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Tifton, Georgia
The cleanest city in the South.'
Offers unexcelled opportunities for those seeking
homes where surroundings are moral, cultured and
refined.
HAS
Paved streets.
Complete sewer system.
Graded Public Schools; near $100,000 invested in
school buildings and equipment.
Six churches.
Public Library and Woman's Club.
Cotton compress, two cotton ginneries,
tory 3,000 spindles, cottonseed oil plant.
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Saw mills and planing mills, two fertilizer plants,
$100,000 acidulating plant.
Farm machinery manufacturing plant, wagon and
buggy factory.
Never allowed the sale of intoxicating liquors since
it was incorporated as a town.
Has spent this year $76,000 for municipal improve
ments; built a $50,000 bank building; installed auto-
equipped paid fire department; built $25,000 Union
Passenger Station ; installed White Way and completed
paving on business streets ; spent $25,000 for waterworks improvements and $30,000
for new High School building.
Is building this year $150.000 meat packing plant ; $30,000 feed and grain mill ; a
peanut oil mill and a $25,000 ice and power plant.
TIFT COUNTY.
Has $250,000 invested in schools.
Has twenty-two miles of the National Highway.
Has 125,000 acres of land for the homeseeker.
Has the Second District Agricultural and Mechanical School. >
Has a modern system of graded roads.
Has the finest trucking and farming land in the South.
Has so many railroads that no man lives five miles distant from one.
Has a rural free delivery mail route to nearly every home.
Has a telephone line to every community, with direct connection to the county site,
Has a modern school building in every district.
Has a private desk for every white child of school age.
Has five of the standard schools of the state.
Has sanitary equipment for every school building and surroundings which elevate.
Is the home of the "Tifton Loam."
Tifton is the county seat of Tift County, in the heart of the wiregrass section of South Geor
gia, on the great watershed between the Flint and Oemulgee Elvers; is 340 feet above sea
level, the home of "The Tifton Loam" soil, named by the Government Soil Survey of 1909, and
especially recommended for the growing of all crops common to the South, also alfalfa, pecans,
sugar-cane, vegetables, fruits, — including peaches, small fruits, and berries, and for live stock
raising.
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