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Georgia and Reciprocity.
Effect Os The Proposed Canadian Reci
procity Treaty on Many of Georgia's
Paoducts.
Cottonseed oil will be admitted
into Canada from the United
States free of duty under the pend
ing reciprocity legislation, in place
of being taxed at 17A% ad valorem
as at present. This arrangement
is of the highest interest to Geor
gia, which ranked second among
cottonseed oil producing states in
1904 and is believed to have now
overtaken Tennessee in this regard.
The manufacture of cottonseed oil.
etc., is among the very foremost of
Georgia’s industries, both as to
importance aud vigor. So long
ago as 1904 her annual product in
this industry was valued at nearly
$14,000,000.
The significance of Canada s
concession of free cottonseed oil
to Amercian producer may lie
measured by the fact that even in
the face of the present duty this
country sold $1,111,400 worth of
cotton seed oil in the Dominion in
calendar 1910, paying approxi
mately $200,000 in duty thereon.
Georgia’s famous fruit produce,
peaches, melons, apples, and
grapes, will enter Canada free of
duty under the proposed recipro
cal agreeinont. Since the fruits
each year arrives at the marketable
stage many weeks before the Cana
dian fruits commence to mature,
Georgia will find the new arrange
ment a highly profitable one. The
Georgia Fruit Growers’ Associa
tion, realizing the value of the
Canadian market, haß repeatedly
petitioned our Department of
State to secure more favorable tar
iff conditions; and it was with
these requests in mind that the
Canadian Commissioners were ask
ed and prevailed upon to concede,
with much reluctance, the remov
al of all duties on fresh fruits en
tering Canada from this country
Peaches are at present taxed
$1 00 per 100 pounds, by Canada,
and this duty, added to the cost of
transpotation, has decreased the
Canadian demand for Georgia
peaches. The Dominion at pres
ent imposes a duty of 3/ each up
on melons, thus hampering the
creation of a Canadian market for
our celebrated southern water
melons. The Canadian duty on
grapes, as well as on strawberries
and other berries, is 2/ per pound.
Apples are taxed by Canada at 40/
per barrel, pears at 50/ per 100
pounds, and plums at 80/ per
bushel. The well Known high
quality of Georgia’s peaches,
grapes, and melons will tend to
gain for the.se products an im
mediate sale m Canada so soon as
the tariff barriers shall be remov
ed. Even under the tariff status
the United States Bold fr u sh fruits
to Canada to a value of $1,271,000
during Canadu’s last fiscal year,
paying import duties to the sum
of $261,000.
Fresh vegetables will extempted
from all duties according to the
proposed reciprocity plan. This
will give Georgia a larger range of
markets for her early potatoes and
garden produce, onions, tomatoes,
sweet potatoes or yams, ect. These
will find a ready sale in the Do
minion before the late ripening
Canadian crops are gathered. Can
ada has hitherto taxed potatoes
20/ per bushel, sweet potatoes 10/
per bushel, and other vegetables
80/ ad valorem . The entire abo
lition of these duties will undoubt
edly stimulate American exports
to Canada of all kinds of fresh
vegetables, and no state is better
located to derive advantage from
such an extension of our trade
than is Georgia. Already the
United States sells beyond her
northern border $865,560 worth
anually of vegetables »n their nat
ural state, although the taxes col
lected upon these pales by Canada
amount to $242,000.
Dried fruits are made mutually
free by the agreement. On canned
fruits Canada lowers her duty bv
one-ninth, or from 2 1-4/ to 2/
per pound; on canned vegetables
the rate is lowered by one-sixth,
or from 11 2/ to 1 1-4/ per pound.
Needless to suv, Georgia should;
profit by these consessions.
Georgia’s prominence n 9 a swine
producting state is traditional.
Her hogs exceed m total farm val
ue those of any eastern or south
ern state excepting Texas, their
worth being estimated on January
Ist, 1910, at over $11,500000.
Under the proposed reciprocity
Canada will reduce her duty on
j bacon. Imme, salt pork, and lard
by three eights, or from 2 cents
per pound to 1 l-4c per pound.
In spite of the Canad.an
duties tile United ritases exported
to Canada $8,094,000 worth of
these products during the year
ended March 31, 1910. Os the
$505,000 of duties collected by
Canada on the above consign
ments, she would have remitted
$190,000 if the proposed recipro
city rates had bean in force. From
this it is evidenct at a glance
that the Dominion’s demand for
American hog products is already
broad and decisive, and that the
proposed radical cut in her tariff
rate will give our citizens a large
advantage in a market of demon
strated value. Canada bought hams
and bacon from the United States
during the period indicated above
to a value of $9510,000, and lard to
a value of $1,340,000. In accord
ance with the pending legislation
Canada will also allow live swine
free entry, whereas they are at
present dutiable at 1 l-2c per
pound. The benefits securing to
Georgia from these features of the
agreement require no pointing out.
Canada has agreed to concede
her intermediate rates upon
nursery aud horticultural stock,
taking peach trees and other fruit
trees 2 l-2c each in place of 8c
each, and vines and berry bushes
17 1-2% instead of 20% . These
consessions will be of value to
Georgia nurserymen and growers
of peach tree or vineyard stocks.
Under the proposed arrangement
fish of any kind, fresh, salted, or
preserved in any manner, are to
be mutually free of duty Georgia's
interest in procuring a cheap and
abundant supply of this food
staple may be predicted from the
well-known suitability of fish for
alimentary use in warm climates.
The United States as a whole im
ports nearly $5,000,000 worth of
fish from Canada, this amount
constituting one-tenth of our total
consumption. Our present duties
are f/ or 1/ per pound on the
principal varieties imported from
the Dominion, including dried j
and smoked fish. The sum collect
ed under these rates amounts to
nearly one-half million dollars
annually on Canadian fish. The
removal of these impositions will
tend to render fish less expensive
throughout the entire country.
Georgia’s production of wheat
was valued at $3,550,000, while
the grain used by her flour mills
as long ago as 1904 was worth
nearly double that amouut. It is
thus evident that she is interested
in obtaining wheat and the other
grains to the best advantage.
Under the agreementjwheat and
grains of all kinds are rendered
mutually duty-free. This will
eventually tend to keep down the
price of wheat in the United
States, and will greatly broaden
the sources of supply for Ameri
can millers,
FRANK F. GODDaRD,
Attorney-at-Law,
Public Accountant and Auditor.
Lyons, Ga.
System Installed.
Thoroughly Practical.
No Red Tape-
Audits made for Corporations,
Firms and Individuals.
WE ARE IN THE
Real Estate
BUSINESS.
Ist. For the Benefit of Lyons.
2nd. For the benefit of Toombs |
County.
3rd. For the benefit of ourselves
If you wish to buy a nice Lot in
Lyons, either to improve or for
investment, call on us.
If voa wish to sell your house
or your Lyons property, then come
to see us anyhow, because Mr.
wants to buy it.
If you wish to buy a farm in
Toombs County, let us show you
what we have.
We have newcomers in our office
•v“rv day, wishing to purchase
! i.-md in Toombs County. So if
vou wish to sell your farm or
lands, then list it with us.
Williams Realty to.
Toombs County Bank Bldg.,
Lyons, Ga.
THE LYONS PKOGRESi?. FEBRUARY 24 ull
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March 4th, 1911
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FIRST day thereof, and that the time to place idle money safely at interest is ;;
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;; Four l per cent, and SAFETY for your idle funds is what we offer.
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i; also true that we have never required such notice in the more than SIX
;; YEARS that our Savings Department has been operative, and that our policy
o of keeping a strong Cash Reserve makes a deposit in our Savings Derartment
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invitation to their many friends and customers to y
call around and inspect their new banking rooms* y
The Cashier will take pleasure in going into detail and ex« m
plaining their system of banking, and it matters not how small 7
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treated courteously and made to feel at home.
We cultivate the acquaintance of our customers, and want as \
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better than to call and get acquainted, and tell us who you are,
where you live, what you are doing, etc. We are interested in ■
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President. Vice-President. Cashier. y
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J. J. Moses, J. B. Jones, Jr., H. B. McNatt, ■
W. P. Calhoun, W. E. Beugnot, R. C. Hogan,
W. A. Peterson, J. J. McArthur, W. F. McAllister ■
Fire Insurance.
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