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Among the foothills of
North Georgia, in Hao-
erstiam County, in what
is known, as Y on all
Land, along the main
line of the Southern
Railway, near Baldwin
and Alto, there is a com
munity of Northern
families, who have
found the homes of
their dreams. They
are peach enthusiasts,
among other things, and
having spent their ear
lier lives in commercial
and professional pur
suits in New York, Chi
cago, Winnepeg, Toron
to, or London, now de
rive Sotft. pleasure ana
profit from growing the
fruit of fruits in Geor
gia. Ideal homes are
theirs—the social life of
country and golf club,
the comradeship o f
friends and associates,
with all the outdoor
freedom and health most
desired by city folks.
FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
GOOD COUNTRY ROAD, TIFT COUNTY
rich limestone valleys and wooded peaks and ridges. The coast,
as the proverbial crow might fly, extends for about a hundred
miles, but in straight lines, touching a-mile-apart points of the
main land, it is 160 miles. Numerous islands, tropically luxuriant
in vegetation, provide a labyrinth of facinating waterways, and
bays and harbors abound. Savannah, Brunswick and St. Marys
are the chief ports.
Fish and Game in Okefinokee
Of the State©s 59,475 square miles of area, only 540 are what
can be termed "under water." The historic Okefinokee Swamp,
in the southeast corner of the State, where the St. Marys and the
song-famed Suwanee rivers have their source, one flowing into,
the Atlantic and the other into the Gulf of Mexico, thereby
making an island, as it were, of the State of Florida, accounts
for nearly all this submerged area. In this vast marsh are several
lakes and fair sized islands, and considerable timber of various
kinds, which is being cut and marketed by the lumber company
that owns it. As the swamp is generally from 112 to 125 feet
above the sea level and not far from the coast, the present genera-