St. Simon Island Development Company
..For the Construction of Highways and General Development
OF ST. SIMON ISLAND, GEORGIA
Presented by
FISCAL SALES COMPANY
Hurt Building ATLANTA, GEORGIA

ST. SIMON ISLAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
Incorporatad Lnder the Laws of Georgia

Authorized Capital, 81,000.000
Par Value $100 Per Share

n "Wistf-r. Philadelphia. Pa. Author and Caplta!i>t.
B.'Pad Ro?a. Branswirk. Ga. Exporter arm Capitalist.
Frank X. "Watkin>. DuV.in. Ga. Farmlands and O.lr.nizanon.
-I. L. Pendley. Athens. Ga. Optometrist and Optician.
-T. "W. "Ware. Atlanta. Ga. Pre>. "Ware-Smith Paint Co.
T. L. Cair.. St. Simon Island Plant r-r and Land Owner.
"W. A. Jeter. Brunswick. Ga. Broker and Capitalist.
Thoiua^ C. McCormiek. Columbia. Tenn. Government Agricultural Engineer.
W. C. Pitner. Athens, Ga. Merehandist Broker.
J. M. Finn. Dublin. Ga. Citizens Loan & Trust Co.
E. "W. Jetr-r. Cordele. Ga. Railroad Accountant.
H. S. MoCrary. Jr.. Savannah. Ga. Arr-hitect.
Henry A. Hermann. Sandersville. Ga. Physician and Surgeon.

St. Elmo Massengale. Atlanta, Ga. Pres. Massengale Adv. Agency.
James "W. Morton, Athens, Ga. Planter and Capitalist.
AY. C. "Webber, Atlanta.. Ga. Pres. Fiscal Sales Co.
D. "W. Jeter, Maeon. Ga. Georgia Quiney Granite Co.
"W. T. McCormiek. Atlanta, Ga. Civil and Hydraulic Engineer.
TV. D. Keith. Dublin. Ga. Keith & "Waddell Drag Company
J. Pinkston, Valdosta. Ga. Electrical Engineer. Ga. Tech.
"W. M. Coile, "Winterville, Ga. 3Iinister and Planter.
J. L. Morgan. Brunswick. Ga. Mechanical Engineer.
A. D. Dodge. St. Simon Island, Ga. Land Owner and Planter.
C. J. Holton, Jacksonville. Fla. Contracting Engineer.
Judge D. "W. Krauss. Brunswick, Ga. Krauss and Strong. Attorneys.
Xat D. Arnold, Lexington, Ga. Planter and Capitalist.

GENERAL COUNSEL.
Smith, Hammond and Smith, Atlanta, Ga.

CONSULTING ENGINEERS.
"W. T. McCormiek, Atlanta. Ga. Civil and Hydraulic Engineer.
Ellis Soper. Chattanooga. Tenn. Civil and Mechanical Engineer.

ASSOCIATE ENGINEERS.
F. C. Snow, Engineering Dept., Ga. Teeh.
R. "W. Johnson Bridge Engineer, Highway Dept. of Ga.

Company
THE ST. SIMON ISLAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY has been organized by prominent men and women of the State for the purpose of conserving and developing, in a general way, the resources of St. Simon Island, Long Island and adjacent land.
The development includes the construction of a toll highway, from the mainland at Brunswiek, over the Marshes of Glynn, to St. Simon Island, and the construction of a toll highway over the marshes to Long Island. It also includes the erection of a mod ern, fire-proof, all-year-round hotel; a modern hydro-electric power plant, having for its motive power the well-known artesian water supply underlying St. Simon Island; the development of Long Island as a colony beach resort; the establishment and devel opment of town sites, the sale of business locations, residential lots and truck farms; the promotion and development of fisheries and kindred enterprises and the development of the natural timber resources of the island, with the manufacture of lumber; the con struction of homes and the introduction of various manufacturing industries; the con struction of a landing field for aeroplanes, and docks for river craft; the use of a large tract of land for a game preserve until needed for development.
This company succeeds the BrunsTvick-St. Simon Highway Company, which was a syndicate started for the construction of the McCormick Highway, and was permitted and qualified by the Secretary of State on September 19, 1919. The present company has taken over all the ?ssets of the Syndicate, including the rights of way, work per formed, surveys, maps, lands and contracts, and all other tangible assets. This com pany contracts to assume all agreements ani representations made by the Syndicate, and to continue the development on and adjacent to St. Simon .and Long Island, on approximately eleven thousand acres of land.
During the construction of the highwavs, the building of the hotel, the develop ment of the power plant and other enterprises all of which should produce very attractive profits the valuable acreage acquired by the company on St. Simon Island and Long Island is now being sold for truck farms and for permanent and summer homes. The townsite of Carson includes hundreds of lots for busines and residential purposes. Along the principal highways to be constructed, and on Long Island with its wonderful beach, thousands of residence lots and small truck farms have been laid ' out and are being sold to return several times the amount of the company's author ized capital. This supplies an element of security for the investor and makes available immediate profits to be returned to the stockholders as dividends without waiting for the completion of the numerous other sources of permanent income.
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Highway The McCormick Automobile Highway, across the Marshes of Glynn--now

Across in course of construction--will connect with the Atlantic Ocean Highway

the

System about eight miles north of Brunswick. The elevation of the road

Marshes will be the ground-level on St. Simon Island and the mainland. The width

of

of the road will be forty feet on the top and seventy feet at the base. The

Glynn. fill will contain a compress body of material, pumped by hydraulics from

the Lake site on St. Simon Island. Two swing steel draw-bridges, with

one-hundred foot openings at right angles to the channel, and a sixteen foot drive, ap

proximately two hundred and twenty-five feet long, fifteen ton road roller capacity, on

concrete piers, will be used in crossing MeKay and Frederiea rivers, operated electri

cally from a tower located between the rivers, and equipped with auxiliary hand-power

operating machinery. St. Simon Island is the great natural play-ground on the coast

of Georgia. Up to the present time the only way to get onto the Island has been by

one small boat from Brunswick, operated without schedule, a distance of fifteen miles,

and requiring more than an hour in time. At the junction of the Dixie Highway, from

the north and west, and the Atlantic Highway, from the north and east, just above

Brunswick, the McCormick Highway will cross the Marshes of Glynn, a distance of less

than three miles, for the use of which a toll of probably one dollar for each vehicle will

be charged. Toll highways and bridges have universally proven to be unusually profit

able investments. It is estimated, by those in position to know, that upwards of 150,000

automobiles will annually cross this highway to one of the finest beaches on the Atlantic

Coast and one of the most attractive industrial developments in the South. Making

proper allowance for upkeep and operation of bridges, the net returns from these tolls

should pay a generous dividend on the capital of the Company. With the aid of the

Government, the State of Georgia is spending millions of dollars in the building of

roads. The Atlantic Oeean Highway System, now being developed by the State High

way Board, will connect every section of the State with the main highways leading to

the ocean. This wonderful development of Good Roads will naturally result in bring

ing the citizens of Georgia and other States direct to the properties of this Company

where they will find oportunities for investment not offered elsewhere.

Entrance to
St. Simon.

An Aviation Landing Field will be provided to meet the requirements of Aeroplanes, to be operated between Miami, Chicago and New York. This Field will be the first landing out of Florida, and the last en route to Flor ida. The Landing Field will be provided on the open marsh-land, directly

west of Oglethorpe Park, at the entrance to St. Simon Island. At the entrance to St. Simon Island an Archway will be constructed, provided with rest rooms, ticket office, garage and filling station. Between the artificial lake and the Entrance Archway, will be Oglethorpe Park. This Park will be used in connection with Lake Arabella by the public. Lake Arabella will be created by the removal of the earth contained in ap proximately fifteen acres by means of hydraulic pumps that will deliver the material to the fill of the McCormick Highway across the Marshes of Glynn. The Lake will be supplied with fresh running artesian water. Two pavilions will be erected on the bor ders of the Lake, for the pleasure and accommodation of the public.

Wisteria Beginning on the east side of Lake Arabella, Wister Avenue, now under

Hotel.

construction, will be completed across the Island to the Village Bluff, a dis

tance of approximately two miles. This Avenue will be eighty feet wide

between property lines, having double drives parked in the center. Beginning at the

lako, home sites fronting on the Avenue on either side, with truck farms in the rear,

will extend across the Island to the Wisteria Hotel. At the end of Wister Avenue, nestled in a giant Oak Grove, on the Village Bluff overlooking Long Island and the At lantic Ocean, commanding a view of the sunrise unsurpassed on the east coast, will be constructed a reinforced concrete, fireproof, modern one-hundred room summer and win ter tourist hotel. There is no place on the Atlantic Coast where so much can be found in the way of natural advantages, diversions, and amusements, to attract and entertain the tourist guests of a strictly first-class hotel. One of the finest golf courses in the South will be made on the stretches of open fields and woodland that surround the hotel site. Thousands of acres of hammock, marsh and forest land will be utilized, until needed for other development, as a Game Preserve, where the hunter sportsman will find the finest shooting on the Coast. The inland waterways adjacent to the Island have long been famous for being the finest fishing grounds in the South. Fresh and salt water bathing and boating will be special features of the numerous attractions to this modern hotel. Winter tourists will make this a stopping place on their trips to and from the Florida resorts. During the summer months the accommodations at the Hotel will be in great demand by citizens of Georgia and other states whose vacations are spent at the seashore. Wister Avenue and the Hotel Wisteria are named in honor of Mr. Owen Wister, the noted writer, who inherited considerable property on St. Simon Island from remote ancestors, men and women of note, among the earliest inhabitants of the Island. Mr. Wister has most generously used both his influence and his lands in helping to con serve St. Simon Island.

ROAD SCENES ON ST. SIMON ISLAND

The Town Beginning at the south of the Hotel "Wisteria and joining "Wister Avenue,

Site of

Webber Drive will meander southward along the bank of Black Banks

Carson.

Creek, through enchanting sceneiy. to a point south of Black Banks, where

it will merge into the streets of Carson, and the Highway connecting St.

Simon with Long Island Beach. The development along this drive will be similar to

that bordering Wister Avenue. The town site of Carson is named in honor of Mrs.

Virginia Carson MeCormick, wife of the promoter and engineer, to whom is due the con

ception of conserving St. Simon Island for the benefit of the present and future genera

tions. The town is located between the pres?nt main driveway of the Island and TVebber

Drive, at the intersection of the Highway, connecting Long Island with St. Simon, over

looking the Atlantic Ocean. Nearly five hundred beautifully located residence lots and

business lots are inc-luded in this townsite and are being offered to the public. The sale

of these lots will supply profits that will be" available for almost immediate distribu

tion to stockholders.

Long Long Island will be connected with Carson and St. Simon by means of a HighIsland, way constructed across the marshes south of Black Banks Creek. A stationary
bridge will be constructed over the Creek adjacent to Long Island, at which point an Archway will be constructed similar to the entrance arch on St. Simon. Begin ning at this point and meandering in a northernly direction along the fringe of the marshes on the west side of the Island, its entire length, the Keith Driveway will be constructed with Colony Avenues running at right angles across the Island, connecting with the beach on 350 foot centers. A general summer resort and beach development will be undertaken here and the considerations for concessions in establishing amuse ment enterprises will be a considerable source of profit to the company. Thousands of lots for summer cottages will be sold and the proceeds made available for dividends.

Hydro- This development takes precedence in the mind of the Engineer over any Electric other development to be made on St. Simon Island, being as it is so far reachPower ing in its benefits. This development is attracting remarkable attention and Plant. interest among prominent engineers of the state and throughout the country.
General plans have been prepared for the project by the company's engin eers and details are now being worked out. The fact that a tremendous amount of elec tric power can be developed at a cost much lower than by the usual methods is generally conceded. The possibilities for the operation of this plant, on the scale proposed, to supply electric power not only to St. Simon and Long Island but to points on the main land, is in itself a most attractive investment opportunity and will interest financiers

INTERESTING PLACES ON ST. SIMON ISLAND

and smaller investors generally. The Ilydr )-Electric Power Plant will be constructed on the north end of Oglethorpe Park, overlooking- Frederiea River, into which the tail race from the Turbines will empty its wavr after having performed its function of motive power production from the well-knou'n artesian water supply underlying St. Simr-n Island. A sufficient supply of water will be obtained by drilling wells along AYister Avenue and connect ing them with a pipe line, which will deliver the water to the Turbines, under a hydrostatic- head of forty-five feet. The production of cheap cur rent will invite various industries to locate on or adjacent to St. Simon Island. It will provide the business section with modern conveniences and the homes with ice-cold stor age, cooking, washing, heating, lights and ventilation at a reasonable cost. It will work for the trucker constantly in wet weather, guaranteeing a sure crop against overflow. It will beautify the Islands and attract the northern tourist en-route to Florida, who will be only too glad to spend a part of his vacation on St. Simon.

Soil

After a careful study of the soil conditions by the company's agricultural

and

Engineer, extending over several months, he reported that, without any ques-

Water. tion. the main agricultural opportunity of the Island, was in the trucking.

Being located on the northern bonier of Florida, its produce will logically fol

low immediately that of Florida. The soil types of the Island, he classified as Norfolk

fine sand, and Leon sand. The Norfolk soil is a splendid trucking soil and occurs in

considerable tracts on the Island. The shallow ponds and muck land are common, and

under proper cultivation have made ninety bushels of corn to the acre. Vast quantities

of sea and oyster shell are to be found here, and if ground or burned, are an excellent

source of lime for the soil.

One natural advantage of unusual importance is the artesian water supply, which can be driven inexpensively almost anywhere on the Island, and which has an average pressure of twenty pounds per square inch at the ground level. This pressure is suffi cient to force the water through any irrigation system without pumping cost, which is an opportunity so extraordinary that it needs only to be mentioned for its possibilities to be realized. The drainage of the low ponds during the rainy season can be made practical and automatic by cutting a small ditch around the pond, and the installation of an electrically operated low stage pump on the ditch, with float control, and a dis charge to higher land, creeks or drainage ditches. With constant current from the Hydro-Electric Power Plant it will be possible and inexpensive to drain the lowlands.

Production From the planter's point of view, what can be done with the Island, is of Plenty. shown by what was done by the old land owners. Slaves drained the rich
farms and hauled muck and grasses from the marshes to plough under in the upland fields. Some locations produced more than a bale of sea island cotton per acre. "With the development in Hydraulic mining machinery of "recent years, it is now practical and economical to distribute the marsh fertilizer in solution from pumping

stations, electrically operated on the marshes, to any part of the Island, through pipe lines, thereby making the agricultural future brighter than its past.
Among the crops that can be profitably produced in this schedule are bermuda onions, cabbage, tomatoes, watermelons, canteloupes and practically all the crops pro duced in Florida. The growing of pecan orchards in the Game Preserve wiU reforest the open fields, and will supply nuts for the game until the age is reached when the production is sufficient to supply a profitable income. The Highways will be built eighty feet wide with twenty foot planting places r\ the center. This makes possible the plant ing of pecan trees that will supply an enormous source of profit annually to the stock holders. By stocking the Game Preserve with a selected type of hogs, large quantities of meat can be produced each year from th* nuts, moss and marsh feed.

The Smyrna fig, that most delicioiis fnrt which can not be grown anywhere in this country, has been successfully cultivated. There are few fruits that do not nourish on the Island. It is not uncommon to count hundreds of power-driven prawn boats putting out to sea to gather prawhs for the canning plants of Brunswick. There is no practical reason why St. Simon cannot share in the profits of this industry. Lying between St. Simon and Long Island is one of the largest oyster farms on the east coast. For several years parties of Brunswick have been devel >ping this industry, having recently spent thousands of dollars on its improvement. This rich development was purchased by the Company with Long Island.

Memorial Arch In conserving St. Simon Is'and for the present and future generations,

to

it is the wish of the promoter of the Highway, Mr. MeCormick, to asso-

Sidney Lanier. ciate with the movement for all time, the women of Georgia; thereby

securing to them from their.children and their children's children, the

proud and grateful recognition that, from th-ir mothers, as well as from their fathers,

they receive as their heritage the benefits ami pleasures to purchase which is the object

of our undertaking. The Lanier Memorial, constituting an especial appeal to the

aesthetic temperament, has been chosen as the feature most appropriate to the women,

who are invited to participate in the movement. The plan proposed is, to devote to

the erection of the Memorial Arch the commission on all stock purchased by the women, the names of those who so invest to be inscribed on a bronze tablet, which will be placed on the pilaster to the right of the entrance to the Arch. The Memorial Arch is to-be con structed over the entrance to the McCormick Highway, which joins the Atlantic Ocean Highway System, approximately eight miles north of Brunswick, and connects St. Simon with the mainland. The Memorial Arch prospectus prepared by Mrs. Virginia Carson McCormick, wife of the promoter of the Highway, co-worker in the conservation of the Island and in the erection of the Lanier Memorial Arch, will be furnished to the women of the state as an addenda to this prospectus.

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