Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-03
PENSACOLA AND ATLANTIC.
How It Will Profit Savannah-An
Untouched Fl DOradO-H0mes for
a SODg-Let the Forest City Spur
Up,

GENEVA. ALA, July r. Editor Morning
NelCs: The completion of the Pensacola and
Atlantic Railway, by the Louisville and Nash
vile line, is the dawn Of a new era to the coun-
try through which it runs, as well as the sec
ton Of Southeast Alabama tributary to it. and
opens up TO your city a section of country
heretofore terra inc0gRitd While we can
not boast Of millions OF cotton bales to be
emptied into Savannah's broad lap by the
opening Of this highway, yet we may truth
fully say that the sunshine Of Heaven never
lighted up a land possessing more natural
advantages quietly awaiting the laborer's
sturdy blows to bless the world with its mani
fold productions There does not grow (wheat
excepted a grain, fruit or a staple which
may not be produced here in rich abundance
by the ordinary labOrs incident to the farm.
That q country so blessed in land, water and
healthfulness should remain for years a com
parative wilderness. and that. too, within three
days drive with an OK cart, OF less favored re-
glOns, IS a little singular. IL has happened, how
ever, that from one cause and another South
east Alabama has been left out in the cold bV
our railroad systems, and sections Of the State
much less fortunately situated have improved
as mile after mile Of the great civilizer has
penetrated the country. As consequence,
we have been unknown to the great world
'beyand the beyance," as the negroes sing.
cur row solitary and alone. But the sound of
the whistle is reverberating through these
fertile wales and dewy glens and men of will
ling hauds and stalwart forms have caught the
inspiration AMI are moving onward to the
lively step Of the steam whistle. and ere many
years shall roll by will boast country and
people abreast any who snail strive in the race
for progression.
Possessing thousands Of acres, lying in solemn
stiffness, untouched by the hand of man. ready
to return most liberal reward to the indus
triOus tiller Of the soil, covered with the finest
growth OF timber on earth, abundantlY
| watered, surrounded by herbage for the cattle
| and sheep of a thousand hills, famed by Gulf
| breezes, qualified By the sanitary influences of
a pine region for hundreds Of miles; soil and
| climate specially adapted to the liberal use Of
| fertilizers on all grains and staples, there is
| no good reason why Southeastern Alabama
should not, in the near future, be, as its name
implea land of rest for the tired sons of toll.
In addition to these manifest advantages,
/ when we come to consider the extremely low
| price OF these favored lands, and the ease and
| triRing cost at which they may be reached, we
| are astOnished that any one should think of
| undertaking the hazards AID expense OF a re
| moval to Texas-a land OF extremes in every
particular-when one Of equal, nay superior,
| advantages lies Just across the river.
| In addition to the advantages of climate,
| healthfulness and convenience allow me to say
/ that lands may be had within a mile Of our
court house on navigable streams, and with
| churches and good schools, for SIS the quarter
/ section, 100 acres, or may be bought from the
/ government for 81 25 per acre. Nor are these
i lands gopher hills. With ordinary cultivation.
and with the addition Of one hundred pounds
/ Of fertilizers per acre always to be had herel
| they produce from ten to twenty-five bushels
| C I'm, forty to eighty bushels oats, 100 to 20,
| bushels potatoes, and 300 to sou pounds lin
| cotton per acre, while cattle, sheep and hogs
| can roam over illimitable pastures OF fadelesS
! green for nine months in twelve. Our active
| Vigilant, faithful Representative in Congress
| w C. Oates. has introduced, and will press to a
/ favorable issue, we trust, bill by which one
| years residence on public land secures a title
| In perpetuity-a measure which will do more
i TO develop the untold wealth hidden in the
Il bosom Of Southeast Alabama than millions
fOolishly expended upon works OF no direct
benfit 70 the people and the government,
i But not only are your farmer readers inter
i ested in this sealed section Of the country
| Your city and merchants have opened to them
/ a land and people which for the most part
/ Orleans. whilst the productions Of the great
/ staple cotton have been limited by the want of
outlet, and the heavy drain upon the labor of
the country by the timber interest. The open.
ing OF the one and the decline of the last will
i act as a spur to larger efforts, and we look
| forward confidently to the time when our
/ town shall export $4,000 bales of cotton and
| feed her people who produce it from her gen
| erous bosom. It will not do, however for Sa
| vannah to sit idly by and expect that our pip
1 pins are going to rot and fall into her lap Mo
| bile and New Orleans have IL to 25 feet or
1 their bars, Louisville Is no baby In trade an
| the Pensacola and Atlantic Railway is an out
let in perpetuity, to say nothing Of the perpet
ual springs which feed the broad bosom or sill
| very Choctawhatchee.
Already the directory Of the NJ. & G Road
| another name for the Central, have announced
| to the public that their carrying trade would
| be put at signal disadvantage unless the NJ. 6
| g. should be extended to Elba, and they never
| uttered a greater truth. Elba ami the con
| tiguOus country will be the liveliest CONNER
| cial battle field over which railroad interest
| struggled seen in a decade. Down here oul
| sympathies, from interest are with the p 6
/ A. route careless whether its richly ladeT
| trains move East or West, paying them toll in
| any directiOns-knowing too that these strug
| giles must end in the long run to the full De
| velOpment Of the country, the prosperity OF
/ the Iannle and the common good r NJ G.