Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1907-01-16
FROM SOUTHERN GEORGIA.
Mountaintown, Ga. Dec. :. !

Editors Index: | see a letter in
the Attica Independent from D. D.
White, my old and respected neigh
Dor ever since | was citizen in
Barber county, describing the
pleasant climate of the Pacific
coast of California. If you will
grant me space in the Index | will
try to describe the beautiful and
pleasant climate of the Atlantic
coast in southern Georgia.
Brother White and wife were on
the same train with myself and
wife from Attica, Kansas, to New
ton. There they took passage for
California, while we held tickets
for Georgia. California has al
ways had the name of having fine
climate and | presume is far ahead
of her sister states in this respect.
| do not want to consume too much
space in telling of the Atlantic
coast, but | am just back to the
mountains from a trip along the
coast of Southern Georgia and I
must say was most happily sur
prised to find such a beautiful and
prosperous country and so many
healthy, robust and happy people.
The roses and other fall flowers
bloom every month in the year and
the honey bee works as in SPRING
time in Kansas. In the gardens
are cabbage heads from plants set
in October while in adjoining rows
were tender plants just set. They
get fresh vegetables from their gar
dens every month in the year. Cat
tie are feeding on green grass and
there is the greatest variety of pro-
duction | have ever seen. Cotton
yields magnihcently in this section,
all varieties of fruit grow we'll
many miles out while the coast is
adorned with oranges, pine apples
and other tropical fruits. Sum
stroke and prostration is unknown
in south Georgia; constant breeze
from the ocean makes cool summers
and warm winters. Chills and
fevers are also unknown to the peo-
pie here. | have certainly fallen
in love with this country and it's
climate joined to its unequaled
facilities for health.
Oats are sown in the fall and
yield from 90 to So bushels per
acre, corn, 80 to 40 bushels, sweet
potatoes $50 to 800 bushels, many
of which can be left in the ground
all winter. South Georgia is call
ed the Modern Land of Canaan by
the nothern people who constitute
the colony of Fitzgerald. Fine wat
er is had at depth of 10 to IS
feet, raw land can be bought at
from SIS to $12 per acre, improved
land from $25 to $50. Many peo-
pie will wonder at the recent great
boom of south Georgia, since she is
an old state. A few lines will tell
the story: In the early days many
counties bordering on the Atlantic
were dense forest of pine and no.
body thought the land to be of any
value, but it was not long until
some men owned the entire forest
and have been supplying most of
the world with turpentine. When
the great trees were bled almost to
death another great profit was dis
covered in the lumber business.
Saw mills sprung up, the forests
cleared and removed. People who
cut the timber began testing the
soil by cultivating small tracts here
and there and soon the wonderful
resources of the soil of what was
hitherto thought a barren country
was demonstrated. The people
have been aroused to the value of
this land and it is settling up rap
idly.
Respectfully,
WM. Brown.