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Atlanta—Capital City of
Gteorgia—Leads the En
tire South in Bank
Clearings ana Postal
.Receipts.
Capital invested in Man
ufacturing in Atlanta in
1914—$36,096,000.
IO FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
accord with his own ideals. The same freedom of choice exists
to-day in Georgia.
The story of how a retired business man of the West, having
attained a modest competency, found his ideal home in Georgia,
is interesting. Having traveled far and wide in vain search, he
was one of a dining party at a seaside home in California, and
being urged for his reasons why he would not abide among them,
explained that he was looking for a better country, where it was
not "always afternoon," where the summer was not too hot and
the winter was short but bracing; where there were no mos
quitoes and the nights were cool but not chilly. He wanted a
place where he could do something or grow something, and keep
from rusting by mixing work with his play. Living in that coun
try must be cheap, labor plentiful and cheap, good shooting and
fishing to be had, with the conveniences of life, the society of con
genial neighbors, and easy access to the big centers of popula
tion by frequent and rapid train service.
He did not want any lodge in a vast wilderness, and while de
siring plenty of leisure he wanted also some work and something
to achieve. His friends laughed at his Utopian dream, but one
old gentleman quietly informed him that all unconsciously he
had been describing the country, climate and conditions actually
existing in a section of North Georgia. That our idealist found
what he sought, and has been a prosperous and happy planter in
his Dreamland for the ten years since that time, goes without
saying.
It is the purpose of this book to so interest the prospective
settler, investor and developer, in the wide extent and diversity
of Georgia©s resources, that they will look this way, and looking,