The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-01
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CAMBRIDGE ON A BOOM.
Many New Houses Being BuiIt-Ner-
chants Handle Plenty of Money.

/ Many New Houses Being BuiIt-Mer-
chants Handle Plenty of Money.
cambridge, Ga, Sept 29.-The ida
wave Of prosperity has struck cambridge
and has come to stay. This town is or
solid boom, nothing fictitious about it.
| The merchants all have large stocks OF
goods and are doing a fine business.
The farmers Of this county are not al
together dependent upon cotton, in GER
| tain sections of the county tobacco is the
chief crop. Numbers of farmers have al
ready harvested their tobacco crop, and
same has been sold for fancy prices. The
majority of farmers are out of debt and
have money TO spend.
cambridge is putting on city airs, having
one of the best systems of water works in
this section of the state, with an abund-
ance of artesian water absolutely free.
The plant is owned and controlled by the
city, and they have several miles of water
mains, through which they convey the
water to every part of the city
Sig Nussbaum will soon complete his
electric plant, which Will be strictly first
class in every particular; his will be an
arc and incandescent machine. He has
the citys contract for five years for arc
lights sufficient to light the city, and he
hopes TO turn on the light by oct. IS.
This town has done more building in
the past twelve months than has been
done here in five years before. The fol-
lowing parties now have buildings in
course of erection;
Mr.. e. J. Perry, a handsome S-room
dwelling house, on corner of Green and
West streets.
Mrs II. Z. Pohman, handsome 10
room dwelling, strictly modern style, cor
ner Shotwen and Russell streets.
Ben Nussbaum has about completed
esa,14a 4 .TTF r.r
er street Mr.. l.. f. Patterson is erect
ing a neat cottage on Clay street; Mrs.
f. w. Krauss and Mr. 1. Knilecki, three
story house, with a late style opera
house above Mr. l.. f. Patterson has just
burned kiln of brick, and as soon as
they are ready for use he win begin the
erection of an elegant 2-story brick store,
on Broad street
Mrs l.. Nussbaum has purchased the
two-acre lot of Mrs. O'Donnell on Plant
ers streets, and will at an early date be-
Sin the erection of six dwelling houses
thereon.
Mr.. A. L. Townsend who recently pur-
chased the old Methodist church, has re-
modelled the old building and turned same
into a 16-room house, which will be used
as a boarding house.
Mr.. j. A. Reid secretary and treasurer
of the Flint River Lumber Company has
purchased the Jones lot on West street,
and has already given the contract for
two large dwellings,, to be erected at once,
and other houses are spoken in the near
future. We need many more dwellings
yet TO accommodate the influx of people
moving to this city.
The Georgia Pine railroad, which is to
run from Bainbridge to Arlington, will be
completed to Colquitt, a distance of twen-
ty-two miles this week This road, when
completed to Arlington, will run through
the best section of virgin pine timber to
be found anywhere. This road will be
run Independent of any other line, and is
built entirely by local capital. Mr.. ]. p.
Williams of Savannah is president, Hon.
A. L. Halves of this city, vice president;
II. ]. Bruton, secretary, and Messrs. e.
r. and M. ID. Powell of this city are prom
inent on the board of directors, and own
stock in the road.
Mr.. T. e. f. Bartlett, recently of
Ga, has located in Balm
bridge and opened machine shop and
foundry for the manufacture and repair
of all kinds of machinery. He has pur-
chased quite a considerable amount of
property and expects In future to make
Bainbridge his home.
What we need most now in cambridge
is q 50-room hotel, built on modern
plan. A house of this kind would rent
well and pay handsome interest on the
investment