Southern Georgia

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Excerpt from Southern Georgia: A Pamphlet Published Under Auspices of the Savannah, Florida Western Railway, Brunswick Albany Rail Road, and Macon Brunswick Rail Road, Containing Valuable Information to Farmers, Naval Stores Manufactures, Timber Men, Lumber Manufactures, Fruit GrThe Macon and Brunswick Railroad, now a part of the Cole Seney syndicates vast system of roads, some miles in length, . Starting at Brunswick, traverses southern Georgia to Macon, 189 miles, with. A branch from Cochrane to Hawkinsville, 10 miles long, and is now rapidly being completed to Rome, Ga., where it will connect with the cole-seney system of roads to Memphis, Selma, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Cincinnati. The Shenandoah Valley, Norfolk and the vast West and Northwest. A large num ber of branch lines as feeders, it is expected, will soon be built in Georgia.The Brunswick and Albany Railroad, now the property of the Er-langer Seligman syndicates vast system of roads, which have been purchased and welded into a system through the exertions of Fred. Wolffe, Esq, who occupies the same relation to this system that Col. Cole occupies toward the Cole Seney syndicate, and Major Haines occupies toward the Savannah, Florida and Western system, the organizing genius of each having made these vast systems of roads a reality. Starting at Brunswick, traverses South Georgia to Albany, Ga., 171 miles, with charter privileges to the Chattahoochee river, and will soon be completed west to Selma, Ala., becoming part of an uninterrupted through line to Vicksburg, thence to the' Texas and Southern Pacific system, making nearly an air line to the Pacific coast, the gaps in which are rapidly being constructed, with branches to Memphis, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Cincinnati and other points, with projected branches in Georgia, especially from Albany to Colum bus, Ga.These three companies control vast amounts of American and foreign capital, and will all build branches as feeders of their main lines whenever the development of the country warrants, and are prepared to aid in hastening such development by active co-'operation with the people in any well considered plan for a comprehensive system of immigration.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.