Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-05
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TRUSTEES, SALE

IhOcIEES SAIL
Property OF the Columbus Manufacturing
company. Complete and fully equipped
Cotton Factory, together with nearly a mile
OF the finest water power on the CbAttahoo-
chee river. Just above the city Of Columbus
%TAIE or GEORGIA, MusCOGEE County.
~ by virtue OF the power vested in us UNI
DER the terms and conditions Of certain deed
or trust executed to the undersigned, j.
Rhodes Browne and A. lllges, trustees, by tha
COUNT ua Manufacturing Company, OF Mus-s
cogee county, State OF Georgia, dated March
lst 1854. whereby the said corporation con-
veyed TO US 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
sald trust deed specified aud enumerated IAN
OF which appears duly OF record in MOrtQaRa
Deed Book "a" folios 367 70 1913, March Sch.
1884, in the Clerks Office of Superior Court,
Muscogee county, Georgia, and In Record
Deeds, Volume . ., pages 3! TO IS 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 oath, 1886, un-
der the authority conferred by said deed OF
trust.
We will sell in the city OF Columbus. Mus
cogee county. Georgia, on the Sd day OF Au-
gust, 1886. between the legal hOurs OF sale, in
front of the Auction House of II. M. Knowle
Co, on the northwest corner OF Broad
street and Teeth formerly Crawford street),
(heinE the usual place for Sheri07s sales IN
said city of Coumbus), at public cutlery, ca
the highest bidder, for cash. the following de-
scrlbed properly OF the Columbus Manufac-
turing Company, t5-wit: All those lots and
parcels of land situated, lying and being az
folows: Fractional section number twenty
ak (26) and the north half OF fractional Sec
tiOn number thirty-ave 1883 both in frac-
tional township number eighteen llS),
range number thirty t30l, in formerly
Russell. now Lee, county State Of
Alabama Also The following lots of lands
| lying and being in the ei3hth ,8h) dis, rlc5i
OF Muscogee county, state OF Georgia, known
as lots numbers eighty six 1883 aud eighty
! seven $50 and the west half OF lot number
| seventy -four "a. ana fractions numbered
| ninety (9D and ninety two 1927, and
Island number three CD in Chattahoochee
river aud small enclosure situated east Of
! she residence Formerly occupied by j. x.
| Clapp, used "a residence and grazing lot,
containing seven 20 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 tS30l acres more or less
Also, all Of the said Columbus Manufacture
ing Company's buildings on said land in
Muscogee county, Ga, operated as a Cotton
Factory, and with all of the improvements in
any manner appendant and appurtenant
thereto. inclusive, of the cards, spinclea.
looms, machinery and fixtures of every kind
whatsoever contained in said buildings: also,
all and singular the other improvements on
al OF the lands aforementioned ana
desert bed; also the entire water power
owned and controlled by said COlnmbuG
I
Chattaho0chee river, together with all aud
singular the rights and franchises By the SAID
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 spindles. l49 looms and other
suitable machinery, all la good condition aud
producing good work. Present capacity
| $500 yards a day of heavy sheetings and shirt
! ings, three wards to the pound.
The operatives houses and improvements
n a Nrpltput
dant. lands elevated and location OF property
unsurpassed for health. convenience ana eco
nomical productiOn-free from the burden OF
municiDal taxes paid by all the other COium-
bus mills, yet within three miles of the city Of
Columbus and three-quarters of a mile OF
Columbus and Rome railroad. The water
power Ia the finest in the south, controlling
| and embracing the whole bed OF the Cbatta-
| hOOchce river Tor the distance Of aboutBd6
mile along the lands Of said cOmpapv, sairt
| lands extending along it's banks upon Tie
| 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
but simple inexpensive dam Of
| logs and plank necessary. e This
magnificent water power is easily contributed
and has q fall OF fOrty-twO and half 42lkl
feet within three -quarters ~ Of mile.
With a comparatively small expenditure.
upon a new dam one hundred and twenty
five thousand tl25,000l spindles with looms
in proportion can be driven by tins water
power. Capital for the erection % adah4iOnal
mills and utilization or the immense power
now wasted is all that is needed 20 m Eethi5
property the site of prosperous ana poDti4
lOus m manufacturing village. The personal in
spectiOn Of capitalists Is invited. Full and
satisfactory details viii be furnished upon
"fp''''' }. RHODES BROWNE, liof
Trustees