The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-10
TO LOOK INTO
MINOR DETAILS
OF ROAD TO WILMINGTON
BEFORE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
WILL ACT ON MATTER.

special Meeting VIII BE Called Ear
" Next Week to Take Final Ac-
tion-ROad viii Cost About $4,000.
Will Follow Route Outlined in
Morning News-RcpOrt of Superin-
tendent Chaplin ON Cost. Direc-
ton, Elevation and Width of
Roadway.
A special meeting of the County Com
roissioners will be called early next
week to take action on the proposed
road from Thunderbolt to Wilmington
Island. This action was decided on
at the Tune meeting of the Commits
sioners. yesterday afternoon.
Supt. Chaplin, who had been instruct
ed to have a survey of the road made
and to estimate the probable cost. has
completed his work and his report has
been made. There were several mat
ters, however. that the commissioners
wished to look into before thy took
final action, and as a result the special
meeting was decided upon.
There is little or no doubt that the
project win be finally Endorsed and
when once the road is built as~far
as the settlement on Wilmington Is
land the promoters will endeavor to
have it extended as far as Tybee. The
details of this extension, and the route
which the road to Wilmington Island
will take have been already describe
in the Morning News.
The proposed road will cost about
81, 500 when completed. This represents
but a small fraction of what the road
would cost were it not for the convict
labor The road will be 1000 feet
long and twenty-eight feet wide, with
an elevation Of fourteen and a half
feet above low water and two feet
above storm tide.
In completing the work it will be
necessary to remove about $4,000 cubic
yards of earth. it is estimated. From
three to four months will be required.
at the least calculation, to complete
the road. The Commissioners will look
into the Details concerning which they
are yet undecided at once and will con-
fer with those most interested in the
project.
Contracts for July Supplies.
The bids for furnishing the supplies
for the month of July were opened at
the meeting and awards made as fol-
lows: Groceries, Dixon Lumber Com
pany; fresh meat, ]. A. Brown & Co..
bread. Fred Schwarz.
Official notice of the action of the
Supreme Court in affirming the action
of the City Court in the matter of j.
J. Gaudry and w. G. Tison against the
county was made. The $500 due the
plaintiffs for expert examining of
books will be paid. The details of this
case are familiar to the public.
Permission was given d. K. Grouse
to build a. track from his. saw mill
south of the city across the Grove
point and Ogeechee roads at a point
near the eleVen-mile stone, to connect
with the tracks of the Seaboard Air
Line. The road must be built at
grade and must be kept in good condi-
ton by the petitioner.
Bills aggregating $1S,60030 were APP
proved and ordered paid.
A number of quit claim deeds were
given and several other matters of
routine business. transacted.
Supt. ChapIin's Report.
On May 81 there were S44 prisoners
in the convict camps. During the
month there were IS received A dis
charged, sent to the hospital, 10 sent
to jail, escaped, and l died. The
cost of guarding was $1,47265, and the
cost of feeding, $SS1.11, making total
of $2,353.76 OF the total number of
convicts 22S are men, GA are women,
and 80 are boys.
The work done by the convicts in
all the camps is summarized in Supt.
Chaplin's report as follows: There
have been $500 linear feet of canals
dug, 35,500 linear feet of laterals cut,
1900 linear feet of rolling right of way,
and Also linear feet of gravel laid.
The steam dredge working in Pipe
maker canal has excavated 1870 linear
feet, removing 1896 cubic yards of ma
terial. The bucket of the dredge broke
on May 10 and since that time the
dredge has been idle. 1t will require
two weeks longer to repair the dredge.
The showing made at the County
Farm is also a good one. During the
month of May there was delivered so
bushels of meal, 6S bushels of grits, rs
bushels of peas, 1000 pounds of rice,