The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-06
FREE ROAD TO BONABELLA.
Right of Way Secured and One to BE
Constructed by the County.

constructed by the county.
Deeds to the right of way of the Bona
beIa road, from its beginning to the point
of intersection with the old Military cause
way, that connects the bluff at Isle of
Hope with the mainland, were filed in the
Office of the clerk of The. Superior Court
yesterday Thus project that has been
for ten years the dream of its promoters
gives every promise of shortly becoming
an assured reality.
In the deeds the road is described as
being a public highway thirty feet in
width, beginning at thai point on the old
Sk1daway shell road, near the four-miie
stone, where the northern line of the lands
of the Georgia Industrial College inter
sects said road, in a straight line to the
lands of Dr. r. B. Harris, and thence
along the front lines of the several prop
critics on Bonabella, Cattle Park, Penn
broke and Horrocks as nearly as possible
following the line of coast curvature, 10
the point of commencement of the old
Military causeway.
In the deeds recorded yesterday are
grants from the Georgia Industrial Col
lege, executed by Messrs. p. w. Meldrjm,
w R Hammond, Peter J. Cline, Otis
Ashmore and George f. Murrell, commits
sioners of the college; from The Chatham
Real Estate, Loan and Building Com
pany. executed by its president, Col, j. II.
EsUl; and from large number of in
dividual property owners along the pro
posed right of way. These latter include
DR.. r. B. Harris Mr.. c. W. Wylly, Mr.
w p. LaRoche and a number of others.
1t is the ultimate intention to complete
the road TO the bluff a Isle of Hope, but
there are now two property owners
through whose lands the proposed right
of way runs. who have refused to grant
the tract necessary for road purposes
The right of way through these two
tracts will be acquired in time and the
scheme will be complete. AT present 1t
is only intended to build to the intersec-
ton with the Military causeway.
The deeds vesting the property of the
right of way i'm the county renders the
road an assured fact Already the road
committee of the Board of County Com
missioners has reported favorably on the
project awaiting only the time when the
property owners would grant the right Of
way 1t is understood that a. the next
meeting of the board the formal order
providing for the construction of the road
will be passed and that work will be be-
gun soon thereafter The scheme does not
at present contemplate the paving of the
road, and the residents of the places on
the salts for whom the road is construct
ed viii have to content themselves a while
with a surface of clay. Later, If the
right of way to the rest of the road is
secured, and other circumstances are IA
vorable, the entire roadway will be paw
ed with gravel or ebert. This is said
to be the plan.
The road will be great convenience to
those living at Cattle Park, Bonabella
and other places along the marshes. that
for years have had no public road con
nection with the city and who have been
hence compelled to find their way out
through the woods as best they could 1t
Is said that it has been necessary in the
past for the residents of these villages to
go a mile or more, when one of them
wished to drive to the residence of
neighbor.
The movement for the construction of
the road began ten years ago but has
been hampered greatly by the unwill ngnoss
of some Of the property owners 10 grant to
the county the title to the right of way
through their lands. These obstacles have
at last been overcome and the jewellers on
the marshes see in close prospect some
thing for which they have long ardently
wished. 1t is undoubted that the road
will result in great improvement of that
section of the county through which it
passes.