The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-03
In Praise of Worth County.

. ,-~ieultural Editor Morning News: Why
III see no more mention made in your
II ,loultural department of the advantages
~ nj the south than appears there. 1
NJ confident a paper like yours must
40 a great number of readers among
.-+barn and western people, and has in
- among those who are to US the
~,s- desirable of citizens. 1 am by birth
Worth Carolinian, who has Travelled for
i .,rs through all the southern states, and
ave repeatedly visited a great number
q u The most progressive western states. 1
ssre lived in nine different southern states
I'd in from two to eight different sections
8 n each of these nine states and have
s-sr deliberate study of the advantages
m disadvantages of each, bought and
-s-fled for life in what l think the Eden
a n tha south-the EldoradO of the world
\, Sylvester. Worth county, Georgia.
#uere extreme drOughtS, cold or heat are
EmknoUn. Good health is our passport.
|pre freestOne water a Gods blessing,
Ind peaceable, hospitable citizenship as
|lommon as the sweet. healthtul, fragrant
8aroma of the southern yellow pine. This
Il NOT the fiat or low malarial section that
Il s often pictured in the minds of northern
md western brethren, as a place only ut
|tor water mOccasins ana alhgators, but Is
la high rolling section surrounded on all
.sdes by high red clay hills and springs
II never ceasing flow We are never ours
i II with the long damaging droughts and
Billiards of the west. Never punished by
hong winters of the north and never af-
ti-ted with the baking rays of a Florida
Sun / do not claim we have haven of
Eternal rest from labor, home where
plenty flows into opened grasps of indo-
/ Hence and drOne, but a home for thousands
|of citizens willing and ready to live by
rhe sweat of their brow-where industry
and honesty meet their just compensa-
lions and liberal rewards. Ours is the cen
her of the peach, sugar cane and vegetable
|belt of the south. Here each of the above,
land in fact, even the apple grows and
Hoes remarkably well. We are situated
'on line of Plant system Oh. and w. rail-
|r0ad diVision,) 20 miles from Albany with
Bis 5000 inhabitants and q miles from Tiff
hon, with its l,500 inhabitants, and 80 miles
|Of Fitzgerald, the new &c. A. r" town
|tthat has only been settled for a few
|mOnths), and now number 1900 of the
nOrth and vests most desirable citizens.
[HeUe at Sylvester a mans religion, poll
|tics or section is never asked. 1t is the
|ciuzen as he is, at his true worth and
.hOnOr that is looked after. We fully ap-
brecate and acknowledge this to be a free
|bnd Independent country, where a man is
privileged to act according to his own con-
Science. Any product that can be grown
E0uth Of Mason and DiXon'S line" can
be grown with success here. Many pro-
fuCts that are grown with only medium
success further north or south produce
twonderfully successful crop here. Our
tand, health and nearness to good markets
pre- unsurpassed. Our citizenship has few
EQUALS and no superiors. Our schools are
4 rst-class What more can prospectors
tElsh? My advice is to those wishing new
BONES is to visit and investigate the adj
fantages this immediate and near section
|ners We have no land to give away,
.ant want no drones. Good land an be
bought here from IS per acre up, accord
4 ng to location, etc. John 5. Clemens,
Sylvester Ga