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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 209<br />

TURNER County, 12,175; Ashburn, 2,400; area, square miles,<br />

326; taxable property, $3,137,155. Farm products: Corn, wheat,<br />

cotton, oats, hay, rye, potatoes, sugarcane, peaches, apples, plums,<br />

berries, and o<strong>the</strong>r fruits, melons. Manufactures: Lumber, tur<br />

pentine, cotton seed oil and o<strong>the</strong>rs. Average altitude, 300 feet.<br />

Average value farm land per acre, $15.<br />

TWIGGS County, 10,736; Jeffersonville, 1,000; area, 423 square<br />

miles; amount <strong>of</strong> taxable property, $1,633,556. Farm products:<br />

Corn, cotton, oats, wheat, hay, cane, rye, apples, peaches, pecans,<br />

live stock, including cattle, goats, hogs, horses, mules. Manu<br />

factures: Lumber, refining clay, kaolin. Average altitude, 470<br />

feet. Average value land per acre, $12.<br />

UNION County, 8,000; Blairsville, 200; taxable property, $i,-<br />

000,000. Farm products: Corn, wheat, oats, rye, truck, applies,<br />

peaches, grapes, live stock, including sheep. Average altitude,<br />

2,000 feet. Average value land per acre, $10.<br />

UPSON County, 12,757; Thomaston, 1,645; taxable property,<br />

$37023,019. Farm products: Corn, cotton, hay, grain, peaches,<br />

pecans, live stock. Manufactures: Cotton mills and cotton seed<br />

products, iron, mica. Average altitude, 700 feet. Average value<br />

<strong>of</strong> land per acre, $20.<br />

WALKER County, 19,564; LaFayette, 2,160; area, 432 square<br />

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

corn, grain, hay, potatoes, fruits and nuts, large number horses,<br />

mules, swine, cattle, sheep. Manufactures: Three cotton mills,<br />

tiling, tinnery, woolen mill, and o<strong>the</strong>r plants; coal mines, iron ore<br />

and bauxite. Average altitude, 2,000 feet. Average value farm<br />

land per acre, $25.<br />

WALTON County, 28,000; Monroe, 4,000; area, 366 square<br />

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

corn. Manufactures: Three cotton mills, five oil mills, five fer<br />

tilizer plants. Average altitude, 825 feet. Average value farm<br />

land per acre, $35.<br />

WARE County, 27,665; Waycross, 18,134; area, 804 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $7,641,231. Farm products: Corn, oats,<br />

potatoes, cane, tobacco, hay, cotton, truck, live stock, 16,000 head<br />

<strong>of</strong> cattle, 20,000 swine, sheep, horses, mules, goats, etc. Manu<br />

factures: 21 plants, capital invested, $250,000; products valued,<br />

$1,600,000. Average altitude, 137 feet. Average value land per<br />

acre, $7.50.<br />

WARREN County, 11,463; Warrenton, 1,300; area, 271 square<br />

miles; taxable property, $1,753,709. Farm products: Cotton,<br />

corn, oats, peas, potatoes, peaches, pecans, live stock. Average<br />

altitude, 500 feet. Average value farm land per acre, $15.<br />

WASHINGTON County, 30,174; Sandersville, 2,830; area, square<br />

miles, 680; taxable property, $4,936,006. Farm products: Cot-<br />

At one time St. Si<br />

mon's Island, which lies<br />

<strong>of</strong>f <strong>the</strong> coast <strong>of</strong> <strong>Georgia</strong><br />

near Briinswick, was<br />

extensively cultivated.<br />

Old inhabitants say that<br />

years ago so -much land<br />

was under cultivation<br />

that pine wood had to<br />

tie shipped from <strong>the</strong><br />

mainland. Sea Island<br />

cotton was <strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong><br />

principal crop. Gradu<br />

ally <strong>the</strong> fields were<br />

abandoned and grew up<br />

to live oaks and pines.<br />

A-t <strong>the</strong> present time<br />

<strong>the</strong>re is not even a cot<br />

ton gin on <strong>the</strong> island,<br />

although it contains<br />

over 60,000 acres.<br />

Such an opportunity,<br />

in comparative Isolation<br />

from boll weevil condi<br />

tions, to again grow Sea<br />

Island cotton <strong>the</strong>re, will<br />

not long remain un<br />

noticed.

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