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FIE AT? ST’S SUNDAY A.UKKIUAN, ATLANTA. (1 A., SUNDAY, DEUEMBET?
The following data covering the last eight years’ growth of Cor dele and Crisp County, Georgia, is the most convincing
testimony that could he presented for the consideration of Investors and Manufacturers of all hinds, and eloquently attests
to the abundant resources and overwhelming advantage<s of that section of Georgia. We commend this article to our rcirdms
as deserving their most careful attention.—THE EDITOR.
Crisp County Court House,
Cordele, Ga.
Carnegie Library,
Cordele, Ga.
Read Here the Result of EIGHT
YEARS Progress in Cordele, Ga.
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Population . . . 3987 8104 100 perce
Bank Clearings . $25,000,000 $85,Q00,000 265 per ce
Total business for year $8,948,240 $33,413,878 270 per ce
Taxable City Property $1,000,000 $3,455,816 298 per ce
An average increase generally of over 230 per cent
Would you, Mr. Investor, consider an investment that enhanced in value 230
per cent in eight years a good one?
Would you,Mr.Prospective Farmer,consider land that would raise ALL of the
crops that can oe raised in every other section of the United States good land?
Would you, Mr. Raiser of Cattle, Hogs and Sheep, consider a country a good one
if you KNEW that your stock could run in the open the entire year, keep fat on
the natural grasses, and be raised with better results than elsewhere?
Would you, Mr. Manufacturer, overlook a city that will offer you advantages
due to a geographical position which permits of a more economical distribution of
your product throughout the most flourishing section of the South? Can you afford
to leave Cordele out of your plans for your new Factory?
WE WANT
M-O-R-E
Over $7,000,000 worth
of manufacturing here
in the last eleven
months.
A comfortable HOME costs one-half of what it costs to build elsewhere, owing to the
wonderful timber tracts adjacent to the city, and enormous mills located here.
A CLIMATE of mild winters and pleasant summers is offered, and there is NOT A
MONTH IN THE YEAR THAT SOMETHING CAN NOT BE GROWING ON THE
FARMS in Crisp County.
The Winter Climate offers all of the advantages of Florida at less expense.
For SPORTSMEN this section provides hunting and fishing of a kind that can not be found at
the usual Southern Winter Resorts, and there are COMFORTABLE HOTELS that will afford the
visitor, delightful quarters during their stay, at reasonable rates.
The PUBLIC SCHOOLS are conducted along the most advanced lines and the buildings are of
the most modern construction with spacious grounds adjoining.
The PUBLIC ROADS are maintained in excellent condition and Crisp County is unusually
advanced in this respect, having recognized several years ago the importance of GOOD ROADS
to a community.
City School Building, Cordele.
The BANKS of Corde le, six in number, offer
unexcelled facilities for the business man, and the
depression of 1907 was not felt in this section,
which in itself* is proof of the general excellence of
conditions existing here.
The First of a Series of Bulletins
This is the first of a series of Bulletins covering CORDELE that will ap-
pear in this paper during the next few months, and they are being financed by
the Business Men and Manufacturers of Cordele, who are seeking the IN
VESTOR, HOMESEEKER and MANUFACTURER everywhere, and desire an
oDDortunity to PROVE that CORDELE offers more at the present time than
Churches
There are no finer
CHURCHES in the
South than those lo
cated in Cordele, and
they are in the hands of
eminent divines and of
all denominations.
Citizens
The citizenship are
substantial, progressive
and sincere men. Busi
ness men, professional
men and modern farm
ers who desire strangers
to consider their coun
try and the advantages
that are to be found in
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CORDELE, GEORGIA
Write to
Over $350.000 invested at present in building operations now in progress.
$100,000 recently appropriated by the city for additional paving of streets and
White Way.
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36 hours from New
York, and 30 hours
from Chicago.
On the National High
way from New York to
Florida.
Within five hours of
the Atlantic Seaports
of the South.
$8,000,000 worth of
COTTON marketed
here, to date, for the
year of 1913.