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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 195
RYE AND VETCH IN GEORGIA—5 FEET HIGH
corn, wheat, oats, hay, peaches, some live stock. Manufactures:
Cotton mills, oil mill, granite quarries, other manufacturing plants.
Average altitude, 750 feet. Average value farm land per acre,
$20.00.
EMANUEL County, 25,000; Swainsboro, 2,000; area, 770 square
miles; taxable property, $4,500,000. Farm products: Cotton,
corn, grain, cane, hay, peaches, grapes, pecans, cows and hogs.
Manufactures: Cotton gins, oil mills, sawmills, turpentine plants.
Average altitude, 300 feet. Average value farm land per acre,
$20.00.
EVANS County, 11,348; Claxton, 1,200; taxable property, $i,-
850,000. Farm products: Corn, cotton, cane, potatoes, oats, hay,
cattle, hogs and sheep. This is one of the newly established
counties and is rapidly growing in prosperity. Average altitude,
350 feet. Average value farm lands per acre, $20.
There were 466 tex
tile mills in Georgia on
December 31, 1915,
having a capital stock
of $48,849,232. The
value of raw material
used in 1915 was $34,-
917,576.48, and the com
bined value of products
was $70,S41,9Z6.81.
There were 2,248,310
spindles in those mills
on December 15, 1915,
of which 2,217,494 were
active at that date.
Of these spindles 11,-
610 consumed cotton
mixed with other fibres.
There were no knitting
mills in I860, but there
were 24 in 1915 with
3,966 knitting machines
and 391 sewing ma
chines. There were
also in the cotton
mills 66 sewing ma
chines, and in all tex
tile mills 43,864 looms.