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nsive improvements in the Cliat
. m ci Apalachicola rivers by
"'.■'il SO' government at a cost of
*1 million Eriday dollors at loomed waterways in Col
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improvements, . government if provided, will
ijjfect I Cairo transportation and this section rates, as
L : S f water
1( j be materially lower than
L e nt freight rates. The local
L of Commerce was asked to
Ljesentatives at the hearing on
1.^ the hearing, which was
I, jhv Senator William J. Har
Governor W. W. Brar.-
1^ L jiibama; Georgia, congressmen Alabama from and
of
L and other prominent state,
county and city officials from the three
states, Major Lynn said that in his
opinion the hearing was successful in
all ways. This statement, it is be
lieved, means that the war depart
ment will make a favorable recom
mendation to congress for the pro
posed improvement.
It is proposed to construct locks and
dams on the Chattahoochee river that
would provide a sufficient depth of
water for the operation of self pro
polled barges during the entire year.
1 he Chattahoochee and Apalachicola
are sections for the proposed intra
coastal canal system from New Or
leans to Apalachicola, Fla., to Colum
bus.
Cost of the improvement has been
estimated at more than 88,000,000.
The bill providing for the river im
provement was introduced by Senator
Harris in 1924, it being passed by the
house and senate and receiving the
signature of the President. In 1925
a survey to prove the feasibility of
the project was authorized and the
hearing here is included as a part of
the survey. The bill follows:
Amendment to H. R. 8914. Exten
sion of the intracoastal canal system
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THE CAIRO MESSENGER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22ND, 1926.
New Orleans, Louisiana, to Apalachi
cola river, Florida, and deepening and
maintaining a channel up the Apachi
cola and Chattahoochee rivers to Col
umbus, Georgia, of sufficient depth to
permit the economical opei'ation of
self-propelled barges.
Local officials have said that the
entire future of navigation on the two
rivers hinged on the hearing here Fri
day, the result of which will determine
whether or not the locks and dams will
be constructed. Stone Cargill, secre
tary and traffic manager of the Colum
bus Chamber of Commerce, presented
data relative to river tonnage, which
it is believed will have great effect on
the decision of the engineers in mak
ing their recommendations.
Other national representatives who
endorsed the project other than Sen
ator Harris and Governor Brandon,
were Congressmen William \\ right,
Charles R. Crisp, E. E. Cox, of Geor
gia; Congressman William E. Bowl
ing, of Alabama; Congressman Tom
A. Yon, of Florida.
Delegations composed of chamber of
commerce officials from the cities of
Eufaula, Albany, Ft. Gaines, Tallahas
see, Quincy, Gadsden, Columbus, Ap
alachicola, St. Andrews, Panama City
and Bainbridge also endorsed the pro
ject. Governor Clifford Walker, of
Georgia, who was scheduled to attend
was not present.
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One of the circuit clouts crashed
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CALVIN GIVES CROP
VALUES IN GEORGIA
STATISTICS SHOW THIS STATE
IS NOT A ONE-CROP
REGION.
By MARTIN V. CALVIN, Specialist
in Agriculture and Economics.
This is the “set time” when atten
tion should be directed to the fact
that Georgia is not now and never has
been a one-crop state. The belief, en
tertained in and outside the state, that
Georgia almost exclusively is a cotton
state is untrue.
It is proposed in this article to com
pare the total value of six food crops,
for man and beast, with the value of
cotton and cotton seed through a per
iod of eight years—1912-1919. We
shall consider the values as a whole,
then by two groups of 4 years each.
this will afford aln opportunity to
study the values during four pre-war
years and four years of the World
War.
In comparison of values, six food
crops will be used—corn, wheat, oats,
Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and
hay. Other food crops could have been
used, but the six selected, without
having first ascertained their value,
will answer our purpose. The facts
and figures are of record.
The total value of cotton and cotton
seed for eight years, 1912-1919, ara
ounted to $1,823,390,500. The value
of the six food crops amounted to
8876,517,000, that is, 40 per cent of
the cotton values all told.
We will take four years of crop
values mentioned, 1912-1915, viz: val
ue of cotton and cotton seed, 8558,-
836,000; value of the six food crops,
8286,890,000, which equals 51.1 per
cent of the cotton values.
Take four years, 1916-1919, of crop
values stated, to-wit: The value of
cotton and cotton seed, $1,264,554,500;
value of the six food crops, $589,618,
000, which stands for 46.6 per cent
of the value of cotton and cotton
seed.
During the eight years, 1912-1919,
Georgia’s five bushel crops under con
sideration, totaled 8709,464,000 bush
els. Of that grand total, corn was
72.3 percent. During these eight years
Georgia’s annual production of corn
was 64,221,376 bushels.
The presentation made should be of
vital interest to all those who are talc
| ing an active part in trying to arrive
at a wise conclusion as to the process
by means of which the existing cotton
problem may be solved.
At this point, it is proper to remark
that the able and exhaustive pape t- ,
submitted by special request of gen
tlemen of large experience in handling
cotton upon its appearance on the
market, by Colonel H. C. Hester, the
distinguished secretary of the cham
ber of commerce of New Orleans,
should not be lost sight of. There is
not a man in the United States, for
the matter of that—in the whole world
is better informed as to cotton
I production, quantity marketed, mil
j lions of pounds annually consumed in
this country and by the world, number
of bales exported, etc., than Colonel
Hester. I remember the wise advice
he gave to the great convention of
cotton producers at New Orleans in
January 1905. His advice enable !
cotton growers and cotton factors to
bridge the “yawning chasm” which
threatened disaster to the south's
special crop.
i The cotton conference at
will be fruitful of most excellent
suits. The potent remedy for these
recurrent crises in cotton production
marketing is to be found in bring
mg the home-owned cotton grower •,
cotton factors and banks in its busi
ress conjunction with one another,
Business conferences between the
three parties mentioned will result in
well considered cotton acreage from
year to year. There will ... , be no excess
in such acreage and cotton will be a
money crop to all concerned—par
ticularly the producers.
I mention and emphasize “home
owning cotton growers” for the reason
that that class of growers are in posi- j
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f tion actively to cooperate with banker,*
and cotton factors.
When that custom shall have been
revived—call it “a new departure” if
you please—landlords will begin t>
give closer personal attention to their
tenants, which latter (many landlords
also), have one thought only—cotton,
whether three acres or ten acres be
necessary to the production of 1,500
pounds of seed cotton. Tenant-hiring
landlords will waken to a keen appre
ciation of the value of soil conserva
tion. They for the first time in their
expedience in cotton production by
average tenants, will begin to make a
note of the “run-down” condition of
their farms, that is to say their per
ished acres—perished because denied
suitable fertilizers in liberal rations.
Surely, no person can be thinking
seriously that the legislature should
be petitioned to enact a law which
will require that cotton acreage shall
be limited to a given number of acres.
Such legislation would he a direct in
terference with protection to personal
property which is the paramount duty
of government. The cotton crisis is a
business proposition; it can not be
overcome except by business methods
of the first class.
Union Springs News.
Mrs. Alva Hudson and Miss Myrtle
Hudson visited Mrs. C. A. Mobley on
Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Bishop spent
Sunday with Mrs. Arthur Bishop.
Miss Lois Prevatte, of Cairo at
tended preaching at Union Springs
Sunday.
Mr. Amos Hartley, and son, Cary,
spent a short while in Whigham Sat
urday afternoon.
Miss Irene Parker visited Miss An
nie Mae Mobley Thursday.
Messrs Ekford and Y. B. Hudson
spent Sunday afternoon with Messrs.
Hiram and Arthur Mobley.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mobley spent
Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs.
L. J. Mobley.
Mrs. Aline Prevatte is visiting her
brother, Mr. Albert Poppell, in Flor
ida.
Miss Lizzie Mobley spent Tuesday
with Mrs. Eugene Mobley.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wain spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Mobley.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Larkin made a
business trip to Cairo Saturday after
noon.
Mrs. John Muggridge spent Sunday
with Mrs. Carson Belle.
Messrs Lee Mobley and Asa Whig
ham have returned to Winter Haven,
Fla., after visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Amos Hartley spent Sunday
with Mrs. C. A. Mobley.
Messrs. John Emory Hall and El
mer Dollar left Saturday for Winter
Haven, Fla.,
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