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Why Not Augusta, Georgia,
For That Branch Plant or
Distributing Warehouse?
MONEY SAVED ON EVERY CAR LOAD OF FREIGHT
Convincing Facts:
At the head of navigation on the Savannah River, and enjoys
practically port rates.
Steel barges from coast, with railroad connections at Augusta
Wharf.
Warehouses immediate to wharf.
Store door deliveries.
Manufactured products at Augusta shipped into competitors'
territory by reason of water competition in rates.
Nine railroads allow frequent and fast shipment.
30,000 electric horsepower available.
Comparative Rates
From New York via Water and Rail:
1 3 6 A CL
To AUGUSTA
87 75 42 32 39
To ATLANTA
114 86 49 39 47
To ATHENS
114 86 49 39 47
To COLUMBUS
114 86 49 39 47
To BIRMINGHAM 119 90 52 41 51
Canned Goods
Shipments by water to Augusta from New York and other Eastern points average 10 cents per
hundred pounds lower than above given rates.
Barge brings freight into Augusta 10 cents lower per hundred pounds than above rates, averaged
from the East.
Other Interesting Facts:
97 manufacturing concerns, diversified; 6 cotton-seed oil companies, making Augusta second larg
est cotton seed oil market in the world. 13 cotton mills. Augusta is the largest inland cotton market.
Other manufacturing plants consist principally of iron companies, foundries, press-cloth, lumber, flour
mills, bottling, brick, etc. Creamery recently completed.
$350,000 postoffice recently completed.
$500,000 hospitals just completed, rated as high as Johns Hopkins.
$300,000 building completed for St. Joseph's Academy for girls.
100,000 people in hour's ride of city.
Fast schedule to all points.
Three large Tourist Hotels.
Augusta famous for winter resort, climate "Excelling that of the Riviera," is world-renowned.
Golf links without parallel.
Headquarters Ordnance Department United States Government, Department of the Gulf.
Clearing House, seven banks, average clearings of $125,000,000.
Manufacturers and Wholesalers Attention!
Cotton Seed
Products
Twine
Shirts
Pottery
Overalls
Paper
Some manufacturing concerns
Oil Paper Boxes
Hosiery
Automobiles
Farm Machinery
Clothing
And Others
that would pay in Augusta:
Wholesale and Dis
tributing Houses
Needed
Dry Goods
Notions
Shoes
Clothing
Furniture
Automobile Acces
sories
Flour
Sugar
Salt
And Others
Let the Merchants and Manufacturers' Association of Augusta Handle Your Proposition.
Address the Secretary for Additional Information.
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