The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-21
GEORGIA THRIFT.

Five car loads of lumber have arrived for
the new furniture factory at Toccoa and
work began Friday.
NJ. Maynard, merchant near Drewry-
vile, has sold over $4,000 worth of goods
on cerdit the past two years. and has col
lected every dollar of it but IS.
Shannon s. Wilson have rented the old
furniture factory of j. B. Simmons and
are running it themselves. w. G. Edwards
takes all the furniture they make.
J. E. Mays has purchased the interest of
Charles A. Wckle in the drug business of
Wikle g. Young, at Cartersville. The style
of the new firm is Young & Mays.
The annual output of Stevens pottery, in
Baldwin county, now amounts TO over
$50, 900 pieces. And still their capacity and
number of employees is being increased.
Darien Gazette: The creeks are still very
low and the prospects for a rise are slim
There was some little timber down during
the week but not enough to do any good.
Alfred Gilbert last Friday purchased from
j. B. Hayward the store property now
occupied by Waldrup s. Co., corner of
Main and Erwin streets, at Gainesville
The price paid was $4,000
The estate of the late SANDY" Bingham
Of Newman is estima ed to be worth 800
600. His property consisted mainly OF
farming lands in Coweta and Meriwether
counties, aggregating nearly 1000 acres.
The money voted by Milledgeville for
the girls industrial school will be available
by May Is, at which time ground will be
broken and work begun. 1t will be pushed
rapidly forward, so that it is quite likely
that when the legislature meets in the fall
there will be S22. 900 expended on the insti-
tuition. In January, 1891, the first install
ment of the states appropriation will be
due, and the work can progress without
hindrance.
The Columbus Southern railroad, re-
Gently completed passes through Stewart,
via Richland, and four miles south of the
latter point are, it is claimed, inexhaustible
mines of iron ore, unsurpassed in quality by
any and equaled by few. Over 1000 acres
of it are owned and controlled by two
prominent Buena Vistians, viz, James NJ.
and J. H. Lowe. 1t has been classed limo
mite, and is of superior quality, as will
be seen by the following analysis: Sixty
per cent metallic ore. per cent. silica, 80
per cent phosphorus.
Gainesville Couraitt-A Inericdn: The
bright, yellow ochre that comes from the
mines near this city is meeting with popular
favor in The commercial world. Wherever
the article is used the Gainesville ochre is as
to quality, ahead of all others. The manu-
facture Of ochre is getting to be quite an
industry in the city. There are two mills
here, and they always have orders ahead.
The ochre is found along the river in solid
beds 1t is necessary sometimes to tunnel
short distance for it. 1t is soft and easy
to get at, and, therefore, ole man can mine
a great quantity of it each day. 1t is SHOW
eled into the wagon and hauled to
the mill where it is dumped into great piles
At the mill it is first foated through loag
troughs until it is clear Of sand, and from
there it is emptied into tanks, where it is
allowed to settle. From here it is run into
a long evaporator and is fired by furnace
fed by coal with hot-air flues running all
through four inches apart. 1t is partially
dried here ard is then carried TO the drying
room where the drying is completed. The
ochre goes from the dryer to the pulverizer,
when it is ground into impalpahls powder
and thed put into barrels ready for the
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