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Fort Valley County Site of Peach County World’s : : : Shipping Largest Station Peach
Where Agriculture insures its own success by its diversified products, among other principal crops of which are WATERMELONS, PECANS, ASPARAGUS, SPINACH, TURNIPS,
POTATOES, PEANUTS, VELVET BEANS, SUGAR CANE, PEAS, WHEAT, CORN and COTTON; HOGS and CATTLE. Many large industrial plants. WE ARE BUILDING
A CITY HERE. This Peach County paradise invites you. :: " " ::
ANNUAL MOVEMENT OF PEACHES
FROM FORT VALLEY, 1909-1921.
1909 .......................... 625 ears
1910 ..........................1,523 cars
1911 .......................... 395 ears
1912 ..........................1,079 cars
1913 .......................... 531 cars
1914 ..........................1,379 cars
1915 ..........................1,265 cars
1916 ..........................1,091 cars
1917 ..........................1,692 cars
1918 ..........................2,263 cars
1919 ..........................2,319 cars
1920 ..........................1,081 cars
1921 ..........................2,796 cars
1922 ..........................1,618 cars
1923 ..........................2,006 cars
1924 ..........................2,880 cars
(Also 175 cars canned peaches.)
ANNUAL MOVEMENT WATER
MELONS.
1922 238 cars
1923 271 cars
1924 862 cars
CARLOAD MOVEMENTS DIVERSIFIED
PRODUCTS EVERY MONTH
IN YEAR.
During 1924-25 diversified products have
reached such great proportions that various
large money-products have been shipped in
car-load lots EVERY MONTH AROUND
THE CALENDAR! A partial list of the
continuous carload shipments is as follows;
January and February,
Spinach and Turnips
March and April..............Asparagus
May, June and July..... ..... Peaches
August ................ Watermelons
September and October. . . ......Cotton
November and 'December,
Hogs and Potatoes
Carload shipments of various other
products are made from month to month.
With the level, fertile lands that com¬
pose the farming sections adjacent to
Fort Valley, nothing is impossible of at¬
tainment in agricultural and horticultural
fields. The same applies with ‘‘the cow,
the sow, the hen. • ’
The government maintains a well equip¬
ped laboratory here for peach investiga¬
tions and experiments in the entire south¬
east. Experts in their line make a con¬
tinuous study in entomological and patho¬
logical research. Their results are cheer¬
fully tendered the peach growers of the
district.
FORT VALLEY.
Location, Population, Etc.
Fort Valley is located near the geograph¬
ical center of Georgia on the Dixie High¬
way, Central of Georgia and Southern Tail
ways. It is the capital of Peach County,
of finest Anglo-Saxon citizenship, born,
bred and laboring through many years realized to¬
wards a high ideal which has been
in tho flourishing ‘‘County with a Soul.”
Fort Valley is on a plateau 548 feet
above the sea level, has excellent, pure
water from four artesian wells, good nat¬
ural drainage to both Atlantic Ocean and
Gulf of Mexico, and sewerage system.
Fort Valley has two trunk-line and one
branch-line railways, with 24 passenger
and 28 freight trains daily.
The tourist travel through Fort Valley,
on the Dixie Highway, is enormous.
Splendid accommodations are offered them
here, from camp grounds to hotel facilities.
Fort Valley’s normal population, ac¬
cording to the census of 1920, was 3,226;
peach season population about 7,000. A
school census estimate now shows a normal
population of 4,000.
Paved streets, a beautiful white way
and other marks of the modern, pro¬
gressive city excite tho admiration of
visitors to Fort Valley.
AGRICULTURAL AND HORTICUL¬
TURAL.
Fort Valley is the center of the great
Georgia peach belt.
It is the largest peach shipping station
in the world.
About one-third of Georgia's peach
shipments are billed from this point.
Three thousand and fifty-five carloads, iu-
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
eluding 175 cars of canned peaches, were
billed from this point during the 1924
season.
There are more than 6,000,000 peach
trees about 60,000 acres of orchards—in
the Fort Valley territory.
Fort Valley is a state distributing point
for nearly all manufacturers of orchard
machinery and supplies.
Fort Valley is one of the largest pea
markets in the United States.
Other leading products of this section
are cotton, watermelons, asparagus, spin¬
ach, potatoes, turnips, pecans, wheat, oats,
hay, corn, sugar cane, peanuts, velvet
beans, hogs and cattle.
COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
Wholesale Groceries ................ 2
Brokerage Concerns (orchard and farm
implements and supplies) ......... 7
Modern Oil and Gasoline Service Sta¬
tions ............................. 9
Banks — combined resources, $1,500,
000.00 ............................ 2
Auto Accessories .................... 4
Garages ............................ 5
Hotels ............................. 3
Undertakers and Embalmers ........ 1
General Insurance Agents ........... 5
Coal and Wood Yards................ 2
Opera Houses ...................... 1
Motion Picture Shows .............. 1
Cotton Warehouses .................. 3
Telephone Companies (one of the most
up-to-date systems in the South).... 1
Retail Stores—over ................. 100
l>ry Goods ..................... 13
General ........................ 15
Grocery ........................ 28
Men’s Furnishings ............. 9
Tailoring ....................... 5
Meats .......................... 6
Jewelry ........................ 3
Pressing Establishments ......... 6
Furniture ...................... 2
Barber Shops ................... 3
Plumbing and Electrical Shops . . 4
Millinery ....................... 6
Bakeries........................ 1
Drugs .......................... 4
Soda Founts, Cigars ............. 5
Candies and Cigars ............. 6
Restaurants .................... 4
Hardware ...................... 6
Farm Implements ............... 5
Shoe Repairing ................. 3
Variety (5c and 10c, locally
owned) ....................... 3
Photo Studios .................. 1
Blacksmith Shops ............... 4
Laundries ...................... I
Sales Stables o
...................
Dairies ......................... 2
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS.
Weekly Payroll Manufacturing
Enterprises ............... $15,000.00
Number Employees.......... 1,250
Canning Factories .......... 6
Crate Factories 9
............
Variety Works ............. 2
Machine Shops 9
..............
Lumber Manufacturing Plants 3
Flour and Grist Mills (largest custom 2
flour mill in Georgia) ............... I
Cotton Mills .........................
Knitting Mills ....................... 1
Ice Manufacturing Plants ............ 2
(Largest Single-Unit Re-icing Plant in the
South.)
Cotton Gins 2
Cotton Seed Oil and Fertilizer Plants.. 1
Spray Material and Insecticide Plants.. 2
Electric Light and Water Plant (munic¬
ipal) .............................. 1
Newspapers .......................... 1
Bottling Plants ...................... 1
SCHOOLS.
Modern eleven-grade consolidated pub¬
lic school, on the Southern accredited list,
24 teachers, 800 pupils, main brick build¬
ing of 13 rooms, including large auditorium
built in 1912 at a cost of $50,000.00, two
primary buildings of four rooms each, in¬
door basket-ball court, play grounds.
The Fort Valley High and Industrial
School for negroes is an institution of high
value.
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Mildred. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Dawson Kendrick, of Fort Valley,
Shows How Georgia Peaches Grow.
CHURCHES.
Methodist ...... 1
Baptist ......... 1
Presbyterian .... I
Episcopal ....... 1
Primitive Baptist 1
All churches have regular pastors and
sefvices.
PEACH COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
The system of government in new Peach
County is organized for modern efficiency
with greatest economy, It is in perfect
harmony with the celebrated 4 4 Peach
County Program, t J launched at a mass
meeting of citizens with the institution
of the new county on January 1, 1925,
looking towards the quick realization of
plans for everything that is best for the
happiness and prosperity of her people.
Judges Superior Court—H. A. Mathews
and Malcolm D. Jones.
Ordinary—M. C. Mosley.
Clerk Superior Court—Emmett Houser.
Representative—J. E. Davidson.
Sheriff—Geo. D. Anderson.
County Superintendent of Schools—
Ralph Newton.
Tax Collector—T. E. Tharpe.
Tax Receiver—C. N. Rountree.
Treasurer—C. E. Martin.
Coroner—W. II. Hafer.
County Surveyor—T. F. Flournoy.
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
Mayor—R. D. Hale.
Mayor Pro Tem—W. G. Brisendine.
Aldermen—C. B. Almon, W. G. Brisen¬
dine, J. D. Duke, B. H. Fincher, J. A.
Houser, W. M. Wright.
Clerk and Treasurer—N. W. Jordan.
Chief of Police—Hal Vaughan.
Fire Department—J. L. Everett, Chief.
Modern motor chemical engine and hose
wagon.
City Attorney—C. L. Shepard.
Board of Education—W. L. Houser,
Chairman; L. Carter, Secretary-Treasurer;
A. J. Evans, A. C. Riley, Glenmore Green,
M. S. Brown.
Superintendent of Schools—J. F. Lam
bert.
Electric Light and Water Plant—
Commissioners; H. M. Copeland, Chair¬
man; J. M. Green, C. L. Shepard,
R. D. Hale.
Superintendent Plant—J. G. Bostwick.
Superintendent Construction — T. A.
Jones.
CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS.
Fort Valley and Peach County Chamber
of Commerce—.Judge A. C. Riley, Presi¬
dent; J. D. Kendrick, Secretary.
Kiwanis Club—E. T. Murray, President;
E. G. Clark, Secretary.
Fort Valley Advertising Club—F. O.
Miller, President; R. D. Hale, Secretary.
Fort Valley Community Service—Mrs.
Etta Carithcrs Houston, Secretary.
Civic-Committee Chamber of Commerce
—D. C. Strother, Chairman.
Civic Improvement Committee Woman’s
Club—Mrs. A. M. Solomon, Chairman.
Woman’s Auxiliary, Thomas Public
Library—Mrs. A. J. Evans, President; Miss A
Gena Riley, Secretary and Librarian.
American Legion—A. L. Luce, Adjutant;
M. 8. Bazemore, Commander.
American Legion Auxiliary—Mrs. F. W.
Withoft, President.
WOMEN’S CLUBS.
Fort Valley Woman’s Club—Mrs. J. M.
Green, President.
United Daughters of the Confederacy—
Mrs. T. R. Ousley, President.
Daughters of the American Revolution—
Governor Treutlen Chapter, Mrs. B. H.
Fincher, Regent.
Fort Valley Chapter, Mrs. A. A. Wil¬
liams, Regent.
MEN’S SECRET ORDERS.
Masons (Blue Lodge, Chapter, and Com
mandery), Woodmen of the World.
Georgia’s tobacco crop of 34,000 acres
in 1924 yielded 30,024,502 pounds and
sold at an average of 21.82 cents per pound,
bringing $6,551,650.86. The yield averaged
883 pounds per acre. This is practically
a new activity for Georgia on a large scale,
and if plans of those interested in grow¬
ing the weed are carried out for 1925
and assuming the average price and yield
of 1924 as ft basis, this crop should pro¬
duce over $12,000,00^0.
Georgia’s 1924 cotton crop intensive was over and
one million bales, due to
proper cultivation. Georgia probably used
more calcium arsenate in her fight on the
boll weevil than all the other southern
states combined. Producing of cotton will
always be the greatest factor in Georgia’s
agricultural income.
Georgia led the entire United States in
watermelon production in 1924, producing
38.8 per cent, of the entire commercial
watermelon crop, bringing to farmers $3,
092,000 from 16,103 cars.
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