Butts-Mitchell County GaArchives News.....A NEW TOWN March 25, 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Don Bankston http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005864 April 26, 2005, 11:54 pm Jackson Argus – Week Of March 25, 1897 March 25, 1897 Captain Smith at the Head of a Big Enterprise in Mitchell County On the 22nd inst. An agreement was entered into the city of Macon and three thousand acres of land placed in the hands of the editor of Headlight-Home-Seeker to lay off a new city. At Baconton, in Mitchell county, an old settle place, on lands in high state of cultivation, “Union City” will be laid out and the work of building a co-operative colony will begin. Capt. Smith is authorized to begin work at once, and our county surveyor will be put in possession of a complete plat of the grounds and when he has the plans all platted he will go down and survey it up. Lots 30 x 100 feet will be laid off for store lots; lots of one to five acres will be laid off for residences of the business men, then small farm lots of 20 acres each will be followed by 50 and 100 acre lots. Only the alternate lots for business houses and residences will be sold until the alternate lots are disposed of. Every purchase of any lot or farm will share in the profit derived from the sale of the alternate lots held for enhancement. The ware house will be built and operated on the plan of the Alliance ware house in Jackson and the profits divided among the patrons, also the oil mill and other like enterprises. On this place is a fine clay for a brick yard (being the farthest south such clay has been discovered) and it is intended to open and operate this on the co-operative plan. The place now has transportation by the S.F. & W. railroad and steam boat on the Flint river and a branch road will be built across to some point on the great Southern system, thus giving “Union City” three competing routes of transportation. On this beautiful place two large blue springs boil up from the bowels of the earth and flow off in a silvery stream larger than Sandy Creek and clear as a crystal. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/butts/newspapers/anewtown661gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb