Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-10-04

equipped railroads and steamships en-
! gagged in conveying them to the
markets. Every portion of the North
ern States penetrated by railroads
or visited by water craft, may now enjoy
the semi-trOpical fruits and the early pro-
! ducts of the truck farms of Southern
Georgia and Florida; and already the dis
tributiOn of these products throughout
the North has made the South better
known and appreciated in that section
than she was at any time during her
great era of slaves and cotton.
Her cotton bales were seen only in a
few Northern ports and her slaves existed
in "hearsay" to 100000 of Northern
people, but her early fruits and vegeta-
bles, brought to their doors while their
own fertile soil lies yet buried in snow,
are visible facts now gladdening the
hearts of more than 100000 of people.
The prOdigious increase of the national
population gives promise that this in
dustry will not be greatly Overdone but
that it will continue to grow and be profit
able until all the available lands of the
best located sections for the business shall
have been turned into beautiful gardens
more fruitful and valuable than the
famed ''Hesperides."
The special localities in Southern Geor-
Ma best adapted to the truck farm indus
try are unquestionably the counties on
the seacOast and bordering the Florida
line. Wherever these are penetrated by
railroads or accessible by navigation
truck farms may be located with conf
dence in future profit. Such perishable pro-
ducts must find easy sale and cheap rapid
transportation in order to repay the labor
and expense of production, and taking
these into consideration the seacoast of
Southern Georgia, with its magnificent
islands, presents the most favorable
locality to be found on the South Atlantic.
The islands present the same soil char
acteristics as the mainland, from which
they are separated by an admirably ar
ranged system of narrow straits and in
lets, the latter atfOrding safe inland nayi=S
cation to thousand hooks and corners of
fertile lOwlands, as well as to gentle
slOping beaches, high bluffs, and the forest
studded banks of the deep rivers passing
through them to the sea. To these adyan-
tages must be added the vicinity of the
ports of Savannah, Darien, Brunswick
and st. Mary's, with their railroads and
steamships, ready to convey all produce
safely to market with the greatest dis
patch. The vicinity of savannah has long
been famed for its early garden vegeta-
bles. and enjoying the profits of good
local market as well as the convenience
of cheap transportation abroad, the truck
farm industry has been carried to higher
degree OF perfectlOn IN Cnatnam county
than in any other locality in the State.
But the industry is still in its infancy.
and. large as the profits have been, the
small area under cultivation is out of all
proportion to the extent of territory
and limitless capacity of the soil
and climate to produce. Vast
areas of fertile lands even in the very
neighbOrhOOd Of the populous and well
governed city of Savannah, on the islands
and the mainland, are without cultiva-
tors, covered with forests or rich grasses
and other vegetation, and most of them so
cheap as to be within the reach of every
industrious farmer. To immigrants from
the agricultural districts of Europe they
present the most inviting field to be found
in the South, not only on account OF the
soil, climate and wide range of marketa-
BILE products, but also on account of the
educational facilities, church privileges
and the numerous other social advantages
which 90 to increase the sum of human
happiness.
TRANSPORTATION.
In addition to the means of transporta-
ton afforded Southern Georgia by