The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-12-05
To BUILD NEW LINE
COUNTY WILL CONTRACT WITH
CITY FOR ITS C0ssTRUCTION
FROM SAND-FLY TO co. FARM.
STREET RAILWAY COMPANY DOES
NOT FIGURE IN DEAL.

Railway Company Is of Course In
terested But Commissioners Deal
with 1t Through City officials.
City VIII Provide the Material,
County VIII Furnish the Labor.
COnyicts viii Be Used for the
Work Line Built Primarily to
Provide for the Removal of City's
Garbage-City Has Entered Into
Contract with the Electric Com
pany-Matter VIII BE Taken Up at
Meeting of County Commissioners
on Thursday-Other Matter That
Will BE Before the Board.
At the meeting of the County Com
missioners on Thursday the question
of the extension of the Savannah
Electric Company from Sand Fly sta
ton to the County Farm will be dis
cussed, and it is probable that the
terms of a contract for the work. to
be entered into by the city, will be de-
termined
In making the contract the County
Commissioners will deal with the city,
and not with the Electric Company.
The main object in the proposed line
is to provide for the removal of gar
bage from the city to the farm. The
terms of a contract between the city
and the Electric Company have al
ready been given in the Morning News.
This contract has been drawn up, and
will be signed within the next day or
two.
Terms of COunty's Contract.
The contract which the commission
ers will make with the city will pro-
vide for the building of the new line,
the city having come to terms with
the railway company as to price and
conditions. The city will contract with
the county for the erection of the line,
one of the provisions of the contract
being that the city furnish the rails.
The work of constructing the line will
be undertaken by the commissioners,
who can use convict labor in the con-
Struction.
When the new line is built, plans for
the disposition of garbage by the city
will be made more efficient. and the
removal of the refuse will be mater
tally expedited. At specified places
along the line, the garbage, brought
from the city by carts, will be depos-
tied. This will be thrown into sDe-
cially constructed cars and carried di-
rect to the county farm.
Half Mile of Track.
The distance from Sandy Station to
the farm is about 1000 yards. At the
meeting of the commissioners, details
of the work proposed will be discussed,
and arrangements made to begin the
work. The contract between the Sa-
vannah Electric Company and the city
will have then been signed, and the
commissioners will be in a position to
enter into a compact with the city.
Another matter of Importance which
win be discussed is the extension of
the West End Line of the Street Rail-
way Company. This matter was taken
UP on Tuesday afternoon at special
meeting of the board. called for the
purpose of considering the petition of
the Savannah Electric Company, for
the condemnation of the land neces-
sary for the widening of Stiles avenue,
the old Water-works road and Schwarz
avenue to width of sixty feet.
Attorneys VIII Confer.
1t was found that the petition was
not specific in several relations, and
the commissioners instructed Col.
George T. Cam. county attorney, to
confer with the attorneys for the street
railway company, Messrs. Osborne &
Lawrence, to the end that certain por-
lions of the petition might be made
more explicit. This report will be
made to the board at their Thursdays
meeting, and action will then be taken
The matter was fully discussed at the
meeting on Tuesday, and plans devised
for the prOcuratfOn of the land ALONG.
the proposed route.
Still another matter of Importance,
which the commissioners will consider,
is the application for writs of possess
sion to the property which, by the stat
ute of limitations, became theirs on the
failure of the owners to pay the tax for
which it was sold at sheriff's tax sale,
more than year ago. The county at
torney will be instructed to apply to
the Superior Court for writs of pos
session.