Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — THE CITY OF SAVANNAH. [ARTICLE]

THE CITY OF SAVANNAH.

(ntiTeatlng Facta About, the Georgian Cottoft Market. In boking over a late .report of the busb.o s of the city »if h'avannah. Ga.. says a writer, whic , lui- risen to the ex olb noo o: the second most hnporta t cotton market id the world, 1 lln.l tli in iStiS ;>nd iMJtt the city received only;: 3,oo(lßules, audit pus.-ndthemll-li n-lmlo mark in 18H. receiving 1,02f>,- < - b 10.-, worth in the open market 1 ast year, ending August ii., the total oropof the country Wi . (1,1 17,0t* > bales. learned from this re port several oth r interesting fact, , among them that Savannah was f unded by Gen. .Im, >s Oglethorpe, 1.0 yours ago, v, < n with tho gift of prophecy, he •rodietud its present importance, also 1 mt it would "grow 11 tho status of a .. t emporium and the mart of a la extent of connt.r\ and of many ye >pN ■" ulno that the first steamship oc <> .. tho Atlantic railed 1 oin Savnnii'i in that the first cotton g.'< wn j><Em .ria was shipped from Savannah in 1 that. Savannah never had a oi f.i i o; that Savannah ships annua 1 o.e ■ 1.100,010 packages of o'- . :/■ s and other fruits, dOO.uOO pm ki>p- :■> ( f vegetables and more than it i. i.ii. n watermelons, to suv nothing of other products. and ttscecan commerce run ■lp to more than tn I.,«»,(1 -o,< (>(>; that Savannah has morn miles of elect rie railway then any . ity o its size In the world: that it hui an aim al retail tfr.l ' of :'.;.'i,ooo,000: that it lias u dally bu ply of I .000.1 < 0 gallons of tho finest a. to 1 11 well water, about 2 ( io gallons I >:• every man, woman and chil 1 in the cite, and this atuolin’ there is every reus ir t<> believe, tr bo increased ■l. etc tly for a cit >f 1,00,1,000 or more people.