The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-04
THE MORNING NEWS, COUNTY MAP.

THE MORNING NEWS COUNTY MAP.
Local geography receives little attention,
| generally, except from surveyors and real
estate dealers. The average resident of
any certain community may be able to
tell where Hudson Bay and the Cape of
| Good Hope are situated, but If asked the
| direction and location of some nearby
| island, river or sound he or she would
probably be unable to do so accurately
In order to afford the people of Chat
ham county a convenient and accurate
means of studying the county in which
they live, and for the further purpose of
illustrating to the world the advantages
which the county offers to newcomers and
home-seekers, the Morning News publishes
elsewhere in this issue "A Map of Chat
ham County" prepared especially for it
by Mr.. Percy Sugden, C. E., from the
latest surveys and other data.
The map shows the city of Savannah,
the rivers. sounds, islands. railroads, ca
nails, public highways designating the
improved and permanently hardened
roads,. besides the towns. villages, settle
ments, aud various typographical fea~
lures.
The county, which contains the CONNER
ciai metropolis of the state and the great
est port of the South Atlantic section EN-
braces 43S square miles of territory. It's
latitude is 80 degrees and it's longitude
81 degrees. 1t is bounded north by the
Savannah river south by the Ogeechee
river, east by the Atlantic ocean, and
west by bingham county. On the ocean
side it is fanked by many islands, and
indented by sounds and bays, with sew
eral large navigable rivers leading into
and harbor, and the outer port known
among shipping men as Tybee roads, it
has the Great Ogeechee, the Wilmington
and the Vernon rivers, and several small
er streams. OF the sounds, Warsaw and
Ossabaw each affords a harbor surpass-
ing many of those on which considerable
seaport cities have been built. All of
these waters are navigable for vessels
of large tonnage.
geographically, the land is gently roll
ing and we'll watered, and the soil is ca
pable of producing every plant and tree
that can be grown in seni-tropical cli-
mate, The larger part of the land IS
open for settlement, the change in the
system Of cultivation brought about as a
result of the Civil War having caused
much of it to be virtually abandoned by
the former planters. Those lands, how
al
are handsome money makers for the couu-
tvs gardeners and farmers. All kinds of
stock do well here, and the climate is so
mild and even that shelters for stock are
unnecessary during nearly the entire year.
To manufacturers, requiring convenient
water frontages, good transportation IA
cilities, good water supply, and mild cli-
mate. Chatham offers especial induce
ments. 1t also offers cheap fuel, since 1t
has an abundance of cordwood available;
or, If coal is preferred, 1t can be brought
by sea at low rates. The time cannot
be far distant when the many advantages
OF mild climate, good markets and fav-
CRADLE facilities of all sorts for every
kind of manufacturing offered here will
become known. And then the water
fronts will be lined with manufacturing
establishments, while the available lands
of the interior of the county will be dotted
with farms, orchards, diaries. etc. AL
ready we have a number of fine and prof
liable farms, and goodly number of
manufacturers, but We need more of each
1t is with the purpose in view of has
tening the development of the agricultural
and industrial resources of Chatham coun-
ty, and aiding the growth in population
and prosperity of Savannah, that the
Morning News presents to-day it's lesson
in local geography. 20 We of little faith"
look at the heritage that is yours, If you
wil but work for it!