Statewide-Crisp County GaArchives News.....GEORGIA THRIFT March 8, 1890
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Savannah Morning  News March 8, 1890
                                 GEORGIA THRIFT
                                  8 MARCH 1890
     Tunnell Hill is to have a $10,000.00 hotel and a large iron furnace.     
     Work will commence on the new court house at Cordele soon.
     One and a quarter millon dollars worth of grain and hay is sold annually by
Brunswick dealers.
     Work on the brick works of the Americus Brick Company, on the Flint river
at Cordele is progressing quite satisfactorily.
     Catoosa Springs has been leased for the season by Capt. R. F. Powell of
Eatonton, who will run it on a grand scale this summer.
     An effort is being made to induce Mrs. Ventulett to allow a stock company
to build a first class opera house on her lot at Albany.
     J. P. Heard has recently purchased a business lot at Cordele from D. B.
Leonard, adjoining the bank building on the west, and will immediately erect a
two-story brick store.
     It is the general opinion that white farmers of Houston have made fewer
mortgages than usual this year, and that more than the usual number have been
made by Negroes who are farming on rented land.
     A wholesale cand and cracker factory os the next enterprise for Augusta.
The candy factory is alreaady in operation on a small scale by Daniel Sibley &
Co., but its capacity is to be greatly increased, and machinery for cracker
manufacture will be assembles and be put in at once.
     Judge B. C. Ferrell offers to sell the famous Ferrell gardens and grounds
attached, comprising over 100 acres, to the city oc LaGrange for $14,000.00.
Although private property, it is considered one of the institutions of LaGrange,
as it has always been thrown open to the public ny its generous owner.  
     A rich vein of fine black marble is reported to have been discovered four
miles from Dalton, near Maddox Mill. Expert mineralogists have examined the
marble and pronounce it to be of the finest quality, closely grained and
susceptible of a beautiful polish. A Dalton Company is organizing to work these
mines.
     The discussion of draining the Ocmulgee swamps near Macon and cutting the
hard wood timber has almost brought about the organization of a large stock
company to utilize the timber. This morning the owners of Ocmulgee river
swamplands in Bibb, Twiggs, Houston, and Pulaski counties will meet in Macon to
take into consideration the stock company scheme.
   The sale of the Gainesville cotton factory which was to have been disposed of
by R. E. Green as receiver, has been enjoined at the instance of northern
creditors. The injunction was obtained on the ground that the machinery was
purchased at a time when the directors fo the factory knew of the insolvency of
the company, and the title did not pass. The hearing will be had before Judge
Wellborn. at Clarksville on March 12th.   
 

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