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great facts are
REVEALED IN MOST
VALUABLE BOOK
State Put Forward in Cold
Figures Which Defy Contra
diction and Prove' Heal Value
to the Nation
“Georgia Facts,” the new booklet
issued by the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce, reveals the “inside” of
Georgia’s resources as no other
means lias done for the past fifty
years. This booklet, compiled by
William Parkhurst, contains a boil
down of facts on the state which is
very valuable.
As a result of the investigations
made in compiling material for this
book the standing of Georgia among
■her sister states of the nnion is shown
to be remarkable. The following in
erestmg facts will be of general in
terest :
Small Swamp Lands.
Out of 59,475 square miles of land
in Georgia, only 540 square miles are
covered by water. Georgia has 7,536
miles of railroads. The financial con
dition of the state is shown to be
splendid, as the total resources of the
-60" state banks show an increase in
<1913 over 1912 of $5,693,000. The in
dividual deposits in the state banks,
on January 1, 1914, were $91,441,535,
and in the national banks were $53,
iC33,989, a total of $145,000,000. The
total amount invested in capital stock
of financial and commercial, public
-service, industrial and manufacturing
mercantile and miscellaneous corpo
rations, is $485,593,826. Adding to
this the capital stock of the 693 state
hanks in Georgia, $28,895,5141, and of
the national banks in Georgia, $529.-
T 57.839, invested in all Georgia corpo
rations.
Good Farming Climate.
Showing how easily farming is car
tied on within the state, Georgia has
an average of 235 gowing days each
year, while, for instance, Ohio nas
only 165 growing days.
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General Contractors
324 Telfair Street. Phone 293-J.
i estimated -total value of farm
lands and buildings, implements and
and live stock, in 1913 is
3>620,000,000, whereas in 1880 this to
tal was only $143,158,308, Georgia
y™jJ ucts brought to the state in
1913 $360,000,000, whereas in 1880
oon m rK[ od " cts brought only $67,028,-
S-J. The in Georgia for 1913
tor coton, corn, oats anvl hay over and
*J b °Ve 1912, is estimated to be $47.-
611,000, and the. total estimated value
of Georgia agricultural' products for
1913 is shown to be $332,000,000.
The value of crude cottonseed prod
uts has grown from $1,670,196 in 1890
to over $19,000,000 in 1913.
Tobacco Profitable.
The total value of the Georgia to
bacco crop grew front $149,000 in 1912
to $.558,000 in 1913. The estimated
value of the peanut crop for 1913 is
$2,250,000. The estimated value of
sugar cane products is over $2,500,000
as compared to $1,481,000, in 1599.
The acreage planted to pecans now
represents a value of $12,500,000 an l
the annual nut production is almost
250,000 pounds.
Tne mineral products of Georgia
were valued in 1913 at $6,400,000, as
against $5,980,000 in 1905.
Georgia now has over 5,000 facto
ries and their total production in 1912
was $202,863,000. The lumber indus
try in Georgia, employs 22,000 men in
over 1,800 saw mills, and the value of
the lumber products is $24,632,000.
The value of naval stores products
amounts to $6,938,957.
School Values.
The value of public school property
in Georgia is nearly $13,000,000. In
the state are universities, colleges,
and technical schools to the number
of 18; of theology, law and medicine
15; nursing, commercial and manual
training, 44, and 11 district agricultu
ral schools. There are 21 public li
braries in the state, representing an
aggregate investment of more than
$700,000.
Georgia leads all southern states in
the number of automobiles owned,
there being registered, up to the mid
dle of 1913, 20,078 cars, whereas, one
year previously, there were 14,000
cars. Georgians own nearly twice as
many automobiles as any other state
in the South.
There are 90,189 telephones in use
in Georgia, and of these 15,458 are
farmers’ line stations.
INDUSTRIAL AGENT
SEES PROSPERITY
After a trip of inspection through
the southern section of the state, Sam
W. Westbrook, land and Industrial
agent for the Georgia and Florida
Railway, recently predicted good crops
and a generally prosperous season for
the farmers of South Georgia.
“From Keysvllle to Valdosta,” he
said, "the cotton crop is certainly
above the average, and, in fact, is the
best I ever saw. Corn, too, is prom
ising a good yield, and the watermelon
movement is heavy from Madison, Fla.,
to Swainsboro, Ga. The mild weather
in the North has hurt the price ot
watermelons this season. Today, how
ever the price was better and 1 be
lieve the season will wind up all right.”
In Coffee county, said Mr. West
brook, there are 10,000 acres in cul
tivation this year over the acreage of
last year, and not 25 per cent of the
wooded lands are left in Emanuel
county. He stated that, following a
visit from homeseekers’ representa
tives from the North, it is expected
that at least 100 new families will set
tle in Coffee county and take up land
there by Sept 1.
Mr. Westbrook declared that toma
toes have been made a valuable crop
around Uvalda, in Montgomery coun
ty, and that a great many carloads will
be shipped from that section within
the next few days. They are of a
tine quality, he said, and of large size.
"Along the Georgia and Florida
Railway,” said Mr. Westbrook, “the
prospects for a big fall business this
year are the brightest in the history
of the road.”
A set of aluminum cooking utensils
with an interchangeable handle for
all easily kept cool, has been patent
ed by a New Yorker.
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of our business,
material, workman
ship; and our suc
cess is due to our
strict adherence to
this policy.
Personal super
vision, given every
job; no matter how
large or small it
may be.
WHITNEY-EVE COMPANY, AUGUSTA, GA.
Phone 1316. 1033 Broad Street
ELECTRIC WORK OF THE BETTER SORT
JOHN J. EVANS
The Big Hardware House
749-751 Broad Street. ■ - Augusta, Georgia
‘Must Between Augusta’s Skyscrapers”
Wholesale Hardware
of Every Description.
“This firm has for years furnished me with Hard
ware used in many of my most important buildings
and have always been very satisfactory in all my
dealings with them/’
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