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as potatoes., will soon be ready to
take their •places as money crops.
Now, I want to draw the attention
of many that \vill read your paper
to a few facts that are not gen
erally known, or perhaps forgotten
by those who kiy w, that the South
is rapidly 'Coming to the front as
an agricultural country and it is
but right 'that those seeking new
fields of -enterprise should know
and'understand the advantages of
Southern Georgia.
Let us go down to the sea and be
gin there and when we land at Sa
vannah or Brunswick, we find
them like all seaport towns, only
a few feet above sea level, but as
we leave them we begin an eleva
tion so gentle that we hardly re
alise that we are getting higher
and higher as we get into the mid
dle of the state, and when we are
told that Jesup is over a hundred
feet higher than Savannah or Brun
swick and that Waycross is still
higher, being nearly two hundred
feet, and that Douglas, Coffee
county, is up something like three,
hundred feet we are sutprised but
this is true.
Now, this important fact teaches
ius that we have the finest drainage
or our lands to be had in any state
in the Union. Our creeks, rivers,
and branches go flowing at a gen
tle speed down to the sea ; no tor
rents and floods that tear up lands,
roads, bridges and sweeps away
the farmers crops to be lost in the
raging waters. No, none of that
in South Georgia. And the wise
men who c'aim to know say we
are not in the path of cyclones and
blizzards., while we have a temper
ature as even as any man could
wish for. In summer the thermom
eter rarely goes up to ioo degrees,
mostly about 92, while in winter
it drops down to freezing only two
or three times a year, and many
winters it never gets to freezing,
and our garden flowers are bloom
ing at Christmas and New Years’
time. You can get green peas,
turnips and cabbage all the year
’round generally.
These facts should convince
home-seekers and others that South
Georgia is the place to live in. As
for health, the writer has lived in
Europe, Canada and about twenty
different states in this union and
he can truthfully say that we have
as healthy a country as can be
found in the world. Jake the death
\wirld and
' DOUGLAS, COFFEE COUNTY, GA.
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AriDßrw J. Bryan V Co., ~7
Architects, ~ 7 “—b 2>~ r
New Brick Court House, at Douglas, Georgia.
begin with long-cotton, sugar-cane,
sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, cab
bage, beans, rice, oats, hay, corn,
velvet beans and all good money
crops, while for fruits there is no
better soil, grapes almost growing
wild here. Among the delicious
wild fruits are the black berries,
straw berries, huckleberries, &c.,
which are big money crops. Peach
es, yes peaches that weigh 16
ounces each, sweet and juicy. Oh,
my! I have raised them myself
and know. Plums, all kinds, some
of them growing wild in the old
fields and lanes. Sour and Japa
nese oranges will do well here, as
well as the pear, but the tree is sub
ject to blight.
But the coming money crop of
this section is the sugar cane and
Georgia There are certain
counties that are taking the lead in
this line, but South Georgia can
produce sugar cane of the finest
quality in the world. The people
Kmc awakening to their privileges
_■ .■his line for we have the whole
nSld for a market for Georgia
Cane Table Syrup, which
|B)ot be beaten when properly
IfHne and properly put up in pack
-9s that will enable the producer
jwship it to the ends of the
■iere are vast fortunes to be made
Wi this line and it will be done at
mo distant day. Cairo, in Thomas
bounty ships more syrup than any
Either town in Georgia,.and this is
pnainly owing to the push and
perseverance of some of its enter
prising citizens. The Atlantic
Coast Line shipped on all its lines
in 1902, 16,618 barrels of syrup,
and of that quanlity Cairo shipped
10,777. See what push and ener
gy accomplished. If Cairo, in
Thomas county can do that why
cannot any other county with as
good soil and advantages do as
well or better r This amount, 16,
618 barrels of syrup seems to be a
big lot of syrup,’ but it is only a
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Kjntry and her people, first and all the time
Douglas, Ga., October Ist, 1904.
drop in the bucket comparatively.
That amount could be multiplied
by ten and then only, one out of
ten would get one spoonful of
syrup each, not taking into consid
eration what other countips would
buy from 11s. It has been shown
time and time again that SIOO.OO
per acre can be made on a cane
crop. Don’t that pay better than
cotton? Why, of course it docs,
but the great drawback to the in
dustry has been, as a general rule
that the syrup has not been made
of a uniform grade and lias not
been put up in proper packages,
hence the sale of cane syrup has
been limited, and therefore, no
market for such syrup. But as
soon as our syrup is properly made
and handled then a market will be
found so that our farmers will be
taxed to their utmost to supply the
demand.
We give here an estimate of the
cost of planting and cultivating
one acre of sugar cane :
Seed cane... $15.00
Fertilizers 12.00
Cultivation and grinding 15.00
$42.00
This estimate may be varied and
it is generally conceded that syrup
can be made ready to pack for ten
cents per gallon by adopting the
most modern methods and we are
satisfied it can. How dare any man
say that Coffee county cannot do
as well as Thomas or Brooks coun
ties, and why not Douglas be as
great a shipper as Cairo or Quit
man or any other town in South
Georgia.
Farmers and others around Doug
las should take this matter up and
push it along. We have no reason
able excuse. Our railroads now
give us inlets and outlets to the
; world’s markets, at as low rates as
i any other town in South Georgia.
The timber is fast disappearing and
our lands will soon be ready for
the plow, and the Lord knows the
lands are cheap enough. In five
years from to-day land cannot be
bought for five times its price
to-day. There is no reason in the
world why Coffee county, the big
gest county in the Slate cart not do
as Thomas county does, and Doug
las could ship syrup by the thous
ands of barrels. We have seen
syrup made within a few miles of
this place that it put up in proper
shape would seli in any part of the
world for SI.OO per gallon. This
Georgia Table Syrup is the coming
money crop of Southern Georgia,
aval we say once more get together,
talk this matter over, and make a
beginning. Other people in other
States of the Union are watching
us. They are tired of eating the
chemical syrup and are crying out
for genuine Georgia cane syrup.
They have the money to pay for it
and we certainly can make it fit
for the king to eat.
We are now looking for a party
of capitalists from Ohio to study
the Sugar cane syrup industry,
with a view of helping us develop
our wealth in growing cane in
quantities and to put up steam
plants on a large scale to manu
facture and put in proper shipping
packages Georgia cane syrup.
Let us encourage all such people
to come among us. The people of
the world are looking south to-day
for new fields of industry and new
homes. Let us all say welcotpe,
thrice welcome and extend the
hand of fellowship to all who seek
our company with a view to help
ing us build up the coming land of
promise. J. M. Jaiidink.
For Sale—Mules.
We have fifty head of good
draft mules for sale. Will sell all
in a lump at a bargin. For par
ticulars address W. O. McGowin.
Gen’l Supt., Soutnern Pine Co.
of Ga , Offerman, Ga.
SI.OO per Annum
DOUGLAS THE COUNTY SITE.
Its Advantageous Situation and Won
derful Development in a Few Years-
Douglas is situated on the Atlan
tic & Birmingham railroad, forty
-two miles west of Waycross and
fifty-seven miles east of Cordele.
It is the county site of Coffee coun
ty and has a population ofi.Soo
people, according to late muni
cipal census, a growth in six years
from only 200 inhabitants, to its
present proportions. It is situated
in a high, rolling section, its natur
al drainage being unsurpassed by
any town in Georgia, and being
supplied with good, pure water
the health record compares favor
ably with that of any town of like
size in the middle or northern part
of the state.
The business part of the town
embraces twenty-five brick and
eight wooden stores, some of them
carrying stocks the equal of the
best in cities of five times the size
of Douglas. Two banks, with a
combined capital of $150,000 is re
quired to do the business of the
town and section, and these banks
within the last year have declared
a dividend of 25 per cent., showing
the volume of business transacted.
A new and commodious whole
sale grocery house recently erected
near the Wadley & Mt. Vernon
depot is doing a thriving business,
selling from $15,000 to SIB,OOO
1 worth of goods per month.
Coffee county can boast of hav
ing one of the most symmetrical’
and artistically designed brick court
houses in the State, and the beauty
of it is. it is paid for.
The Fraternal orders of the town
are: Masonic, Odd Fellows, and
Knights ot Pythias, all of which
have large and enthusiastic mem
bership.
We have one first-class brick
hotel and numerous boarding hous
es where the traveler finds coureous
attention, and good accomodations.
One modern Grist mill, two Gin
neries, which gin both long and
short cotton, Ice plant, Foundry
and Machine shops. Planing mills,
Blacksmith shops, and two News
papers.
The northern terminus of the
Wadley & Mt. Vernon railroad at
Barrow’s Bluff, on the Ocmulgee
river, gives us water transportation
with a regular line of steamers to
Brunswick, and its southern line
touching the Atlantic Coast Line
at Leliaton gives us a competing
line of railroads with the Atlantic
& Birmingham railroad.
The increased value of taxable
property in the city of Douglas for
the year 1904 over 1903 is $85,000
with an addition of $75,000 since
return day.
Our citizens are loyal and public
spirited as is conclusively illustra
ted by the building of the Wadley
& Mt. Vernon railroad from Bar
row’s Bluff on the Ocmulgee to
Leliaton, a distance of thirty-six
miles without a dollar of foreign
capital or the issuance of bonds.
We cordially invite all home
-seekers to visit our town, and we
will feel it a pleasant task to show
them the country around our sec
tion.
Coffee County’s Resources-
By direction of the Board of
Trade of Douglas we are reprint
ing the letter of Mr. J. M. Jar
dine which appeared "lust week,
in order that a thousand copies of
the same may be circulated in
northern Georgia. In this con
nection it may be well for us to
state that more than a thousand
copies of the Breeze will be print
ed each week for the next ten
weeks for circulation in northern
Georgia, and parties who have
friends in that section to whom
they would like these papers sent
are requested to hand in the names
at this office.