The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-14
GEORGIA THRIFT.

A single factory is TO be established at
Albany.
Work at the Americas brick works " II be-
gin next week.
A E. Sherlock will soon establish bot
Ting works at Americas.
The new bottling works of +. g. Edwards,
at Albany. are a success from the start.
building, to be used as a hotel and
bank, is IN process Of erection at Richlaud.
At Cordele during the past twelve months
$7S2, 500 has been invested in new enter
prises.
The Elberton institute has been a success
beyond the most sanguine expectations of
any one.
The stock company organized TO control
the Division City trick works at Albany
took charge this week.
There is a prospect that the extensive
plant of the Kaufman Lumber Company
will be removed from Poulan to Albany.
Maj. Speer and Col. Huntington have
just sold their Dell property at Americas
for 5000. They paid $500 for it a year
ago.
The handsome new residence of DR.. J. W.
Jones at Americas is rapidly nearing COM
pletion. When finished this will be one of
the prettiest homes in Americas.
The employees of the Columbus Water
Works Company are busily engaged put
ting In water motors. Six hundred motors
have been ordered. This means an increase
in the cost of water.
The Dooly county bonds have been placed
at par, the successful bidder being the
Bank OF Vienna, which took the whole
ISSUE Bids for the erection of the new
brick court house are being advertised for,
and the contract will be let May s.
L.
of new brick store building at Vienna,
adjoining the bank. ]. o. Hamilton has
purchased lot on Third street. and will
erecS thereon a brick building. Several
new dwellings are nearing completion.
Coffee county has thirteen steam mills
that cut annually 5000, 900 worth of mer-
charitable lumber, fifteen turpentine stills
the annual product of which Is not less tllsn
100000, and within the county there are 740
farms with an average of twenty seven
acres each. These lands can be bought at
from 81 to IS per acre, and will make with
proper cultivation $50 worth of cotton, 300
bushels of sweet potatoes, worth not less
than 40 cents per bushel and SIS worth
sugar cane per acre. and the greatest varie-
ties Of other crops, vegetables and fruits
The subscription books of the stock of the
hotel at Americas have just been cl.sed,
with nearly $4,000 subscribed. These sub
ScIlptlOuS were entTelJ voluntary, ana Uno
mere fact that the building of the hotel was
already guaranteed by parties other than
the subscribers to this amount of stock ac-
counts largely for the limited number of
shares taken. A little over a month ago
ten of the substantial business men of the
town agreed to build big hotel, to cost not
less than 100000. They believed that such
an investment would aid more, or as much,
towards advertising the city and attracti ng
immigration this way as anything that could
be accomplished. S. H. Hawkins, P. c.
Clegg, NJ. Speer, j. w. Sheffield, John
Windsor, Thornton Wheatley, G.. W.
Glover, c. NJ Wheatley, c. c. Hawkins,
and w. E. Hawkins were the prime movers
in the great enterprise. These gentlemen
submitted a written proposition to the
county commissioners, in which they
pledged themselves to erect hotel to cost
not less than 100000, provided the COM
missioners would deed to them for the nom
inal sum of $1,000 the old court house
square as a building site. This the commits
sioners did, thereby assuring the building
of the hotel beyond doubt.