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Here©s Georgia! LIBRARIES - the Digital Library of Georgia

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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 203<br />

HEREFORD BULL, E. E. MACK, THOMAS COUNTY<br />

Average altitude, 125 feet. Average value farm land per acre,<br />

$20.00.<br />

MORGAN County, 20,000; Madison, 2,500; area, 272 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $4,500,000. Farm products: Cotton,<br />

corn, hay, grain, live stock small. Manufactures: Cotton mill,<br />

oil mill, fertilizer plant. Average altitude, 700 feet. Average<br />

value land per acre, $20, some as high as $100.<br />

MURRAY County, 9,763; Chatsworth, 700; area, 352 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $2,029,620. Farm products: Cotton,<br />

corn, oats, hay, apples, peaches, pears, grapes, cattle and hogs.<br />

Manufactures: Lumber, excelsior, flour mills. Talc and gold.<br />

Average altitude, 1,700 feet. Average value farm land per<br />

acre, $25.<br />

MUSCOGEE County, 36,227; Columbus, 20,554; area, 255 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $24,748,559. Farm products: Cotton,<br />

grain, hay, vegetables, dairy products, poultry, eggs, peaches,<br />

value <strong>of</strong> live stock, poultry and bees $325,000. Manufactures:<br />

103 plants, including textile, fertilizer, foundries, agricultural<br />

implements, hydro-electric powers, etc. Over 200 different arti<br />

cles manufactured. Investment approximately $10,000,000. Aver<br />

age altitude, 262 feet. Average value farm land per acre, $20.<br />

A two million, dollar<br />

cattle ranch corporation<br />

has begun operations in<br />

South (teorgia. Their<br />

land embraces 180,000<br />

acres in Mclntosh and<br />

Bryan Counties, fifty-<br />

one miles from Savan<br />

nah. Two thousand<br />

head <strong>of</strong> cattle and four<br />

hundred sheep have al<br />

ready been purchased<br />

and more added daily.<br />

Four pastures <strong>of</strong> 15,000<br />

acres each are already<br />

fenced <strong>of</strong>f, requiring 105<br />

miles <strong>of</strong> fence wire.<br />

. Silos are being con<br />

structed, artesian wells<br />

sunk, and more lands<br />

are being cleared. It is<br />

a gigantic enterprise,<br />

and indicates <strong>the</strong> thor<br />

ough confidence <strong>of</strong> big<br />

capitalists in <strong>the</strong> future<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Georgia</strong> as a meat<br />

producing State.

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