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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA ii
see and be satisfied, that here can be found their own Utopia,
the land of their dreams, "Where peace and plenty cheer the
laborer©s rest."
Georgia beckons also to its own wanderers. The home folks are
beginning to raise enough fatted calves to provide feasts for the
whole army of prodigal sons and daughters, and the ©possums
are fat and saucy and lay low on the branches. Georgia©s bosom
is warm and broad and her arms are extended wide in cordial
invitation.
The man who wants twenty-five or fifty acres of such land as
Georgia offers would have to pay for it in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas,
Nebraska, or almost anywhere in the middle west, from $100 to
$200 an acre. He can not only get the same land in Georgia at
from $30 to $40 an acre, but he gets along with it a climate and
a soil that enables him to make at least two, -ind sometimes three,
crops in a single year, where in the colder and more severe climates
of the north and middle west he can make but one.
When this fact becomes generally known there is no question
whatever that Georgia farm values will experience a greater spurt
than they have yet shown in all the history of their recent rapid
advance. This information is being gradually spread, and it is
that which, as much as anything else, is preserving and increasing
Georgia farm values at a time when other real estate is at a com
parative standstill.
Atlanta Skyline 1916
Hub of 'New Industrial
South—Oner 500 manit-
facturing plants
Value of manufactured
products of Atlanta in
1914 given by V. 8. Cen
sus at $41,313,000.