Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-27
SOUTHEAST ALABAMA.
The Pensacola and AtIantic-Savan-
nah's OppOrtuDity-A Fine Timber
Countrywide Political Tidal Wave.

The Pensacola and AtIantic-Savan-
nah's OppOrtuDity-A Fine Timber
Countrywide Political Tidal Wave.
GENEVA. ALA, Nov. 24.-EdtOr Morn
ing NetrS: Your corresp spOndent has recent
Iy taken somewhat extended trip in
southeast Alabama, and also in the coun-
ties of Holmes and Walton i'm Florida.
traVersed by the new pensacola and
Atlantic Railroad" now being constructed.
and which. from present observation. will
be completed and running by January.
les3, This road will run from Pensacola
10 ChattahoOchee in Florida. distance Of
one hundred and sixty miles making the
total distance three hundred and sixty
miles from Pensacola TO Jacksonville
ME the road will add greatly 10 the
material prosperity Of West Florida. it
VIII be great convenience i'm the matter
Oh quick transportation to the merchants
ana farmers Of Geneva and. indeed. of the
whole Of Southeast Alabama.
sAvANNAH's OPPORTUNITY.
Savannah's merchants and business
men never had a finer opportunity to ex-
tend their business in Il fast growing
country than now. and while the iron is
not let her strike" The wool and cotton
products Of these cOunties-C Coffee. Dale.
Henry and Geneva-are considerable. and
constitute trade that Savannah should
naturally control, for, from what your
correspondent can see, Savannah can offer
quicker transportation and far cheaper
goods than either Mobile or New Orleans.
NEW ENTERPRISES.
\ numberOf new enterprises are sprino-
ing up in and around Geneva. Several
gentlemen Of capital and means from
south Carolina and other States have pur-
chased lands in this county. and Will soon
engage IN the business Of turpentine and
rosIn manufacturing. 4 number of lum-
Der mills, too, will spring up in the course
OF time, which Will add considerably to
the material wealth of Southeast Alabama
and West Florida.
Geneva has direct communication with
Pensacola, but the yellow fever has pre-
vented for several months all intercourse
by the steamboats, which run from this
point To that city. but happily. now the
fever Is at an end.
A FINE TIMBER COUNTRY.
In Henry, Dale. Coffee and Geneva
/ counties are some Of the finest timber or
/ pine forests in the United States. Your
\ correspondent has seen some of the fine
timber lands in Georgia and Florida, but
+ Is free TO say that these lands in Alabama
are superior in the quality and quantity
/ of their pine timber. Added to these are
/ the fine water courses that abound. which
can DE used Tor transportation and for
manufacturing purposes. At Elba. in
/ Coffee county, on the PeO river. is water
/ power uneXcelled by anything of the kind
either at Columbus, Ga, or at FAN River,
Mass, for manufacturing cotton and wool.
and il is a matter of wonder that this
splendid point should so long have re-
/ manned neglected and not ere this been
I utilized. At Newton Dale county, are
/ now i'm operation two wOOlen mills. which
have paid a fine profit to their owners. the
/ Messrs. killibrcw 4 sons. Newton Is situ-
ated on the Choctawhatchie river. thirty
miles north from Geneva.
THE TIDAL WAVE OF 1852.
In reading the journals from the differ
ent cities your correspondent is delighted
f to see the great good that has resulted
from the recent election of November =.
/ 1882. Alabama sends her fraternal greet
ings TO the old Empire state of Georgia.
All hail.Old Georgia, the land of our sires
. and may peace, happiness and prosperity
. long abide upon thy broad domain. under
Your good Governor and statesman. whom
/ Alabama as we'll as Georgia, loves the
I Hon. Alex. stephens.
Alabama, like her sister State. sent a
/ solid Democratic delegation To the Forty
eighth Congress, and, if this Congress will
do its duty and elect as Speaker some
broad-minded statesman like Carlisle. of
! Kentucky, who believes in tariff for
7 revenue only. i'm 1884 we can all see a
Democratic President elected. and the
''0ld shipof state" will proudly yveer round
. once more To that track of safety and of
glory that was mapped out for her upon
the chart of the fathers that launched her
hundred years ago. To this glorious end
/ let us all strive. xxx.