The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-11

| report based on the Information he has up
TO date, bat as he regards this Informal
tlOn as incomplete and does not wish to
make any mistake i'm his estimate of the
property and it's possibilities. he has asked
for further time and the court has fixed
Sept. as the date for filing the report.
Mr. Hurt attaches more Importance than
some do to the work already done in
draining the swamp. On this subject he
said.
Some think the money spent by Capt.
Jackson in draining he swamp was vast.
ed. ! don't think so. II cost about 500,
90 to open that canal ana if the property
woe mine ] would not have ii filled up
for $4,000 II has a fall OF over 100 feet
and with comparatively small additional
expense the swamp can be drained
through that canal 70 the ST. Mary's riv-
err and through an openig in the west,
to the Suwannee
'"Phe companys railroad from Camp
Corhelia to Bun Head bluff on the Satilla
river with the wharf there, gives access
10 water seventeen feet deep connecting
with the ocean at St. Andrew sound.
Schooners go from there TO Boston. This
gives access to tie world when products
are 10 be shipped"
Speaking Of the swamp he said;
1T Is surrounded by a wall of cypress
covered with moss. Il made me think OF
tiit AilAIltHt wal. / ne DeIf OF y press -
from half mile TO two miles thick. In
side Of that is a vast open expanse OF
prairie. interspersed with bays. A bay is
"A mass of cypress surrounded by ever>
greens. II is IN these bays that the val
liable timber is found. Between them
there are open vlstas ten miles long over
prairies covered with American lilies and
maiden cane. The prairie and the bays
are seven fee' deep In muck You can
walk on IL, but every now and then you
step on "a soft spot and sink through
Everywhere beneath it Won find water at
a depth of foot to a foot and "A half
THE canal is "a beautiful sight. thirty
feet wide. with clear water running
through. cVergreens on both sides and
trout leaping in the stream. The swamp
outside the belt of cypress is surrounded
with a mound twenty-five feet high This
was an ancient sea beach. and the swamp
was uplifted from the sea and the marsh
which covers it is the accumulation of
decayiug vegetable matter through a long
period OF time 1t is practically level
which makes 1t possible to use improved
machinery in case il should be made
available for agriculture
THE chemists to whom Capt. Jackson
submitted samples of the muck for exam
nation stated that it was sour. and for
ethat reason would not be flt for agricul-
turaI purposes until IL had been exposed
for some time, or had been treated with
lime it seems to me that this Is not true
because the muck is exposed already.
There is no water on il now. though YOU
get water at a depth Of a foot and a half
on the banks Of the canal where this
muck was thrown up within the past
two years. / found crabbgrass seven feet
high. There was no crabgrass i'm the
swami before. This seed was probably
taken in a box packed with goods wa
termelons were eaten there last summer
and the seed were thrown ont on the hank
Of the canal They. came M This wear and
produced melons Weighing thirty and for
IN pounds. and / ate some while there This
time Oats grew sfx feet high ana heavily
headed Wherever crabgrass crows corn
cotton and cane viii grow. In farming
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