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'' '' • • • W J' ' w d y w i o be stock. 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. | 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 V. mmm . ■ \: mu : pr of Ks found Georgia We will 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.