Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-07-04
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE REMOVAL OF RESTRIC-
TIONS HAILED WITH JOY.

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Pleasure Parties FIOcking to Every Re
sort-The New Beach Railroad-Th,
Cattle Trade-The Coast Line Canal
Other News Notes in state and
Town.
JACKSONVILLE, July 2.-The authori.
ties having removed all restrictions ON ex.
cursions, a general rush is being made to
the seashOre and springs. Large numbers
have gone down to the st. Johns bar and
shifted the pure air of old ocean, and bath
ed in the surf on the south beach, one of
the best places for such sport on the At
lantic coast.
Our health board, desiring to thoroughly
eradicate smallpox, still require all ex-
cursionists to provide themselves with a
certificate of vaccination, and he that
| cannot, must submit to having the virus
then and there inserted, not as there is
any immediate danger, but to prevent any
future outbreak or spread of smallpox in
the community. Not to have a wax certi-
ticate, is to place oneself entirely outside
of the pale of fashionable society in this
city.
Those who go down and plunge them
] selves in the healing waters that wash the
sands of one of the most magnificent
beaches on the Southern coast return
highly elated, which is inducement suffi-
cient, these warm days, for others to go
and do likewise. These bathers can enjoy
a bath without the least danger by wad-
ing into the water a few feet from the
shore, where the overcoming pillows from
mld-ocean, in rapid succession, break
over and around them, the effect of which
is delightful. The little folks enjoy it i'm
mensely as the swelling pillows cast them
ashore instead of into deep water. A few
hours once spent here increases the de-
! sire for repetition every warm day dur
/ ing the year.
If the railroad now contemplated from
! this city to the south beach is finished.
and the hotel promised is erected by next
/ summer, there Will be no more popular
resort anywhere than this one. The dis
! tance from this city will be only twenty
miles, and the most hard worked business
man in town can find an hour or two each
| week to run down and bathe his parcbed
! brow and have the invigOrating breeze
blow the dust of the city from his eyes.
Active and enterpriSing men have the
| building of the road in charge, and only
ask for 100000 to put it through, all of
which, save $4,000, has been subscribed.
| and had not the smallpox scare disturbed
! the usual equanimity of the city, dirt
would now be moving on this beach rail
road. The whole st. Johns river country
is anxious for seaside home in summer,
and it is real necessity, and both the
road and hotel must be built.
! The demand for Florida cattle is greater
| this summer than ever before In the
western counties herdsmen from Texas
| are gathering all cattle to be had and
! shipping them to that State by rail via
/ fanIn g n 1, Il.
/ ed to I'LL up the depleted herds there, as
/ the constant sales to the Eastern markets
have greatly reduced the native stock.
! The rush OF cattle to Cuba from South
| Florida is also greater than ever before.
| About the 1st of May disagreement be-
! tween the stock owners and purchasers
! as to price per head had tendency to re-
tard the shipping of cattle, and the yes
/ sells were about to withdraw from the
trade when the demands of the cattle
owners were acceded to, and since about
the 10th of May they have been shipped to
! Cuban ports by the thousand head, and
| it is learned from one of the largest stock
| owners of that section, that over 500, 900
| worth are sold per month, and will be
sold for several months to come, if the
! demand can be supplied. About SI7 per
head is the price paid.
Letters are received in this city fire.
quently from the West soliciting informa-
tiOn about cattle, as to where the largest
number can be purchased, what section
OF the State is best adapted to stock rails
ing, and as to range, etc. These letters
of inquiry are not all from Texas, Arkan-
SaS and Missouri, but some come from far
away Arizona and New Mexico
In South Florida the proceeds from the
sale OF cattle is always greater than that
received from the sale of the orange and
vegetable crop, but if the present rate of
shipping is continued this will, however.
soon be reversed, as the herds will be
gradually diminishing while the fruit and
vegetable interests are steadily increas-
ing.
The Florida Coast Line Canal and
Transportation Company's dredge con-
tinues to cut, though its progress is slow,
yet all are assured of its successful ter
minatlOn. Its completion will connect
the navigable waters lying inland and
running parallel with the coast. These
streams are deep enough to float any
steamer now on the st. Johns river, but
are so detached as to serve no general pur-
pose. At present they are only of local
advantage, but once connected, commu-
nicatiOn is established in one unbrOken
chain along the coast, and furnishes an
outlet to all parts of the world.
The water in the canal now
is about six feet deep and
Ine DdHhS are wen formed. The
dredge cuts in an hour twenty feet in
length by sixty wide and six
feet in depth. The dredge will
soon be in Smiths creek, and this
water course Will then be followed where
it is narrow and straight, and change
to the low ground, parallel with the
main direction of the creek, where it is
wide and OF soft mud, until the Halifax
river is reached. Once into this river the
nlQQnG known nd
'.Haulover" can easily be reached, and
the cutting of the entrance into Indian
river commenced A small steamer plvs
now between the dredge and st. Angus
tine through the canal.
Col. /. COryell, one of the officers of this
enterprise, and who has been superin-
tending the work, has been compelled to
take rest and go North for the benefit of
his impaired health, but while in this city
recently said he was sanguine of success,
and was as full of hope, apparently, as on
the day the work began. Ample funds
areat command to finish the work. and
supply, IT necessary, two more dredges to
expedite the work.
The merchants in this city are certain
that their business will be largely in
creased as soon as this great waterway is
completed and supplied with steamers,
penetrating as it does one of the finest
fruit, vegetable and cattle sections of the
State,
The business men Of Jacksonville in
general will be much benefited by this
new route to the Indian river country.
which has so long been deprived of an
outlet, as by means of the st. Augustine
and Jacksonville Railroad direct route
is opened up between Indian river and
jacksonville, the northern terminus of
the canal being only short distance from
St. Augustine.
Cheering news also comes from the
workmen on Kissimmee and Okeechobee
canals, the progress of which is very sat
isfactory, and at this time much more SO.
than was expected a month ago. Two
dredges and a snag boat are now being
operated by the OkeechObee Drainage
Company. One of the dredge boats is at
present at work in the CalOosahatchee
river, having recently cut a chan
mel twenty miles in length.
besides cleaning it of fallen timber, drift
wood, etc. A ledge of rocks in this chan
mel will have to be blasted before the
dredge can proceed further with its work
This obstruction removed, it is the opin-
ion of those engaged in the work that the
river will then be navigable from the
OlechObee Lake to the Gulf of Mexico.
The other dredge is cutting a two mile
canal from Lake Tahopekaliga to East
Lake TahOpekaliga. A canal from one of
these lakes TO Lake Cypress, four miles
in length, has Just been completed. This
canal as first cut did not prove satis-
factory, SO the dredge proceeded through
1t second time, deepening and widen
ing u, Its dimensions now are: depth,