The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-10-10
SAYS CITY is AWAKENING TO
ITS GREAT POSSIBILITIES
AS TRADE CENTER.
GREAT FUTURE AS A PORT
From Now on the World Will Hear
of Brunswick-City Quick With
Progress Founded on Resources as
Stable as the Continent Behind It.

The following article from the Oc-
tober issue OF The Tradesman, pub
lished at Chattanooga, Tenn, says
some hne things about Brunswick:
brunswick, the second great port
of the state of Georgia, has been the
enigma and puzzle that has baffled
the students of the South, and for
that matter the whole country, for a
quarter of century. No one has
been able to say why that city has
not doubled and redoubled it's popu-
lation during the past twenty five
years
"Brunswick's harbor is as deep as
any on the Atlantic coast south of
New York. The channel of the har-
Dor is as deep AS any south of Nor
folk. The harbor in itself is land
locked and in extent is sufficient to
accommodate the shipping of the en-
tire, Atlantic Seaboard
The water frontage of Brunswick
is more than forty miles in extent.
The depth of water at any point of
the Water front is sufficient to per-
nit, the free passage of almost any
ship engaged lin carrying our COM
merce.
The climate is a mean between that
OF Savannah and Jacksonville, Bruns-
wick being situated almost exactly
half way between these cities. The
water supply comes from artesian
wells varying in depth from five hun
drde to eight hundred feet. The pur-
ityi of this water has been proven by
scores of analyses.
The port of Brunswick is the gate
way to two great rivers that traverse
the richest but least developed Sec
tions of the great state of Georgia
nearlyIone thousand miles. These
streams are susceptible of improve
ment to state of perennial naviga-
bility. They have. always been open
to commerce for light draft boats
during several months of the year.
These streams are the Satilla and
Altamaha river systems.
with all these natural advantages,
with all the varied resources of the
wonderful section back of her, Bruns-
wick has stood still until the good
year 1910. Standing thus still the
immobility of the city has been the
one great commercial civic unanswer-
ed problem in the lives of most men
under forty years of age.
THE port of Brunswick is fed by
three great railway systems - the
Southern Railway, the Atlantic Coast
Line and the Atlanta, Birmingham &
Atlantic. A fourth line, the Geor-
gia Coast & Piedmont, is under con-
struction and will be running trains
into Brunswick before the close Of
1912. This new line will tap the
richest section of Georgia and con-
meet it with the coast at Brunswick.
A deal has just been closed by the
Georgia Coast & Piedmont railroad
whereby that line becomes the owner
of more than 1000 feet of waterfront.
The completion of its terminals and
the operation of its shops at Bruns-
wick will release millions of dollars
in Brunswick. i
THE Atlanta, Birmingham & Allan
tic railway is improving and adding
to its great terminals at Brunswick
at cost of 100000.
%
seeking to enter Brunswick - the
Florida East Coast and newly pro-
jected road, the Americus, Triton &
Atlantic. Quiet work is being done
on both these projects by the later
ested people. Authoritative announce
ments are expected in the near future.
From now on the world will hear
Of Brunswick. The city Is quick with
a progress that is founded on resour-
ces as stable IS the continent that
lies behind The water front is be
ing developed. New whistles are
joining in the chorus Of factory calls
to the army of labor. New products
are advertising. the variability Of her
resources in the worlds markets. The
most remarkable Of all is that the men
of brunswick are SO quick themselves
to see the new order Of things that
Is come among them.
Work will begin this week Of oc-
tober on paving Of thirteen blocks OF
streets in the downtown section. This
paving will practically complete the