The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-19
TO BE NOLAGGING NOW.
THE SOUTH BOUND SUBSCRIPTION
TO BE RAISED THIS WEEK.


Must be Subscribed, or Savannah
VIII Lose the Road and the Trade
of One Of South Carolina's Richest
Sections An Opportunity that Sa-
vannah Cannot Afford TO Let Slip.
What Business Men Say About It.
An earnest effort viii be made this week
to raise the additional s25, 900 stock sub
scription to the South Bound railway.
interviews with quite a number of leading
business men on the Bay yesterday show
that the interest in the enterprise has not
died out
The committees Of the cotton exchange
and the board Of trade will unite with
President Herman Myers and Col Mike
Brown, who is to come over from Barn
we'll during the week, in a systematic aud
final effort to raise the required amount
The committee of the cotton exchange is
composed Of e. Harrow, d. l. Maclntyre,
and w. S. Iison. The board Of trade
committe is composed of !. G. Haas, ID. g.
Purse, and J. b. Withers.
OUGHT To BE RAISED EASILY.
President Overton of the cotton exchange
said yesterday that the advantages Savan-
nan Will ueIlF6 rum lAo bulAAALE VI N4c
South Bound are so apparent that there
should be 10 element of doubt about raising
the additional amount required.
Isaac G.. Haas said: "You can say that
we will push the matter now, and we ought
TO meet with encouragement on every hand.
The amount ought certainly to be raised,
for the road will contribute largely to the
prosperity of the city"
Joseph Hull, one OF the active canvassers
last year to the subscriptions TO the South
Bound, said that an intelligent railroad man
of the north, abiding to the South Bound,
said that it is the most important incom-
plete link in the chain of southern railroads.
Mr.. Hull said that the South Bound will be
of incalculable advantage TO Savannah. and
as every one is interested everybody ought
TO contribute to finishing up the subscrip-
ton required.
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO SAVANNAH
J. Florance Minis said that the South
Bound road is one of great Importance TO
Savannah, opening to the Wholesale trade
of the city an extensive territory not now
tributary to it. He thinks the dry goods
and grocery trade ought to take deeper
interest in the road than has yet been mani
tested, and they should not let the enter
prise fail from any lack Of Iberality in sub
scribing to the stock.
Another Bay street man remarked that
Savannah lost its opportunity to get an in
dependent road from Montgomery because
of failure to raise $4,000. Other cities
of Georgia are contributing to the building
OF roads that are continually drawing from
the territory heretofore controlled by Sa-
Vannah, and il it wants TO hold its own it
must not sit down and expect railroads to
come here unaided. II could tell you more
about the Jacksonville road than you know"
he added, "but | am not at liberty to do
So"
SHORT LINE TO FLORIDA.
1t is no longer a secret, however, that
movement is on foot to build a shorter line
TO Jacksonville from the north, which was
noted in yesterdays MORNING NEWS, and
the projectors are only waiting with the
hope that Savannah will not raise the re-
quired amount of subscription to the South
Bound, as it failed in the Savannah, Ameri-
Gus and Montgomery enterprise, when jack
sonville will begin active negotiations for
the right of way of the South Bound in
South Carolina, and build to Jacksonville,
leaving Savannah off the line.
In discussing the probabilities of Savan-
nah's cotton receipts reaching 1000, 900
bales this year, it was the expression of
members of the cotton exchange that if the
South Bound had been completed this year
this years receipts would have been more
than /, 000000 bales. 1t is not improbable
that the receipts will fall SO, 900 bales short
of the coveted million.
TO SHORTEN THE DISTANCE NORTH.
The eyes of shrewd railroad men are upon
The South Bound as a gap to shorten the
distance to the north from so to 100 miles,
and to Chicago and Cincinnati by fully 200
miles. The Barnwell branch of the road
now connects at Blackville with the South
Carolina road from Augusta to Charleston
with the Blackville, Aston and Newberry
road, which connects with the Piedmont
Air Line at Columbia, shortening the dis
lance to the north eighty miles, with the
Northeastern railroad and with the South
Carolina road from Columbia to
Charleston, and with the "Three C'sn build
ing to North Carolina and Kentucky. The
Robinson system of roads approaching COM
pletion will be great feeder to the South
Bound. and the projectors Of the latter par
ticularly allude to the connections which
will follow by the building of forty miles of
road TO connect with Knoxville, shortening
the distance from Savannah to Cincinnati
and Chicago, it is claimed, 200 miles.
THIS WEEKS EFFORT THE LAST.
Whether Savannah shall put on the short
line to Florida, or whether it will be left to
depend on the present systems for connection
will depend largely on the success of the
canvass this week. Col. Brown says that
This Will Do mis- last effort In Savannah as
his project for another outlet for competi-
ton in the carrying trade will not be per-
united TO lie dormant another year. His
section, he says, demands better facilities
and competing markets for the products Of
the rich agricultural region of the famed
cotton belt of the counties of Barnwell
Hampton, Aiken, Orangeburg, and Licking
ton, and if Savannah does not
want to open her gates to a
territory whose annual production is 300
900 bales of cotton, and other product in
proportion, it will be compelled to look
elsewhere. Not bale Of this cotton now
comes to Savannah.
TRADE THAT SAVANNAH WANTS.
The towns of Blackville and Baruwell do
an annual merchandise business of 81. 500 :
600, and although the later is only eighty
miles from Savannah, and Blackville as
near Savannah as it is to Charleston. the
trade of neither Barnwell nor Blackville
can be commanded by Savannah, which
gfor purposes of trade and com
Enerce might as well be on the other side of
the continent.
A number of business men, who realize
the Importance Of the South Bound to Sa-
vannah, think the additional subscription
can be raised by an earnest effort Some
OF those who have subscribed, it is said
will increase their subscriptions; while there
are many who have not subscribed at all
or who have put down small subscriptions
out of all proportion to the benefits thew
from Alaev J.