The Brunswick news., 1912-10-30
GENERAL MANAGER OF GEORGIA
COAST G. PIEDMONT TALKS
ABOUT FUTURE PLANS.
WORK IS FAST PROGRESSING
Terminal Property With 1000 Feet OF
Waterfront Has Been Secured and
plans that lWill-- Aid Materially in
Growth of City Being Considered.

A. de Sola Mendes, vice president
and general manager of the Georgia
Coast & Piedmont railroad, who is
spending few days in the city, states
that work on the Brunswick extension
of his road is progressing satisfactor.
lily.
We have, due to the hearty CO.
operation of our friends over in Da-
rien, finished the road from our old
terminus to the river edge at the
site of the first drawbridge and with
in week or two will have finished up
the repairing of the streets where the
grade was changed, to permit us to
go through said Mr.. Mendes.
The machinery of the contractors
on the bridge foundations has ar
rived at Darien and the material is
arriving, so that this work will be
underway next week. Work on the
steel for the bridges has been under
way for some months and it will prob
ably be shipped ready for erectios
some time in February.
Wzn;.
Work from the Brunswick end is
progressing. Rail has been laid to
a point four miles out from Bruins
wick, and the track lined and sur
faced. The camp will be moved to
that point about the end of the week
and the rail pushed on toward the
river, which; is expected to be reach
ed in time to permit bringing in the
steel for the South Altamaha river
bridge from Brunswick
Terminal property with approx
mately 1000 feet of waterfront on
government channel has been Sc
cured between Dartmouth street and
Fourth avenue for the distribution of
manufactured products, shipped from
the North by water. There will be
room for considerable other develop
ment,' said Mr.. Mendes, ''but that so
far no other places have been worked
out, although if the other arrange
ments can be made to make Bruins
wick the cotton market it should be,
the road will doubtless locate cot
ton compress on this property. The
board of trade is giving this matter
much consideration"
"The matter of our trackage in
town." Mr.. Mendes continued, "has
not yet been definitely settled We
made application for franchise COW
erfng what we wanted, from the point
of view of best serving the city, but
in conference called by the mayor
and council it was suggested that the
other lines had so much not fully used
trackage in the city, that we ought to
be able to secure such facilities from
them, on practically permanent ba-
sis at a cost less than the interest
at the same time save further en-
croachments on the streets. The 9TH
er railroads that were represented at
this meeting express willingness to
work the matter out along these lines
so that the franchise application was
dropped for the time being. An In
formal proposition that was reason
ably satisfactory to the G G. & P.
was made by the A, B. & A., but that
we had been unable after three
months effort to get the matter be-
yond this stage, so thac we are taking
steps to have franchise application re-
introduced is council in line with as
surance given us at last meeting, that
it would be granted promptly in event
negotiations suggested by city council
were not fruitful.
Surveys are being made on the
projected Reidsville-Lyons extension.
BY July / next year the G. G. & p,
it is expected, will be bringing into
Brunswick the commerce of five coun-
ties. with which they have never
done any business, and the traffic
off six connecting lines, none of which
reach a port over their own rails,
bridging at the same time the gap IN
the Quebec-Miami highway that has
existed in the shape of the Altamaha
delta. with the tourist traffic 1t will
carry This latter expected develop
ment is the result of the originality
and ptogressiveness Of our county
s pylssioners in securing service
does not exist at any other place
in the United States"
So,