The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-27

Bank of Brunswick the Merchants and
Traders bank and the Brunswick Savings
and Trust Company.
Taxation.
The city of Brunswick boasts of a popu-
laton of over 1l,OOO according to the latest
directory. and while it also boasts of i'm
DroVements, etc, commensurate with
city of that size its financial condition is of
the best and its paper gilt-edged in any mar
xet The assessed valuation of the city. as
shown by the city's books is $46S4.527. di
vided as follows: Land $2,704,462 improve
ments $1,9SO,O65 The rate of taxation for
each 81 900 valuation is $3.50; the state and
county S11, making a total of $3.50 per 81 DOC
valuation
Health and Climate.
The climate of Brunswick, in the Ian
guage of the oldest citizens, is exceedingly
delightful. Many northern people have
| through some egregious error become pos
| sessed with the idea that the south Is
very hot country with a sickly climate
How such an impression should have gain
ed credence is a deep mystery that VIII
never be solved. True, the summers are
not. but where are they not, eXcepllhs
along the extreme northern border OF the
United States? Let a comparison be maoe
between this section and the middle STATES
and II will soon be found that the the'-
mometer will register from to ~ degrees
cooler in Georgia than in the hor'n'
brunswick it rarely goes beyoho ~ ""'i"
the heated term or below ~ during "ii'te'
.oasons The prevailing winds are from
Tho southeast and the heated days are INV"
ton,nared by the waters of the pay anu
ocean. No matter how hot the ""S h'''
been. generally in the evening SPRINGS "p
refreshing breeze which makes the 'A'eN>
delightful and renders sleep pleasant 'NN
refreshing throughout the entire su"'ihe'
mis- same breeze in the winter Seasons
acts as a preventative against prot'ao'e"
neriods of severe cold many winter "'''S
showing thermometer OF ~ degree" N"D
over
,rhe mean temperature between Nn'
r,o,,+be of october and March inclusive l.
20 degrees, the remaining months " 1e-
grees.
During the winter the climate rivals ina
of Florida With the exception oA ~
casional cold snaps, and they at ions AZ
teryals, the winter months are pleasant
very often so comfortable that one can go
in his shirt sleeves.
MANY visitors spend the winter months III
this section fishing and hunting, for Bruins
celled anywhere for these sports.
'Health is wealth." and happily for the
people many scourges that are so preValeh
in many cities, rarely break out amone
| the Dopulace Strict quarantine, ofhcereo
and directly controlled by the natlona
government, is held upon every snip com
ing from dangerous or infected ports ana
not until the ship is thoroughly dislnfect
ed is it allowed to enter port, thereby pre-
venting any of the pestilenceS- thal aE&
found i'm South and Central American coun-
frias from gaining foothold in the Guy
True, the city has its sickness; every CIT!
has, but the attacks are generally IN
mild form and easily mastered. Undoupteu-
ly the prevailing good health of the inhabi-
rants is due largely to the excellent
Water supply.
The city is to be congratulated upon this
1t is well supplied with pure artesian water
obtained from a number of wells boreh t'
a depth of from 400 to 600 feet and whlci
yield an unfailing supply. Analyses OF
these wells disclose the medicinal value
& A.. ba p1ritV for al
domestic and manufacturing purposes Th'
following is an analysis of one of these
wells:
Carbonate of soda. =. =. E. g w S
Sulphatc of soda. =. -. sos
Sodium chloride. E.. ...... 81. 4ol
Potassium chloride. ~. w.
Sulphatc of lime 900. y ~
Sulphatc of magnesia.,. :. ...............O OIL .
Silica ... ...., 49,. . e.. 80. ... 100. O6S
The city receives its water supply from
the Brunswick Light and Water Company
a private corporation. bat steps are now
being taken for the early purchase and con-
| trol of the light and water systems by the
| city. This question is now being discussed
| in the city council.
Sewerage.
This so necessary adjutbct to the city was
| commenced in 1894 and now embraces
| twenty-one and four-fifth miles of sewer
age pipe and twelve and seven-eigth miles
of subsOil drainage pipe divided as fol-
| lows: 1877 feet of iron piping. varying from
| sixteen to twenty-four inches in diameter;
7.S35 feet, eight ten and twelve-nch terra
Gotta pipe, 1860 feet of four-inch pipe,
J 5S.000 feet of subson drainage pipe. There