Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-03-27
DOOLYSs MAGNIFICENT SHOWING
BY PROF. WIN. P. FLEMING.

Charlton, Clinch, Dawson, Echols, Emng-
ham, Fulton, Habersham, Liberty, Lump
kin. Murray, Pickens, Pierce, Telfair,
Ware, Wayne and White. This signid-
canoe of this statement is emphasized by
the fact that the combined areas of these
counties is more than u times the area
of Dooly. 1t will be observed that Of these
IS counties, eight are in north Georgia
and 10 are in south Georgia-showing that
Dooly's precedence is not matter Of Sec
tional favoritism.
It is also true that Dooly produced 1,1Ss
500 pound bales of cotton more than her
four neighbor counties combined: Irwin,
Coffee, Colquit, and Brooks-although the
combined areas Of those four counties is
more than four times that OF Dolly. 1t
will be observed that when the COMPARE
son is confined to counties in South Geor-
gia, the showing is not so overwhelmingly
favorable to Dooly, which speaks badly
for North Georgia.
Now. If the health conditions here are
so good and other conditions so favorable,
1t would appear that people would avail
themselves of these advantages and that
the tide of population would be in this
direction. Such has been and is the case.
The increase of population in the state
since 1890 has been 32S per cent; the in
crease in Dooly county since the same
date has been liza per cent. The rate of
increase in the state during the last 10
years, has been 20.6 per cent; that in
Dooly county has been 46.4 per cent. Ac-
cording to the last census the largest per-
centages of increase were shown by the
following counties: Colquitt, Irwin. TAFT
nall. Laurens, Johnson, Worth, Telfair,
Berrien and Montgomery. 1t happens that
all these counties are in South Georgia
and that Dooly is in the midst of them.
On the other hand, the census reveals
that OF the 1871 counties In the state. nine
had decreased in population during the
last decade. 1t happens that these nine are
in North Georgia-the one nearest to Cor
dele being about one hundred miles to-
ward the north, as the crow flies. Dooly,
Wilcox. Worth and Irwin are adjoining
counties and their average increase, dur
ing the last ten years. has been 81 per
cent, as compared with 20.6 per cent for
the state-the ratio being more than to
in favor of this immediate section. Dooly,
together with the eight counties that
bound it. made an average increase during
the last ten years of 29.4 per cent--showing
9 per cent above the average of the state
and a large per cent in favor OF Dooly as
compared with some Of her immediate
neighbor counties. The average increase
in the 60 counties on and south of an
east and west line passing through Bibb
was 29.5 per cent-showing Enthusiastically
that North Georgia's loss has been South
Georgia's gain. Since the ten years in
crease in Dooly was 1914 per cent and
that in all South Georgia was POS per cent,
ii is evident that Dooly has been regarded
by the incoming people as offering supe-
rior inducements to those offered by most
other South Georgia counties.
This county is sometimes referred to as
"the State Of Dooly." because of it's size
The impression prevails with some of our
friends who live even within a few hours
Journey toward the north, that Dooly is
sparsely settled by pale-peop1e-on-the-po
tato-diet. Not so. The average number of
people to the square mile in Georgia is 37.5
This is also the average in Dolly county.
The average population of the counties
in Georgia is 1911; the population of Doc
iy is 26,567-64 per cent above the average,
and there are II counties in Georgia each
of which Is very much larger than Dolly
eight of which have an average of 30 per
cent greater area each than has Dolly.
Our friends among the hills and gullies
are sadly deluded who fancy that Dooly
county is a vast expanse of miasma-
breeding marshes. The soil is not course
white sand that groans to grow a sprig
of wiregrass. The fields are not in con-
slant upheaval by burrowing salamanders.
Reliable citizens of the county would, 1 be-
lieve, make affidavit that they have not
seen a horned malarial germ since the
war.
Time was, Indeed, when "Dooly" was
by-word-when to tell a man to Ego to
Dolly was, to say the least, suggestive
of pyrotechnics and, in no way. to be in
terpreted as evidencing affectionate inter-
est. That time Is past-long past,