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A Sketch of the City of Augusta
In 1736, by order of General Oglethorpe
and the trustees of the colony, a town
was laid out and a fort was built com
manding the Savannah river. In 1739
Oglethorpe, on his return from a meet
ing, at Coweta, of Indian chiefs and
fcfraves, visited this fort and, in a letter
written from the King’s fort he dated it
“Fort Augusta,” in Georgia. September
Bth, 1739. Historians tell us. he thus,
complimented a royal princess of Eng
land.
This was the foundation of the Au
gusta of today. It was soon recognized
as an important commercial center and
merchandise was thought in boats from
its seaport. Savannah, and distributed
in wagon through the further South. So
important became this trade, that it was
not an uncommon sight to see Broad
street filled with wagons from border
states; many of them coming hundreds
of miles to trade with this pvosperous
city.
Augusta is also proud that she has
contributed largely to the utilities that
have not only made her famous, but have
contributed much to the wealth and wel
fare of this country and the world.
Augusta is on the eastern edge of
Georgia and is one of the oldest cities
In the southeast and one of the largest
cotton markets in the country. The city
as a winter resort, and has
U of the most delightful climates in
J southeast. It is in a valley just a t
uoot of the sloping hills, formerly
ed with pine and still sparsely cov
with second growth timber. Here
the pine trees, noted for their
k \ giving odors, local and northern
* have erected winter hotels, laid
\\* >lf links and built winter homes
X re kept open about six months of
' i£ Jr when the North is in the throes
V*j|er. Many men of national fame
Ird iln ir winters here.
jgusla now lias modern schools, an
Emy for preparing ooys lor college
|universit.\. a modern college for
I a good street lailway system, large
Is, a cotton exchange where 500,-
Lales of cotton are traded each year;
lern hotels and one of the best gov
d municipalities in the southeast,
fen years ago there was little develop
|t in this vicinity of Augusta, but
[farmers have gone into the rolling
fttor.v near the city, have cleared the
* and engaged in diversified farming
in some sections have changed the
scape into actual garden of produc
ness. Alfalfa being one of the sidc
v The soil here is black-red and
ng, and is suitable for the growing
P'asscs of sii 1 kinds. This has slim
ed the dairy business until dairies
springing up all over the section,
the products are blit a drop in the
•ket in an effort to supply the city
Augusta alone with its milk, cream
butter.
ie successful farnn-r in this section
about four miles from the city, and
c insiders that there are more ad
ges in this section than either in
\ich country around Lancaster and
•r, Pa. Last year he had 100 acres
*n from which he harvested a crop
(,ut 65 bushels to the acre. He
a crop of about 75 bush*
of winter oats to the acre. On March
Ist of this year the oats were about 12
niches high. Most of his oats are sold
as lie works his big farm with but five
' mules
Dairying is his principal business. He
has a held of 100 to 125 cows which are
able to graze throughout most of the
veer. They are fed on ensilage, how
ever, which* is all the product of the
farm.
Industrial Augusta.
The first question that a jobber has to
consider is: where he can produce his
product the cheapest and sell to the best
r advantage. Augusta with her many fac
tories and Vcadv market, extends an open
Invitation to the manufacturers of this
country to consider the advantages of
Augusta, “The Industrial City of the
Scfuth.”
(Augusta as a distributing center is un
ediualed. . The city directory of 1914 in
•ifcates a population of 55.530 an in
crease of 14.49<' over the census of 1910.
'Vlthin the radius of 100 miles of Augus
the poulation exceeds two million peo-
Kugusta is a well governed city. The
■ rate is $1.25 per SIOO.OO, based upon
2-3 per cent valuation. Due to a
fire department. Augusta's
of fire loss is lower than any
tire South, resulting In oorre
■Hing low Insurance rates.
great water power develop
is one of the hugest in the coun-
there remains thousands of
H-power to be developed in this vi
■ The Augusta power canal, nine
■ in length, are daily driving factory
•* w ls to the prosperous tune of 14,000
tlr -power l per day. Tliis power is
-—-at a lower rate than any in the
untry $5.50 per house per annum. At
Is. the water works, produce a net
venue of move than SIOO,OOO annually
I itch pays the interest on the totai
f nded debt as well as the entire salary
Sole Manufacturer T .. ,
“national” i importer dim
Enforced Dil * eCt TILE
Cement IRON
-Guaranteed Water Proof* FENCING 01 all KmdS.
WM. F. BOWE
Manufacturer of
MARBLE AND GRANITE MONUMENTS
CUT STONE CONTRACTOR
Equipped With Electric Saws, Polishers and Pneu
matic Tools.
GENERAL PAVING CONTRACTOR
Bell Phone 1577-J OFFICE
Residence 3123 J. 541 BROAD STREET
list of the city. The Stevens Creek
Power Development Co. has recently
completed a 40,000 horse-power plant
which marks Augusta as the Power
Dynamo of this section.
Augusta has a very low freight rate.
Due to its being a railroad center and at
tlie head of navigation on the Savannah
river. Nine railroads wind their way
into Augusta, and it has just put on a
modern SIOO,OOO barge line to the coast,
where connection is made with the
steamers for New York, Philadelphia,
Bosto ,nand Baltimore. Augusta is con
nected with numerous mill towns by
means of trolley lines.
Industrially Augusta ranks first. In
Augusta, and her immediate suburbs,
there are 13 large and prosperous cot
ton mills, capitalized at approximately
$6,000,000, employing oveV 0,000 hands
and consuming annually many bales of
cotton, converting it into any and all
kinds of high-class goods. Another
famed industry of Augusta is her con
sumption of cotton seed, by the Cotton
Seed Oil Mills, which are not only cap
able, but do make the highest grade of
cotton seed oils and meals. Millions of
gallons of oil and thousands of pounds of
meal are annually produced by home
plants.
Augusta as a lumbering manufacturing
center and market is unexcelled by any
in tile country. Tile forests have long
been noted for the vast variety of tim
bev, wdlieh can lie well adapted for any
wood-working industry.
Augusta manufactures 81,000,000 bricks
annually, which are considered to be the
best in the country, standing a very
high heat pressure. The cement blocks
are also worthy of note.
Among other profitable industries are:
The Flour Mills. Iron Works, Mattress
Factories, Wagon Works, Augusta Brew
ing Co., fProlii) Bottling Works and fee
Manufacturing (along this line it might
be of interest to know that the first ar
tificial ice was manufactured in Au
gusta.)
Taking into consideration the many
advantages Augusta possesses to make
her tlie leading industrial city in Dixie,
and tile inducements she offers, her hos
pitable people, and taking notice of the
manufacturers, who have made a suc
cess here; to tlie man or corporation
that contemplates a southern move
ment, Augusta says to him, "Come, we
will show you, for eventually you wll
come here.”
Woman’s Duty to Herself.
Every woman owes it to herself to
keep in good health. No one can rea
sonably be expected to Maintain a
cheerful disposition when half sick.
Indigestion and constipation are two
of the most common ills to which
women are subject and fortunately
are easily cured. Mrs. H. C. (Jetty,
Indiana, Pa., writes "Last summer I
was advised by a friend to try Cham
berlain's Tablets for Indigestion and
constipation. This medicine not only
cured me of the disorders but toned
up my wnoie system so that my
health haR been better than for years
since taking them.” For sale by all
dealers.
J. P. DOUGHTY, Jr.
COTTON FACTOR
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
Long Distance Phone 2168
Aiken the Queen of Winter Resorts
By J. L. McCarter.
Aiken, South Carolina is a bca
tiful little city of about 4,500 in
habitants and has deservedly be
come the most popular of the
winter resorts of the South. In
regard to its remarkable climate,
Aiken is unequalled by any other
place in the United States.
The City of Aiken occupies the
highest point of land between Char
leston, South Carolina, and Augusta,
Oa_, being five hundred feet above
the level of the sea, and four hundred
feet above Augusta—only seventeen
miles distant, (Jraniteville, only five
and one-half miies away, is three
hundred feet lower than Aiken.
The elevated location- of the city is
sufficient to secure the bracing at
mosphere so grateful to invalids, yet
not to produce ihe discomfort so ofen
experienced by them in greater
heights. The city is noted for the dry
ness and tonic qualities of its clinjate.
Its softness and balminess are most
soothing to throats and lungs, while
its tonic qualities are such as are no
to be found near the coast or in south
ern Georgia or Florida.
PROF. CECIL H. SEIGLER,
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The Popular Superintendent
Aiken County Schools.
THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA.
Aiken is noted for its water supply,
which is supplied from natural springs,
and it is no exaggeration to say that
the city is supplied with wonderfully
pure water. These springs are sit
uated about, six miles from the city,
and the water plant is considered one
of the finest and is most up to date,
the city has spent more than SIOO,OOO
to make this plant what it should
be, and the State Chemist, Dr. Parker,
of Charleston, states that the analysis
indicates a water of exceptional puri
ty. This water is distributed throug.i
FIELDING WALLACE
President and Treasurer
E. L. STELLING
Secretary
PLANTERS COTTON OIL CO.
Manufacturers and Exporters of
Cotton Seed Products
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
the city by an excellent system of
water mains, and is in use in all the
hotels, boarding house, and private
residences.
The city has good sewerage, this
system comprises all of the latest
scientific improvements, and is first
class in every respect.
Aiken is, of course, lighted with
electricity, and the private houses as
well as others are given the best of
service at very reasonable rates.
The educational advantages of the
city are tho best. At their head stands
the Aiken Institute, an institution man
aged by a board of directors, and having
a corps of teachers of high repute. St.
Angela's Academy is known as or.e of
the leading Catholic school of this state.
Aiken has of late years come promi
nently to the front among the winter te
sorts of the South as a pleasure resort,
and by far the greater part of ths
visitors who now come to this beauti
ful little city, come for pleasure only.
AUGUSTA,'
The largest independent Cotton
Seed Oil Mill in the South Atlantic
States. Phone or wire us at our
expense whenever we can serve you.
of which there is an abundance, visitors
seeking recreation find more to occupy
them in Aiken than a goodly number of
other resorts in tlie South. Foremost
among the pleasure resorts here are the
Palmetto Golf Links. They are said to
be the finest south of New- York. This
Is a full eighteen-hole course, many of
the principal events of the golfing sea
son take place here and during the win
ter many crack golfers, not o’y in ihe
United States but other parts of the
world may be seen almost daily going
over the course. In addition to the
above course there is another, the
Highland Park Golf Course, this course
is composed of nine holes.
In various directions from Aiken chere
are good roads leading through attrac
tive bits of forest, and highly cultivated
farms as can be found anywhere, and tlie
county officials are now expending J
large amount of money in addition to an
appropriation of the United States gov
ernment, in improvements on our roads.
There is at the present time a new
tourisi hotel being built and will be
ready for use the coming-season, -his
hotel w'lll be modern in all particulars,
and when completed . will, be pp-to-date
in every respect, in addition to this new
hotel, one will find Wilcox's, the Pal
metto Inn. York House, and numer—.i*
boarding houses ready to care for all.
Aiken can well be called the Queen i f
Winter Resorts.
How To Give Quinine To Children.
FEBRILINE is the trade-mark name
given to an improved Quinine. It is a
Tasteless Syrup, pleasant to take and
does not disturb he stomach. Children
take it and never know it is Quinine.
Also especially adapted to adults who
cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not
nauseate nor cause nervousness nor r ng
ing in the head. Try it the next time
you need Quinine for any purpose. Ask
for 2-ounee original package. The name
FEBRILINE is blown in bottle. 25 cents.
GEORGIA.
MONDAY. JULY Tt.