The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-05
ACTIVE WORK To
START JULY d
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO
GIVE TWENTY-FIVE THOU
SAND TO ASSIST IN. WORK.
Proposition Was Submitted to Board
Yesterday and Was Accepted - A
Motor Car Service for Automobiles
Included in the Contract.

and general manager of the Georgia
Coast & Piedmont Railroad company,
and the citizens committee of which
Albert Fendig is chairman, and which
was appointed to act with city and
county officials in securing the ex-
tension of that road from Darien to
Brunswick, met with the county COM
missioners yesterday for purpose of
agreeing upon the final details Of
the contract to be made with the
company The following proposition
was submitted by Mr. Mendes on be-
half of the company:
To the Honorable Commissioners of
Roads and Revenues of Glynn
County, Georgia:
On behalf of the Georgia, Coast &
Piedmont Railroad company, l beg
to submit to you, the following prop
osition:
The railroad company will extend
its railroad from Darien, Georgia, to
the city of Brunswick, Ca, crossing
the Altamaha river to the Glynn
county side at about the intersection
of the two plantations known as
Grantley and Dents, thence through
Dents rice plantation along what is
known as the automobile road to the
high lands, and from thence a dis
tance of about eighteen hundred feet
to what is known as the Old Darien
road, and thence along the Old Dar-
len road to the city of Brunswick, and
will enter into a contract for a motor
car service over said Altamaha river
from a point of connection with
highway in Glynn county to point
of connection with highway in Nc
Intosh county, for the carrying of au-
tomobiles and passengers, upon
schedule of maximum charges as fol-
lows:
Single tickets, $500; round-trip tic
kets, $500; ten-trip Communication tic
kets, $4,000, with a provision that
this motor car service will be contin-
ued for a period of five (5) years and
indefinitely beyond that time if there
is no loss operating the same. How
ever, if after five years there is
loss in maintaining such service, then
the same shall continue provided the
county will reimburse. the railroad
company an amount equal to one-h
the actual loss of such operation.
The railroad company proposes to
acquire terminals in the city OF
Brunswick and water frontage of
from one thousand to twelve hundred
feet and to erect on such terminals
freight warehouses and other build
ings needed for railroad purposes.
The railroad company will own its
own tracks leading on to such termf-
mails. The railroad company has not
vet determined what trackage ar
rangements it will make from the
point on Cochran avenue where its
main line will enter the city to the
terminals to be so acquired, but will
either get we'll defined trackage
rights over existing lines of road be-
tween such points that will enaple
the railroad company to afford its
patrons efficient service or 1t Will
construct and own its tracks between
said points. The company proposes
to construct a good line of road ana
to operate good trains over said ROAD
and to give good and efficient freight
and passenger service. 1t also pro-
poses to have it's entire road laid
with sixty pound steel rail. Our en-
gineer's estimate shows that in con-
structing the line from the beginning
of the highlands at Dents Plantation
along said Old Darien road to Coch-
ran avenue in the city of Brunswick,
will require the handling of 142,00O
cubic yards of earth which at eight
cents per yard would cost S11, 1850. rs
timating the distance to be built on
highlands at - IL miles, would re-
ouire 32.760 crossties which at 30
cents per tie would be $9,S28; track
1aving and surface estimates at S6Oo
ner mile is $500, which would make
a total of s2S,9SS for such grading,
ties. track-laying and surfacing. The
impression seems to be that we can
hardly hope to get this grading done
AZ less than ten cents per cubic yard,
and that suitable crossties will cost
us from 90 to 35 cents each, so that
1t is probable that this work and