The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-11-05
PROGRESS STILL
ON IN SOUTH
GOOD REPORT FOB PAST WEEK
MADs BY COLUMBUS IN
0UsTRIAL INDEX.

Columbus, Ga, Nov. 4.--The Geor-
gia and Alabama Industrial Index says
i'll its regular weekly issue:
With tie transition of the presiden-
tial election of 1908 from the field of
speculation and unrest to the sober
state of recorded history there passes
aNay the cmdrennial business buga-
boo ir the United States of America
rs year the feeling that is usually
The unwelcome attendant of "presi-
dental year, was more acute than
usual On account of the fact that the
country was just recovering from
severe 5anic, and the relief that comes
to business interests of all kinds with
the actual dropping of the ballots
and furling of the political ban
uers will be peculiarly agreeable. In,
Georgia and Alabama where such
plucky fight has been maintained
against combination of conditions
tnat tested the courage and endur-
ance of the people, to the highest
degree, there win be a sentiment OF
gen sral satisfaction, irrespective of
the various results of the many polit-
ical contests. that the campaign is
all over and that the whole country
can get right down to business once
more. The truth is, Georgia and Ala
bama have been pretty diligent and
enterpTasing in business affairs
throughout the year, despite the dis
fractions incident to the excitement
of state and national politics, and the
waiting attitude assumed by many big
national business interests, owing to
its being presidential year The re-
cord of material progress that the
Two states have made this year in the
face Of the fact that the nation was
torn asunder with politics. the fur
ther fact that this section was the
last part Of the country to feel the
effects OF The panic. and the additional
fact that the price OF the south's great
staple, cotton, has not been wholly
satisfactory this fall, is something
truly remarkable, and the achieve
ment Ct 1908 along substantial busi-
ness lines in this section of the coun-
try will ever be monument to the
Iluek and perseverance of the men
who We're at the helm during the
storm period"
The record of industrial achieve
nent for Georgia and Alabama during
: the week just ended was cutie a
creditable one in every way. and in
it there are some features Of special
interest The announcement that one
Of The largest lumber plants in south
Georgia has put on q night force and
Is operating "a hours out of the day
in order To supply rush order from
Ohio for several million feet of tim
ber has in it a ring of the good old
times. A company which purchased
1000 acros of timber lands in south
Georgia ind north Florida will pro-
ceed at once with the development of
this splendid tract Of forest Penn
sylyania and Wisconsin capitalists
who plan to inyate the great Okefe-
nokee swamp and take from the mo-
rass a liberal share of It's wealth of
tiIi.iut.i. afa cn the scene, making
personal Investigations, and in inter
views state that they have fully de-
termined to develop their immense
holdings there. aggregating nearly
500. 900 acres. The ambitious charac-
ter of the uroject can be realized when
it is stated that the company win
build about 50 miles of railroad in