The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-05
TO PUSH RIGHT AHEAD.
THE SOUTH BOUNDS PROJECTORS
WANT $4,000 MORE

The Canvass for the Unsuoscribed
Stock to Begin IN Short Time-Ths
Cotton Exchange and Board Of Trade
Committees Ready for Business
The Advantage That the New Road
WIN Be to Savannah-The Length Of
Road to Be Built.
Since the board Of trade and the cotton
exchange have, in response to the request
of President Herman Myers. Of the South
Bound railroad. appointed committees to
act in conjunction with the company in
soliciting the additional amount of stock
subscriptions expected of Savannah to aid
the enterprise, it is expected that early
action viii be taken.
The projectors of the South Bound say
that the business men of Savannah should
not delay in coming TO the aid Of the enter
prise, as already a road is projected from
Columbia Ia the direction of Florida which
is designed to leave Savannah out, and to
direct the trade and traffic If that part of
the country h t9een Barnwell and Columbia
over the Robinson Seaboard Airline
system northward.
THE CENTRAL WORKING THAT WAY.
The statement OF the president of the
Central railroad that if the South Bound is
not built the Central will connect BarnweI
with the Augusta and Port Royal road by
a branch, is also offered by the South
Bound people as an argument in favor of in
creased interest upon the part Of Savannah
merchants to support the movement so that
the territory which it is prepared to open
up may be made directly tributary to this
eity.
A member Of the committee said yester-
day that it will be early enough 20 begin
the canvass after the busy cotton season is
over, as merchants viii find at the close of
the year that this year has bsen a most
prosperous one, but this view is not gener-
ally shared by the friends of the road, who
argue that because everybody is busy. and
trade is good, is no reason why any delay
should be encouraged, and that the business
men of Savannah are much more likely to
aid the railroad enterprise by liberal sub
scriptions now than they will be later On.
TO START AT ONCE.
It is likely, therefore, that the committees
of the two commercial bodies will be urged
to make the canvass this month, so that the
question may be definitely settled whether
or not Savannah wants another railroad,
and its only independent road. which will
put the city in close connection with the
north, and open prosperous agricultural
section, reaching from Barnwell to Column
bia.
President Myers said yesterday that in
his Judgment there should be as little delay
as possible. The South Bound people pro-
pose to give Savannah road 144% miles
in length, reaching from the South Carolina
capital through country rich in agricult-
ural development, and not through an
undeveloped country, as is usually the case.
Such road, connecting at Columbia with
the Robinson system, will put Savannah
much nearer the north, and open to its
merchants and fertilizer manufacturers a
territory which 1t can literally supply at
competitive prices. while the county trade
will bring to Savannah the products of the
cotton fields, the turpentine farm and the
mill in a volume which will stimulate the
cotton. lumber and naval stores trade of
the city, and amply repay those who CON
tribute to the capital stock by the increased
business which the road will pour into Sa-
vannah's lap.
ONLY ZIG MILES TO BUILD.
There remains but thirty-four miles of
road yet to be built between Columbia and
Perry to connect with the Blackville.
Aston d Newberry road, which it is
understood will be a part Of the South
Bound system, and the road from Black
vile and Barnwell, also in operation, is part
of the South Bound system. The South
Bound people, therefore, have only to build
the thirty-four-mile gap between Columbia
and Barnwell, and the eighty-two-mile gap
from Barnwell to Savannah, 116 miles alt5-
gether, to aid the building
of which they ask of Savan.
nah subscription of $4,000 to the
capital stock of the road. There has already
been subscribed about $4,000, and after
that amount had been raised President
Herman Myers and Col. Mike Brown went
north to confer with capitalists who had
interested themselves in the road.
5000 DOLLARS WANTED.
The result of the conference was a propo-
sition to furnish the capital required to
build the road when Savannah should show
ats interest in the enterprise by subscribing
more literally, and $4,000 was
named as the amount TO be sub
scribed. Since then the canvass
has not been pushed, but the facts having
been brought to the attention of the cotton
exchange and the board of trade, each of
these bodies has designated a committee
of three to aid 10 the canvass to raise the
amount required. and the South Bound
people say that the canvass should be en-
HQFad CARLY