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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.