The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-04

ports, to which the company's vessels
run. The change represents an item Of
several thousand dollars a month to Sa-
Vannah.
Extensive improvements are now being
made on the Central railroads property
west of the present wharyes of the Ocean
Steamship Company. These improve
ments are on the roads old yards, and
additional wharf facilities are being con-
structed. new slip of large dimensions
is being excaVated and, when finished
will be used by the vessels of the steam
ship company for receiving and dis
charging freight and probably by the ves-
sells of the Georgia Export and Import
Company. The work on the slip will
probably be completed by the middle of
this month. A mass of dirt 800 feet long
200 feet wide and a depth sufficient to al
low the vessels of the greatest draft to
load at low water, will have been removed
on the completion of the work. Sheds ex-
tending the entire length will be built on
either side of the slip with open wharves
on the three sides forty feet in width.
The pillng on which these sheds are TO be
built has nearly all been driven.
Direct connections have been made with
the Ocean Steamship Company's wharves.
Formerly the tracks cut across the site
of the new slip and ran along the river
front to the lumber yard. 1t was neces-
sary to switch to other tracks to reach
the Ocean Steamship wharVes. The old
switch has been abandoned and new line
of approaches laid to the wharves, where
two additional tracks for facilitating the
handling of freight have been laid.
1t is estimated that more than 10000
cubic yards of dirt will have been put on
the site to be occupied by the railroads
new yards. This is necessary to fill in
the land which is at the extreme western
end of the roads property. Extensive
rosin and lumber yards are to occupy the
site that is now being filed in.
The new lumber yard is larger than the
former and has the advantage of more
and better distributed tracks. Five tracks
ran through the old lumber yard, but
eight parallel one another in the
new yard, which is at the extreme western
limit of the roads property. Along the
river front of this yard a wharf of about
40 feet in width viii extend and will be con-
tinued along the new yards.
The lumber yard Will have river front
age of about 800 feet. There are over 1900
feet of the river line of the roads prop
erty west Of the Ocean Steamship Compa-
ny's wharves. With about 800 feet of this
frontage given to the lumber yard, there
will be left 700 feet for the new rosin yard
next to the lumber yard and about 400 or
800 feet for the entrance to the slip and
its bordering sheds
The first vessel chartered by the Geor-
gia Export and Import Company will ar
rive about the middle OF this month. The
company will do a general exporting and
importing business between Savannah and
the European ports.
The Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tadon Company has occupied its new quar-
ters, and now has splendid wharf advan-
tages. The new location Is at the Gen.
tral railroads old press. The railroad inn
proved the property for the transportation
company, erecting two long and Foomy
sheds that run parallel TO the river front.