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TWEUVE PAQES
BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA:
Saturday Mousing, sefikmbrbso,
, ST. SIMONS: ISLAND.
ITS SOIL,, PRODUCTS. Etc.
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THE MILLS AND THEIR OPEKA-
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St Simons Stills beiiig, sn impor
tant adjunct to Brunswick, a short
sketch of St Simons Island is neces
sary to render complete this trade
issue, that is to-- go forth to tell its
story of Brunswick and its surround
ings.
The fertility of soil is wppderfnl.—
It producfes in profusion corn, cotton,
peas, oats, beans, lye, potatoes (both
sweet and Irish), cane, cabbages,
beets, etc. Last spring one fanner
netted, from cabbages alone, oppn a
plot of ground a fraction less than a
third of an aore, three hundred and
seventy-five dollars. Another, upon
a half acre, three hundred dollars in .. , . , . ,,
Irish potatoes. Three hundred tush-f^ of one hundred and twenty.
els of sweet potatoes would be con
sidered an usual yield. A twenty-
acre field of corn, just gathered in,
brings fifty bushels per sore. Other
crops will repay the industrious snd
judicious husbandman a like fold.—
la fruits, St. Simons ezoels in or
anges, peaches, figs, bananas, olives,
lemons, limes and pecans. Her semi-
tropical fruits grow to great beaaty
and perfections. Sncb celebrity have
St Simons oranges gained that ip
Savannah and Brunswick markets
they are much sought after. For fla
vor and jnoiness they far sntpass the
best Florida. This is tbe natural soil
for figs. Several trees on the island
are forty feet high and eighteen inch
es in diameter, and, in a good season,
wlU yield at least thirty bushels each.
There is now on the Georgia Land
and Lumber Go.V plantation • trash
whioh, as a cutting, was stuok in the
ground in May last, not protruding
above the surface an inch, that now
has at least fifteen fall grown figs,
acme of them ripe enough for polling.
The finest olive oil in the United
States is grown and clarified on St.
Simons. So with other fruits, if
npnco allowed us to particularize.
It is, however, St. Simons’ climate
that renders life here a pleasure. Id
winter ice is seldom seen and buow
bos .been known but onco within the
last cenrnry. The thermometer is
scarcely ever known to be below 25°
Fab. Being directly on the Atlantic,
the balmy trade winds from the south
east gently luring to her shores their
warmth, thereby preventing that low
er temperature that less favorably sit-
uated places suffer from. 8bo
gonial dime of Florida end is free
from the vicissitmlee of printer iufliot-
4£l# , lhet SUWlInfi/tttMtoiber tbe
temperature is several degrees lower
t in the Northern State. Jt scarce-
ties abound in all the creeks and rivf
hints on or near 8fc Si
eving oyster to
such perfection as io rival the Norfolk
or Saddle Bock. The beds at some-
places to.be^-inexhouBtible, and
ob, how rich, luscious and juioy.
Bat the great pride of the islander
is the St. Simons Mills. This is a
large saw mill establishment, the
property of the Georgia Land and
Lumber Go., This latter is a corpo
rate institaiipp,; owning over 30,000
acres of yellow, pine, land, situated in
the counties of Dodge, Telfair, Lau
rens and Montgomery, between the
Ocmnlgee and, Ocqdee rivers. Thi
company employs an army of ban
to cut, haul and otherwise prepare
their timber for rafting, down the A1
tarnaba river to Darien abd adjaoen
booms, where ifc iimetby tbe trie
little steamer Hamilton, and towed t<
the Miljs for tbe purpose of beinj
dHtiBcKiI; ‘
The site on the island for erecting
this mammoth institution was select
ed on account of depth ol water to'.al-
I ow sail vessels of heavy tonnage to
ransport the lumber to foreign mar
kets. These mills employ about one
bnndred'and fifty bands in tbe vari
ous department, have a catting ca-
BRUNSWICK’S CARS.
five thousand feet per day, have actu
ally cat over one hundred thousand
per day for ten days in succession
and over two million and a half feet
during one month. They are prepar
ing, by means of new and improved
machinery and other additions to in
crease the actual capacity to over ten
hundred thousand feet per day or an
natural cutting of five million per
month (figures really dazzling to con-
This vast amount of lnmber:
is shipped to all points of tbe world
—New York, Wilmington, Maine,
Boston, and many points in Europe; >sJ_T do, sir, beyond a doubt."
Feeling that our trade issue would
be incomplete without some statistics
'B&wx&Sms
ohn P. Harvey, master car builder of-
the B. A A. Railroad shops, for some
fads in regard to experience with the
cars that he has already constructed
for use on tbe aWve road, Making
known our erraud, Mr. Harvey ex
pressed a willingness to give us any
information, which we proceeded to
te : y4u built for
, Harvey?’*
“I have built qpjte a number of flat
cars and have found them in all points
perfectly satisfactory.”
"How about tbe cost ?”
“Well, sir, I kept an itemized state
ment of the cost of six and find that
they can be easily built for seventy
dollars less than the price charge"
manufacturers and ivith additional
saving in freight of about $20, making
tal saving on each car of $90.”
“'a* is truly quite a saving,”- [
“Indeed it is, and I believe -that
can make a similar saving on a
her that I shall happen to builc
hese were flat cars, I believe yon
said—bow about other kinds and
styles ?”
“Well, sir, I have built two com
bined mail, baggage and express cars,
both of which are now running on
tbe rond, nod are, in the judgment of
myaelf and every master car builder
who lias seen them, just as good, both
in workmanship an J style, as the cart
from nuy factory either North or
South. Tliese were built nt a saving
of at least $500 each. One serious
disadvantage under which I labored
was ibe fact that the work bAd to be
done entirely by baud—no wood
working machinery of any kiud was
used in their construction. “
“Then you think that with proper
machinery and facilities, you could
have reduced tbe Cost still more ?”
•BRUjpswijk,
Mediterranean, Soqth and Central
America. Of course this congiega-
tion of employes has built np a town
of several hundred inhabitants with
all its essentials and concomitants.
The moving genius in all this en
terprise is that great man of whom
one of New York’s most gifted writers
Aid in 1868: “Bat we do take pride
in pointing to men whose immense
wealth is guided and controlled by
the principles of evangelical religion.”
At the bead of this list thus spoken
of was placed Hon. W. E. Dodge. Mr.
Dodgo has contributed|his means to
this great scheme of developing the
latent resources of Georgin and his
unswerving business judgment lins
guided it snfely to a most splendid
success through tbe ^crucible which
tests nil now establishments. Although
Mr. Dodge has, siuco 1SG8, nebioved,
not only ns n Christian and |philnn-
tbrophist, a national but a transat
lantic naino, in his lustrouB crown
grand future before it) by this greatest
of America’s philanthropist. In Mr.
Dpdge’s various business; enterprises,
most wprthyAnd efficient as-
ly in safdmw ranges higher than 95°
This is onriug to that greatest of lax-
ary—the sea breeze. , So well known
is this by oar interior friends that of
ten St. Simons is sought as a place of
refuge from heat and dust by parties
living at places much higher, fU either
altitude end latitude.; The winters
are so mild here that a gentleman liv-
on the.island dined, at Christmas of
1879, on butter beans and tomatoes,
seasoned with red pepper from vines at
italis invested as well as a legitimate
return on the investments. In these-
• tfireefrears' old. Tho prec
i so genial that
i not been frost sufficient to kill
them. Here oleander and cai
plants grow to trees from fifteen
thirty feet high and are magnificent
in their rich folisge. Here tbe tnock-
ing and rod birds find iheir most nnt-
ftBkljdiiue* for development, and of-
ton ijy|witfe j^irfaufr) 'gjAghoLt?
attired" companion, the nonpareil, tire'
often found in flocks. Fish are ttbnn-
dinl—iunlli t, erdnkers, front, bass,
black-fi-h, sbeepbeud, whiting, dram,
other v.irie-
“What do yon think of tbe practi
cability of a car factory in Bruns
wick?”
“Nothing could he more practica
ble.”
‘Yon think then thnt a well equipp
ed cat factory wonld be a good invest
ment?”
“Beyond a doubt. It has been
demonstrated that cars can be made
here, and well made, too. There cer
tainly is no lack of mnterial, for lum
ber is the one plentiful thing in Bruns
wick. I used nothing but Georgia pine
in these cars, and it is all that can be
desired.”
“What nbont tbo iron work on your
cars, Mr. Hnryey ?”
“The wrought iron work was done
here in tbe shops and the castings
wore made at the foundry right here
in town, so you see thoso cars were em
phatically Brunswick institutions.”
“So I sec. “But wouldn’t tho freight
on iron for extensive car works take
away the profits?”
“By no means. The iron could be
obtained from northern markets and
very cheaply delivered hero by our
steamship nnd packet Hues. Our po
,, ,, .... . sition on tbe sea const is greatly to
there sparkles no brighter gem than 0 nr advantage.”
St. Simons Mills, with its church nnd ^“Could passenger coaches bo con-
reuuol bouse, conceived and estab/strncted hero?”
■sued (and now flourishing with a ‘ B ‘ r- ? believe that with my
limited experience nnd facilities,
oould build a passenger conch nt an
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THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING SOUGHT OUT THE ENURE INTEREST PF Da. J. ij. HADDEX,
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CORNEK ,NEWCASTLE A GLOUCESTER STS.,
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Georgia,
EXTENDS TO THE PUBLIC AWIHVITATION TO EXAMINE A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
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Proprietary and Domestic Supplies, sucli as
DYE STUFFS.
Paints, Oils, Glass, Putty,
TOItBlT G-OOD.S, Etc.,
Landreth’s Fresh and Reliable Garden Seed,
AND EVERYTHINOIPERTAININO TO A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STORE. OUR PRESCRIPTION DEPART-
VENT IS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
Mr, Is. 7. D. PERSSE,
An «xptrl«aced and reglitered Ph«m»cl«t. Xapeelal attention given tojcotnponndlng pbjraldana'
prcacrlytiona.
IJa.BtJRiroiiD, M-13.
EE-ESTABLISSED!
After being burned out tbe.Uto Are, bw ro-oponed, IN FLINT'S BUILDING, NEWCASTLE STREET,
»largo itock, coaelvtlug of
STAPLE A FANCY DRY GOODS
Notions, Embroideries, Heady-Made Clothing,
BOOTS & SHOES,
HATS AND CAPS,
Crockery, lass and Tinware, Grocer
immense snving. Cars of every nnd
any kiud can be built here as cheap
if not cheaper than any ojher wnot in
them, who have at heart tbe welfare trnde & ae raaj 'be tbe means of
of the community in which their cap-' calling the nttentien of some capital
ist to tbe matter.”
“Oh, I hope so ioo.
What other
able Superintendent nt the Mills,
whose qniet and nnostenlocions man
ner in the discharge of bis responsi
ble duties at once portray bis Wash
ingtonian genius in the management
$imen, Mr. Dodge has given anoth
er, evidence of bis unerring knowi-
edge jjf the “fitness of things.^ Aa,uu
Avreffioer and oourtoola gen
tleman, Mr. Fnller never fails to im-
JEfiOWgriMOigh and low, ns tbe
“right man in tbe right place." See^
onded, as be is, by a corps of efficient
assistants, the various department* of
this great concern moves like dock
Wu&m. And may
the declining years of a ripe old age
rest lightly on ,tbe venerubjpjifoyecfor
of this gigiintie etrtcrprisre. snd'he be
sp ired to visit the sc-me of bis nsefnl-
ol
•Why, wo have every advantage.—
One of onr principal advantages is the
sslnbrity of our climate, eniibliug ac
tive work to be prosecuted at any sea-
sob of the year. "I cannot pretend to
npention all the advantages.” « |
"We bade Mr Rarvey adieu, thinking,
within ourselflhat he was right—we
have every advantage. A car factory
would certniuly be a gqod investment'
Tbe demand for tbe curs is almost an
assured fact when we contemplate two
immense systems of railways termi
nating iu our city, to say nothing‘of ■
the countless lines throughout Che
country, I but, must,. certainly become
and pattons. When we take
'eat item of
railroad au
thorities are very much pleased with
th# ««r,lhr MJ
iug Kine and will continue tbe mi
purchasers hoBBB
f their own crs. ut feuri '-o^ *"
Tobacco and. Cigars
Which he offers at BOTTOM
. T " v ' •> ’ >4 >’■ people,
Opposite B)airt» Drug Store!
Ho so^ita the patronage of the
Bemember, r
MATTINGS,
WaH decorative Papers, Etc.
Wo hftvo Juit received 350 rolli bc«t CHINESE M UTINOH. All new palUtrnft of thin voiPttu’d ImiwrU-
Uon. AlftO t ft Utk«* ftsvurtiueut of One. .
EBONY PARLOR CABINETS.
|I| y A LARGE LINE OF FI2iV \'J ’'
Chamber Sets. Wardrobes, Sideboards, Desks, Ohiffoneres,Etc
upHOifl^iow^M^rrf^Jj vpNG b, tk. Lo«t workmun. Country outer* •ollclleil.
-ajtassaar Lx^rps^-TT,
liton St.. SAVANV AH, Ga.
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Auction nnd Cominbsion Mcrciwnts. nitd
i General Collecting Agent*.
tdajf*r*<A*s
'Spi.cli.lf fttvWi I* tb.clWII.n of wnt'
Bntiueu cowiigunifBU ftoikiu?d. aud •
returns RLtnotecd, OlBc« under ADV*«tisk»J*J
BningWielr. Oft. Refer* by
L. .U,IDIMJ8ll I
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Portrait* *toa tq.4,<I»ajcu. broker. Cook Bru«. 1(1'
fcan,i(*clnrer. of luralicr, »nA M. J. Col*on. M*. _
oflbo city of Bnauwlck. JinlWJ