Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-24
TRUSTEES, SALE

Property of the Columbus Manufacturing
Company. Complete and fully equipped
Cotton Factory, together with nearly mile
of the finest water power on the ChattahoO-
chez river. just above the city of Columbus.
STATE OF GEORGIA, MUsooGEE COUNTY.
~ BY virtue of the power vested in us I'M
der the terms and conditions of a certain deed
OF trust executed to the undersigned, j.
Rhodes Browne and A. Ilges, trustees, by the
columbus Manufacturing Company, OF Mus
coRee county, state of Georgia. dated March
LIST, 1884. whereby the said corpor alton con-
veyed To us all OF the property, real and per-
sonal, herein after described, in trast, to
secure the payment of its certain issue OF
bonds and the interest coupons thereof rs in
said trust deed specified and enumerated (all
OF which appears duly OF record in Mortgage
Deed Book IA" fohos 367 to 1913, March 5th,
1884, in the Clerks Office of Superior Court
M uscogee county, Georgia, and IN Record
Deeds, Volume o o, pages &! to 50 inclusive.
March 22d, 1884 Office of the Probate Court in
the county of Lee. State of Alabama, and in
conformity with the directions and terms
prescribed in the resolutions passed by tho
holders Of said bonds, on April Path. 1896, un-
der the authority conferred by said deed of
trust
cogee county, Georgia. on the Sd day OF Au-
gust, 1886 between the legal hours Of SALE in
front OF the Auction House Of +. NJ. Knowle
4 Co, on the northwest corner OF Broad
street and Tenth formerly Crawford street,,
(heing the usual place for 5nerin7s sales in
said city of Coiumbus), at public Outcry,to
the highest bidder, for cash. the following de-
Scrlheu property oil the Columbus mhnufhC~
turing Company, to-wIt: All those lots ana
parcels OF land situated. lying ana DeIng "a
follows: Fractional section number twenty
six (26) and the north half OF fractional Sec
ton number thirty-hve tSO) both in frac-
tional township number eighteen TX
range humber thirty 800, in formerly
Alabama. Also the following lots 5 Of lands
lying and being in the eighth C8th) dis,rlc5.
OF Muscogee county, state of Georgia, known
AZ lots numbers eighty-six 1861 and eighty
al nj
seventy four (7D and fractions numbered
ninety -One (9D ana nineJy-t two 1922. and
Island number three ~ in Chattahoochee
river aud small enclosure situated east Of
the residence formerly occupied by j. Il.
Clapp, used rs residence and grazing lot,
continuing seven ~ acres more or less
All OF said lands asst described lying and be-
ing in he county of MuscOgee and State of
Georgia, and together with said lands in Lee
county, Alabama, containing eight hundred
and thirty t8S0) acres more or less
Also, all of the said Columbus Manufactur-
ing Company's buildings on said land In
Muscogee county, Ca, operated rs Cotton
Factory, and with all of the improvements in
any manner appendaGt and appurtenani
thereto. inclusive, of this cards, spindles,
looms, machinery and nXturos of every kind
whatsoever contained in said buildings; also,
all and singular tho other improvements on
sill of the lands aforementioned and
described; also the entire water power
owned and controlled by said Columbus
Manufacturing Company on and in said
Chattahoochee river, together with all and
singular inc TlEubS anu iTAntDfStS by Tire SalQ
the Columbus Manufacturing Company held
and possessed therein under the laws Of
Georgia
The plant of said cotton factory consists at
present Of 4,544 spindlea, l49 looms and other
suitable machinery, all in good condition and
producing good work. Present capacity
1900 yards day of heavy shestings and shirt
ings, three yards To the pound.
The operatives houses and improvements
generally in excellent condition. labor aDuu-
dant, lands elevated and location of property
unsurpassed for health, convenience and eco
municipal taxes paid by all the other Column
bus mills, vet within three miles of the city OF
Columbus and three-quarters OF mile OF
Columbus and Rome railroad. The water
power 10 the finest In the South, controlling
and embracing the whole bed OF the Chatta-
hoochee river for the distance of about one
mile along the lands of said company, said
lands extending along It's banks upon the
Georgia and Alabama sides Of the river.
Only a small portion of the water power Is
required and utilized in running the present
mill, and the natural falls in the river render
but simple inexpensive dam -, OF
logs and plank necessary. Thu
magnificent water power ia easily controlled
and has u fan OF forty-two and nalf (421xl
feet within three-quarter5 20 of mile.
upon new dam one hundred and twenty
five thousand tl25,0Oe) spiudles with looms
in proportion can be driven by this water
power. Capital for the erection of add tional
mills and utilization OF the immense power
now wasted IL all that Is needed TO m axe this
property the site of prosperous and popu-
loue manufacturing village. The person al in-l
spection OF capitalists Is invited. Full and
satisfactory details Will be furnished upon
"rf''0 RHODES BROWNE,
Trusteos