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

Boston is TO have board of trade.
The ice factory at Americas is to be en-
larged.
Cuthbert will soon have a new hotel, to
cost 10000.
A $4,000 Baptist church is to be built at
Dawson at once.
The Baldwin County Fair Association is
now almost certainty.
Three new stores have been opened at
Dawson within three weeks.
1t is said that dummy line from Lincoln
ton to " ashington is certainty.
During the month of February about
1905, 600 feet of timber was measured at the
public boom in Darien.
1t will not be long before Schillinger
pavements will be laid before all the stores
on Main street, Dawson.
IL is said that Pierre Lorrilard, the New
York millionaire, is trying to buy Souther-
lands Bluff, near Darien.
The advance in the value of all kinds of
city property at Americas within the past
twelve months has been phenomenal.
The bridge of the Savannah, Americas
and Montgomery road over the Ocmulgee
river at Abbeville has been completed.
Dawson is to have first-class system of
water-works. They will be built by r. l..
Bennett of Philadelphia at cost of $50, 900,
and will be built without delay.
The Washington Foundry and Manufact-
uring Company has closed contract with
Simon Keough for the erection of brick
building on the site of the store of Fluker
& Bro.
The electric light man is on the streets of
Miliedgeville distributing poles and digging
holes preparatory to the erection of wires.
In few weeks the lights will be all over the
city and in the stores.
The dirt was broken on Thursday for the
new stores of Lowrey 81 Orr and McLain
brick buildings, with frontage ON Main
street OF 30 feet each, and running back 100
feet.
Lafayette Messenger: The prospects
for the building OF railroad through Ar
muchee are tiattering The line will be from
Rome by Echols' mill, and up the creek to
Taylor's Ridge, which it will follow to Tun-
mel Hill.
F. A. Ruggles, of the Dawson Variety
Works, has proposed to establish a first
class furniture factory there if he can get
S25, 900 subscribed to the stock. One gen.
tleman has proposed to take So, 900 and an
other 81. 900.
On Saturday morning a gentleman ar
rived in Sparta who said he was looking out
for place to locate a large shoe factory
He claimed to hail from Boston, Mass, and
to be partner in a factory that works
200 hands. He left for Augusta, saying
he would return.
Macon TetegrGph: The Georgia Southern
and Florida and Toe Macon and Birming-
ham railroads. recognizing the fact that it
Is impossible to secure sufficient land for
shop and yard purposes within the city
limits, except at ruinouS and prohihitory
prices, have determined to found ma lu-
featuring town at the junction Of th3 two
railroads, just six miles from the city.
They have bought 226 acres of high, dry and
level land, and will survey and map off the
entire property in sites for railroad shops,
transfer yards and factory purposes.
They offer as Inducements to manufac-
turers land sufficient for both fac cries,
and tenement or dwelling purposes free of
charge, with no restriction whatever.
fee simple warranty titles to be made on
completion of buildings. They will only
charge trackage or transfer charges on cars
to and from Macon. That charge will be
the same as prevails in Macon from one
road to another. Telegraph and telephone
facilities will make the site as convenient
as if located in thecity.
Col. Marcellus Thornton of Atlanta comes
to the front again. This time the colonel
figures as the most prominent parsonage in
an immense deal in Kentucky aud Tennessee
| coal lands, and he is now president of one
of the largest organizations in the country.
In brief, the deal is the consolidation of
Kentucky and Tennessee coal mines which
have an aggregate capital Of SO, $50, 600,
| and employ over 1,340 men. The deal was
perfected at Knoxville, and on next
Monday meeting will be held there for
the purpose of arranging all details. The
consolidated companies will hereafter
be known as the Southern Jellico Coal Com
pany, and the headquarters of the company
will be in Jellico. on the Kentucky side.
The companies in the consolidation are the
Standard Coal and Coke Company, capital
S500,0 Jellico Mountain Coal and Trans
portation Company, capital 100000; Proc
tor Coal Company, 5000, OOO East Tennessee
Coal Company, capital S250,00O, and the
Main Jellico Mountain Coal Company, cap
ital $500, 900. The company has leased 100
cars, and has secured an option on $50 more.
The East Tennessee road will furnish large
number, and the company will be able to