New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-26
GEORGIA.
THE RESOURCES OF THE STATE.

THE RESOURCES OF TIE STATE.
ATLANTA, Ga, July 9O.-The State Of Georgia, com
prising an area Of about 900 square miles divided
into three great belts For about 100 miles from the
sea-coast, on the southeast, and from the Florida
line on the SOUTH the country abounds in the best
yellow heart pine timber that be found in the
United States Much of the land in this division s
adapted to the culture of cotton and sugarcane. The
value of such products is too well known TO need any
comment here.
The middle portion of the State, embracing at
least third of the whole area is good for cotton.
corn, wheat, oats, rye and all kinds Of vegetables
and fruits There are numerous water-eourses,
with as fine water-power as can be found anywhere
The upper portion Of tho State abounds not only
in mineral wealth, very imperiectly developed, but
in fertile valleys and productive hill sides where
fine clover and other grasses may be produced as
anywhere in the West, with the proper tillage and
industry. The air of this region is salubriOus and
RbTacingi and the water cold and refreshing.
for manufacturing, not only on account Of
the excellent water-power, but because
the great railroad system of the North, West and
Southwest. In short there is scarcely country on
the earth which combines in such abundance and
variety the resources of mineral, agricultural manu-
featuring and internal commercial wealth. To this
section especially we invite the attention of the
manufacturer and small farmer. The lands can now
be purchased for one-tifth of what they will prOba-
bly, bring five years hence. Now Is the time TO in
vest. to emgrate and build up great aud prosper
Gus community.
But, promising as are the upper and central por.
tions of the State, their prospective value must fall
short Of that Of the pine forests especially when IA
cIlties for shipping lumber and other products pc
culiar to that region afforded. Here the land is
cheaper than in either of the other divisions, simply
because few successful efforts have been made by
persons of adequate means To develop the bOundless
sources OF wealth which 1t contains The lands in
this section now so cheap, will in less than twenty
years, exceed by twenty-fOld their present value.
Had capitalists twenty years ago imagined that real
estate on Manhattan Long, Staten and other islands
In the vicinity of New-York would have reached its
present value what fortunes would they have made
1t was the same way in Southwestern Georgia,
when whole lots Of land could have been bought
Tor 500 which cannot now DO purchased for
$OO IL VIII be the case In less than twenty years
IN South Eastern Georgia Now is the time for the or
gaplzation OF company TO buy up these lands pro-
vide machinery for cutting up the timber gathering
ana dlstllllng the turpentine and producing rosie
pitch and tar. This whole region Is traversed by
broad streams and railroads. Savannah, Darien,
brunswick and ST. Marys furnish fine points for ship
ping at convenient intervals. and AT the mouths Of
rivers Gown winch Timber may be flOated-n unmea as
urea abundance. brunswick has the finest harbOf
south of Norfolk, and is destined TO become an i'm
portant commercial port, The Airline Railroad from
Macon 10 that point is now rapidly verging 10 COM
pleti0nt which Will bring Ii In direct communication
with all the great th0roughfares toward the West
ana south West while It's present railroad connection
Win the savannah Albany and Gulf Road brings it
and far South.
Besides this, mere glance at the map viii show
that the extension OF the Airline Road via Macon to
some OF the great Pacific lines of railroad will shorten
tne usIance from ocean TO at least 800 miles.
NOW Is the time for men who have only fifties and
hunuieuS VI thousands to become muionairos before