The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-16
TO EXTEND 1T TO STATESBORo.
FUTURE OF THE CUYLER AND
WOODBURN RAILROAD.

The sale 10 MeSsrs. StiIsOn, Hutchins
and f. E. Wood a CO., Confirmed
by Judge Specr - The order Fled
In Court Yesterday-The Property
TO BE Independent of any other
RaiIrond-When Completed IT VIII
Be 38 Miles Long and VIII Run
Through a Good Producing Sec
ton.
Judge Emory Speers order confirming
the sale Of the Cuyler and Woodourn rail-
road was filed In the United States court
here yesterday morning, on the return Of
DEPUTY Clerk ; F. b. Gillespie and the
attorneys interested in the case from
Mount Airy.
There was no objection made TO the
combination Of the sale. The purchasers
of the property were Messrs. Stilson Hut
chins Of Washington. D. c., and Z. z
Wood & Co. Of BuIlOch county. whO bought
the property as a personal business trans
action. The property was bought in for
them by Mr. ". F. Carter Of Meldrim on
a bid of SZ7.769. and for a long time L
was not known who the real purchasers
were. The names OF the purchasers. how
ever. appear in the order Of court confirm
ing the sale.
At the time the bid was made a cheek
for s. 900 was paid 10 the master commits
eioners, Messrs. J. y. Harrell and Fred
T. Lockhart. When the sale was con-
frmed at Mount Airy under the order, 81
Oo0 more was paid into the registry Of the
court and it is provided in the order that
the balance shall be paid OF demand as
soon as certain intervenuOns Of L. e
Wood & Co and other litigation are dis
posed Of. The balance will be paid either
In cash or in the bonds and unpaid cou-
pons of the CuyIer and WoOdburn Rail
road Company Unless the balance is paid,
the order provides that the 1900 already
paid in shall be forfeited. The settlement
or the priority Of liens and other claims
has been reserved for future adjudica-
ton. A. A. Adams, the purchaser at ths
former sale, Is ordered to turn over 10
Commissioner Harrel the deeds delivered
10 him at that time, these papers having
been declared null and void.
Those who appeared before Judge Speet
in the case were Messrs. c. A. Douglass
OF Washington and A. H. MacDonen Of
Savannah, representing Messrs. Sulson
Hutchins and z. L. Wood & Co., ana
Pope Barrow. representing the Admission
National Bank, which held $1,000 Of the
81. 90 first mortgage bonds outstanding on
the property.
The parties, who purchased the property
are not interested IN any other railroad
properties down this way. Mr.. Hutchins
n.r s.l
D. c, who became in terested in the prop
erty through Mr. Douglass. his attorney,
and Messrs. T.. +. Wood & Co. had
number Of claims against 1t. Mr.. Douglass
and representative Of r. L. Wood & Co.
were in conference here with Judge Mac
Dopell yesterday. as TO the future Of the
PROPERTY.
A charter for the new company will be
applied for al once. The application will
be made 10 the secretary Of state, and it
will not require any advertising, since IL
is a re-incorporation Of a property already
in existence.
The Cuyler and Woodburn railroad now
runs from Cuyler on the Georgia and Ala
bama, to WOODBURY., in BulIoch county, a
distance Of thirteen miles. II is the pur-
pose Of the purchasers Of the property to
extend IL to Statesboro in Bulloch county
twenty-three miles beyond WOODBURY.
making a road thlrty-six miles in length
At StatesborO, It will meet the Dover and
statesbOro railroad, a connection of the
Central.
The purchasers Of the property looked
well into the matter from business stand
point before they bought it. It runs
through a fertile and prosperous section
OF the state and Will get It's traffic princi-
pally from cotton, naval stores and ferti-
lizers It Is expected that the extension
to Statesboro win be begun within a
short time, and 1t is the intention 10 push
II forward rapidly to completion.
Mr. Hutchins, who has taken an inter-
est In the property, was the founder of
the Washington Post He is now the
owner of the Richmond State. and also Of
one Of the Washington papers. MT
Douglass, who interested him in the mat
ter. is a professor Of law in the George
town University.