The Dawson journal., 1885-08-06
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BIG CROPS IN TERRELL.
A Few Words About Immigration
A Big SeaSOn-News Items.
Cor. Americus Recorder29 inst.


Cor. Americas Recorder 90 inst.
The extreme cold weather in
the Northern States. last winter,
and the extreme warm weather in
the Northern cities this summer,
will cause many of the northern
people to seek a more temperate
climate. Georgia being the EN-
pire State of the South, the South
western portion of it the garden
spot Of the State, finer crops be-
ing made in Terrell than ary 9TH
er county, and the unprecedented
improvements now going on in
Dawson, our fine schools, etc. will
cause many Of those people to in
Vestlgate,and, with proper induce
ments on our part, to locate in
our midst. We should offer these
people every encouragement pos
sible to settle among US. We
should divide our large planta-
tons into small farms, and sell
them at reasonable figures to
those wishing to buy, instead Of
pricing our lands SO high that
they will be made unable or un-
wiling to purchase and pass on
to other counties where they will
meet warmer receptions and Sc
cure better bargains. II a man
owns one thousand acres Of land
In Terrell county and would sell
half of it to one or two Northern
farmers, in two years the remain
ing five hundred acres will be
worth more and bring more in the
market than the one thousand
acres would have sold for two
years previous. Those having
residences or stores in the city to
rent or sell should not pop their
prices up, on every little boom
that comes, thereby allowing many
good opportunities to pass which
may never return.
We should offer every induce
ment to good, substantial farmers,
merchants, skilled mechanics, etc,
to settle among US to help US
build up our country.
Farmers who formerly brought
III their wagons empty and carried
them out loaded are now revers-
ing the order of things. They
raise nearly everything they want
on the farm, and what they can
not raise they exchange something
they do raise for it. Nearly eve
ny wagon that came in last week
brought in corn and fodder Of last
years crop, beef, mutton, kid but
ter, eggs, chickens, wool, beeswaxj
honey, melons, fruit, vegetables,
etc. They carried out very little
except bagging and ties and lit
tie salt, sugar and coffe. With
such small needs and such fine
crops we may safely say that our
people and country are in better
condition than they have been for
quarter Of century.
Even our merchants who sell on
time are complaining of dull times
and small sales. They are not
doing half the business they did
last year. [ heard a provision
dealer tell some young farmers
the other day to come in and buy
anything they wanted and as
much as they wanted; that he
would not take a lien or even a
note, but would merely charge tho
goods on his book and they could
come in and pay when they sold
cotton. They bought very spar
ingly, indeed, and at about the US
ual cash prices,
Mr.. Charlie J. Perry, Of Balm
bridge, was in the city yesterday,
aud purchased one the best farms
between here and Weston. Mr..
Perry left here ten or twelve years
ago, and, while he has been doing
we'll elsewhere, he thinks there's
no place like Terrell. He will
move up next winter, and his old
friends will give him hearty
welcome.
A Georgia colored woman just
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