The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-06-04
SEA COAST WISDOM.

tho day is coming with certainty when
the products will be exhausted5 that
it is the part Of wisdom to be looking
for new lines Of export ana imports
as vel: that the country from which
these forests are being swept, due Q
climatic conditions, due to abundance
Of pure water, due to ease Of cultiva
ton Of the soil and quick to enrich
ment; due to freedom from Billiards
which XIII the stock and droutns under
which they perish in other sections;
due to the large number of forage
plants indigenous to or suited to soil
,and climate, as admirably suited 70
many money crops which must find
at our ports access to our countries
and the worlds markets as sugar cane
and its products, syrup and PERHAPS
lsuqar, vegetables Of all kinds, sea IS
Hand cotton. That wealth and inae-
lpendence Of our back country, which
lis south Georgia, means wealth and III
to our ports.
Fruit, especially peaches VIII bear
lexports to foreign countries as has
Ibeen demonstrated by Mr. Hale, of
Fort Valley, with profit to himself,
Ieven through New York after the long
railroad haul to that port.
| That Georgia is admirably adapted
lfor stock growing and fattening The
Ipeople Of the entire world arc rapidly
becoming great meat eaters; that the
increase in live stock III che world
docs not keep pace with the increase
lin population; that meat viii never be
cheaper or the market over supplied
Ithat tho per centage Of loss Of stock
from all causes is less mere thar in
Iany section Of the country that the
markets OF the continent and Of the
limited Kingdom for beef are at our
Iports; that I've sock is a vast source
If wealth TO states which arc compell-
ed to feed cattle through sis to eight
: months Of each year, while one 70 Two
r months Is the extent Of feeding requir
ed here. A steer can be fattened here
. in 70 days while there it requires 100
0 days or more. The sheep growing II
Iprohtable in sections whore It Is nee
Iessary to drive them hundreds OF mil.
es into the mountains Ia quest OF
water during the dry season, while
hero there is ample water in the
springs and streams which never run
dry. That the world needs and will
take at good prices all the mutton and
lamb we can furnish as foed. and all
the wool we can shear; that in our
!, river swampa for hundreds Of miles
are inexhaustable quantities vast va.
: riety of hard woods admirably suited
a to furniture, carriage, wagon ana can
constructions. as yet practically IN
touched: that the islands south Of us
i and Genital and South American ports
!. want our furniture. our carriages and
Wagons and cars. That in addition we
have vast quantities Of live stock, &
I little hard to work, but making beauti
e lful furniture and reproducing its kind
but rapidly, tree growing from
bare sprout in Is to 20 years to tree
LOT IL to l6 inches in diameter Chat
g 1.-The furniture, carriage and car facto
ries car get these hard woods entirely
! by water and largely distribute them
by the same cheapest means Of trans
Iportation.
!. That the ocean is vast storehousa
!. lof fish ana she'll fish food, which a
Vast interior country needs and is
READY to pay for, that men have sue
ceeded and made big money in the
past in this form Of enterprise, whics
needs Only brains ana y moderate in
! yestment Of money
7 That we are nearest TO the We
0 indies islands and South America O
any ports in those Or any other eoun
TRY: that these islands and countries
+ need anything the United States man
ufacturers and many Of The products q
!. her soil and mines That the United
Estates in turn demands and will have
the products OF the Islands and south
" America. whereby we may balance our
trade and have loaded ships retumina
and clearing; that We are not only
nearer by water but by land, are near
or to all points in the interior for al
points for population of l4l00,oo0 Of
e our So,O00,OOo Of population.
That in word this Georgia coast is
/, blessed with manifold advantages over
any section OF the Atlantic or Gull