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^dvqimr'ai , £4 TWEUVE PAQES BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA: Saturday Mousing, sefikmbrbso, , ST. SIMONS: ISLAND. ITS SOIL,, PRODUCTS. Etc. -, _ : j j THE MILLS AND THEIR OPEKA- . TIOVS. ' *■* 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 i <4 jtifif* hftl. OlflSw t'l |<‘ f fa THE UNDERSIGNED, HAVING SOUGHT OUT THE ENURE INTEREST PF Da. J. ij. HADDEX, vt-.itis nt 6-pjni et;im ! .filWo ci^flBSlib 'tjS r. , ac j' .LI! - -d I’.aHki,., >. ' Itiliii iiiv.iikimhi DRUi* dill lifj t'b CORNEK ,NEWCASTLE A GLOUCESTER STS., ,VCI/ Am di Georgia, EXTENDS TO THE PUBLIC AWIHVITATION TO EXAMINE A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF k-f -MS ' t II f 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. ™ . . ,iOTT aWlBsco:*-' * co > 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 •*' xH&t. -wtuMfi I Portrait* *toa tq.4,&LTI»ajcu. broker. Cook Bru«. 1(1' fcan,i(*clnrer. of luralicr, »nA M. J. Col*on. M*. _ oflbo city of Bnauwlck. JinlWJ