Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-25
i. l.. GOODWIN,
City Marshal.
TRUSTEES SALE

property OF the columbus Manufacturing
Company. Complete and fully equippeu
Cation Factory, together with nearly mile
OF the finest water power on the ChaLtahoO-
chee river. Just above the city of Columbus.
SiTATE OF GEORGIA, MUsCOGBs COUNTY.
~ by virtue or 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. iliges, trustees, by the
Columbus Manufacturing Company, OF Mus
cogee county, State OF Georgia, dated March
LIST, 1884, whereby the said corporation Con-
yeyed g Us all Of the property, real and per
SOndl, herein after described, in trust, to
secure the payment of its certain issue IL
bonds and the interest coupons thereof as in
said trust deed specified and enumerated (au
OF which appears duly OF record in Mortgages
Deed Book "A, )" fOliOs 367 to 1913, March 5th.
1884, in the Clerks office of Superior Court.
Muscogee county, Georgia, and IN Record
Deeds, Volume o D, pages s! to 50 inclusive
March 22d 1854, 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 paRsed by the
holders OF said bonds, on April 24th, 1895, un-
der the authority conferred by said deed Of
trust
We VIII sell in the city OF Columbus, Mus
cogee county, Georgia. on the d day OF Au-
gust, 1885, between the legal hours OF sale, in
front of the Auction House of Il. M. KnOwIe
Il Co, on the northwest corner OF Broad
street and Tenth formerly Crawford streeE,
(belng the usual place for Snerins sales in
said city of Columbusl, at public outcry, to
the highest bidder, for cash. the following de-
scrlbed property of the Columbus Manufac-
turing Company, to-wit: All those lots and
parcels OF land situated. lying ana Deing az
follows; fractional section number twenty
six C26) and the north half OF fractional sec
ton number thirty-hve 60 both in frae-
tlonal township number eighteen Us,
range, number thirty (SO), in formerly
Alabama. Also the following lots OF lands
lying and being in the eighth tSth) district
OF Muscogee county, state of Georgia, known
as lots numbers eighty-six 1882 and eighty
seven tS7l and the west half OF lot number
seventy four t7I and fractions NUMBERED
ninety-One lOp ana ninety-JwO 1921. and
river ana small enclosure situated east of
the residence formerly occupied by j. II.
Clapp, used as 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 t8S0l acres more or less.
Also, all Of the said Column bus Manufactur-
ing Company's buildings on said land in
Muscogee county, Ca, operated az a Cotton
Factory, and with ali OF the improvements in
any manner kppendant and appurtenant
thereto. inclusive, OF the cards, spindles,
looms, machinery and fixtures OF every kind
whatsoever contained In said buildings; also,
all and angular the other Improvements on
all 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
sluRulhT the flRHbs anu IThuGDiseB 10y tine Ba10
the Columbus Manufacturing Company held
and possessed therein under the laws Of
Georgia
The plant Of SAID cotton factory consists at
present of 4,54 spindes, ll9 looms and other
suitable machinery, all in good condition and
producing good work. Present cspacity
1900 yards day of heavy shestings and shirt
iBgs, three yards to the pound.
Tho operatives houses and improvements
generally in excellent coma ton. labor AQUA
dant, lands elevated and location OF property
unsurpassed for health, convenience and eco
municiral taxes paid by all the other Column
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-
ho0chee river for the distance of about one
milo 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 is
required and utilized in running the present
mill, aud the natural falls In the river render
R ogs and simple plank dam ras
magnificent water power ~ easily controlled
and has a fall of forty-two and q nalf l421<l
feet within three-quarters "a OF mile,
With comparatively small expenditure
upon q new dam one hundred and twenty.
i've thousand tl25,OOc) spindles with looms
in proportion can be driven by this water
power. Capital for the erection Of additional
mills and utilization Of the immense power
now wasted h all that Is needed TO make this
property the site Of prosperous and pOpn-
lous manufacturipgv illage. The personal in
spection OF capitalists Is Invited. Full aud
satisfactory details Will be furnished upon
application. p,orvs apow,rp
A. ILLGES,