The Brunswick news., 1917-01-21
Committee Appointed and the
Work Has Started in a Very
Earnest Fashion.
MAKING EFFORT FOR BASE
No Stone Will be Left Unturned
to Land What Will be a Great
Thing For This Section and
All Will be Benefited.

Though nothing has been said fol
the past few days about the work thai
has been done in the matter of locat
ing the proposed divisional army base
neither the Board of Trade nor the
mayor has been idle. Letters were
received Tuesday by Mayor Hopkins
and the Board of Trade from Major
General Leonard Wood, written from
Augusta, saying he cannot come tC
Brunswick this trip but will arrange
to send some one here before any de-
cisiOn is made. General Wood also
requested that information as to the
most desirable locations, with size OF
tracts, approximate prices per acre
character of the soil, railroad facili
ties, car lines, roads, maps, ETC., be
sent him.
Mayor Hopkins has appointed a
COZ Hmittee to handle the entire pro.
position. The committee consists of
Messrs. F. D. NJ Strachan, Albert
Fendig and R. R. Hopkins. This com.
mittee is so we'll qualified to handle
the matter in every phase, that the
Board of Trade, instead of appointing
additional members to the committee
decided to name the same gentlemen
OF represent the Board of Trade, and
Acting President A. de Sola Mendes
has requested them to act for the
Board of Trade, also
A brief giving information on Bruins.
iwck, its harbor. transportation facili.
ties. trade. health conditions, educa-
tiOnal facilities. public utilities. and
the inexhaustible supply of artesian
water. was sent some days ago to
and the brief has been supplemented
since by figures showing that Bruins
wick's death is now the lowest of any
city in the country. and by figures
showing the flow of artesian wells in
various parts of the world, which
prove that the largest flow per minute
is from we'll in Brunswick. The lar
oest we'll at the Yarvan Rosin and
Tuerpentine Company's plant. which
flows 1000 gallons per minute, or s.
100000 gallons per day, a quantity
Ions per day for each one of $4,000
soldiers, using the average of 200 gal
Ions per day which authorities on
water supplies consider amply suffici-
ent for all needs of actual average
consumption. wastage. leakage. and
all uses besides those of the individual
when figuring on city water supplies
The committee will make every ef-
fort to convince General Wood that
brunswick is the best place for the
divisional army base, and it is be-
lieved that, if the base is located on
the seacoast. Brunswick will stand a
very good chance to secure it. as the
ADVANTAGES of Brunswick are verv
great. The information requested bv
General Wood is being prepared and
some of it has already been forward.
ed showing the advantages of possible
sites around Brunswick.
IL Brunswick should he so fortunate
as to secure the army base, il would
mean an addition of not less than 25.-
900 to the population. The pavrolls
would run between 100000 and 81 900.
900 per month. and the amount that
would be spent for supplies and ser.
vice would run we'll up into the hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars Hard
fights are being made both bv interior
eRnd seacoast cities to prove that thew
are the logical locations for an armv
base. It is believed by many people
in Brunswick that, unless the General
Staff decides that the base must be
placed at a central location in the
interior for strategic reasons solely
Brunswick should be selected. as it is
the one port of the Southeast from
which invasion would be easv by enc
nv forces. as it has a great harbor
for great fleet of both naval vessels
and transports, and trunkline rail
roads radiating throughout the South
east. while the other ports are either
some distance up narrow rivers that
could be easily blocked or, like
Charleston. lie so far north as to he
behind the barrier of the Southern APP
palaehian mountains.