The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-01
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also land of Mr.. C. T. Cooper, adjoining,
200 to 400 acres, at $110 per acre, making
a total of $50 acres. Total price, $5s,S50.
g. Evergreen Cemetery Company Of
fers "Bonaventure," containing so acres,
more or less, on which, it ~ stated, there
are over 400 lots held by residents of the
city. upon terms, $4,000 cash, with an
agreement by the city to care for certain
lots in perpetuity, specified in the offer.
To this is attached an offer of the Mer-
chants and Mechanics Land Company of
fourteen adjoining acres, at $3.50 per acre,
and about twenty-seven acres more, be-
longing to various parties, making forty
one acres to be added TO "Bonaventure, "
or, in ALL 121 acres, including "Bonaven-
ture' at $3.50, an average of $3.50 per acre.
TO- Mr. William Garrard offers his
body of land fronting on the Ogeechee
road, where the Florida Central and Pc
ninsular Railroad crosses the same one
and seven-eighths miles from the city linn
its, and extending across to the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway, being 1850
acres, more or less, for the sum of $4,000,
TO be paid in ten years time in equal in
stalments, with interest at per centum,
payable semi-annually interest not to be-
gin, however, until Jan. l, 1901.
Second. In considering these offers, this
committee having in view that Laurel
Grove Cemetery has beeR condemned by
the health officers for years past, as "a
menace to the public health" could not
entertain offers of lands adjacent to the
same, such as offers numbered and Z.
The offer of '4Bonaventure" Cemetery,
and lands adjoining, could not be accepted
by this committee, because the price was
too high, not enough land was offered, and
beyond all this, "Bonaventure" is, and
| has been cemetery since 1S49 and IL
would be bad policy for the city to &C.
quire the remainder of the land not al
ready used by graves, for the public GEN.
etery of the future.
When Laurel Grove was laid out less
| than fifty years ago, 1t contained III {
| acres, when the population of Savannah
I was about one-fifth of what it is now
| so that If a cemetery should be acquired
| to be laid out with narrow driveways
and small lots, as the present one Is, and
to last less than half century, about 6OC
acres would be required.
The cemetery of the future should DC
modern and handsome, with broad drive
ways, larger lots, and with land enough
to supply the needs Of our people for more
than half a century.
1t should also be so located as not to be
| in the line of probable city extension, and
yet near enough; and its drainage should
be in a direction from, and not towards
the city nor should 1t be into the Savan-
nah river.
Third. After careful consideration Of
the lands offered, and of the necessary
requisites of a new cemetery, the commit.
tee has selected the Gerard tract
This tract. as offered, embraces 1,Os1i!
acres, extending from the Ogeechee road
to the Savannah. Florida and Western
Railway, but of which the owner has giver
to the county public road, through
same and also a sufficient amount OF
land for Buckhalter canal and its later.
ais leaving of this tract LOGO acres
more or less. which is offered at $5, 900
TO be paid for in ten years, in equal in.
stalments. with interest at per centum
payable ssmi-annually, interest not to be.
gin, however, until Jan. l, 1901.
This tract is n handsome one. well.
wooded. in the right direction, southwest
from the city, to be accessible and yet moi
in the line of the clty's growth. and Is
on a watershed, the drainage OF which
Is carried off into the Ogeechee river
Buckhalter canal is at the foot of this
watershed with laterals being dug by
The county, and the COMMITTEES has the
statement of the drainage engineer OF
the county, that the laterals now being
dug in this tract will lower the plane OF
natural water level between four and
seven fest
The elevation of this tract, at and near