Butts-Mitchell County GaArchives News.....A NEW TOWN March 25, 1897
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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.



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