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Augusta is Spending Nearly a Million a Year
Public Safety, Public Health, Public
Works, All Spend Generous Ap
propriations to Make Augusta a
Good Place to Live m and to Do
Business in
More horsepower for Augusta and more population
and more progress for Augusta. It is estimated that for
every horsepower profitably employed there will be an ad
dition of four to the population. Ten thousand more horse
power for Augusta ought to mean 40,000 more population
for the city.
For yearc and years Augusta has suffered for lack of
efficient power. This has now been remedied by the Geor
fia-Carolina Power Company, which promises not only
0,000 horsepower for immediate use but a total of 24,-
000 horsepower wlen needed.
The Augusta canal furnishes some 12,000 horse
power. This new development promises double the cap
acity of the canal. What the canal has done for Augusta
in the past, should be more than doubled for the future,
in progress and population.
There’s no reason why Augusta should not be one of
the biggest as she is already one of the best, cities of the
South Atlantic. Her commercial and industrial futuie is a
thing of her own hands. It will be what Augusta makes
it.
The significant thing is that the opportunity is here,
that the means are provided for Augusta to grow as fast
and as big as her own people wan her to grow and are
willing to work for her growth and expansion.
Augusta is today no mean city as this edition of The
Herald shows to the world. The capacity for expansion of
her present many successful industries is enormous and is
being rapidly realized. The opportunity for new and other
allied industries will rapidly open up with the assurance
of cheap and abundant power. Every addition to the work
ing horsepower of Augusta, whether in established indus
tries or in the coming of new industries, means Progress
and Population.
The city has set the pace for the coming year with a
municipal investment of a million and a quarter. Private
energy and private enterprise ought to double these fig
ures before the end of twelve months. An era of progress
such as Augusta has never experienced is this city’s por
tion in the immediate future.
And a cordial welcome is extended the enterprising
citizens of the world to come and cast in their lot with the
New and Greater and More Progressive Augusta.
Rich and Prosperous Carolina Territory Soon
To Be Opened Up By Railroad
Construction to Augusta
Augusta a Great and Growing Mnrket Place For a Widening
Trade Territory.
There are practically two lines oi
railroad already graded from Augus
ta to Trenton, S. C.
At Trenton they diverge, one going
on to Johnston, and thence to Green
wood, the other goes to Edgefield and
Newberry.
Both of these unfinished lines
should be finished. That is to say.
they both traverse a rich country now
destitute of rail facilities, that is
amply able to support a railroad by
its local business alone.
The Augusta, Edge.ield and New
berry Railroad is projected to run
through* the counties of Edgefield,
Saluda and a part of Newberry. It
would bring the flourishing town of
Newberry, which is now cut off from
trading with Augusta, witliiu fifty
miles so this city.
The distance between the two
points, by rail, is now one hundred
and fifteen miles. Newberry is sit
uated on the Greenville and Columb.a
Railroad, and it is necessary to go to
Columbia in order to reach Newberry
which makes a circuitous route and a
tedious journey.
The Valley of the Saluda.
Prom Edgefield to Saluda, the road
would go through what is considered
by many, the ,inest section of South
Carolina- And yet, strange to sav,
the country traversed constitutes tlii
only portion of the state that is not
covered by a network of ra.lorads.
It forms a continuation of the same
country as that between Johnston and
Batesburg, which is known as the
Ridge: the same characteristics of
Boil, climate and water. It is a beau
tiful country, gently undulating and
abounding in creeks and branches.
The lands are generally a light
sandy topsoil with a subsoil of mulat
to or reu clay. And while it produces
abundance crops oT cotton and corn,
it is especially adapted to fruits and
truck farming.
And, above all, this scope of coun
try in the watershed of the Saluda
River and at the hearwaters of the
Edlsto. is splendid cattle raising sec
tion. It produces all the grasses
well and the numerous small streams
as ord pasturage and much land for
hay meadows.
The Saluda River is the only con
siderable stream to be crossed be
tween Edges eld and Newberry.
About one-third of the grading re
mains to be finished
The Susong Road.
From Edgefield to Greenwood ex
tends a fine ridge, the divide between
the Savannah and Saluda ricers. The
country on either side is exceedingly
fertile and productive and Is without i
railroad faculties for miles.
What is known as the Susong j
road follows this ridge all the way, !
wthout crossing » considerable |
stream It is graded within twelve
miles of Greenwood.
Tta'.a grading was done twenty-five I
years ago, and if the road was need- i
e dthen, with the natural increase of !
farm products and the consequent. |
demand for tranauortutlnu. h*nv mucli
more urgent is the demand in this
day and time for improved facilities
ot every desciiption, and especially
for rapid transit to and from the
marts of trade?
Both the Susong road and the Au
gusta, Kdgef eld and Newberry, were
graded by issuing township bonds,
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AUGUSTA COTTON EXCHANGE CELEBRATING 500,000 BALE YEAR
which the townships have had to pay.
While the townships have lain out of
the use of the money, it lias not been
lost, provided they build the roads.
But it is a great hardship on the peo
ple of the townships that they should
have paid for arilroads aud then not
gotten them.
Augusta and Columbia.
Many have been formed tor build
ing a line from Augusta into Colum
bia, but the opposition has been
strong enough to exclude competition
from the sacred soil of Augusta up
to tlie presnt time.
Columbia wants it and Augusta
wants it and business needs of the
country demand it, but nevertheless,
it does not come.
Trolley lines have been projected
to connect with the Augusta and
Aiken, first at Graniteville. then at
Aiken, but. for some reason or other,
neither connection has qet material
ized.
There seems to be no doubt about
the practicability of the project, for
the conditions are ripe for it. Abun
dant .power Tor the propulsion of
trains has been secured at both ends
of the line and advantageous arrange
ments for the terminals have already
been perfected.
The trolley line, where abundant
hydro-electric power can be obtained,
is the most economical method of
rail transportation. And it connects
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with the ordinary railroads and its
cars are exchangeable, so that one
part of a line may be electrically
operated and the other by steam-
Hence, an interurban line to Colum
bia could connect there with all the
other roads and give and receive cars
both passenger and freight, just the
same as is the custom with other
roads.
Three on One Track.
Thus it seems to be perfectly prac
ticable for all three of these roads,
the Susong, the Augusta. Edgefield
and Newberry and Augusta and Co
lumbia, to go out on one track to
the point of divqrgence, say Trenton,
and save the expense of building two
tracks that distance.
When built, these roads would af
ford the territory served of market ng
its cotton in the highest market in
the South apd the opportunity of
buying its supplies in the cheapest
market. These advantages will be
enjoyed by' no other inland market,
for Augusta Is the only city enjoying
tne lowest water rates of freight by
reason of the barge line-
Beyond doubt they would prove
vastly beneficial to the trade of this
city. Besides bringing in the prod
ucts of the local territory, they would
open up trade with the flourishing
mills a new outlet for their manu
factured products.
Augusta must ultimately become
what Boston is to New England, tne
distributing point Tor the vast man
ufacturing districts of the Piedmont
region of Georgia and the Carolinas.
Talk of the Gridiron
is Fast Beginning to
Start Throughout State
As the ending of the baseball season
is now beginning to loom up in the near
future gridiron talk is starting to circu
late around. Its rather soon for this
kind of a conversation but such is the
trend of the talkers. As usual, specula
tion as to the strength of the various
elevens for the state is the main topic.
What'll “Tech" no -this season? in fact
all of the Georgia institutions are being
compared and of course the "dopers" are
stating WHit'll "is the strongest.
In less than two months the merry
war will lie On and it will be a common
thing to, hear of the results or the out
come on the gridiron. This seems a lit
tle premature in these days of the na
tional pastime blit such is the condition.
Several local -eleven will be organized
foremost among those mentioned is that
of the Richmond Academy.' The Academy
lads, will begin practice about the first
of September.
The Support Received By the Militants Shown
When Subscription List ot Society
Women is Published
London.—The publication of the
lists of wealthy subscribers to the mil
itant suffragette fund has revealed the
extent to which the Women's Social
and Political Union has been support
ed by society women. But that is not
likely to stop the steady and strong
flow of money into the W. S. P. U.
coffers. It is known that many of
these grandes dan.es send anonymous
contributions and on the authority of
a well-informed Court writer I learn
that the Queen lias.received many sur
prising confessions front women of
high rank.
Some of them have told Queen
Mary that they have been forced to
give money to the wild women—or the
“furies” as they are now called—as an
insurance against . outrages. Such
blackmail has nuturally alienated all
sympathy in Court circles and Queen
Alary would be the happiest woman in
London if some means of subduing the
militants could be devised. It is opep
ly admitted that the Court has not a
“AUGUSTA IN ’9l4 s
very high opinion of the way in which
the Home Secretary, Mr. McKenna
has handled a very difficult situation.
Granting of Vote.
His wife, who was formerly Miss Pa
mela Jekyll, is a keen non-militant
suffragist and her view is that the
only cure lies in the granting of the
vote to women. And behind, McKen
na's lenient treatment of the militants
(here is evidence of the influence of
Pamela, which is only another in
stance of the truism that the hand
which rocks . the . cradle rules—the
British government. »
In militant -circles there has been
high celebration of the success of Dr.
Ethel Smyth, one o f thdir most ar
dent leaders, who has just been in
formed that two pf her operas are to
be produced in Germany next year.
Dr. Smyth is . the composer of “Tin-
March of the Women”,and the battle
song of the W. S. P. U.,-and has taken
a particularly active part in the suf
frage movement. * '