The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-09
LAND QUAORUPLED IN VALUE.
VALDOSTA's BANKS BULGE WITH
PROFITS OF THE DEAL.

over SEQ, 900 Cash just Deposited as
Result of the Taylor County, Fla,
DeaI-Michignn Parties Pay 81 an
Acre for $4,000 Acres, Purchased
by the Sellers at Half That Figure
and by Those From Whom They
Bought at 81 an Acre-Picnic
Wagon Runs over Young Lady.
ThOmnsviIIe's Club Defeated-The
ChautauQun Promises TO BE n
Great Success.
Valdosta, Ga, June s.-A fraction over
800 coo is the amount of money that has
been put in the banks here as a result Of
the recent big deal in timber lands in
Taylor county. Florida. AS was previous
ly wired the Morning News, the deal was
for a. 900 acres, the buyers being Messrs.
F. w and A. c. Squires, of Michigan.
The sellers are the West Bros, Coffey &
Darby of this city The sale involved
$4,000. and over half of the money was
paid yesterday and previously. All of the
parties to the deal spent yesterday in the
city. finishing up the transaction. 1t is
understood that the Messrs. Squires gave
their notes for the balance of the our
chase money. This 5000 acres of land has
turned in a profit of $135,0OO for it's owners
during the past two years. It was bought
at a dollar an acre by the Winn-Ashley
Land Company of this city, and sold to
the West- Bros, Coffey & Darby for 81
an acre and. in turn, sold to the present
buyers for 81 an acre. The land is to be
improved and developed. 1t is said to be
a very fine body of timber.
Young Lady Badly Hurt.
Miss Sadie Marks of this city happened
to quite a serious accident last night
while returning from Loeb Laurel The
Baptist Sunday-schocl held a picnic there
and large number of young people went
down. Miss Marks was in a large picnic
wagon, with twenty other young people.
and on the return home they engaged
their time at playing, grabbing at limbs,
etc, the wagon rumbled along toward
the city. Miss Marks tried to catch a
limb some distance out and lost her bal
ance falling under the wheels of the
wagon, the heavy vehicle passing over
her body. She was picked up and brought
to the city, where medical attention was
given her. Her injuries were pronounced
quite serious, though the physicians are
unable to say yet whether or not she is
fatally hurt. She is quite a popular young
lady and her many friends hope that she
will speedily recover.
The Townsville Baseball Club came
over yesterday and played match game
with the locals, being defeated by
score of 9 to 3. The Townsville boys
put up a very good game, though they
were unable to hit Valdostas pitcher,
while the locals batted theirs freely Sew
eral of the towns in this section have or
ganized teams for strictly amateur games
and there promises to be a good deal of
rivalry between the various towns dur
ing the summer months.
Preparing for the Chnutauqua.
Big preparations continue to be made
for the Chautauqua and that event prom
Uses to be one of the most interesting oc-
casions in South Georgia this summer. A
very fine programme of lectures, musical
features and other attractions has been
arranged and the committee to-day signed
contract for one of the finest char
acter sketches on the stage The rail-
roads have agreed to give reduced rates
and the outlook is that a large crowd
will come here from other towns
Col W. S. West of this city is one of
the delegates from the state at large to
the Southern Industrial Convention, which
meets next week at Philadelphia. He ex-
poets to leave tonight for Athens to at
tend the university commencement exer-
cises, and will go from there to Philadel-
phia
The Hill Avenue Investment Company
has been organized here with a paid-in
capital of $4,000. The company purchased
the Central Hotel some time ago and pro-
pose to improve the lot by erecting a five
story building there to be used as a no.
tel, with stores on the lower floor