Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1907-07-21
SUMTER AND AMERICUS
DEPICTED AT LENGTH
County and Town Alike
Illustrated
BOOKLET ISSUED BY SEAB0ARD
Will Be Made Most Attractive and
COmprehenSiYe--Sumter is Thus
Specially Favored By the
SedbOdrd.
BOOKLET ISSUED BY SEABOARD

Inside of a month the pamphlet
dealing with the business, agricultural
and industrial conditions of Sumter
county and of Americas, and with
the opportunities offered here along
these lines, will be issued and ready
for distribution
The handsome booklet will contain
from 80 to 40 pages, outside of til :
cover. 1t will probably be a forty
page book, with a heavy illustrated
and specially designed cover that
will be a very attractive fronts page
TO the readable and valuable con
tents within.
Fifteen thousand copies of the
pamphlet will be printed. OF these
ten thousand will be reserved by
the land and industrial department of
the Seaboard Air Line Railway,
under whose auspices the work of
compiling and publishing is being
done This department will use the
pamphlets to the best advantage, dis
tributing them throughout the en-
tire country wherever there is a
party thinking of coming to this sec
ton to locate either as a farmer, d
business man, a manufacturer, Or as
a mechanic.
The land and industrial department
makes it its business to get in touch
with men who contemplate locating
in the South and endeavoring to get
them to establish themselves in the
territory traversed by the Sea-
board
Great Benefits Should Follow.
Sumter county and Americas offer
so many magnificent opportunities,
and these opportunities will be set
forth to such advantage in the PAM
phlet now approaching completion
that it is inevitable that in the next
few years direct and lasting bentt fits
will be derived from tdc little book.
The Americas Board of Trade
takes 1900 copies Of tho pamphlet
and the City of Americas 900 The
other $500 are being placed among
business men. Only abOnr 400 re-
main to be placed, and this VIII IN
doubtedly be easily done during the
next few days.
1t was through the Americas liOal d
of Trade that the Seaooard was in
duced to send it's special representa-
tives, Messrs. T. K. Bates aud L. M
Spiller, to Americas. 1t had not
been the intention to take hold Of
any of hte smaller cities in this plb-
licity campaign, but to issue a pam
phlet as to Savannah and its al
yantages, and also pamphlets dealing
with Montgomery, Ala, Atlanta Go.
and perhaps two or three other large
cities.
When the matter was put up to
the Industrial Department by the
Board of Trade the justice of in
Guiding Americas and Sumter coun-
ty was at once appreciated. The
fact that the pamphlet is being issued
devoted entirely to this city and coun-
ty, is entirely due to hte progressive
attitude assumed by the Americas
Board of Trade.
The pamphlet will be as complete
as it is possible to make it, 1t is not
a question of crowding a lot of i'll
digested matter into a few pages as
possible
1t is the intention of those who
have the matter in charge to give a
very comprehensive review of the city
and county from every standpoint and
if it takes fifty pages to do it the
pamphlet will have fifty pages.
Special photographs have been made
of number of buildings, residences
and factories, included, farm scenes,
etc. Other photographs already in
existence have ben secured.
In all about seventy-five illustra-
tons will enable the stranger to
come to pretty definite conclusion
as to what kind of a city Americas
is, and what kind of county Sum
ter is.
Covered Americas Thoroughly.
In dealing with Americas Mr..
Bates has covered its finances, its
postal service, it's transportation and
banking facilities, its highways, its
health, its water supply, its resi-
dences, its municipal government, it's
schools, churches, secret societies and
clubs, its general business, its indus
tries, its taxes, its possibilities for
manufactures-in fact has given
complete resume of the conditions ex-
listing in every line of life here.
There is hardly anything that a
prospective settler could desire to
know that will not be given, even
if briefly, in the pamphlet
Outside OF Anlericus synopsis is
given of Plains, Leslie and Desoto.
The business possibilities of these
towns are mentioned.
More important than all else,
though, in so far as the drawing of
new settlers is concerned, is the
section fthe pamphlet dealing with
the agriculture of Sumter county. 1t
has been sought to make this as
complete as possible, and yet succinct
enough to be read and appreciated
within a short time
There are illustrations of hog kill
ing scenes, sugar cane mills, cot
ton gins, chopping and picking cot
ton, peach orchards, farm houses,
etc, sufficient to convey an excellent