The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-10-22
4 NEW CITY ON THE COST.
wiz E.:ce poins Pa. out Aay Better C!:ar
Pert Royal?

COLUMBIA. October l+.-'i't:r dreams
OF halt {. century sa2ui about to Ee
realized. aud the finest water gateway
Gn tie Atlantic coas5 Is to b,, tiir""::
omen &c the commerce Of the world 1t
last. The South Carolina sinking fund
commission has Sold to the Macon and
Atlantic Railroad Company three ham
Gred acres OF marS! land al Foot Point,
Beaufort County. siytec:. miles from
Port Royal. nn the opposite side o: t::e
HaV. Hii;: ;:Hout eighteen .ai!:S iI0Hl
Savannah as t;?c cT"w ii;c;:
The sell.;ia: piic- Is merely rG.hinai-
ola dollar per ;;cre-;es the I;i.;d is v5:i
ue:cS3 t:!th=: i:;: agricultural: CT pbos-
paato nliuing purposes. and is bought
ly tt;% above n&:;ivd corporation for
tie purpose CT securing deep water tcr-
miaal facni:isS. The purchase. wSs
maze through JAMES 3. Robertson. az
negotiating agent for Willis 3. Sparks.
president o. the Macon anG Atlantic
Railroad. THIS roa,! is the last OF All
extensive system connecting Memphis.
Macon and Birmingham with the At
laHtic coast.
1t il; learned tha, several adjacent
plantations nave recently b"g!i pHI-
chased hy tie salae corporation, 10 DC
used rs tie site Tor Il city. and that the
work OF building wharveS, dep1ts. ware
houses, etc. ;Ga TIE laying ont OF town
lots viii he iEa"yiraEe,; IL an early day.
Although thsrc arc 10 p;.c:phat!c OF
mineral deposits On the laI;iS sold, the
State. as :: mere matter Of form, re-
serves 20 Itself al s,hnsphatic and min
eTai rights. There j: also clause in
the deed OF sale which provides that il
the railroad is not completed to Foot
Point in three years the land will re-
Vert 10 the state It is confidently eN-
pected, however. that the road will be
in operation and trains ruanirG iacc
Foot Point within eighteen months.
y dispatch from Macon. dated the
9Th inst, gave the following inforr1a-
tioG concerning this transaction.
One 81 The biggest railroad schemes
ever projected n the South: came to
light here to-day OF thu return iroH:
New Yori; OF President ". B. SPARKS,
Of the Macon Construction Company
and the Macon ana Atlantic Railroad
Company. President Sparks announces
that Foot Point, on Coileton River.
about sixteen miles from Port Royal,
ahi; the sa!ue GiStar ce from Savannah.
has been settled on as tic water ter
minus OF the Macon anl Atlantic,
which, it was once thought, would so
either 10 Sapala Sound or Savannah.
The plan IS 10 complete the linz now
building from here 20 Guyton, aad
thence b? an air line u the Coilcton
River. The barber at Foot Point, it is
claimed. gives the deepest rater south
Of Nor!oik-twc 1.-two to twent7-fcur
feet at To-" water. There big docks and
grain elevators viii he built, and it is
claimed that, with the Western coa-
nect!onS Of the Macon and Atlantic,
the new port will become leading ex-
porting and importing point on the
SU,th Atlantic coast. Work is going
l!g;lt ahead Dow Oh the He| .ino and
the enterprise is u5t {: visionary one.
Five Thousand acres o; land have
already been bought at the terminal
point, Foot Point
The News and Couricr's representa-
tive also learns, fTo!n private but
authentic source, thaS the Amcricus
Construction and Railroad Company
has just purchased, for terminal fac!il-
ties 1900 acres OF land il the same
vicinity, on Colleton Neck, fronting
foar miles on May River, "ith an
aycrags OF five fathoms OF water ut 10"
water. The sale wa, made hy DR.
Heighway, OF Nashville. Fem, and
Thomas Martoa, 0; BlIfEtoa, who held
the property IL common, the purchaser
being john Garrett, Of savannah
agent for the Ainericus company. The
price paid WAS $1,000 cash aud one
tenth interest in the cou!Yany. Titles
were passed yesterday
This makes thirty-two square miles
in I'll recently purchased by these two
railroad and construction companies
for terminal purposes, on Colletoa neck
The site here afforded Tor the location
of a city is an admirable one il every
respect, situated as it is upon u high
bluff, with a perfect system OF drainage
and with deep water on two sides
Land which WAS bought there ten or
fifteen years ago ;or IS an acre is nos
selling at $1,000 an acre, for the pur-
pose OF being divided up into building
lots,-NcWS and Courier.