The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-22
GEORGIA THRIFT.

An ice factory isamong the probabilities
at Columbus.
b. W. Bentley, jeweler of Valdosta, has
sold out to Messrs. Goodrum & Sirmans.
Track is being laid on the Macon and
/ Birmingham road at the rate of one mile
per day.
TIE Moultree factory at Sparta has started
operations. All Its machinery will be run
ming in few days.
The brokerage firm of Clancy & Farrar
Of Macon has dissolved. Mr.. CLANCY re-
tires TO engage in the insurance business.
Freeman & Caldwell OF Eastman have
sold their entire interest il the naval stores
business to J. T. Colcord, he assuming all
the liabilities of the firm.
It is said that there are 5000
sticks of timber on tbs big Ohoopie creek,
in johnson and Emanuel counties alone,
awaiting the water to rise sufficiently to
take it off.
Col. L. M. Terrell, superintendent of
mail service, will go down the Georgia
Southern and Florida road in a few days to
establish mail routes on that road from
Lake City to Palatka.
| B. c. Thompson, who is getting ranging
timber in the Oconee swamp on J. T.
| with IL $50 feot of lumber in it, which
measures at its trunk twenty-one feet and
four inches in circumference.
Mays g. Fossett are building two two
| story brick stores ON their vacant lot, Just
above the livery stable at jackson. Mir.
| FOssett has large farming interests near
Toomsboro, but his family live at Jackson,
to send their children to the Jackson Insti-
tute, which now numbers 200 pupils.
Macon is to have a new knitting mill to
| cost $1,000 The plans are to be drawn
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| mence on the foundation of the buildings
within sixty days. The mill is to be
erected by the Bib Manufacturing Com
pany, which already owns and operates
large manufacturing interests in the city.
Dan Borum, who represents P. c. Clegg
q Co, Of Americas, was in Buena Vista
Monday soliciting subscriptions to build a
telephone lite between Buena Vista and
AmerIcus. The liue can be put up for $500,
aud Americas proposes to raise $500 il
| Buena Vista and Ellaville will raise the
| $50. Those who take stock will be free
from any tax or rental thereafter, and sub
| scribers at Buena Vista can have direct
communication with any subscri Der Of the
Americas Telephone Exchange.
The sale of nine acres of the city common
of Columbus to the Georgia railroad FOR
| shop purposes has not yet been closed mp.
The city council wants the Central to build
either bridge or underground roadway
across its tracks at the head of Eleventh
| street, 100 feet wide The Central agrees to
build a roadway 60 feet wide, and say they
| will not put their shops at Columbus if
required to build roadway more than co
| feet wide across their tracks. 1t is feared
that unless concessions are made on both
| sides Columbus will not get the shops.
If the first bids had been opened, the state
would have gotten 900 more for the
| Okefinokee swamp than it will now receive.
| One of the first bids submitted contained
an offer of 81 cents an acre for the swamp,
| and the required deposit accom- anying i5
remained with the state treasurer until
| after the bids had been declared of. When
| the second day was named for the opening
| of bids, the bidder who had submitted the
| offer of 81 cents per acre, withdrew his bid.
| The highest bidder on March IS offered 2615
cents an acre for the swamp, which the
state thus disposed Of for $50, 900 less than
was offered for it about two months ago.
s. NJ. Inman has made the following
offer to the city council of Atlanta: "For
the sum of S125,000, half cash, balance one
and two years, with interest, | will sell the
| city of Atlanta $50 feet front on the corner
OF Mitchell and Forsyth streets, running
| back 100 feet on Forsyth street, to ten
| foot alley, to be joint alley with the adj
joining property; and upon the same erect
| for the city three-story building, the
arrangement OF which is to be like the
present state capitol as to stores underneath
and rooms overhead, except the basement,
which cannot be brought to the ground
level The finish to be plain but substantial
at least, equal to the capitol. A glance
ct the map OF the city will show the prop
erty, think, nearer the center of popula-
ton than the old capitol; and the erection
Of the union depot in the near future, within
a block Of this property, will give it ulti-
mately an enormous value"