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purchased the concern, and have since that time put the canal 

 in thorough repair, built a new lock near the city, in Stiles's 

 field, and one near the Ogeechee river, and constructed a 

 wasteway at the Little Ogeechee river, to vent off the surplus 

 water. Amount of expenditures of the new company on the 

 work, about $16,000. 



Steam Mills, Mills, &c. — Shippers' cotton press, capital 

 $25,000 ; hydraulic cotton press, cost $25,000 ; Savannah 

 "Tyler" cotton press, cost $15,000; Steamboat Company of 

 Georgia cotton press, cost $20,000 ; Upper steam rice-mills, 

 Blake & Habersham's ; Savannah steam rice-mill ; Savannah 

 steam saw-mill ; steam saw-mill ; Oglethorpe steam saw-mill ; 

 New Eagle steam saw-mill, capital $12,000 ; Vale Royal steam 

 saw and planing-mill, capital $70,000 ; Col. Starke's steam 

 saw-mill, capital $8,000 ; steam works for planing, &c. ; C. Van 

 Horn's steam works; E. Jenck's steam mill, capital $20,000; 

 iron foundry of Millar & Currie ; iron foundry of R. and J. 

 Lachlison. 



In addition to the above, there are seven rice-mills and four 

 ; aw-mills in the county. About three miles from the city, on the 

 j lantation of H. McCalpin, Esq., there is a brick yard at which 

 ihere have been made more than 60,000,000 of bricks — an 

 amount greater, it is believed, than has been made in any one 

 establishment in the southern country ; on the same plantation 

 are a steam saw-mill, a rice barrel manufactory, and a planing 

 and grooving machine. 

 Population. — 



White Males, . . . 3,729 



" Females, . . . 3,521 



Coloured Males, Slaves, . 2,31 6 



Females, " . . 3,370 



Males, Free, . 241 



Females, " . . 396 



Grand Total, City, . . 13,573 

 Health. — The statistics of the health of Savannah will 

 compare favourably with those of any city in the United States. 

 The most sickly part of the year is during the winter months. 



