The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-18
MUST PUT UP $4,000.
sAvANNARs LAST CHANCE AT
THE SOUTH BOUND.

COL Brown to be in Savannah Next
Week, and Final Effort to be Made
to Raise the Subscription to Bring
the Road Eere-Other Places Trying
to Get 1.-THE Committees to Make
q thorough Canvass in the Next Few
Days.
z Col. Nike Brown Of Barnwel. S. c., and
Supt W. 81 Wallace Of the Charleston
Phosphate Mining Company, stopped over
at the Pulaski house last night for supper
on their way home from South Florida,
where they have been spending a week in
the phosphate dslds in the neighborhood Of
Ocala.
President Herman Myers Of the South
Bound Railway Company met Col. Brown,
and the two had conference on matters
pertaining to the railway project. at which
it was agreed that Col Brown should come
over 20 Savannah next week and cooperate
with Mr.. Myers and the committees Of the
cotton exchange and boGrd Of trade in an
effort % raise the additional subscription of
IS, 0Qo required % be secured here Col
Brown took tie Midnight train for Charles
ton after t5s co1ts-s1ce-
sATASsAE's LAST CHANCE
Before Co Brown was driven 70 the
depot. II hurried interview with = MORN
ms SEES reporter he said that his visit to
SSvzz7&A osxt week will Be bis last on
E1c1 81 e-raod Ea k.ii that be might as
vel BE frank Rbout IL II ths additional
amount s Subscribed be Is willing TO put
his no7sy into TIE construction company
and 80 70 YORK at oncs He said that he
has raised al tie Subscriptions required
along the has II South Carolina, secured an
AMENDED charter for the road and rights Of
way from BSrnweN % the Savannah river,
and be has certainly shown his zeal and in
terest in the matter in his own state, AID
has made several trips here in the interest
Of the enterprise.
Savannah, Capt Brown thinks, ought to
see the advantages 20 accrue 20 her By the
building Ct a road through a section rich In
agricultural resources, heavily timbered,
between BarnweI and the Savannah river,
and lacking only a short link to Columbia
70 put Savannah in a position 10 draw from
a Nide territory, and to compete with other
cities for furnishing a densely populated
section with supplies
IT WILL GO ELSEWHERE.
Col. Brown wants it understood that If
Savannah does not now take hold of the
enterprise he viii feel free to go il another
direction, and il Is known that profFers
have been made from the projectors of a
road that points to another terminus.
The matter has been kept very quiet, but
II has leaked out that there was a railroad
meeting in jacksonville some three weeks
ago In the interest Of a road from Columbia
that will purposely cross the country 10 the
south Of Savannah for jacksonville "a it's
coast terminus, and 1t is believed that the
projectors would like to make deal for the
South Bound on thelCarolina side Of the Sa-
vannah.
The question was bluntly put 10 Col.
Brown If propositions had not been made
TO him In that direction, and he replied that
ne desires to bring the South Bound to Sa--
vannah, and proposes to act in good faith
until he finds that Savannah 10 not willing
70 encourage the road to come here
A SHORT LINE TO FLORIDA.
He would neither admit nor dsuy that
the projectors of the Jacksonville road are
only waiting 70 see what Savannah will do.
but 1t Is believed that Jacksonville pro-
poses to have another and shorter line to
the north, and that the projectors of the
road prefer that Savannah shall not be on
the line, as they fear the new hotels at Sa-
vanannah mean to compete with Jackson
vile for the tourist travel
President Myers saws that il Savannah
viii raise the additional S25, 900 the South
Bound will be assured. "We will build the
road at once" he added. He considers It
one OF the most important enterprises that
could be devised for advancing the trade
commerce and progress Of Savannah, and
ne says that the business of the road in a
year viii fully justify the outlay asked of
Savannah people. He has been over the
line and has carefully inspected it,
and he says its importance to Savannah can
hardly Be overestimated.
TO RAISE THE LAST $4,000.
An earnest effort will be made next week
70 raise the subscription, and If it is raised
the construction company win be Organized
at once, and work will begin and be pushed
with the utmost vigor Before the road is
completed to Barnwell, there is every rea-
son to believe that the gap between Black
VINE and Columbia will be closed up. and
by the time the road has been Completed
from Savannah to Barnwell, the South
Bound will be directly connected with the
great lines OF independent railways to the
north. 1t depends on what Savannah does
next week.