The Savannah morning news., 1903-12-11
WORK OF CONVICTS
bitches DUG AND NEW ROADS
OPENED AND GRADED.
329 ON THE GANG IN NOV.
COST THE COUNTY 1888 A PIECE
TO FEED AND GUARD.

Petition for Extension of the Denn
Forest Road to POOIer Presented
to County Commissioners ut Their
December Meeting-COmmittee APP
pointed to Consider the Utility of
the Proposed ROad-$2OO ApprO-
Priation for Georgia Building at
st. Louis voted.
There was a full attendance on the
December meeting of the County Com
missioners yesterday afternoon. One
of the mos. interesting matters that
came before the attention of the body
was the report for November from the
superintendent of public works and
county roads. The following is sum
mary of the report:
Average number of prisoners. 1923. 2
Cost of guarding for the month. ST. 35 so
Cost of feeding for the month. 94S Al
IOtal Observation-Disclosures. q, Az Al
Monthly per capita cost for
guarding .................... 4.66.
Monthly per capita cost for
feeding Observation-Disclosures. 1851
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SO /
The percentage of sickness at all
camps was at per cent.
What the COnvicts Did
The four camps of convicts cut l.
600 lineal feet of bitches, slushed 49, 100
feet of canals and laterals, opened 1900
feet of new roads. regarded IS, 800 feet
OF old roads, laid 1850 yards of gravel.
There was delivered TO the four
camps from the county farm. sixteen
bushels of grits, twenty bushels of po-
tatoes, thirty bushels of peas,
thirty-five bushels of sweet potatoes,
IFS gallons of syrup, 1880 pounds of
hay and 100 punches of turnip green's
Prisoners on hand, Nov. l, 1926; received
since, 81; total. 376 From this num-
Der thirty-five were discharged, three
escaped, two were sent to the Jail
hospital and one to Jail as a witness,
leaving 1886 in camp, distributed as fol-
lows: 21S men, ffty-three boys and
sixty-four women.
A petition from the Savannah Golf
Club, asking that the roads in the vi
entity of the club grounds be repaired
and put in good shape, was
referred to the Committee on
Roads and Bridges with authority
to act.
New Road Asked for.
petition signed by a large number
of property owners asked that road
be opened from a point near Pooler
to the six mile post on the Augusta
road. This would be an extension of
the Dean Forest road to Pooler and
would be about three miles long. The
district fhrO1roh fcl, ic
have this road opened is thickly popu-
lated, and a large number Of property
owners would be greatly benefited.
The commissioners appointed n COM
mittee of three, composed of Messrs.
j. H. Oliver, j. w. Keller and w. H.
Quinton the three nearest road COM
missioners. who viii confer with the
regular Committee on Roads and
Bridges, to look into the utility of the
road, and prepare a careful report.
under oath, to be submitted at the
next meeting of the County Commits
sioners.
For Georgia Building.
A communication from Mayor Her
man Myers and Col. !. H. Estill was
read in which the commissioners were
asked TO make an appropriation fol-
the Georgia building. which will
be erected at the st. Louis Ex-
pOslliou. II was suggested in the let
ter from these two gentlemen that an
appropriation on the part of the COM
missioners for the county would be a
more equitable assessment on each per-
son in the county. The board passed
an order appropriating 5000 for the
fund which is to be available when
the other counties of the state have
made bona fide appropriations.
Chairman T. ]. Davis of the road
commissioners. submitted a list of the
road commissioners, together with the
roads assigned to them. and stated
that as soon as possible the reports
from all OF the commissioners would be
consolidated, and a full report made e
the County Commissioners.
Bids for furnishing provisions for tbs
county changing and Jail for three
months after Jan. /. were opened and
contracts were awarded as follows
Groceries, the Dixon Lumber Company
bread, Fred schwarz: beef, Hugh 10.
gan.
Bills were passed for payment TO tn.
amount OF s557S3. AZ. Included in thii
We're all bills against the county ans
the appropriations made last month Il
the various charitable institutions. TIT
amount Of the appropriations 70 III,
charities was Bi2.l00.