Georgia : official facts, figures and statistics such as form a handy guide book to this sunny land of promise, profits and opportunity ; together with a selected list of 100 tracts of land at low prices and easy terms that offer unequalled advantages to the home seeker, small investor and capitalist / compliments of Edwin P. Ansley

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Official Facts, Figures and Statistics such as form a Handy Guide Book to this Sunny Land of Promise, Profits . and Opportunity.... Together with a selected list of 100 Tracts ofLand at Low Prices and Easy Terms that offer unequalled advantages to the Home Seeker, Small Investor and Capitalist........
LAND DEPARTMENT, J. Hope tigner, Mgr.
ATLANTA, GA.
E. W. AI,I.BN & Co., PRINTERS, ATLANTA

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BY EDWIN P. ANSLEY
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That Georgia is truly named and recognized as the "Empire State\ of the South" is easily proved by the official reports of the many depart ments of the State. More than this, these reports show, that this present period is one of unprecedented properity, and that the opportunites offered in the development of her natural resources are being improved as never before. The second State in the Union in the production of cotton and the third State in the production of corn, it is also true that Geor gias wonderful riches and marvelous versatility of resources have, com
paratively speaking, hardly been touched. Georgias official reports, too, show that money is pouring into the
State as never before. That this money is finding profitable investment is proved by the fact that those who formerly sent comparatively small amounts of capital into the State are now doubling and trebling these
amounts many times. But perhaps, of all Georgias varied riches, the greatest strides have
been shown along agricultural lines. A glance at the marvelous increase in the values of Georgia crops during the past few years is shown in the reports furnished by the Department of Agriculture.
In 1905, Georgias production of cotton amounted to 1,759,083 bales, and its valuation to $89,509,81. In 1909, the production was 1,901,830 bales, the valuation $125,770,000.
Corn figures for 1905 show 47,255,164 bushels with a valuation of $33<>7?,6i5; for 1909, 61,160,000 bushels and a valuation of $52,528,000.
According to the statistics of this same department, the value of the staple crops of Georgia increased from $148,233,129 in 1905, to $217,523,336 in 1909.
The financial growth and development of Georgia is shown in the State Treasurers report. This report shows that the aggregate resources of the national banks of Georgia have grown from $7,849,727 in 1880, and $23,563,135 in i90O,to $75*580,063 in 1909 the aggregate resources having been more than trebled within the past nine years.
By this same report, the increase in the aggregate resources of the state banks is equally remarkable. In 1900, the aggregate resources of the state banks were $38,929,686, and in 1909, $108,625,280.
This means a growth of the total aggregate resources of both na tional and state banks from $62,492,821 in 1900, to $184,205,343 in 1909. The number of state banks has increased from 140 in 1900, to 487 in 1909; the national banks from 29 in 1900, to 102 in 1909.
The report of the Railroad Commission shows the gigantic strides made by the railroads, public utility corporations and other large inter ests in Georgia. According to this 1909 report there are 227 public

service corporations doing business in Georgia with a total capitalization
of $1,228,118,780.
This report further shows that in 1909 the railroads handled approxi mately twelve million passengers, while the street railroads approximated fifty million passengers.
Some idea of the progress of development in Georgia is shown in the summary of financial operations of railroads in Georgia. In 1895, tlc railriad mileage was 5,240 and the gross earnings $16,930,146. In 1909, the mileage was 6,992, and the gross earnings $39*506,099. This table of comparative figures also shows that while Georgias growth has been wonderfully rapid, it has also been consistent, and no possible sug gestion of a "boom" or any such influence.
Georgias educational progress is shown by the report of the State School Commissioner. This report shows that the common school expen ditures have increased from $471,029 in 1880 and $1,980,016 in 1900, to $4,229,254 in 1910. School priperty amounting to $3,155*433 in 1000, has increased to $8,603,853 in 1910, and the 107 high schools in Georgia in 1900, to 849 high schools in 1910.
Georgias advancement in the way of agricultural colleges and the splendid results already obtained, have also attracted wide notice.
Similar comparisons could be made from the reports of the many other departments and all would show this wonderful growth in the development of Georgia for the past few decades, and especially for the past few years.
Best of all, there is almost no limit to the possibilities for the homeseeker, small investor and capitalist in Georgia today. In spite of the tremendous growth and advancement shown by the official reports of the State departments, the natural resources of Georgia, comparatively speaking, have scarcely been touched. Georgias waterways offer thousamis of horse power that will soon be harnessed to furnish the neces sary force for her present and future industries at prices that promise big profits for those directly interested. Georgia marble and other building stone has received the very highest commendation of national and government experts, and is not only being used extensively in the construction and interior decoration of many of the handsomest edifices in this country, but is being exported as well. There are seventeen va rieties of commercial minerals now being mined in Georgia amounting to over $8,000,000 annually, and affording big profits to the developers.
But there is practically no limit to the opportunities Georgia offers to both her own people and the outside world today. New industries are proving practical and profitable all of the time. It is but a few years ago that pioneers demonstrated the big dividends belonging to fruit growing in Georgia, and peaches alone now bring millions of dollars into the State annually. The same is true of truck raising and Georgia garden products are rapidly attaining a reputation throughout the country the equal of that accorded to Georgias Elberta peaches or watermelons.
The chimneys of new cotton mills and factories of every kind are now rising in every section of the State, and the versatility of Georgias manufacturing and industrial products promise soon to equal the won derful variety of her natural agricultural resources.

However, the best way to appreciate Georgias present opportunities is for the home-seeker, manufacturer, small investor, capitalist and others to come to Georgia and see for themselves. Indeed, much of the States wonderful development can be directly attributed to the thousands of tourists whi come here each year. These visitors have seen for them selves. Many of them have returned to Georgia as citizens of the State, while others have sent large sums of capital.
That a true Georgia welcome awaits the every visitor is both a matter of history as well as a matter of fact. And Georgias opportunities are of the kind that invite the most rigid investigation, for the more thor oughly any of her possibilities is studied and carefully gone into, the greater must be the appreciation of Georgia opportunities for homebuilding and profitable investment as a result.
If you want future copies of "Georgia," keeping you in touch with the latest growth and developments of the "Empire State of the South," send your name and address to Edwin P. Ansley, Land De partment, J. Hope Tjgner, Mgr., Atlanta, Ga.
The following data, obtained from official sources, was secured by the Georgia Bureau of Industries and Immigration, Samuel C. Donlap, Commissioner, and is here reproduced through the courtesy of this great factor in the upbuilding of this Greater Georgia of today.

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The record of progress and advancement made by Georgia has perhaps done more to advertise and exploit the South to the world than any other cause. The great state of Georgia, the "Empire State of the South." lies between parallels 30 21" and 39 35" north latitude, embraces 59,475 square miles of terri tory and is the largest state east of the Mississippi river as well as the most important commonwealth of the south-eastern group of states.
The cotton merchant and manufacturer, the world over, know it as .the second state in the production of the Souths fleecy sta ple. Georgia also contributes a large quota annually to the har vest of food crops, particularly corn, which cereal is cultivated in Georgia with less labor and marketed with a larger margin of profit than in those States devoted entirely to its culture.
Georgia presents such a variety of resources, openings and op portunities for the wide-awake, progressive manufacturer, in vestor, agriculturist, merchant, professional man in fact, men of every class who are willing to work for success that it is im possible to adequately describe them or more than refer to a few of the important ones in a "handy" volume of this character.
BANKS AND BANKING. A remarkable indication of the substantial growth of any com munity or section is indicated by the growth of its banking and
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financial institutions. In this regard Georgia makes a really re markable showing, having at present 487 state banks with a paidup capital and surplus of thirty-one and a half million dollars, and deposits aggregating one hundred and one million dollars, and 102 national banks with a paid-up capital and surplus of twenty-one million dollars and deposits of forty-five million dol lars. The state banks alone show an increase of 240 per cent, in number over 1900. During the decade 1900 to 1910 bank de posits in Georgia increased 160 per cent., as against 129 per cent, for the entire southeastern group of states, 20 per cent, for New England, 29 per cent, in the eastern states, and 38 per cent, for the whole country.
During the depression of 1907-08 Georgia experienced but one national and two state bank suspensions, with every outstand ing obligation secured. Few of the banks, even, had to call on the financial centers for assistance, having sufficient resources to more than meet any emergency.

LAND VALUES.
Farm lands, of course, vary in value and price, ranging from $10.00 to $25.00 and $100.00 per acre, according to loca tion, transportation facilities, improvements, proximity to mar kets, etc. Good lands,--lands that will produce in abundance ev ery crop that can be grown in the temperate zone; corn thirtyfive to sixty bushels per acre; wheat, rye, oats, hay and forage crops, including alfalfa, five to eight cuttings per annum--a ton per acre per cutting--and tobacco as fine in quality and texture as can be grown in Cuba, can be purchased at from $12.00 to $25.00. per acre.
GEORGIA'S TIMBERS.

An idea of the great timber resources of Georgia may be ob tained from the fact that of the thirty-eight million acres em braced in the state boundaries more than twenty-six millions, approximately 70 per cent, of the acreage of the state, are in for ests, forests that embrace in varying quantities practically all of the woods indigneous to the eastern states.
With more than one thousand saw mills in active operation, with an army of fifteen to twenty thousand men in constant serv ice, with an annual timber cut of from eight hundred million to one billion and a quarter feet, with an approximate value of eighteen to twenty-five million dollars, Georgia lumbering opera* tions are second only to her agriculture.

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Georgia Tomatoes, Two Hundred Dollars to Pour Hundred Dollars Per Acre.
The chief hard woods of Georgia are the oak, hickory, ash, dog wood, blackgum, and persimmon : the chief soft woods are the long and short leafed pine, poplar and cypress. The hard woods are found chiefly in the mountains, along the banks of the streams, and in the marshes and swamps.
Georgia timber lands are now worth money. The high price and steady demands for lumber have driven the speculator from the field and placed the timber lands in the hands of developers. A' recent transaction involving six thousand acres of "long" leafed yellow pine lands was consumated on basis of $50.00 per acre. The timber was exceptionally fine; the tract had never been "tur pentined" and many of the great forest giants measured from sixty to eighty feet in the clear. Such timber is in steady demand in the ship yards of Europe and America. A single stick of such heart pine timber is worth from $300 to $1,000.
The Georgia lumberman has unusually good facilities for mar keting his product. The State is ramified by approximately 7000. miles of steam railway lines, which penetrates every sec tion, and in addition thereto, there are about two thousand .miles

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of navigable rivers in the state upon which the busy steamboat daily plies.
GEORGIA'S WATER POWERS.
In the development of Georgia's great water powers will lie the solution of the question of cheap power. Five hundred thousand horse-power at mean low water, and a horse-power that will during the greater part of the year aggregate at least eight hundred thousand horse-power, is a conservative estimate of the future power possibilities of the streams and rivers of the state. This gigantic dynamic force, through the construction of storage dams and by the employment, where these are impractical, of auxiliary steam plants during periods of very low water, may further increase this power to a million and a quarter horse power, which, analyzed, means as great a dynamic force as can be produced from approximately seventeen and half million tons of

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PROF. JOHN CRAIG, OF CORNELL Newton road, was $12.50 per acre, or

UNIVERSITY, CLOSES DEAL FOR a total of $15,937.50.

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BROWN PLACE, 1,275 SOUTH OF ALBANY.

The Brown place will be planted in pecans of die finer papershell varie ties; in accordance with the plan gen

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Another big pecan land deal has enterprises. This plan contemplates

Just been consummated, in the sale by Mr. Dave Brown of 1,275 acres to Prof. John Cralg, of Cornell Univer

subdividing the property into. 5-acre tracts, which are sold to investors, the developing company caring for the frees until they reach the bearing

sity, trustee for-the New York-Georgia stage.

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coal, which would require the constant service of thirty thousand men for a solid twelve months to mine.
The water-powers of Georgia are confined practically to the hydrographic basins of the Savannah, the Ogeechee, the Altamaha, the Apalachicola, the Mobile, and the Tennessee. Of these the Apalachicola, embracing the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers and a number of less important streams, and the Savannah, which embraces the Tugaloo, Chattooga, Tallulah and Broad rivers, are the most important.
The water-powers embraced by the various falls and rapids of the Chattahoochee are among the most considerable in the east ern Appalachian range. It is estimated that from them at least three hundred thousand horse-power can be commercially devel oped. Important developments have already been made on the Chattahoochee at Gaihesville, West Point, Atlanta and Columbus, and on the Flint river at Albany.
Two hundred and fifty thousand horse-power is regarded as a conservative estimate of the water-power possibilities of the va rious streams embraced in the Savannah basin. The chief pow ers of this basin are on the Savannah river itself, although there are a number of important powers on all the other rivers that comprise it. The shoals of the Savannah begin two miles above
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The Georgia Cantaloupe is a Profitable Crop.
Augusta, the head of navigation, and extend in almost unbroken regularity to the headwaters.
The most important development in the basin is the Augusta power canal. The dam which diverts the waters of the river into this canal is a two thousand foot stone structure 'of hollow concrete type, located seven miles above the city. The canal is eight miles in length with a capacity of three thousand cubic feet per second, sufficient to generate about thirteen thousand horse power, which is sold at the astonishingly low price of $5.50 per horse-power per annum on basis of a sixteen-hour day. This is, without doubt, the cheapest power in the world!
Further development is projected at Price's Island, Anthony Shoals and Calhoun Falls.
From the Tugaloo and Chattooga rivers at least sixty thousand horse-power can be commercially developed, while the Tallulah river, from mouth to source, will furnish at least thirty thousand horse-power more.
COTTON SPINNING.
By taking advantage of abundant water-power, capable of economic development and utilization and the nearness of the cotton fields, cotton manufacturing in Georgia has made phenom enal strides, especially in the last ten years, until to-day there is hardly a large town in the state that does not boast of its cotton mill.

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In 1900 the number of spindles in Georgia was 815,545; in 1905, the last year for which census figures are available, the number had increased to 1,316,573, and the-number of looms from 19,393 to 31,210.

In 1870 the capital employed in cotton manufacturing in Geor gia was but $3,433,205; in 1905 it was $42,349,618. The increase during the five years, 1900 to 1905, was seventy-four per cent.

The increase in wage earners was seventy-eight per cent.; in wages paid forty-eight per cent, and in value of manufactured products ninety per cent.

The Georgia mills consume annually about two hundred and fifty million pounds of cotton, approximately thirty per cent, of the state's crop, and afford steady employment to several thous ands of her people.
The product of the Georgia mills include not only the coarser grades of cotton cloths manufactured for export, but many nota bly fine weaves. The factories are filled with the latest econom ical devices and improved machinery, and because of the cheap power and inexhaustible supply of raw material at the mill door, thus saving transportation charges, can and do sell staple goods at ruling prices with a larger margin of profit than the mills of die North and East.

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Georgias Cotton Crop Exceeds in Value $150,OOO.OOO Annually
The cotton industry, including cotton seed products--oil and fertilizer made from the cotton seeds--represents a considerable percentage of the manufactories of the State, at present amount ing to more than $150,000,000 annually.
MINES AND QUARRIES.
In mineral wealth Georgia is rich beyond computation. Her northern mountains, still hardly accessible and but partly pros pected, are known to contain in varying quantities marble, gran ite, gold, mica, copper, iron, coal, bauxite, manganese, ochre, as bestos, corundum and talc. South of the mountains, in the Crys talline area, are found rich deposits of granites, limestone? znd slate, while farther south are enough fine kaolins and clay* to maintain the potteries of the world for years to come.
MARBLE.
Scientifically considered Georgia marble is the best building stone in the world. Its crystalline grains being completely inter locked makes it stronger than the marbles of New England and Italy, which peculiar formation gives it an appearance and dura bility common to no other known stone.
Its strength is proverbial. It can resist a pressure of twelve thousand pounds per square inch and eight hundred and fifty tons per square foot and still remain unbroken. Its absorbtion is.

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infinitestimal, less than six-hundredths of one per cent. Its heat resisting powers are greater than any other stone. Of seven varieties subjected to test all were uninjured at eight hundred de grees; six varieties were left at nine hundred degrees and three withstood one tlrousand degrees, so remaining until subjected for sometime to twelve hundred degrees of heat, sufficient to change them into quick-lime.
The marbles of Georgia occur in a belt about sixty miles long, from two to three miles wide and anywhere from one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet deep, estimated to contain not less than five hundred billion feet of workable marble, in a perfect riot of colors ranging from an almost pure white, through the varying shades of pink and grey to a pronounced blue and black. These colors occur in regular formations, a condition peculiar to the Georgia deposits. That is to say, a quarry can be depended upon to produce stone of the color indicated by its surface outcroppings. The matching also is perfect, making it the aristocrat of all building stones.
This one resource has already given Georgia a national repu tation ; her marbles have been used in many of the country's most notable structures, including a number of state capitol buildings, the home of the Girard Trust Company, Philadelphia, and the famous Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington.

GRANITES, GNEISS AND LIMESTONES.

It is justly claimed that the granite, gneiss and limestone de posits of Georgia are of quality and extent sufficient to house the combined peoples of the world and leave a surplus amply suffi cient to pave the streets of every city, and then meet the require ments of ordinary building operations for many years to come.
In a practically level country sixteen miles southeast of At lanta, rises Stone Mountain, the largest block of sblid granite of high quality in the world. This wonderful natural phenom enon is seven miles in circumference and seven hundred feet in height, bare of all vegetation except intermittent pine or dwarfed oak. Extensive quarrying operations have been carried on here for years but competent engineers estimate that not less than sixteen billion feet of workable granite remains.
A few miles farther southeast, near Lithonia, immense quanti ties of contorted gneiss is quarried for paving and curbing. The Stone Mountain granite and Lithonia gneiss find extensive use

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in southern and western towns as building and paving material. Probably the most pleasing example of building construction from Stone Mountain granite is the new Federal Building just comr pleted at Atlanta.
The monumental granites of Georgia are quite the peer of the famous Barre granite of New England, and are found in exten sive deposits in Oglethorpe, Elbert, Hancock, Meriwether and Heard counties.
Limestones, which find extensive use in building operations, as road material and flux, are found in profusion in north-west Georgia. The most important of the limestones is known as Knox Dolomite. It is a magnesium carbonate of value not only as a building stone of high quality, but for its lime and Portland Cement product.

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Bauxite is the hydrate of the metal aluminum and is the principal source of the aluminum of commerce. The first discovery of bauxite in America was made in 1889, in Floyd County, Geor gia, and the first bauxite mined in this country was shipped from Rome, Georgia, to a Philadelphia smelter and there converted into aluminum.
The Georgia-Alabama bauxite field extends from Adairsville,

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Georgia, to Jacksonville, Alabama, the deposits following the course of the Coosa River valley.
The extent of the Georgia deposits are still undefined, appear ing in different formation in various localities in the State. Gen erally it appears in lumpy, pebble form, intermixed with other clays, which, there being no plasticity in bauxite, are easily washed off. After it is mined it is hand-picked, washed, cal cined, or dried, and shipped.
Practically all of the bauxite now mined in Georgia is caifried to New York and Pennsylvania and there refined and converted either into aluminum or alum. Bauxite is also used to some ex tent in the manufacture of high-grade emery wheels.
MICA.
The Georgia mica belt is a continuation of, and promises to be equally as rich as the famous belt of North Carolina which pro duces today the best mica found in the world.

ASBESTOS.

Nearly the entire domestic supply of asbestos, a fibrous mineral substance used extensvely in fire-proofing, electrical insulation, steam pipe and boiler covering, paints and building material, is mined in the Georgia mountains.

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OCHRES.

Until recently the American ochres, a silicious oxide of iron,

have been considered inferior to the ochres of other countries

in the manufacture of paints. Gradually, however, the excellent

qualities of the Georgia product, for paint purposes, are beginning

to be recognized and it is confidently predicted that in the near

future an increasing demand will be made for it.

The Georgia product now finds its principle market in England

and Scotland, and to some extent in Germany, where it is used

largely in the manufacture of linoleums and oil cloths.

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GOLD.

Georgia as a gold producing territory is little known to the out side world, and yet, until the Pacific slope strikes of '49 practically all of the gold mined in the United States came out of the Geor gia mountains.
The Georgia deposits occur in a number of narrow belts run ning northeasterly and southwesterly in the northern part of the

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state. Gold mining as a legitimate industry in Georgia dates back to 1828, and the first gold coins issued by the United States were coined in 1829 from Georgia metal at the Philadelphia mint.
In 1838 a branch mint was established at Dahlonega, Georgia, and it is estimated that about six million dollars was corned there up to 1860 when the mint closed. The total coinage of Georgia gold is estimated at eighteen million dollars, and the total produc tion of Georgia gold at twenty-five million dollars.
COAL AND IKON.
The coal fields of Georgia are confined to the area of Dade, Walker and Chattooga counties, and are an extension of the famous Warrior fields of Alabama. They cover some 140 square miles and are estimated to contain about a billion and a half tons of excellent coking and steam coal. The chief mining operations are invariably located on the mountainside, are thus self draining, and as a consequence are easily worked. The two most impor tant elevations are on Sand and Lookout Mountains.
The iron deposits of Georgia furnish one of the most valu able of its varied = mineral products. With two hundred and thirty million tons of fossil or red iron ore and with a tonnage of brown ore estimated to be even greater, the state contains sufficient raw material to make her one of the important iron
producing states of the Union.
The red iron ores are particularly valuable, containing a higher per cent of metallic iron than even the famous Bessemer ores of Alabama. These red ores cover an area of 175 miles, in the

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counties of Dade, Walker, Chattooga, Whitfield and Catoosa. The brown ores are found plentifully in Bartow, Polk and Floyd counties.
At present three furnace companies, with a capacity of amout two hundred tons per day each are in operation. These, however, are already celebrated for their high-grade pig iron.
From all appearances the Georgia iron industry is just enter ing upon its greatest era of prosperity, and should, within a few years become as important in its own way as the great Alabama industry.
OTHER GEORGIA. MINERALS
Careful investigation also developes extensive uiopened depos its of copper, roofing slate, corundum, talc, graphite, barite and pyrite, well worth exploiting to the world, while three Georgia coun ties now supply one fourth of all the manganese consumed in .the United States.
GEORGIA CLAYS.
No greater wealth creating agency than the ceramic industry can be found. And, while the demand for the product is stable, localities favored with the necessary raw materials are limited and transportation tolls, particularly on low grade wares, so high as to practically eliminate competition of distant points. In the manufacture of clays the cost of conversion is practically the
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Georgia Contains the Largest Deposit of Kaolin in the World.
entire expense, the value of the crude material being so infinitesi
mal as to cut little figure. Clays of one kind or another are found in every Georgia
county, but the chief deposits of the state are confined to a belt, from three to fifteen miles wide extending across the center of the state from Augusta to Columbus. The most valuable Geor gia clay is a white burning kaolin,, used exclusively in the manu facture of high-grade pottery, wall paper filler, fire brick and re fractory clay products generally. The largets deposit of kaolin in the world is found in this belt.
At numberous points along the belt extensive plants for the manufacture of porcelain, enamel and vitrified brick, sewer pipe, china-ware, terra-cotta and roofing-tiles have been "established, while quantities of the raw material are exported to other states.
FULLER'S EARTH.
Fuller's Earth, a clay like material of various colors, so called on account of its being first used to full cloth, but now largely used in decolorizing and clarifying oils and fats, is another valua ble Georgia material found in various localities, particularly in the counties along the southern fall lines.
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numerous beds of marl occur that are said to be equal in plant food to those of New Jersey. Deposits of phosphate in more or less quantity, but of high quality are also found in the south ern section of the state.
THE GEORGIA CLIMATE AND PRODUCTS. From a geographic and climatic "standpoint Georgia favors the immigrant agriculturist from every section of the world--the South as well as the North, East and West. Of the nine climate belts defined by the National Depart ment of Agriculture, Georgia has eight; the lowest with a mean annual temperature of about forty dgerees; the highest of be tween seventy and eighty degrees, which means that, owing to variety of climate and soil and the varying altitudes of the dif ferent sections Georgia produces the widest variety of crops *6f any state in the Union, in fact, with the exception of the essen tially citrous fruits, and even those are grown in the Southern portion of the state, but not on a commercial scale, Georgia produces everything that grows. In order of precedence the important products of Georgia are: cotton, corn, hay and grain, live stock, trucking, dairying and hor ticulture. Cotton of necessity looms largest in the statement and forms the principle money crop of the state. However, two sig-
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nificant factors are in evidence in recent years--growth of diversi fication and intensive methods of farming--their influence mean ing that, today the Georgia agriculturist produces his own food crops at great saving, and while reducing excessive cotton produc tion, markets his staple at such reduced cost as to leave him a larger margin of profit than is enjoyed from any other money crop produced in the world!
COTTON AND ITS BY-PRODUCTS.
Cotton is the staple crop and. it does exceedingly well in every section of the State. Cotton is planted from March I5th, to May 1st, according to character and condition of the soil and season, and from every acre planted, provided the ground has been prop erly prepared in an up-to-date scientific manner, the planter may reasonably expect a bale of cotton, intelligent cultivation and adequate fertilization being the fundamentals, and in many sec tions of the state, through the use of special hybrid seed and ex-, tra cultivation, the yield is increased to two, three or even four bales per acre. This refers almost entirely to upland or "short" staple cotton.
Of the sea island or "long" staple cotton the average yield is about one half of a bale--say 200 to 250 pounds of lint cotton per acre. This cotton, however, varies in value from twenty cents to thirty-five cents per pound and is always in steady demand in the manufacture of high-grade mercerized cotton goods and in silks.
In August and September "cotton is king," and terraced hill and undulating valley are clothed in virgin white. The picking be gins about mid-August and extends to the close of the year, the harvest depending upon the lateness of the crop and the amount of cotton to be picked.
A normal cotton crop in Georgia is about two million bales of upland or "short" staple cotton, and twenty-five to thirty thousand bales of sea island or "long" staple cotton.
Cotton seed forms a highly valuable by-product of the cotton crop. Approximately 1500 pounds of "seed" cotton is required to produce one 500 pound bale of "lint" cotton, the cotton of com merce. Therefore, for every commercial bale of cotton produced in Georgia there is one thousand pounds of cotton seed, worth about $30.00 per ton. In other words the SEED BY-PRODUCT OF THE GEORGIA COTTON CROP IS WORTH ALMOST AS MUCH TO THE GEORGIA FARMER AS THE AVER-

GEORGIA AGE YIELD PER ACRE OF CORN AND SMALL GRAIN IS TO THE FARMER OF THE MIDDLE WEST.
THE COTTON SEED BY-PRODUCT PRACTICALLY PAYS THE EXPENSE OF CULTIVATING THE COTTON CROP.
Only a few years ago cotton seed had little or no commercial value; today the seed from a bale is almost as valuable to the farmer as the cotton itself, and what it may be to-morrow no one may foresay. Each day sees a larger and more extended use for its oil and meal and hulls.
For general cooking purposes cotton seed oil has no superior. A purely vegetable fat, it possesses peculiar dietetic and hygenic properties; it is the only substitute for the olive oil of Italy. As a general food for cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, cotton seed meal and cotton seed hulls are unequalled. They are both a builder and fattener, and stock fed upon them are invariably strong and healthy.
There are in Georgia today one hundred and forty cotton seed oil mills, representing an invested capital of seventeen million dollars with an annual output valued at approximately fourteen million dollars. The oil and meal exported from Georgia alone approximate in value four and half million dollars per annum.
The Capital Invested n Naval Stores Industry is $30,000,000.

GEORGIA CORN.
Corn is another Georgia staple. Georgia is one of the greatest corn producing states in the Union. Corn will make anywhere from thirty-five to sixty bushels per acre, and in some localities-- especially the rich river bottom lands in the southern portion of the state--two crops can easily be grown each year. What would the Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois farmer think of getting two big crops of corn off his land in the same year? In south Georgia the ears are setting on the stalks when the northern farmers in some 'localities are planting. "Roasting" ears can be gathered in Georgia in the early spring, the late fall and sometimes even up to Christmastide.
, HAYS AND SMALI, GRAINS.
Alfalfa is practically a new crop in Georgia though it has been grown for years in the state, in a limited way, under the name of "Lucerne." Throughout the west alfalfa is praised as a moneyproducer, but after experimenting in Georgia the Kansas or Ne braska farmer, who is satisfied with his two or three cuttings per year from his field, will with difficulty believe even the conserva tive facts about alfalfa growing in Georgia.
The western farmer will work industriously the first year to
Georgia Sugar Cane is Richer in Saccharine Matter than any other Sugar Producing Plant.

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secure a good stand. Often he fails, and has to replant the sec ond year. The Georgia farmer will at least get three to four cut tings from his alfalfa the first year, and it is not unusual to get two to three cuttings within six months after the seed is in the ground. The Georgia farmer will harvest from five to eight cut tings per annum--a ton to a ton and a half per acre per cutting-- after he gets his stand.
Georgia growers estimate the total cost of producing a ton at from $2.50 to $3.50, which includes the cost of baling. Al falfa finds a ready market at from $12.00 to $18.06 per ton, leav ing a net profit of from $9.50 to $14.50. With a yield of from five to twelve tons per acre per annum the profit is easily cal culated.
Georgia is a natural grass state. Bermuda arid the vetches grow wild, while "paspalum dilitatum" or "Dallis grass," peavines, sorghum, Japan clover, Johnson grass, German millet and many other varieties of grasses and clovers do especially well for hays.
In regard to grains, wheat, oats, rye and barley all do excep tionally well in the state. The writer recently visited a Canadian dairy farmer now residing in middle Georgia, and operating a forty acre dairy. We saw two acres from which had been threshed eighty bushels of wheat and a second crop of ten tons of pea-vine and sorghum hay cut. His wheat returned $1.25 per bushel, $100.00; four and a half tons of straw, at $5.00 per ton, $22.50; ten tons of hay at $15.00 per ton, $150.00. Total, $272.50. Not bad, eh!

RICE.

Rice is another staple of prolific yield that has been neglected

in Georgia. This crop can be produced with signal success, and

the quality of the product is superior to that of Texas and Louis

iana.

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An average yield is about twelve barrels per acre, and in favor

able seasons a second crop of eight to ten barrels may be gotten.

This product sells for around $3.50 per barrel.

TOBACCO.

Georgia has the largest tobacco plantation in the world, em bracing twenty-five thousand acres. About two thousand acres of this farm are under shade. Employment is furnished for three thousand five hundred people and its products are of greater

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value than any gold mine on the continent. During the hearing before the Senate Committee on the Philippine Tariff Bill, the General Superintendent of this Georgia plantation testified that this Georgia farm produced two-thirds of all the Sumatra tobacco used for wrapper purposes in the United States!
The capital invested in the tobacco industry is about five mil lion dollars, and the profit derived therefrom is around one mil lion dollars per annum. The growing of Sumatra tobacco is an industry in which all cannot engage; it requires about one thou sand dollars per acre to shade the land, build curing barns, and fertilize the first crop. The cost of fertilization and cultivation in subsequent years will average about two hundred and fifty dollars per acre. Seven hundred to one thousand pounds per acre is an average crop, the product commanding, according to quality, from fifty cents to five dollars per pound.
Tobacco is a quick crop in Georgia, being planted between the end of March and the beginning of May and harvested in July, the planter is enabled to get at least one more crop from his land, thus having an added source of income.
TRUCK AND VEGETABLE CROPS. Truck and market garden crops must not be lost sight of in calculating the possible agricultural resources of Georgia. On
Georgia Produces One Third of the Sumatra Tobacco used for Wrapper Purposes in the United States,

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Georgia's Peach Orchards Contain 19.000,000 Trees,
account of the superior quality of Georgia grown garden produce, and convenient methods of transportation, the trucking industry is receiving attention from both native and newcomer until now the early products of the Georgia truck farm are supplanting the Florida varieties in the markets of the East and West.
However, the experienced trucker in Georgia does not find it necessary to grow crops for distant markets. Georgia contains thirty-one towns and cities in excess of 2,500; they are all thriv ing and growing and developing at a rapid rate- Unofficial re turns from one of these towns indicate an increase in population of seventy-four per cent in one year, and they all furnish ex ceptional opportunities and advantages for experienced truck gardeners.
To cite an example: a few years ago a Chinaman visited one of the larger cities of the state to investigate with a view to open ing a laundry. He found that branch of industry filled'to overflowing and finally rented two average sized city lots and went into market gardening. Most of his ready money was laid out in rent and seed, so he hired a man who owned the necessary implements to break and harrow the land, the seed was planted and the Chinaman cultivated his crop with a hoe.

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This marked the birth of the most important trucking area of the state and brought Georgia early lettuce into national prom
inence. This Chinaman recently disposed of his holdings to a fellow
countryman, and with several thousand good American dollars dug out of the two lots in a few years, returned to his native land to dream out the remainder of his days in opulence.
There is no month in the year that some truck crop cannot be grown and marketed profitably in every section of the state. An other beauty of the situation is that you can work anywhere in the state in the open air 365 days in every year--barring rain, of which the average is small but sufficient to produce abundantly the crops of the section.
ONIONS.
The onion is a popular truck crop, and the returns from it are phenomenal. One Georgia grower of spring onions cleared $200.00 from three-fourths of an acre this spring. The Bermuda variety is very prolific. The yields average about ten thousand pounds per acre, and the price, dependent largely on the time

Georgia Paper Shell Pecan Nuts bring from 5Oc to $6,OO per pound

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One Georgia County put up 3,000.000 One Pound Cans of Georgia Peaches this Summer.
of year and the handling of the crop, ranges from $2.50 per bushel in the early season to $1.00 per bushel later on, which is a safe average price.
POTATOES.
The potato is such a common crop all over the country that it may be thought an unprofitable one in Georgia, where other and rarer crops are produced to such great advantage. The reverse, however, is true.
The "new" Irish potato of south Georgia quickly follows the Florida product to market, and the quality of the Georgia vege table is so superior that the demand for it quickly forces the Florida grower from the field. The first shipments usually reach the market late in March and the average price is around $3.00 to $3.50 per bushel.
The sweet potato--the real potato, is a Georgia staple truck crop with a quality that is all its own---there is nothing grown anywhere in the, potato line that can approach the Georgia "yel low" or "pumpkin" yam potato in deliciousness of flavor.
The sweet potato yield is about three hundred and fifty bushels ;per acre and prices range from seventy-five cents to two dollars per bushel, according to season of the year and the handling of the crop. A fair average price is around one dollar per bushel.

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TOMATOES.

Mid-winter tomatoes in Georgia are not a novelty ki the mar kets. They are produced not only for'the holiday trade, but can be shipped in January and February. Growers realize from $200.00 to $400.00 per acre from this crop and it is easily grown.

CUCUMBERS.
One of the most prolific truck crops is cucumbers, and large shipments from the trucking districts are made all during the spring. The yield per acre is two hundred and fifty bushels, and from $150.00 to $200.00 per acre is realized from the crop.

OTHER VEGETABLES.
Not only the vegetables enumerated above, but practically every other variety is produced in Georgia in abundance. String beans come into the market hi early spring and bring from $2.00 to $3-5 per crate. A net profit from carrots of $200.00 per acre is a common occurrence. Beets yield prolifically and bring high prices when shipped with the tops on in the early spring. One I gardener realized, this spring, over $500.00 from one-quarter acre ; in spinach; another marketed $300.00 worth of kale from one and a half acres, and $150.00 worth of lettuce from one-third of an acre. Cabbage easily return $400.000 to $500.00 per acre, and cauliflower from $200.00 to $250.00 per acre.
"Roasting" ears, in the extreme southern portion of the state are grown for the Christmas market and radishes and other vege; tables are kept on the stalls most of the winter. Asparagus, cel; cry, peas, turnips--in fact, every vegetable crop--can be produced" ' in abundance.
It is doubtful if there is another locality in the United States that will profitably produce in proximity to such splendid home markets, the wide variety of garden and truck crops as Georgia.
HORTICULTURE.
In horticulture the production of the celebrated Georgia peach forms the substantial source of present income. This is one of the most unique developments in Georgia or any other section of the United States. Only within the past few years did it become known that the Georgia climate and soil favored commercial

GEORGIA
SIX ACRES OF GEORGIA LAND PRODUCE $2,790 CLEAR CASH

A atsry of unvaual agricultural d- Irish potatoes, which crew MO bushels

TtopmeotJs laterasUag. aotoaiytotlM farmer. bat to everybody who likes to se* the wort* SS*T* fslrsjard. whether

(6 tbe acre and were cold at $2 a bush el for seed potatoes, bringing the to tal for the two crops on this.six acre Md op to the amount aamcd. $2.790.

ho fee engaged m commercial pursuit* Nor 1 this all, for Mr. Brown has

f.naalcer. or jasfcran ordinary every
day maa.
following i1laBSitlor. of how fttsfra Iaad a fl,Ytt on .six of toad. a. pert of a.** acr* larin, whlca-wa* prepared, for UM Chronicle by Ma. tthiaia representative. shows tMtt tbff* arfc aome real farmers in

another patch of two arrca. which wad fertilised with green row manure. 2M loads bema; plarod on this Held last winter, and this spring sowed hi corn. Tbe^second and last tjmo it vtas plow ed acid phosphate sad jxttash was ad? ded to the* cow manure, and from this
two acres Mr. Brown has gathered 175 bushels of seed corn. 50 per cent of

which has been sold for $5 a bushel

Atlanta, CUu--"Aa* planter who mill fesd hJm cattle OB cotton seed* proper ly balanced. aad fertilia* heavily with the manure gathered In Ua catt)e barns can do what ( bavs done." amid. Luring Brown, ownor and proprietor' of the famoua Belmont Farm' near Atlan ta. 'as he pointed with pride to theoix *af fleM on which tbla year, with two eropa.be baa made IS.79& This plienomenal record -baa attracted the at tention of the State Department of

and one-half of the remainder at $2.30 a bushel, and in addftton $50 worth of corn stover waa secured from this two acre patch, making a net sale of $530 from'the two acres and leaving Ifr. Brown some." forty odd bushel* of con* to be planted next year. Between these, two patches Mr. Brown utilizestwelve acres for his poultry and. cat tle, barns. tbr being _betweea* four and flve thousand chickens in the coops -and between .seventy-live and one-hundrad hogs.

Agriculture 'and earned a personal vis

Wonderful Development.

it of. Cape R. P^ Wright. Assistant In discussing his farm, of which ne

ComtulssliiBfV qt~ Agriculture, weno ta cpttmsed over -tola wonderful crop.

ta justly proud. Mr. Brown -said. "I have only been on this piace a little.

tt to believed that nowhere outside over a year and have sold over $15.000

of"a track fairm haa this record been worth off of It. The land here cost

surpassed. and. It la doubtful if many us $3.500 an<T we have spent I5.00U ia

of these. -with aa poor atart. have dona aa well. The .little farm of thirty-six

Stocking and equipping It. Mr. Ed L. \Vright is associated with mo in the

acres la located on tbe trollet line betwaen Atlanta and- Marietta, near

ownership of the live stock and chjckans on the farm. We have here an

Smyrna. Of thta ammtnt of land only Aastthaa Gray Prince/ yalued at $5.000.

twenty acres' are in oac and only clch\ This biill was imported four years

uoiicr cidtivatloa.. which makes the ago from the Island of Jersey. He Is.

reeikrd all. tbe nvfre "phenomenal.

fed regularly on cotton. Reed .meal,

Tfc fame of Mr. Brawn baa apre&d hulls and roughage. 'Our dairy hered

the eojmtry over and there ia not a I* mad* up of 59 of the best milk cows

ijr-btit what bia model evtabliahment In the state, 39 of which are always.fn

ia vlaiCed by ccore*. Betareen tbe trol milk, aad average two gallons of 5 1-2

ley.^ tracks and hi* borne {a the ate- to * per cent Of mlik per day; Of

acre Add referred to. on which' 99.799 course some of them-go a* high as 5

baa- been, realized this year.

gallons per day. These milk cows are

T!M maaare wtth which bia crdpa fed six pounds of cotton seed meal a

are fertilised la gathered on bia .place day with bran, corn atalk. 'etc. From

from his herd of flfty Jersey cows. this herd we sell to Dr. Jacobs In At

thirty of which are hvcoasUnt use and lanta $13 worth of cream a day. Tho

from which h* sens weekly to Dr. Jo* skimmed milk we give to the calves,

cbasv of Jafeoor Pharniicy, flMi which when sold bring from $50 ,10

wfih f taww. frop. this It la see* MM each. We are very careful about'

thip Mr. Brows] makea his dairy pay the collection of this manure, for It ia

hiss IMtt a .yar. ffufsslvo X " possible by feediag llvo stock cotton

catys.^jrMeii brln from |M to SIM seed meal' to make more profit out' of

tho fertnislnr value of It than on th*

dairy, it Is easy to use aa high * a

th* aaaro from th* toil ti: th* acre and by th addition

placed upoa this stx of th* proper amount of acid ph<M-

prla* tt ras sowed pbate Char* Is given of commerclsl fcr

999 boa***, which Ullser second to none.. What haa b*--n

sold at fl a mwbeL JisavOy fee-

on this farm ean be doiv on any.

wtth .this cattU maattra sgala, Is simply np'o the' planters oT th

ta^Mb sssse-acld phosahacw waoad.

to. utilise th* Bouthcrn products

ML ffJs* ate acre a*M was lasted ta to.tb* bes^ advantage."

Mr. Brown's Post Office Address is Smyrna, Ga. If You doubt the Above Statement Write Him and he will Verify it Word for Word

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peach culture, but such has been the rapidity with which the in dustry expanded that it is questionable if any other section can excel it.
Forty years ago the only commercial peach orchard in Georgia embraced but forty acres; it was owned by Mr. J. D. Cunningham and was situated within fifty miles of Atlanta. Mr. Cunningham's success was such as to encourage him to enlarge operations until finally he had sixty thousand trees in bearing. A son of this pioneer in the peach industry now has two hundred and fifty thousand trees in bearing. The immense orchards of Judge Gober, the Hale-Georgia Orchard Company, and J. H. Rumpf, who originated the famous "Elberta", that thrives in Georgia as nowhere else, have made the state celebrated at home and abroad.
The only complete peach crop failures in Georgia were during the period of early experimentation, more than twelve years ago. In the past ten years there has been four partial crops and six highly successful seasons. The state contains about nineteen mil lion trees, and the yield of a normal season is approximately ten million bushels, requiring seven thousand refrigerator cars in handling, and valued at from two and a half to five million dollars on the farm.
Georgia is a Natural Grass Country. A Field of "Pea-vine" Hay.

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The Georgia apple will, in the next ten years, push the "El-
berta" and her sister varieties of the peach pretty close for first
place in the horticultural products of Georgia.
The apple industry has passed the experimental stage. The Georgia apple, exhibited three successive years at the international show at Spokane, Washington--right out in the so-called apple country, took one second and two first prizes.
The apple industry at this time--in its infancy, represents about 50,000 acres planted to commercial orchards. There is about 400,000 trees in bearing. In regard to the return we cite the fol lowing: fourteen miles above Blue Ridge, in Wilscot Valley, there is an orchard of 2,000 trees owned by Mr. Moses Payne. Mr. Payne expects to harvest from this orchard, in a few years, 10,000 to 20,000 bushels. One tree in this orchard produced at sixteen years of age thirty-five bushels of the variety known as "Arkansas Blacks," which sold at Blue Ridge for $1.75 per bushel, $61.25 return from one tree.
GEORGIA "PAPER SHELI," PECAN NUTS.
Another Georgia industry of great promise is the cultivation of the pecan, the most valuable of all the commercial nuts.
King of all the nut bearing trees, the pecan attains to greatest degree of perfection in the cotton belt, and Professor John Craig of Cornell University, one of the foremost authori ties on horticultural subjects in the United States, first decided upon Georgia as the ideal locality for the production of this delicious nut on a commercial scale.
The Georgia nut is termed the "paper shell" pecan, on account of the ease with which it is broken by the pressure of the thumb and forefinger. They attain immense size, are of a dark gray color, striped with black, and vary much in shape. Each variety of nut has a distinct flavor, easily recognized by the expert, and thirty-five to seventy of the nuts will weigh a pound of sixteen ounces, as against from one hundred and fifty to three hundred of the wild pecan nuts, the variety which finds' its way to the average market today.
The pecan is a tree that combines the beauty of the magnolia and the symmetry of the pine with the stateliness of the oak and the fecundity of the hickory. The tree will live from three hun dred to seven hundred years, fruit practically its entire life, at-

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After the Thresher has been at Work in a Georgia Oat Field.
tain a height of one hundred and fifty feet and has no vital enemy, nor is its susceptible to drouth or ether climatic disadvantage.
The Georgia groves now aggregate 50.000 trees and are con stantly increasing, therefore, it is but fair to assume that before many years Georgia will be the great center of pecan culture in America, for the lands of no other section answer so well the peculiar requirements of its growth.
Relative to pecan yields, assuming that prolific and early bear ing varieties of grafted, budded trees, with three years roots to commence with, be planted and properly cared for, the average yield the fifth year from transplantation may run as high as ten pounds of nuts, the sixth year fifteen pounds, the seventh year twenty-five pounds and over, until the tenth year when a yield of from fifty to one hundred and fifty pounds per tree may be Treasonably assumed.
The small mixed nuts will net the grower from twelve and half to twenty-five cents per pound, increasing in value to forty cents -and upward, according to size and quality. Selected specimens l)ring from fifty cents to six dollars per pound.
The Georgia pecan has no superior in the world. Practically the entire Georgia crop at present is contracted for privately 1>y the larger hotels and confectioners, the later using

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them in the manufacture of candied pecans, a confection that

finds a growing popularity. One large confectioner uses twenty-

five carloads annually.

GEORGIA MELONS.

In the cultivation of watermelons and cantaloupes Georgia
has a great present and a still more prosperous future. At pres
ent ten thousand carloads of watermelons and three thousand
cars of cantaloupes are shipped to markets outside the state each
season.
In speaking of the Georgia watermelon the late Mark-Twain once said: "The true Georgia watermelon is above, apart, and not to be mentioned with the common things of earth. It is one of the world's chief luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it he knows what angels eat. It certainly was not of a Georgia watermelon that Eve partook; we know it because she repented."
The Georgia cantaloupe is grown from the seed of the cele
brated Rocky Ford melon of Colorado. The leading growers send reliable men to the Rocky Ford district each season to per-

Grapes in a Georgia Vineyard.

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Georgia Oats--Forty Bushels per Acre Harvested.
socially select the seed melons and extract and cure the seed them

selves. It is by such close attention that Georgia growers have

built up the quality and reputation of this product, which is now

second to none produced in the world.


OTHER GEORGIA HORTICULTURAL PRODUCTS.

Commercial horticulture in Georgia is at present limited to the foregoing products; but plums, pears, and all the berries of the United States, except the red currants and gooseberries, may be raised profitably every where in the state. The home markets consume practically all of this product now produced, through oc casionally Georgia figs and strawberries are to be found on the stalls of the eastern and western markets and they invariably command prices in advance of the ruling prices of similar fruits from other sections of the country.

DAIRYING, POULTRY AND LIVE STOCK.

' The outsider, is not in the habit of considering Georgia as a catflebreeding .state, but it is rapidly advancing in the number of cattle, sheep and swine.
Mr. Benjamin W. Hunt, a native of New York, came to Georgia a young man in 1876 and settled at Eatonton. Mr. Hunt is a banker and the president of a cotton mill, but has found time to experiment in many lines for the development of Georgia as a breeding place of fine cattle and horses. Mr. Hunt was the first

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man in the world to successfully immunize cattle against "Texas"* fever, and, had not the National Government taken up the demon stration, his discoveries would have saved the entire South mil lions of dollars.

Mr. Hunt is President of the Georgia Cattk Breeders' Associa tion, and President of the Tunis Sheep Breeders* Association of America. He first recognized the importance of African sheepfor the South and imports and breeds them in Georgia. He also> imports and breeds horses from the best stock obtainable. Mr. Hunt advises that the success of stock breeding in Georgia is assured and the difficulties are being rapidly removed. Tuber culosis is unknown among native Georgia cattle. Mr. Hunt hasseen but two cases in twenty-seven years, and both of these were imported into the state from the north.

Intelligent public opinion is rapidly emancipating the stock breeding area of Georgia from the "tick," and soon cattle will be moving as freely north as south from Georgia as from Canada;. and with the cheap productive Georgia lands well adapted to pasture, mild winters that economize stabling, and plenty of nu tritious hay, how can the live stock industry prove other than. profitable and successful in Georgia?

Mr. W. J. Bridges of Spalding County, is another successful cat tle man who began by buying a few native steers, fattening them

A Beef Type Herd. Pastures available Ten Months of the Y

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Georgia is Third State in Production of Corn,

The First Bauxite Mined in the United States Came Out of Georgia's Hills,

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Irish Potatoes in Middle Georgia, Five Weeks after Planting--Five Acres will make 1500 Bushels

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[To Raise Turkisji Tobacco On Plantatiof^^J^acon

Nicolas ChristophBlons Wfll Start Colony and Cul
tivate 5,000 Acres.

If the elans of Mr. Nlcotos Chrte-

tophulos are aucceasful and **_**"

are realized. Turkiah tobacco will be the treat agricultural product of tbel

tee

suit, .of Geogfla^----f^ cnristophu-I

line of Tur-

ton and r twelve ^om-\ Greek farm-lucent
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lera- to -fiart county. He made ,,-._ . Iarm>, wheat on* last year and snipped

'the. Jhrst carload of wheat that was ever

blpped from tbe county.

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This year be mad about' M bushel: ^. hl splendid farm and shipped recently a carload of fine wheat to tne Atlanta MllUn* company. Next year Mr. McCnr-

ry'proposes to raise 1.000 bushels. This

bows what can be done in Georgia, and

especially in Hart county.

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This Georgia Herd Produces^ Butter at less than Twelve Cents per Pound. The Product Sells* Readily at Wholesale for 3O Cents.

and selling them to local packers. He now ships fat cattle by

the carload to Cincinnati, Buffalo and Chicago.

Georgia is fifth in the production of swine among the states of

the Union, and her annual product is valued at between eight and

ten million dollars.

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Climate and pasturage are ideal for sheep breeding. Spring lambs arrive in January and February and sell for fancy prices in the northern cities.

The Angora goat industry of America had its birth in Georgia,

through Dr. James B. Davis of South Carolina, who, in 1846, was

sent to Turkey by President Polk in response to a request from

the Sultan for the advice of a man who understood cotton culture.

Dr. Davis brought nine Angoras with him on his return and from

him Col. Richard Peters of Atlanta, secured two pairs. Later

Col. Peters secured the entire herd together with their increase

and by 1854 had so successfully crossed them on the native

goat, that today every American herd of Angoras bears this ori

ginal strain.

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Georgia has the second best dairy in the United States, accord ing to Professor W. J. Spillman of the National Department of Agriculture, and one of her creameries, located at LaGrange, took second butter prize at the recent Paris (France) Exposition.

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Georgia's premier dairy is located in Jackson County, and is

owned and managed by Mr. W. L. Williamson. It is located on:

the ordinary red clay lands of Georgia, which usually sell at

from $15.00 to $25.00, per acre, and, therefore, the success of the

enterprise does not depend much on the soil.

North-east Georgia is the center of the poultry industry. The

city of Gainesville being its center and enjoying something like

three quarters of a million dollars of annual trade from this

source. The market extends over eastern Carolina, southern and

south-western Georgia, Florida and Cuba. Many carloads of

Georgia chickens and eggs finding a ready market in Havana and

thence throughout the Island.

Georgia's dairy products, including poultry, eggs and wax,

amount to about ten million dollars per annum, and sixty to

seventy-five percent are consumed on the farms.

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"~ As we have before stated, Georgia contains thirty-one towns

and cities of more than 2,500 inhabitants and they are growing

and expanding by leaps and bounds. There are advantageous lo

cations near everyone of them for from three to half dozen ex

perienced dairymen, truck gardeners and poultry "ranchers."

Your output can be disposed of at one hundred percent, profit to

dealers in the large centers, and if a dairyman, your milk will

largely pay expense of operating.

EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.

An essential consideration in the selection of a place of per manent residence is its school facilities. Georgia's educational system is a comprehensive one, embracing elementary, secondary

and higher education. For the education of the 350,000 white children it has some

5,000 common schools and over 300 high schools. The cost of maintaining these schools is about four million dollars per an

num. Georgia is essentially an agricultural state. It is peculiarly

fitting, therefore, that her last important educational step--one fraught with greater possibilities than any heretofore taken,

should be the establishment in each Congressional District of an agricultural school.

These schools are modeled largely after the agricultural schools of Denmark, where this system of education has been most high ly successful. Ten dollars per month will pay the board and tui tion of a pupil, and as every youngster is afforded opportunity to arn money in the field, this cost is further reduced.
In addition to the District Agricultural Schools, there is an Agri cultural College, a part of the University System, located at Athens, Ga., with a full four years course, for those who desire full scientific knowledge on the subject.

In the sphere of higher education Georgia has always occupied a commanding position, having at the present time more than

twenty universities and colleges, five institutions for the higher education of women, one of which, Wesleyan Collegers the oldest -chartered institution for the higher education of women in the world, a number of first class dental colleges and numerous pri*vate academies.

Federated with the University System are the North Georgia Agricultural College, the Georgia School of Technology, one of "-the finest institution of its kind in the country, the Georgia Medi-

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cal College, the State Normal College, and the Girl's Normal School and Industrial College.
Churches of every denomination are to be found in every, town and city in the state, many of which are handsome and stately structures.
TRANSPORTATION. Few states, commensurate in population, have better' trans portation facilities than Georgia, which, with forty-eight distinct railroads in active operaton, has more individual lines than any other state in the Union. These lines represent a combined mil eage of approximately 7,000 miles. These railroads have always been the chief factor in the development of Georgia, opening up profitable markets to the farmer, creating new avenues of trade for the merchant and manufacturer, converting the wasted "pine barrens" into fertile farms, and developing the magnificent natural resources of the state.
CONCLUSION. In concluding we only desire to add that Georgia is not only a good state in which to invest your money, and thereby make

GEORGIA money, but it is also a good place to make your permanent home. The Northerners, Westerners--in fact, those from every section that have come to the state, are satisfied and doing well--they are making money.
A trip of investigation, a "show" me trip, if you please, to Georgia would be advisable. There is nothing like getting infor mation first hand and seeing the country for yourself--it is the best way--the sure way--you ought to meet and talk with some of the Georgia land owners and successful farmers.
Any part of the state is readily accessible from every part of the United States, and the transportation companies sell, periodi cally, round trip homeseekers* excursion tickets, with generous limit, to Georgia points to enable you to investigate the openings and opportunities for yourself. Remember the old trite saying: "first come, first served," and come NOW.
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SOME OFFICIAL GEORGIA STATEMENTS.
BY GEO. F. MONTGOMERY, SECRETARY GEORGIA RAILROAD COMMISSION.
It would be difficult to find a better proof of the wonderful devel opment of Georgia than is found in the official records and reports of the State Railroad Commission. There are, according to 1909 reports, 227 public service corporations doing business in Georgia with a total capitalization of $1,228,118,780. Of these 79 are steam railroads; 57 street railroads, gas, electric and water companies; 64 telephone and telegraph companies and 27 compress companies. The gross charges collected for these services approximate $50,000,000 per annum.
The railroads of the State in 1909 handled approximately twelve million passengers. The street railroads, in 1909, hauled approximately fifty million passengers. There are approximately 65,000* telephone sta tions used regularly by some 350,000 individuals.
The capital stock of the railroad and terminal companies in Georgia in 1909 amounted to $472,041,800. The capital stock of the street railway, gas, electric light and power companies amounted to $79386,5I7-
Some idea of the growth of development in Georgia is shown in the summary of financial operations of railroads in Georgia for several years back. In 1895, the railroad mileage was 5,240 miles, and the gross earnings $16,930,146. In 1900, mileage 5,614 and gross earnings $22,211,850. In 1905, mileage 6,424 and gross earnings $33,232,891.
In 1909, the mileage was 6,992 and the gross earnings $39*506,099. These figures show that while this growth has been wonderfully rapid, it has also been both steady and consistent.
THE CLIMATE OF GEORGIA.
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CHARLES F. VON HERRMANN, SECTION DIRECTOR UNITED STATES
WEATHER BUREAU.
Climate .affects the- activities of man in every occupation of life, his health, his social well-being and his means of gaining a livelihood. The following facts in regard to the climate of Georgia are given for the benefit of the farmer, the business man and the homeseeker.
The annual mean temperature for the State at large is 63 degrees; the summer mean temperature is 79 degrees, and winter mean 47 degrees; thus the average winter mean is always above freezing. The warmest place in the State is Thomasville with a mean of 67 degrees (summer, 81 degrees; winter, 53 degrees), and the coldest is Rabun Gap with an annual mean of 56 degrees (summer, 71 degrees; winter, 40 degrees). In summer the maximum temperatures south of Atlanta usually exceed 100 degrees on a few days, while the lowest winter temperature averages about 10 (legrees, though temperatures below zero are registered on rare occasions during severe cold waves. At Atlanta the lowest tem perature has been below zero but three time in 31 years. The lowest for the State was n below zero at Dahlonega in February, 1899.
The average annual rainfall for Georgia is 51 inches, and is well distributed throughout the year. The largest amount occurs in summer, average 16 inchesy and the least in autumn, average 9 inches. The greatest annual rainfall occurs in the extreme northeast portion, where Rabun Gap and Clayton receive on the average about 69 inches a year. ' The least rainfall in the interior where the annual averages range from 45 to 50 inches. The greatest rainfall in any month was 28.6 inches at Fleming, Liberty county, in August, 1898; and the least was a trace or no rainfall at a few stations in autumn of several dry years. Thunder storms are frequent in summer, but usually mild in character.

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BY JERE M. POUND. STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.
In 1900, Georgia appropriated to common schools $1440,642. In 1910, the State appropriation is $2,250,000.
In 1900, there were only four counties and some ten or twelve cities having local taxation for schools. In 1910, there are twenty-one counties, about two hundred systems and 422 districts which supple mented the State funds by local taxation ti the amount of $1,261,471.31.
In 1900, the total receipts for the common schools were $1,478,245. In 1910, they are $4^229,254.78.
In 1900, the total amount of school property was $3,155,433- In 1910, it is $8,603,853.
In 1900, there were only 107 high schools in the State. In 1910, there are 849. There are eleven Agricultural High Schools, preparing for the State College of Agriculture; there are two State Normal Schools, a State School of Technology and a State University.
In 1900, the average salary of teachers was $26. In 1910, it is $36.58 in rural schools and $52.30 in city schools. The school wagon is being used with good results in the consolidation, of schools.
BY M. V. RICHARDS, LAND & INDUSTRIAL AGENT, SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
The statistics in regard to industrial development along the lines of the Southern Railway, for 1909, show:
453 new industries, calling for an investment of ............$ 20,413,835 Additions to existing industries............................. 7,883,936 New industries under construction, to be completed later.. 6,473,000 Investment in general improvements during year............ 69,315,280 In the past eight years there has been invested in industries
along the Southern Railway and Mobile & Ohio Rail
road the enormous amount of........................... 518,000,000
. This great industrial expansion has come because the resources and other conditions which affect industrial developments are found to the best advantage in the Southern States.
Statistics for 1910 are not yet available, but will show a large increase over 1909.
BY JAMES G. G. TRUITT, PLANTER. Mr. James G. Truitt, a large planter of LaGrange, Ga., in a letter dated August 20, 1910, says:
I will get this year two bales of cotton from land off of which I gathered last year fifty bushels of oats per acre (which oats had no fertilizer other than from the cotton planted in the previous year). After cutting the oats from this ground, I also harvested four or five tons of pea vines and sorghum hay, and this after picking peas sufficient for seed from the vines. (By way of parenthesis, I will state that I sowed i 1-4 bushels of peas and 1-4 bushel of sorghum seed per acre).
I expect to realize as much or more than $200 per acre on this land for the cotton and seed this year.
I want to state also that I have corn after wheat this year that will make, as it shows already made now, seventy-five bushels per acre, and from this land I gathered four tons of wheat hay per acre, which is as good as the best of hay, and will sell readily any time for $20 per ton.
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FACTS ABOUT HAY IN GEORGIA.

Approximately 100,000 acres of land in Georgia are set apart for the raising of hay products. The average yield per acre is about one and three-quarter tons. The market price is from $15 to $20 per ton.

Within the last three or four years the progressive farmers in Geor gia are paying more attention to the culture of grasses and legumes for grazing purposes, and for hay. There is no more profitable crop in any part of our country than a hay farm in Georgia. The more progressive farmers are making permanent meadows for grazing by planting a combi nation of Bermuda grass with Dallis grass. For a hay farm English vetch is added to the above grasses. This combination, if set on suita ble soil and cattle kept off, will yield from three to five tons annually per acre for an indefinite number of years, without the necessity of hav ing the sod disturbed or any replanting "of seed.
The clovers and the native grasses are extensively used for grazing stock.
Hay is made from alfalfa, corn fodder, soy and velvet beans, sor ghum, the clovers, the native grasses, and other sources.
APPLE CULTIVATION IN GEORGIA.
BY JOHN P. FORT, MT. AIRY, GA.
(Co/. John P. Fort is one of the most successful fruit producers in Georgia. His Rabun county orchard took a prize at the Spokane-Washington Apple Show. The following statements are taken from an address made by him before the State Agricultural College.)
. Draw a line through Georgia, from Augusta through the cities of Milledgeville and Macon to Columbus, and that part of the State lying north of this line is well suited to apple culture. The higher the alti tude above sea-level, the greater the perfection of the fruit. The' type of apples which thrive best in this section may be illustrated by the Red June and Horse apple for summer apples, and the Yates and Terry's Winter for winter apples. The growth of the Yates, Terry an4 their kindred varieties, at an altitude of 1,000 feet, and other large and ten der varieties, of apples in orchards at the foot-hills of the mountains of Georgia, from fifteen to sixteen hundred feet above sea level, has been a revelation to the apple growers.
The mountain section of Georgia is, in my opinion, par excellence an apple-growing section of the State, excelled by no other portion of the United States or Canada. There is a part of Georgia that includes the County of Rabun and a large portion of the counties of Habersham and Towns that in its climatic conditions .presents advantages for the growth of apples and other fruits and vegetables, equal to that of any portion if the United States,--and I might say superior. I predict for this section a future in which it may be classed as one of the garden spots. You at once ask me why? I will return you a laconic reply-- water. The average normal rainfall in Georgia is 51 inches. The greatest, 68.35 occurs in Rabun county.
In reference to the financial aspect of apple-growing in Georgia, a reasonable estimate of the product of an acre of apple trees from eight to ten years old might be reckoned .at seventy trees to the acre and may average 400 bushels of good apples. These apples, upon a conservative estimate, should be worth upon the trees fifty cents per oushel, giving a net yield of $200 per acre.

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Condensed Fads About the South.
From Manfactwers' Record, Baltimore.
COTTON CROP.
The South's cotton crop this year is worth not far from $1,000,000,000, or twice as orach as the output of all the gold mines in the world for the same year.
GRAIN PRODUCTION. The South is producing 800,000,000 bushels of grain a year.
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
The total value of the agricultural products of the South this year will be $2,550,000,000, which is more than the total of the agricultural output of the United States in 1890, when the population of the country was 63,000,000, while the population of the South at present is 27,500,000.
COTTON MILL PRODUCTION.
Southern cotton mills are now consuming 2,500,000 bales of cotton a year, or as much as all other mills in the United States are consuming of Southern-grown cotton.
COTTON MILLS. The South is now spending $20,000,000 in building cotton mills.
COAL.
The South has 62,000 square miles of bituminous coal lands, as against 17,000 in Great Britian, Germany, France and Austria combined.
The South is now mining over 100,000,000 tons of bituminous coal a year, as compared with 42,000,000 tons, the entire bituminous coal output of the United States in 1880.
IRON.
According to official records the South has more iron ore than foreign experts claim for all of Europe.
The United States Steel Corporation, having already invested about $50,000,000 in Alabama, is carrying out vast improvements, "including the building of a $3,000,000 steel and wire plant, a storage reservoir lake for the use of ito own works to hold 2,500,000,000 gallons of water, a coke-oven plant to produce 3,000 tons of coke per day, and other undertakings which will add immensely to the prosperity of the ]Mrhole South, and result in making Alabama one of the world's greatest iron and steel centers.
SULPHUR.
The South is producing nearly one-half the sulphur of the world, and is abso lutely dominating the world's sulphur trade.
PHOSPHATE BEDS.
Phosphate-rock, the foundation of the great fertilizer industry, is found in larger. quantity and under more advantageous conditions of mining in the South than elsewhere in the world, and that the rest of the world must largely depend upon the South for its supply of phosphate rock.
TIMBER.
Over 40 per cent, of all the standing timber in the United States is in the South.
MANUFACTURERS.
Nowhere else on earth are found in the same country the foundations of all great manufacturing interests--cotton, coal, iron, lumber, phosphate rock, oil, sul phur, gas, water powers and many other things.
WEALTH.
With a population less by 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 than what the total population of the United States was in 1860, the wealth of the South is $6,600,000,000 greater than the total wealth of the whole country in 1860.
BUILDING MATERIAL.
The marbles, granites, building stones and clays of the South are unsurpassed in quality and scarcely equalled in quantity elsewhere in America, furnishing a limitless field for development work.

The Land of Promise, Profits and Golden
Opportunity.
Included in this folder is a selected list of some hundred tracts in different sections of Georgia.
While it is obviously impossible to present our complete list, if you are especially attracted to any particular section of Georgia (or Florida and the adjoining States) or if you are particularly interested in fruit cultivation, cattle -raising, timber, marble, turpentine, building stone, manufacturing in terests, clays, truck growing, climate, minerals, cotton, corn or any of the marvelous variety of Georgia's crops, products and resources, we will be very glad to take the matter up with you.
We have an Information Bureau where facts, figures and statistics from recognized authorities are kept constantly up to date. This information, together with specific details regarding thousands of opportunities for profitable develop ment, is yours for the asking.
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If you are interested in this great Land of Promise, write for "Georgia." This publication will keep you posted right up to the minute as to what is being accomplished in this present unprecedented period of development and improve ment of natural -resources and opportunities in the Empire State of the South.
If you want prices and further information regarding the following list, we will gladly supply any details. The num bers following each paragraph refer to our index file. We will appreciate it if you will give the number of the tract in taking up any of these lands through correspondence.
Here are a few tracts. If you don't see what you want, ask us. We have all kinds of farm lands, subdivision and solid investment propositions in every section of Georgia.

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LANDS FOR SALE, LAND DEPARTMENT, EDWIN P. ANSLEY, FORSYTH BUILDING, ATIANTA, GA.

APPLING COUNTY.
2,650 acres, 8 miles from Baxley, the county seat, 1,000 acres un der fence, 400 acres in cultivation, 1,800 acres in cut-over timber, 8 tenant houses, 4 barns. Cultivated land rents for $3.00 per acre. (40)
840 acres, 10 miles from Baxley, 150 acres in cultivation. Land excellent. Long staple cotton the principal crop; 200 acres under fence, 3 tenant houses, 2 barns, 5 mule crop, can get 20 mule crop. Would pay $2,000 in rent. (39)
9,000 acres, 5 miles from Baxley. Southern railroad runs through the property. Lands cut over, but will still furnish timber for farm purposes. Sandy loam, clay subsoil. Long staple cotton the steady money crop. Splendid colonization project. (41)
BAKER COUNTY.
375 acres, 8 miles from Williamsburg. School one mile. 300 acres in cultivation, 40 acres in timber, 5 tenant houses. Rents for $500.00 per antuifn- (26)
4,000 acres, 8 miles from Camilla, Ga., 3 1-2 miles from Newton, Ga.; 3 1-2 miles from church and school; good roads. These lands are level, dark gray soil, rich, red subsoil, no waste land. Produces well, making average crops yearly, one-half to three-quarters of a bale of cotton per acre; 20 to 40 bushels of corn; other crops in. proportion; 17 plows now running. The total amount of rental being 35 bales of cotton for the open land, balance of the land in pine timber, which is valuable for lumber,>:ross-ties and turpentine rights. Titles to these lands absolutely perfect, having been held by one owner 50 years. Terms. (3)
BALDWIN AND WILKINSON.
400 acres, 7 miles from Milledgeville; school on place, 275 acres in cultivation. Will produce one bale of cotton per acre; 75 acres in timber; 5 tenant houses, 3 barns; 50 acres under fence. Rents for about $1,250.00 per year; has 7-room house, nearly new, with nec essary out-houses. One of the best places in middle Georgia. (47)
BALDWIN COUNTY. 2,655 acres, 6 miles from Milledgeville, i 1-2 miles to school; 25 tenant houses, 2 barns; 1,500 acres in cultivation. Rents for 70 bales of cotton or $4,900; 1,000 acres in timber; 75 acres of bottom land. (51)
BRYAN COUNTY.
1*395 acres, one mile from Blichton, Ga., on the Savannah-Statesboro Railroad; 23 miles from Savannah. One mile from school; 3. miles from two churches, Methodist and Baptist. The land is loamy mixed sandy soil with a red subsoil; practically leveL Only 40 acres in cultivation, balance in short and long leaf yellow pine. The timber and turpentine rights are very valuable and are worth more than the price asked per acre. These lands are exceptionally good, farming lands and in a healthy section of the State. Terms, onequarter cash, balance, i, 2 and 3 years, 7 per cent, interest,
CALHOUN COUNTY. 1,325 acres, 3 miles from Leary; 500 acres in cultivation, 750 acres in timber. Eleven tenant houses, 2 barns, u plows running. No fence law. Rents for about $1,700.00 per year. Can go to $2,500.00per year. (26)

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3,000 acres, Leary four miles; 1,400 acres in cultivation, 28 plows running, 600 acres in timber, 40 acres in bearing pecan trees, 40 acres in clear water lake, 6 acres mulberry grove, 30 tenant houses. Raise 80 hogs and 20 head of cattle yearly. (27)
CHARLTON COUNTY. 2,700 acres, lying in the southern portion of Charlton county, one and a half miles from St. George postoffice; Southern Railway through the property; one and a half miles from school and church, good roads. Sandy loam soil, red clay subsoil, the sur face gradually rolling, especially adapted to long staple cotton and will produce 250 to 500 pounds lint per acre. These are cut over lands, splendid cross-tie and turpentine timber. Price is very cheap; terms, one, two and three years, 6 per cent, interest. (45)
CHATTOOGA COUNTY. 1,000 acres, on Chattooga Southern Railway, 3 miles from Chelsea, 3 miles from church and school, on good public roads; 600 acres in cultivation, rents for $5.00 per acre; the land generally level red pebbly soil, red subsoil; produces from one to one and a half bales cotton; 50 to 100 bushels of corn and other crops in abundance. Is in high state of cultivation and well improved. Titles perfect; terms, 7 per cent, interest on deferred payments, (n)
COBB COUNTY. 20 acres, 3 miles from Smyrna; 2,000 fruit trees; 4-room dwell ing, packing house, I barn. (53)
CRAWFORD COUNTY. 8,000 acres, one and a half miles from Zenith, Southern and Central Railroads; 500 acres in cultivation 50 head of cattle, 70 hogs, 8 mules, 30 goats, 6,000 acres of bottom land, 3,000 acres in timber; 15 tenant houses, 5 barns, 15,000 bearing peach trees, $8,000 realized this year. Balance of farm would rent for $7,000 per year. The timber is worth more than two-thirds of the price of this place. (28) 200 acres, 5 miles to postoffice Roberta, Southern Railroad, Fort Valley to Atlanta, 89 miles from Atlanta, 2 miles from church and school, on good public roads, Macon to Columbus; 75 acres in cultivation, land rolling1, gray subsoil, red clay, produces from onehalf to one bale of cotton per acre. Terms, one-halt cash, one.and two years, 7 per cent, interest. (7)
DECATUR COUNTY. 36,000 acres cut-over lands, 15 miles west of Bainbridge, between Flint and Chattahoochee rivers. Dark loam soil, very fertile, well drained, slightly rolling and well adapted to growing cotton, corn, oats, hay, alfalfa, potatoes, sugar cane, fruit. This land is rolling enough to be well drained, but not enough to be objectionable. The sandy loam is underlaid with a sandy clay, and that by a stiffer clay, which makes an ideal soil for all Southern products. There are two pastures of 13,000 acres under woven wire fence, and about 400 acres are in cultivation. One field last year produced over a bale of cotton per acre. There are several houses on the place, and on one settlement there^are 15 acres of bearing pecan trees. This property is reached by excellent public roads, and is accessi ble to the A. C. L. Ry., and the boat lines on the Chattahoochee river. Within easy reach of the river, is a very fine deposit of brick clay, that will make a high-class brick or tile. This property can be sold on easy terms that will be given on ap plication. (12)

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DOOLEY COUNTY. 95 acres, postoffice Vienna R. F. D., railroad, A., B. & A., 6 miles from Oily, 150 miles from Atlanta, 2 miles from church and school, Methodist and Baptist; good public roads, land gray and black, sub soil clay, land generally level, one-half to one bale of cotton per acre, corn and oats most productive, terms I, 2 and 3 years, 7 per cent, interest. (10)
FULTON COUNTY. 90 acres, 5 miles to Dunwoody, Southern Railway 5 miles; one-half mile off Johnston road, 15 miles from Atlanta, Camp Ground onehalf mile, one-half mile to church and school. Gray, pebbly soil, red subsoil, good timber land. This is a splendid proposition. Terms, one-half and three years, 7 per cent interest. (74)
FULTON COUNTY. 17 acres, two and one-half miles to Atlanta, one-half mile from Highland avenue car line, on Johnston road; one-half mile from Kimballville Farm. This is a splendid investment for enhance ment. Terms one-half and 3 years, 7 per cent, interest. (57)
FULTON COUNTY. 102 1-2 acres, 2 miles to East Point, one-quarter mile, A., B. & A. Railway, one-half mile from Stratford, 7 miles from Atlanta, I mile from church and school, 1,000 Elberta peach trees, splendid oak and pine lands, also hickory, two branches. Titles perfect. Terms, one-half and 3 years 7 per cent, interest. (5)
FULTON COUNTY. 16 city acres, 9 miles from Atlanta, public road, Virginia avenue, splendid cherted road. Terms, i, 2, and 3 years, 7 per cent, interest. Titles perfect. (48)
FULTON COUNTY. 9 acres more or less, Central of Georgia Railway, 6 miles from Atlanta, cherted road, good creek water for stock; one mile to church. Terms, I, 2, 3 years, 7 per cent interest (49)
GORDON COUNTY. 400 acres, i mile from Oakman, L. & N. Railway, 75 acres in culti vation, 75 acres under wire fence; 350 acres timber, cut 2,000 feet to acre, 4 large springs, i tenant house, i barn. Splendid dairy farm. (58)
GORDON COUNTY. 138 acres, Curryville, Ga., postoffice. Near Southern Railway, Reeves, Ga., 4 miles to railroad station; 10 miles to Calhoun, the county site, school and churches one-eighth mile; on Rome and Dalton public road; 40 acres in cultivation, balance in pine and hardwood timber. This is a splendid farm. Terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2 years, 6 per cent interest (76)
GWINNETTE COUNTY. A Model Dairy Farm, Thoroughly Equipped. 385 acres, i mile of Duluth, 25 miles from Atlanta, 5 miles from Norcross, on Southern railway; one mile from schools and churches, x>n good roads; 350 acres, now being cultivated by 2O-horse trac tion plow, table land, mulatto color, rich clay subsoil; 8 acres alfalfa very fine; 200 acres in bottom land; 185 acres iu upland; 35 acres of timber; on Chattahoochee river. One 7-room house, 4 tenant houses, one 3-story, 75 x 150 feet One of the best farms in Georgia, with an income of about $500.00 per month gross, 90 head thoroughbred Jerseys. The entire property, one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years and 7 per cent interest (77)

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GW1NNETTE COUNTY. 10 acres in Lawrenceville, Ga.t on Seaboard and Southern rail ways; 30 miles from Atlanta; splendid schools and churches; well equipped place, 7-room cottage, barns, outhouses and fences. Very cheap. Terms. (25)
GWINNETTE COUNTY. Apple Farm.
265 acres, 2 miles of Norcross on Southern Railway: fine public roads, rolling red pebbly lands, red clay subsoil; in the heart of the Georgia apple country; 100 acres in apples, shipping variety. Terms i, 2, 3, 4 years, 6 per cent, interest. (9)
HANCOCK COUNTY. 700 acres, 7 miles from Sparta, Ga. Georgia railroad; 100 miles east of Atlanta; splendid public roads, light gray soil, slightly roll ing; about-300 acres cleared, balance in pine forests; titles perfect, offered for sale to divide an estate, price cheap. All cash. (112)
HENRY COUNTY. 141 acres, I mile from Hampton, Ga., on the Central Railroad, fronts Macon-Atlanta automobile road, 32 miles from Atlanta, well improved, p-room house, barns, tenant houses, wells, good fences; now rented $500 a year. Terms, cash on or before November ist, 1910. (4)
HABERSHAM COUNTY. 150 acres, 6 miles Cornelia on Southern Railway main line; 65 miles north of Atlanta, 45 acres cleared, land level and slightly rolling; chocolate colored soil, red subsoil, 75 acres timber, weU cut 1,500 feet per acre, hardwood; 15 acres under fence, fine apple country. Terms, I, 2 3 years, 7 per cent, interest. (73)
IRWIN COUNTY. South Georgia Plantation. 4,756 acres, 10 miles from Tifton on Tift Tram Railroad; Irvinville 5 miles; 1,400 acres in cultivation, rented for 80 bales of cot ton, fine gray pebble soil, red clay subsoil, land slightly rolling, well drained, good portion stumped; produces excellent crops, cotton,, corn, potatoes, peas, oats, alfalfa, other hay crops; 1,400 acres fenc ed, one ginnery complete, one turpentine still and fixtures, 12 ihorse wagons, 8 2-horse wagons, all farm harness gear, one gaso line plow. Splendid artesian well. Terms, one-quarter cash, I, 2,. 3 and 4 years at 8 per cent, interest. (56)
IRWIN COUNTY. 6,500 acres; A., B. & A. R. R., extends 3 miles through property. Tifton 10 miles, Ocilla 7 miles, Fitzgerald 12 miles. On public highway Tifton to Ocilla; 500 acres in cultivation; 5,000 fit for cul tivation, and the finest soil in South Georgia; 1,500 acres on Alapaha river, good cattle range and fine fishing; one large resi dence, splendid barn, good fences. One-fourth cash, balance in 5 years at 8 per cent, interest. Adjoining property selling for $50.00 per acre. Can sell this tract for about one-third of its value. (55)
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
588 acres, 3 miles from Louisville, 150 acres in pine, oak and hickory; sandy loam clay subsoil. Not cultivated at present; 5 ten ant houses, 2 barns. (42)
JENKINS COUNTY.
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store, ginnery, grist-mill, 60 tennant houses, 60 barns, 100 acres under wire fence. Has seven million feet of timber. Rents for $6,500.00 cash. (16)
JOHNSON AND LAURENS COUNTIES. 6,400 acres, 15 miles from Dublin, 8 miles from Central Railroad. School one mile; 3,000 acres in cultivation; 80 plows running; 500 acres in bottom land, 2,000 acres in timber, cut ten million feet; 50 tenant houses; 45 barns; 1,000 acres under fence. Rents for $7,OOO.oo per year. (24)
MADISON COUNTY.
1,067 acres, Comer 3 miles; Colbert 3 miles; .1 mile to school; 900 acres in cultivation; 29 plows running, 150 acres in timber; 135 head of cattle; 4,500 peach trees; 600 apple trees; 600 grape vines; 32 tenant houses, 35 barns, i small river. Splendid grain, fruit, cattle and cotton section. Nothing better can be found. (19)
MARION COUNTY. 1,100 acres, 4 miles of Buena Vista on Central Railroad; 800 acres in cultivation; rents for 30 bales of cotton. Gray pebble land, practically level; gray soil, with red subsoil. One-third cash, bal ance i, 2, 3 years, 7 per cent, interest (8)
MACON COUNTY. 700 acres, i mile Montezuma, A., B. & A. and Central Railway sidt track on property, in heart of peach and cotton belt; has a splendid bearing orchard, 500 acres in cultivation, rents for 25 bales of cot ton; close to good schools and churches; land gray pebble, level, clay subsoil. This farm for cash. Price cheap. (72)
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
^ 413 acres, within two miles of the famous Meriwether White Sul phur Springs, postoffice same, 3 miles of churches and schools, splen did roads, 4 tenant houses, bounded on two sides by creeks, well watered with branches and wells, and will make an excellent stock farm. Must be sold for cash prior to November ist, 1910, to satis fy division of property, (i)
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
50 acres, i mile of Durand, Central of Ga. R. R. Splendid schools and churches; good roads; excellent neighborhood; fine water; altitude 900 feet. Easy terms. Price cheap; 50 other small farms 20 to 75 acres each in the same neighborhood. (71)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 224 acres, 2 miles of Durand, 75 miles south of Atlanta, near 4 railroads; splendid neighborhood; excellent climate; school and churches. Terms one-quarter cash, i, 2, 3 years. Will pay for it self, if cultivated, in four years. (70)
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
30 farms, 10 to 50 acres each, each fronting main public highway, and surrounding the new town of Durand, (the white town for white people), on the Central of Ga. and A., B. & A. R. R., midway between Georgias famous resorts, Meriwether White Sulphur Springs and Warm Springs, on automobile highway, Atlanta to Columbus. These farms sold on easy terms and to white people only. Make inquiries early they are going fast. (6)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 165 acres, i mile from Raleigh, 2 miles of Manchester, between Southern Railway and A., B. & A., one and a half miles to schools and churches; rolling red pebble land, red clay subsoil, produces abundantly. Terms, i, 2, 3 years, 8 per cent interest ((

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MERIWETHER COUNTY.
310 acres, splendid stock farm, 310 acres in bottom, 100 acres clear, balance in pasture and timber lands, hardwood and pine, 4 tenant houses. This place produces well and is in fine section of
the country, I mile of Durand, I mile of White Sulphur Springs. Terms one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years, 7 per cent, interest. (95)

MERIWETHER COUNTY.
loo acres, I mile from Durand; good school, church, 2 railroads, good market. Improvements consist of two good tenant houses, worth $750.00; new barn. Land in high state of cultivation, bringing good revenue. Red pebbly land, slightly rolling, plenty of timber for wood. Owner moved to another State, price very cheap. Terms
one-third cash, balance, I, 2 3 years. (80)

MERIWETHER COUNTY.
200 acres, joining Cold Springs, I mile from Bullpchville, Warm Springs; good school, church, market, very healthy climate, excellent neighborhood, very fertile land, especially adapted to fruits of vari ous kinds; peaches, apples and grapes especially. Terms one-quarter cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (81)
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
350 acres, adjoining new and thriving town of Manchester on the A., B. & A. R. R., good school, churches, good roads, healthy climate, lands slightly rolling, splendid for the usual agricultural crops. Price cheap, and will enhance rapidly on account of the location. One-third cash, balance, I, 2, 3 years. (82)
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
loo acres, adjoining Cold Springs and the town of Bulloch ville; 5 minutes' of school, churches, good roads, soil gray pebble, very fertile, terms one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (83)

MERIWETHER COUNTY.
156 acres, A., B. & A. R. R. and Southern stations 2 miles; church, schools, market 2 miles; splendid roads, excellent community; soil rich, very productive, splendid crops now grov. ing. Terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (87)

MERIWETHER COUNTY.

^ 200 acres, on A., B. & A. and Southern Railways, 50 acres in cul

tivation, balance in long leaf pine, splendid fruit farm,' easy

terms. (89)

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MERIWETHER COUNTY.
550 acres, in Pine Mountain Valley 3 miles from Bullochville, 3 miles from Durand, good section, fertile lands, good improvements, price cheap, terms one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (90)

MERIWETHER COUNTY.
400 acres, on top of Pine Mountain, 2 miles from Bullochville, in the heart of the peach, grape and apple section of Georgia. This land is practically level, small pebble and gray soil; shipping facili ties splendid. Terms one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (91)

MERIWETHER COUNTY 200 Acres. Peach Farm.
5,000 bearng Elbertas, adjoins finest peach farm in Georgia, on top of Pine Mountain on Southern Railway; side-track on property, excellent climate, sure crop every year. These lands produce abun
dantly other crops, corn, oats, peas and potatoes, well improved. Terms, one-third cash, i, 2, 3 years. (92)

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MERIWETHER COUNTY. 400 acres, two railroad stations, church, school, postoffice, mar ket, 2 miles; improvements good, gray and red soS, land slightly rolling, very healthy climate. Terms, one-third cash, balance I, a, 3 years. (93)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 800 acres, adjoining- Bullochville and the Warm Springs property, well improved, soil in high state of cultivation, will make this year i to 2 1-2 bales of cotton )>er acre; 40 to 60 bushels of corn; other crops in proportion. Well watered, slightly rolling and is known to be one of the most profitable farms in Georgia. Good reasons for selling. Price very cheap. Terms. (94)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 135 acres, I mile A., B. & A. and Southern Railways. Warm Springs, Bullochville, excellent roads, in the best fruit section of Georgia; land produces the regular crops in abundance. Climate and health conditions good. Terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (99)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 34 acres, splendid improvements, fronting automobile road, onehalf mile Warm Springs Hotel; excellent poultry and truck farm, market for all that it will produce at Warm Springs, Cold Springs and Bullochville. All cash. (101)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 228 acres, 2 miles Warm Springs, Bullochville and Durand, on automobile highway, rolling land, gray pebble soil, produces well; climate very healthy. Terms, one-third cash, i, 2, 3 years. (102)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 80 acres, splendidly improved farm, good residence, fronting au tomobile highway; 2 miles to Durand, 2 miles from Warm Springs; healthy climate, spring water. Terms, one-third cash, i, 2, 3 years. (103)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 45 acres, adjoining Warm Springs property in the Pine Mountain Vailey, gray soil, will make an excellent poultry and truck farm, on automobile road. Terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (104)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 80 acres, red pebbly land, clay subsoil; produces well, schools, churches, postoffice, market, 2 miles by automobile road. Terms. (105)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 200 acres, 2 miles of Greenville, 6 miles of Durand, 3 miles of Harris, M. & B. R. R. Price cheap; gray pebbly soil, slightly rolling, well watered; 50 acres in hardwood. Terms. (106)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 71 acres, 2 miles of Durand, splendid little farm, excellent com munity; land slightly rolling; produces well, adjoins good neigh bors. Terms. (107)
MERIWETHER COUNTY. 27 acres, 5,000 Elberta peach trees bearing; fronts automobile road; I mile -from Warm Springs Hotel. This is an excellent fruit and truck farm, close to good market, school and churches. Terms one-third cash, balance, i, 2, 3 years. (109)

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MERIWETHER COUNTY.
200 acres, original forest in the Pine Mountain peach belt, table land; the best peach, apple and grape soil in Georgia; close to Southern Railway shipping point; above the frost line; adjoins the iinest fruit farm in Georgia. Terms, I, 2, 3 years, (no)
MERIWETHER COUNTY.
135 acres, new 7-room cottage, painted, sealed and plastered, 3 tenant houses, 2 barns, other outhouses, in splendid state of culti vation ; one mile of school and church and railroad; postoffice White Sulphur Springs, Ga., one-half mile; easy terms; interest. (113)

OSSABAW ISLAND
A Magnificent Game Preserve.
A magnificent game preserve, consisting of 32,000 acres of land, very fertile, 500 acres cleared, balance in timber, oak and other hardwoods, pine and palmetto, estimated 20,000,000, worth at least $60,000. The soil is especially adapted to growing Sea Island cotton, pecans, fruits of all kinds. The island abounds in deer, bear, wild geese, vast numbers of mallard ducks, snipe, wild turkeys and some quail; fishing is especially good, improvements consist of one large dwelling, eight artesian wells, each flowing 15 feet above high wa ter. Personal investigation of this property invited. It is the cheap est property of this character on the Atlantic coast. Terms. (59)
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
398 acres, 21-2 miles of Lexington, on Georgia Railroad, 94 miles from Atlanta, Lexington-Washington public road, 2 miles to church and school; splendid community, fine water, healthy cli mate, 20 acres in cultivation, balance in timber, 100 acres tinder wire fence. Terms i and 2 years at 8 per cent, interest. (67)
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
134 acres, 3 miles of Lexington, Ga. Railroad, 94 miles of At lanta, on automobile road, 3 miles to church and school, splendid neighborhood, lands slightly rolling, dark gray soil, red .subsoil. One-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years, 8 per cent, interest. (66)
OGLETHORPE COUNTY.
218 acres, 2 miles of Lexington, Georgia R. R., 93 miles east of Atlanta, on Washington-Lexington automobile road, within 2 miles of splendid school and church, land slightly rolling, dark gray soil, red subsoil, 80 acres in cultivation, with a number of im provements, fine water. Terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 :years, 7 per cent, interest. (65)
PAULDIN COUNTY. 91 acres, 2 miles from Dallas, about 30 acres in cultivation, 40 acres in timber. Good water-power on place and on the Southern Railroad. (50)
PUTNAM COUNTY. 281 acres, 12 miles of Eatonton, 85 miles from Atlanta, on the Central Railroad; i mile from school and church, on the Lawrence Ferry public road; 75 acres in cultivation, balance in timber, pine and hardwood; red and gray land, slightly rolling, very little waste terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2, 3 years, 7 per cent, interest. (64)

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RICHMOND COUNTY. 926 acres, on Augusta Southern Railroad, 5 miles of Hephzibah,. school and church on property, splendid road, slightly rolling land, gray and red pebble soil; 5 tenant houses, 100 acres under fence, rented at a good rate of interest Terms, one-quarter cash, balance i, 2, 3 years. (14)
RICHMOND COUNTY.
600 acres, beautiful level, light gray soil, short distance from the Sand Hills on which are located the famous Bpn Air and Hampton Terrace winter resort hotels. This tract will make a splendid subdivision of small farms and winter homes. It is situated just outside the city limits of Augusta, Ga. Can be bought on terms, onequarter cash, balance i, 2, 3, 4 years, 6 per cent, interest. (63}
RICHMOND COUNTY.
2,391 acres. Georgia Railroad runs through three lots, McBeans station; 1,100 acres in cultivation; splendid roads; 26 plows run ning; can make from 15 to 20 bales of cotton to plow; 550 acres in timber, 24 tenant houses, 18 barns, 3 dwellings, I nine-room, I six-room, i 5-room, i gin house, I mule barn, I saw mill. Rents now for $2,600.00 per year. (29)
ROCKDALE COUNTY.
200 acres, 18 miles from Atlanta, on Southern Railway; miles from Rex postoffice. Church, school and market I 1-2 miles; red pebble soil, 65 acres cleared, balance in* pine and hardwood, im provements, 3 houses, 3 stables, 25 acres fenced. Terms, one-third cash, balance i, 2 years. (114)
SPAULDING COUNTY. 350 acres, 250 acres in cultivation, registered Jersey herd, regis tered Berkshire, Angora goats; 35 acres of bottom land, 50 acres in timber, 4 tenant houses, 2 barns. Dwelling cost $12,000.00. Rural mail ruote.
SUMTER COUNTY. 202 acres, 3 miles from Andersonville; school i mile, 90 acres in cultivation. Two plows; two tenant houses, 10 acres in timber. Rents for $350.00. Located in southwest Georgia, which has al ways been considered the very best farming district in the State.. (30)
SUMTER COUNTY. 300 acres, four miles from Smithville; two miles from Sumter; 250 acres in cultivation, 8 plows running, 50 acres in timber; 9 tenant houses; .i6-room dwelling, 2 barns, artesian well. Rents for $1,750.00. (31)
SUMTER COUNTY. 1,190 acres, 2 miles of Andersonville, on Central of Ga. R. R., 9 miles of Americus, 8 miles of splendid schools and churches^ public road in good condition, splendid community. Sumter coun ty lands are known to be among the richest in the State, and are

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often bought without being looked at by purchaser. Improvements consists of 13 houses, 3 barns, 10 wells, 100 acres under wire fence. This is a splendid farm and will pay for itself by its own
production in four years' time. Terms cash. (13)

TROUP COUNTY.
930 acres, 4 miles from Chipley, Ga., 75 miles south of Atlanta, in a good high climate, rolling lands, red clay subsoil; splendid water-power on the property. The owner living out of the state. This property can be bought very cheap; one-quarter cash, I, 2, 3 years, 8 per cent, interest. (62)
TALBOT COUNTY.
850 acres, 400 acres in cultivation, 12 plows running, red and gray soil, 90 acres in bottom land, 20 acres in swamp, 300 acres in timber, 10 tenant houses, I 2-story barn. Rents for $1,400 per year. Woodlawn 3 miles. (37)
TALBOT COUNTY.
360 acres, I 1-4 miles from Woodlawn; 150 acres in cultivation; 20 acres in bottom land, 60 acres in timber; 3 tenant houses; place well watered. (34)
101 acres, i 1-2 miles of Woodlawn, 40 acres in cultivation, i dwelling, i barn; rents for $100.00 (35)
1,025 acres, 8 miles from Woodlawn, 300 acres in cultivation; 6-room dwelling, barn, mill and gin 40 horse-power; can be de veloped on stream; 100 of bottom land; 400 acres in timber, 400 acres under fence. Rents for $1,250.00 per year. (36)

TALBOT COUNTY.
725 acres, 3 miles, to Woodland, Ga., on the A., B. & A. R. R., 2 miles of school and church, in a spelndid community; 86 miles south of Atlanta, land is rolling, dark chocolate soil, red clay sub soil, and produces abundantly, i to 2 bales of cotton per acre; barn, grain, and hay, in proportion; improvements--^6 tenant houses, nice residence. Rents for 20 bales of cotton. Cheap for cash. (38)

TALBOT COUNTY.
400 acres, i mile of Geneva, Central of Ga. R. R., 5 miles of Talbotton, on A., B. & A. R. R. Slightly rolling land, dark sandy loam soil, rich red subsoil, improvements consist of nice 6-room house, plastered and ceiled, 5 new tenant houses ceiled and plas tered, large roomy barn, 5 wells, a very fine water, 2 springs; 100 acres under woven wire fence. This place in a high state of culti vation and is good enough for anybody. It is offered for sale to settle an estate. Terms cash. 1,200 bushels of oats, 1,000 of corn, farm implements, mowers, reapers and six very fine Kentucky mules can be bought with the above property. This is a splendid invest ment, either for home or for profits. (61)
WARE COUNTY.
600 acres, at Ruskin on Atlantic Coast Line Railroad; good school and church on the property, splendid neighborhood, lands dark sandy loam, practically level, good clay subsoil, produces fine

Here are some figures that tell their own story of the growth of Georgia. While the wonderful development of the entire South has attracted the attention of the whole nation, as well as foreign countries, so rich is Georgia's marvelous versatility of natural resources, and such has been her unquestioned leadership in progress that she has worthily won the undisputed title of the "Empire State of the South." The figures speak for themselves:

1880

1900.

1909

1910

Population .................................... Manufacturing Progress, Capital..,,,.,,,,..,,,, Manufacturing Progress, Value Products....... Cotton Industry (pounds cotton used).......... Lumber Cut (feet board measure) .............. Cotton Seed Products.......................... Mineral Production ............................ Iron Ore Output (long tons)............ ..... Commerce, Merchandise, export values.......... Railroads, Mileage ............................ Railroads, Gross Earnings .................... Financial Resources ........................'... National Banks ...............................
" " Capital ........................ " " Aggregate Resources .......... " " Individual Deposits ............ State Banks ................................... " 9apital -
Aggregate Resources .......... " /'Deposits ...................... Common School Expenditures.................. School Property .............................. High Schools ................................. True Wealth of Georgia....................... Assessed Value Taxable Property..............

1,542,180

2,210,331

2,575,720

' $20,672,410

$89,789,656

$36,440,938

$106,654,527

33>757,i99

145,833,113

260,571,462

451,788,000

1,308,610,000 (1905) 904,668,000

.

$8,064,112 (1908) $13,539,899

(1882) $457,737 * $3,448,233 (1908) $4,842,000

91,410

33o,uo (1908) 3,734,438

$25,025,097

$45,630,412

$65,598,868

2,459

5,014

6,992

< $22,221,850

$39,506,699

13 {,2,221,000 {17,849,727 {52,012,457
$471,029 $606,000,000 $251,963,124

29

,102

$4,306,000

!in,581,500

$23,503,135

!>75,58o,o63

$10,864,840

*>34>934,854

140

48}

$8,735,327

$20,228,453

$38,929,686

$108,625,280

$22,609,664

$66,775,714

$1,980,016 (1906-7) $2,850,210

$3,155,433

107

$936,000,000

$1,554,838,600

$433,323,691

$723,481,310

,229,254 $8,603,853
840

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COMPARATIVE STATEMENST
VALUE OF THE CROPS OF GEORGIA FOR THE YEARS 1905 and 1909 x
f
Compiled by PROF. J. T. DERRY, Statistican Department of Agriculture of Georgia.

1905

1909

Production*.
Corn ....................... 47,255,164 bu. Wheat ...................... 2,106,556 " Oats ........................ 3,522,075 " Rye ........................ 109,386 " Irish Potatoes................ 560,755 " Sweet Potatoes .............. 4,990,000 " Hay ........................ 132,081 tons Cotton,, including linters....... 1,759,083 bales Cotton Seed ................. 804,088 tons Tobacco ..................... 1,068,900 Ibs. Rice ........................ 97,696 bu. Sugar from Sugar Cane....... 220,000 Ibs. Molasses from Sugar Cane.... 3,250,000 gals. Molasses from Sorghum....... 640,000 gals. ,

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Value, Production.
$33*078,615 61,160,000 bu. 2,254,015 2,450,000 " 1,866,700 6,650,000 " ii9)23i 126,000 " 628,046 810,000 " 3,805,000 5,187,000 " 2,680,276 117,000 tons t1 89,509,581 1,901,830 bales "
. 13*267,452 812,000 tons . 181,713 i,47<Wo Ibs. 9965o 100,000 bu. 10,850 226,730 Ibs. 1,140,000 3*300,000 gals. 192,000 650,000 gals.

Value. $ 52,528,000
3,552,000 4,722,000
189,000 810,000 ' 3,916,000 1,849,000 125,770,000 22,270,000:' 499,ooo!; 87,000 OO
11,366! 1,155.000;
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$217,523,336 ;

Miscellaneous Vegetables, Apples, Peaches, Berries, other Fruits and Melons $15,000.000

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REALTY TRUST COMPANY
OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA

AUTHORIZED CAPITAL. UNDIVIDED PROFITS;

S6OO.OOO.OO 3OO.OOO.OO

ORGANIZED U*OeR THE LAWS OF GEORGIA DEC.ie.19O8

ASA G. CAXDLER........................................... Atlanta.
President Central Bank and Trust Corporation; President Coca-Cola Company.
T. P. SHOXTS............................................New York.
President Interborough-Metropolitan Company; President Clover Leaf System and Chicago & Alton Railway.
GEORGE T. ROWLAND..................................New York.
Publisher and Capitalist.
H. C. AXSLEY.....................................Washington, D. C
Treasurer Southern Railway Company.
DAX B. HARRIS................................... .........Atlanta.
President Southeastern Underwriters' Association, "Southern Manager Aachen & Munich Insurance Co. of Germany, and Security Insurance Co. of Connecticut.
J. S. B. THOMPSOX..........................................Atlanta.
Assistant to President, Southern Railway Company.
W. A. WIMBISH.............................................Atlanta.
Attorn ey-at-Laaw.
EDWIX P. AXSLEY.........................................Atlanta.
Real Estate.
L. A. RAXSOM...............................................Atlanta.
District Manager southern Cotton Oil Company.
JAMES G. TRUlTT........................................LaGrange.
Planter and Capitalist.
R. L. WALKER..................... .........................Atlanta.
Capitalist.
W. H. PATTERSOX......................................... .Atlanta.
Vice-President Central Bank and Trust Corporation.
FRAXK ORME............................................... Atlanta.
Secretary and Treasurer Southern States Life Insurance Co.
JOHX GILMORE...,.,.......................................Atlanta.
Secretary Realty Trust Company.
OFFICERS
EDWIX P. ANSLEY.................................................President. DAN B. HARRIS...........................................First Vice-president. J. S. B. THOMPSOX.......................................Second Vice-President. W, H. PATTERSOX............. v ..................................Treasurer. JOHX GILMORE.........../.... .T...................................Secretary. H. E- WATKINS............................. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer.
First mortgage loans negotiated on real estat security to net the investor from 51-2 per cent, to 8 per cent., according to locatl >a and class of property.
Acts as trustee, receiver or guardian, and conducts a general Trust Company business. By making sub-divisions of large tracts of lands and attending to all of flic legal anl other details pertaining to sub-divisions, the owners are relieved of all qf tbe. % and trouble connected therewith.