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SPECIAL NUMBER 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, I_- - - * ***?£ •*W * c 4 ■ & ■-4 '* ** j '• i 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 BARRETT PLAZA, SITE OF THE NEW FEDERAL BUILDING AND HOTEL ADA NOW BEING ERECTED v -‘ * fa &*dtt&s?. v^ - *fc^^a^agyffeja& &&>v.-^j^^^|^|fe': ; M:^^vy^ t M I . v^r g - I W^|Ma , - : ® y > <yffiagy;' J> s&*&£%( Wgy .. "•;. V' £•s&** t.+r-'yt'■< >■■ flffir THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA. 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. * '