The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-09
A TEN-MILE CANAL
WILL BE BUILT TO EMPTY INTO
PIPEMAkER CREEK.
WILL DRAIN A NEW SECTION.
PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE WITH
DRAWN OBJECTIONS.

system VIII Require n Year or More
for Its COmpIetfOn-The Country
Beyond PO0Ier 10 BE Included
within the scope of It's Influence.
Many bitches and Laternls to BE
DuR-Pipemaker Creek to Furnish
the Outlet Into the Savannah Riv-
er-New Road i'm Contemplation
That VIII Help That Section of the
County-To Surface the Road TO
MOnteith.
new and extensive system of drain
age is one of the works of improve
ment now in process of construction by
The county forces. The new system
contemplates a canal ten miles long,
which will have it's inception in the
country to the rear of Pooler and
empty ultimately into Pipemaker
creek.
The new system will require a year
or more probably for its completion.
as there is a vast number of bitches
and laterals to be dug in order to make
it efficient. When completed it will
drain the entire western section of the
county, about the drainage of which
complaint has been right on tap for
the past four or five years. The county
has secured passage across the lands
of several persons who, in the past.
have been obdurate, and there is moth
ing now to prevent the completion of
the system.
To Drain Into the River.
Pipemaker creek empties into the
Savannah river and the purpose, of
course, is to discharge the drainage of
the section of the county it is pro-
posed to drain ultimately into the river.
The canal that will be built will drain
over ten miles of country, that in the
past has been drained not at all or in
the most inefficient manner. The i'm
provement will mean great things for
this section of the country that the ca
nal will traverse.
A force of convicts is already at work
on the construction of the canal. but
this force will probably be largely in
creased in the course of the next few
weeks. Just at present the commits
sioners have decided, with a propriety
against which no dissenting voice has
been raised, that it is necessary to
uTaln the ldnQS lmmeQlaIely auJdCenJ
10 the city and this is now being done
A relatively Insignificant amount of
these lands remains to be drained. or
TO receive the attention necessary to
place them in first-class condition.
Paved Road to Montieth.
Another improvement for the western
section of the county is contemplated
by the County Commissioners. This
is to broaden and surface the Monteith
road, which leads from the 10-mile
post on the Augusta road to Monteith.
The residents in that section of the
county have a petition before the
County Commissioners and the chances
are that 1t will be granted.
1t will not be necessary to import
gravel from Augusta to do the work.
1t is said there is gravel enough in
that section of Chatham county to sur
face the road ten times over. and that
ii is quite as good and will surface a
road quite as we'll as that which comes
from the county of Richmond
The road it is proposed to surface
is about four miles long. There are
many truck growers in that section OF
the county, and with the surfacing of
the road they will be given an uninter~
Tupted paved highway to the wharves
of the Ocean Steamship Company and
the Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Company 1t is regarded as
proba BILE that the road will be built.