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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA 67
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"Our soil and climate are so varied that we can produce all the
grains, fruits, vegetables and fibres known to the Temperate Zone
and some known to the semi-tropics. And to crown all these we
have water power that can be made to generate perhaps as much
as sixty million horse-power."
While Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, in making
the above statement in his annual report for 1915, referred to the
United States as a whole, he might have made it with equal truth
of the State of Georgia alone, excepting only the figures indicat
ing the horse-power that can be generated from the water courses,
which, in Georgia, are not less than 1,000,000.
It is indeed singular that Georgia, the one State in the Union
that can probably grow every crop that can be grown in all states,
has been enslaved so long by one crop alone, and that one indi
genous to only a few states. Strangely, too, this one is not a
food crop. Cotton has brought heaps of money to Georgia, and
will naturally continue to be the State©s chief source of wealth,
but that money has heretofore gone out again to pay the farmers
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