The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-07
CONSTRUCTION co. TO BUILD 1T.
Further Plans for the Hutchinson
Island Terminal.


A further important step in the move
ment to convert Hutchinson Island into
great railroad terminal was taken yester-
day in petitioning the Superior Court for
articles Of incorporation for the Georgia
Construction Company" the incorporat-
ors being Messrs. W. ". Mackall. J. r.
Anderson and W. ". Williamson Of Sa-
yannah; G. Sidney Shepard and w. F.
cochran OF New York, and such others as
they may associate with them.
The amount Of stock paid in is to be
$500, with the privilege of increasing II
up 20 100000 The company IS to have
the right 20 construct railroads and
bridges the equipment of railways, the
construction OF terminals, etc.
This is the company that is to do the
work on Hutchinson's Island for the
Georgia and Alabama Terminal Com
pany.' The persons interested in the
construction and terminal companies will
be practically. one and the same. Just
as the Savannah Construction Company
built the South Bound Railroad the Geor-
gia Construction Company will build the
terminals on Hutchinson's Island and the
bridge approaches thereto. 1t is presum-
ed That the construction company viii
take the issue of terminal company bonds,
to the extent of $3.50 900, in part payment
OF its work on the island, is usual in
such cases, disposing of them as it sees
nj. ThlS is the procedure generally adopt
ed nowadays in all enterprises of this
character.
1t will be a month before this charter
and the one from the state for the termi-
nal company can be secured. BY that time
II Is hoped to have possession of the city
property and such other lands as are now
under option and may be desired. Under
the proposition made by the terminal
company 1t will pay the city $500 cash
for the land, the title 10 be vested in il
only on the completion of certain
amount of the work. This was about the
basis of the agreement with the old Middle
Georgia and Atlantic road.
The city has announced its desire to eX-
tend the limits of the city over the island,
and Il is presumed that il is proposed to
tax the railroad property there, giving in
return police and fire protection. 1t is the
opinion of those interested in the terminal
company that there will no no hitch in the
negotiations with the city, and that every
thing will be settled by the time its char
ter is received
The project was the main topic of talk
among business men, as well as the gen.
eral public here, yesterday. 1t was realiz-
ed at once that when carried out, il meant
much for Savannah. No enterprise launch
ed here In recent years has been received
more favorably by the public and it's flu
ture course will be watched with unusual
interest The completion of these termi-
nails will give Savannah three great termi-
nal properties and the city will then have
facilities for shipping that no other city
on the South. Atlantic coast can hope to
equal. The project is regarded as unques-
tionably the biggest thing that Savannah
has been favored with In many years, and
there was everywhere an expression of the
hope that there would be no obstacles en-
countered in the speedy completion of the
plans of the company.
From the plans which shave been pre-
pared, but which are subject to Inodi-
fication and may be altered in some res
poets, four slips are proposed beginning
at point on the island almost opposite
East Broad street. The first slip pro-
jected a this point is to be a monster
1,64o feet long, 200 feet wide at the mouth
and widening toward the end to 260 feet.
on the east of this it Is proposed to locate
the extensive rosin yards and spirits sheds,
while on the right will be
accommodations for coal, pig iron and
lumber, the facilities for handling lum-
Der being especially fine. Slip No. 2, to
the west of the first slip, 1t is proposed
TO make about 500 feet long and 200 feet
wide, with warehouses at the end,
There Will be a space 300 feet wide be-
TWEEN the two slips. These two slips are
the ones it is proposed to. build first so
that the Georgia and Alabama will be in
position to handle its business as quickly
as possible on the island. Three hundred
feet futher to the west comes slip No
g. also 2)0 feet wide but about 1000 feet
long. Slip No. A is also separated from
the adjacent slip by 800 feet of ground
devoted to storage purposes. This slip
is to be about ] 100 by 300 feet Cotton
yards are projected behind this slip
Sip No. will be about on a line with
Drayton street. A net work of tracks for
switching will run in the rear of the slips
and some repair shops are to be located
north of the section devoted to naval
stores.
Soon after the next Congress meets a
bill will be introduced granting the ter
minal company the right 10 build a bridge
over the Savannah river at the western
end of the island. The plans for this
bridge would have to be approved by the
wardepartment. The bridge would prob
ably cost in the neighborhood of 800, 900.
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