The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-12-04
THE SOUTHERN FIELD GIVES
BRUNSWICK FINE WRITE-UP

-AA7 -at Il Ids t0Sculls DSen DOuSNL RS
Mr.. W E. Taylor. of Springfield. Ills d.
who viii engage in truck growing and
in the poultry business Such instan-
ces as these show the favor of this
section receives from people from the
north and the west who investigate
southeastern Georgia, particularly It's
possibilities for truck growing. e0r
dairying. and Tor poultry raising. New
residents usually buy tract of cheap
land. and establish themselves in a
line of farm work which from the out
set proves profitable. Here are OPP
portunities to purchase productive
lands at reasonable prices. with firs:-
class markets nearby, and with the
best railroad transportation 10 The
great markets of the country
Brunswick
Brunswick is the county seat OF
Glynn county and is situated on a pc
ninsula. is almost surrounded hy deep
water, and is but thirteen miles from
the open sea, to which there is chan
mel having a depth OF twenty six tect
at the outer bar and twenty eight feet
In the inner harbor. The average
mean temperature from April 10 Oc-
tcber is - degrees. and from Uc-
tober to April 40 degrees. Brunswick
has population locally estimated at
l3.e00 and claims the lowest death rate
with one eNception-of any Gil" g:
similar size III the United States. The
data given below indicate its attrac-
tNeneSs as a place of residence ana
its Importance as centre of trade
and commerce: Brunswick has a thor
ough system of graded public schools
and high schools, a public library and
every social and religious advantage.
sixteen beautiful parks and squares
and several delightful seashore re-
sorts within an hours ride; twenty
six miles of sewerage, costing $225,-
0O0; fifty artesian wells, from four
hundred to six hundred feet in den:t.
yielding an unfailing supply of pure
va ter possessing valuable medic c'ual
,, u critics; county court house eos'I,a:
slU'j000; three railway systens with
l3,3O1 miles of track; six steamboat
cCmranies; twenty-five Thousand feet
improved water fr0h+age and thi ".
eight miles of unimprove6 water
fiOrtage; the largest railroad lie n.ar-
keC in the world; a city electr.a lieAl-
ing plant, a gas I iaLt, and an ii an
Ga ICE OF electric power for all pnr.
poses, furnished at seven and one-
half cents per *. W.; twenty-five
miles OF beautiful shell-sand streats
which age shaded by giant oaks, and
which soon viii he traversed by an
electric street railway system; three
banking and financial institutions and
a Clearing House Association; sew
eral up-to-date hotels, the Ogle-
thorpe alone costing 100000 to build
and recently repaired at a cost of
100000; and a commerce aggregAt-
ing S5O,000.000 in 1907.
These statistics emphasize the stra=
tegic location and commercial i'm
portance of Brunswick The large
quantity and the varied supply of tim-
Der make Brunswick a splendid loca-
ton for woodworking plants. such as
furniture factories, boat and ship
building plants, car works, wagon and
carriage plants, house builders sup
plies. agricultural implement factor-
les, and plants manufacturing boxes.
crates, baskets, and barrels, A plant
for making and refining sugar cane
could concentrate an immense supply
at Brunswick. Canning and pickling
plants utilizing oysters. shrimps, crabs
and scale fish, and the surplus from
the orchards and the market gardens,
can here find excellent openings.
These are but suggestive of the score
Of industrial plants that could he
established a Brunswick with the Ger
Ainty OF satisfactory dividends upon
He investment.