will greatly increase.
Maj C Day, so long the efficient agent of this
road at this point has resigned, ana Mr. r. A.
Tarver, of Montgomery. Mo Ala, has been ep-
most agreeable gentleman, with popular man
Ders, and withal a thorough railroad man.
He was connected for many years with the
Montgomery and Eufaula Railroad He has
made a fine impression here and will no doubt
meet the expectation OF his employers,
GOVERNMENT IMPROVEMENTS.
have had the pleasure of meeting with Col.
S. L. Fremont, assistant engineer in the service
of the United States lie is well known in Ea-
vannah as a polished and cultivated gentle-
man, as well as an efficient officer. He is a
graduate of West Point, in the class, / believe
with General Sherman. learn from him that
there was thorough examination and instru-
mental survey made of this harboF in the sum-
mer of 1879 under his immediate direction and
the result reported to General Gilmore, the en-
gineer in charge of the works on this coast.
The project for the improvement made by
Colonel Fremont was approved and was sub
stantialy as follows:
l. A jetty Of palmetto log cribs, filed with
brush, clay and stone, was to be constructed
from the upper end of the shoal in the chan
mel opposite Cooks wharf, and parallel with
the Brunswick wharf line, and 1000 feet from
it, to run distance Of about q, 500 feet to deep
water below Brandy Point. From the upper
end of this jetty a similar line and connecting
with it was to run to the shore of Buzzard
Island nearly at right angles with the main
line.
2. The channel was to be dredged out to the
depth of Is feet-low water-the entire length
OF the jetty, which would give a mean high
water depth of q feet in the channel for g
width of 300 feet.
A contract for tho TaluoaffO arih iaffvy xuao
made in 1879 with John Brady, of New York.
who failed to complete the work, and it was
turned over to MIR. John Provost, of New
York, who has nearly completed that contract
and has taken a new one to continue the work
in a somewhat different FORM but with the
same object, to wit: To narrow the water way
and to increase the velocity Of the current,
and thus scour out the channel, with the aid
of the dredging, to a sufficient depth to accom-
modate the commerce of Brunswick.
The contractor for the dredging is Mr.
James E. Walter, Of Savannah, who has been
greatly hindered. and the work is now sus.
pended Ia consequence of damage to his
machinery by the late storm.
This work is under the immediate charge Of
Colonel Fremont, who has been in charge OF a
similar work in Savannah. he is here to hurry
up the work and press il to a rapid completion
as soon as possible
The total appropriation for this work
amounts to $35, go II will require about $50 900
more to complete it according to the original
plans which included DETECTING ietty at the
northwest point OF BuZZafQ d Island. When the
improvements are fully completed, Brunswick
harbor will, it is claimed, be second to none on
the coast south of Norfolk There is an abun-
dance of water at the bar at the entrance OF
the harbor between st. Simon's and Jeky1
Islandss
AMOUNT OF WORK DONE.
The shore end Of the jetty is finished 80
feet on main line up TO its connection with the
shore line, 737 feet, l.G47 feet in ali of pal
metto cribs covered with stone. upon which the
oysters are making solid oyster reef The
dredging has been carried one cut all the way
from deep water above Cooks wharf to deep
water below Brandy Point, distance of 1900
feet, and three other cuts have been carried
partially through By the plan adopted by
Col Fremont the dredgings are dumped into
the cribs, thereby saving considerable por-
ton of the cost of filling in with clay
The amount appropriated was $500, and
there have already en- expended on the work
$4,000, leaving balance ON hand of $15, GOO,
with which to continue the work.
With many thanks TO the frien Is Of the
MORNING NEWS, and they are many, and 10
Charley Moore. Of the Moore House, | bid
Brunswick adieu for the p esent.
JACK PLANE.
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