Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-10
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Tr9al SaIFn:
TRUSTEES SALE
THIS DAY AT IL O'CLoCF

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
GTATE or GEORGIA, MUSCoGEE COUNTY
~ BY virtue OF the power vested in us un.
der the terms and conditions OF & certain deed
OF trust executed TO the undersigned, j.
Rhodes Browne and A. Illgos, trustees by the
Columbus Manufacturing Company, OF Mus
cogee county, State OF Georgia, dated March
LIST, 1884, whereby the said corporation con-
Veyed to rs all of the property, real and per-
sonal, herein after described, IN trust. To
secure the payment of its certain issue Of
bonds and the interest coupons thereof as in
said trust deed specified and enumerated (all
of which appears duly of record in Mortgage
Deed Book "A, - fOllos $50 tC 1913. March 9th
1854, IN the Clerks office of Superior Court
MubcoRee county, Georgia, and IN Record
Deeds, Volume o, pages 8! to 81 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 the
holders of said bonds, on April Path, 1886, I'M
der the authority conferred by said deed OF
trust.
We VIII sell in the city OF Columbus. Mus.
cOgee county, Georgia, on the 3D. day Of Au-
gust, 1886, between The legal hours of sale, in
front of the Auction House of +. NJ. knowle
II Co, on the northwest corner OF Broad
street and Tenth formerly Crawford street,,
being the usual place for Sneritfs sales in
said city OF Columbus), at public cutlery, to
the highest bidder, for cash, the following de-
scribcd property of the Columbus Manufac-
turing Company, to-wit: All those lots and
parcels OF land situated. wing ana Oelng al
follows: Fractional section number twenty
SIN (26) and the north half OF fractional sec
ton number thirty-hve t3o) both IN frac-
tional township number eighteen Us,
range humber thirty co., in formerly
Russell. now Lee, CoEnty State of
Alabama. Also the following lots Of lands
lying and being in the eighth 9Th dissrlcg
of Muscogee county, State OF Georgia, known
as lots numbers elghty-siX 1881 and eighty
seven 1917 and the west half OF lot number
seventy-four (7D and fractions numbered
ninety one (9n ana nlneJy-J 1927, and
Island number three 80 in Chattahoochee
river and small enclosure situated east of
the residence formerly occupied by j. Z.
Clapp, used rs a residence and grazing lot,
containing seven ~ acres more or less.
All of said lands last described lying and be-
ing in the county of Muscogee and State of
Georgia, and together with said lands IN Lee
county, Alabama. containing eight hundred
and thirty $500 acres more or less
ALSO, all Of the said Columbus Manufacture
ing Company's buildings on said land IN
Muscogee county, Ca, operated as Cotton
Factory, and with all Of the improvements I'M
any manner appendant and appurtenanS
thereto, inclusive, of the cards, splnclest
looms, machinery and fixtures OF every king
whatsoever contained in said buildings; als0s
all and singular the other improvements oni
AL Of the lands aforementioned banSf
described; also the entire water power,
owned and controlled by said ColumbpS
Manufacturing Company on and in said
singular the rights and franchses by the sad
the Columbus Manufacturing Company held,
and possessed therein under the laws Of
Georgia. ~
The plant of SAID cotton factory consists al
present OF 4,5i4 spindles, lI9 looms and OthesI
suitable machinery, AL In good condition auta
producing good work. Present capactYt
1880 yards day of heavy sheetings and shirt-t
ings, three yards TO the pound.
The operatives houses and improvements
generally in excellent condition. labor aDun-a
dant, lands elevated and location of property
unsurpassed for health. convenience and eco
nomicaI prOducHOn--free from the burden or
municipal taxes paid by an the other COlum-
bus mills, vet within three miles of the city OF
Columbus and three quarters of a mile of
Columbus and Rome railroad. The water
power is the finest in the South, controlling
and embracing the whole bed OF the Chatta-
hoochee river Tor the distance Of about one
mile along the lands Of said company, said
lands extending along its banks upon the
Georgia and Alabama sides of the river.
Only small portion OF the water power ts
required and utilized in running the present
mill, and the natural falls in the river render
but simple inexpensive dam r., OF
magnificent water power i easily controlled
and has a fail of fOrty-tWo and half t421<)
feet within three quarters ~ of mile.
With a comparatively smah expenditure
upon new dam one hundred and twenty
i've thousand (l25,000) spindles with looms
in proportion can be driven by tins water
power. Capital for the erection Of additional
mills and utilization OF the immense power
now wasted is all that is needed TO make this
property the site Of prosperous and popu-
ious manufactuPingvillage The personal in
specti0n Of capitalists is invited. Full and
satisfactory details viii be furnished upon
"pp'''' j. RHODES BROWNE,
A. ILLGES,