The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-20

/ We found the roadbed Of this road In
\ very fair conditi0a and would apply to
this road the Remarks made with reference
TO the White Bluff road.
! Bay Street Extens.on.
/ TINS road is in good condition. The paw
! Ing seems to be wearing well.
White Marsh Island Road
| We inspected portion of the roads on
/ this island. With o very little work more
| than can be accomplished by the ordinary
/ road hands, these roads would be in very
/ fair condition. A special report on this
subject is made In connection with another
matter.
The following roads we were unable to
examine on account of the washing away
| OF bridges by the recent storm: Little
| Ogeechee Neck, Fort Argyle and the
! Cheeyes road. We have also been unable
/ for lack of time, TO inspect the roads on
| wilmington, Skidaway and Ossabaw Isl
Bridges
In the examination of the bridges of the
/ county, we found some of them needing
! immediate repair, and took the liberty of
| anticipating this report, by reporting the
! same TO the commissioners as soon as no
sticed This was done only in cases when
delay was considered dangerous.
! Pipe-Maker Bridge
The northwest abutment is being under
| mined by the DETECTION of the water from
| the bed of the stream, caused by a cy-
press stump The wood work of the bridge
| is very much decayed in places.
! Minis Canal Culvert-
This culvert is badly cracked on both
| sides of the road apparently from a faulty
Foundation. This crack is widening, and
we believe that the culvert and the road
as in danger.
| Butcher Pen Culvert-
The culvert on The same road at the
| Butcher Pen is also cracked.
/ Salt Creek Bridge
/ The strnger on the south side of this
/ bridge has entirely rotted away.
! Owens Canal
There are four or five decayed planks
in the floor of this bridge.
Canal Bridge
one sleeper in the bridge over the canal
on the Quaco road has rotted away and
needs attention at once.
1 Middle Ground Road
| Near che four-mile post on the Middle
! Ground road a wooden trunk across the
/ road has rotted and caved in, making a
/ dangerous trap for a horse at night.
| Bee Road
There are two decayed planks in the
| bridge over the DeRenne canal on the
| Bee road. The bridge over the Casey
! canal on this road is in a dangerous con-
diticn, ,stringers and part of the floor rot
! ted
! Skidaway Road
| The following bridges on this road are
/ in bad condition: " Postum bridge" one
near six-mile post, one between the six
| and seven-rnile post
/ Causton Bluff Road
| The bridge on this road is entirely Gown.
! Ogeechee Avenue
The. first bridge on this road, near the
1 old Bflboa farm, and also the one near
Lamar canal, and near Southover, are all
in bad order--one OF them badly careened.
| Telfair-
| Two Dlanks In the bridge over the canal
| on this road are badly decayed, and the
| bridge near the Bourquin land has floated
/ away.
Montgomery Road
The bridge at the Menahaus Place on
this road is partially burned and is badly
caved from washes.
Dean Forest
The bridge over the canal on this road
has fallen and cannot be used.
The above aefscts were NOTICED before
the storm of Aug. 30. No examination
| OF bridges has been made since.2 A great
deal Of crude work is noticeable in the
bridges through the county. A small in
vestment in and use of nails would save
tn the county many months in the life
of many of the bridges.
| Drainage
As far as 1t has been possible we have
| examined the drainage in conjunction with
the roads. TheAsetxice~of a part of our
/ committee on special work for the grand
jury and the condition OF the country since
the storm has prevented as thorough work
on the drainage as we expected to give 1t.
! Augusta Road
4 The Dundee canal was cleaned of vege-
tation as far as the eye could reach from
the road, bur just around the curve of the
canal, where 1t could not be seen from
the road the work had stopped. AS the
1.14a ,NFf h CHI laa tl.a
ing of the drainage, the portion done was
useless, and such neglect should be in
vestigated by the commissioners and those
responsible for 1t should be reprimanded.
This canal has been stopped north of
the Central Railroad track leaving I'M
drained some of the foulest places in the
county. Along the line of the Central
Railroad and along the line of the Louis
Vile road, also between the Louisville
road and the Florida Central and PENN
sular Railroad, there are stagnant ponds,
green with malarial poison, and which
could be put an a sanitary condition, if
this canal had been continued as planned.
This section of the county is in bad con-
ditoh and much of il could be improved
if some agreement could be made between
the Central Railroad and the county au-
thorities for the use of the Ogeechee canal
for drainf ge purposes.
On the Ogeechee road we find practi-
cally no drainage at all, after leaving the
Minis canal, There was much standing
water before the storm, bitches that ex-
listed years ago, which if opened would
relieve the situation were grown up and
| pipe culverts laid when the road was built
are too high to carry off the water.
On the White Bluff road we find all of
the bitches grown up.
Lamar canal has been cleaned only In
spots These drains west of Louisville
were grown up with weeds, and the cul-
verts stopped.
The drains just west and south of
Twelfth street, passing through the Baker
land and emptying into Minis canal is OBJ
| structed.
East of the White Bluff road the drain
age is in better condition than on the
west side but in many places, we found
| the drains foul, to wit: In East Savannah.
portions of the Placentia drain, bitches
near six-mile post on the Skdaway road.
and much standing water on the land near
the four-mile post on same road.
The same careless and partial cleaning
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