The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-28
A SUGGESTION WORTH FIGURING
ON.

ONs
In the beginning Of his series OF
letters to The News, Uncle John.
made a staggering proposition TO or
ganize million dollar company to
build Greater Brunswick. The trou
pie Is that Brunswick people didn't
take him seriously perhaps never
gave a thought as to what might be
accomplished by such an organization
associating the idea with the usual
ncom companies that get hold ,,r ,.r,
lots and acres, create excitement, un-
load upon local people and leave ev.
erybody ii debt for fiction Of values.
The News is persuaded that he has
loftier views that have been intensified
| by patriotic devotion to the eity's
welfare. His letters have held phe
nomenal interest, whatever may be
the tendency Of their influence upon
the public mind. Perhaps il Is good
omen that people take kindly to the
severity Of his irony and the close
/ cutting of his facts 1t would be in
teresting to know just how many OF
J us ever take a while to think seriously
Of plans that would add materially TO
Brunswick's growth and greater pros
perity beyond the atom OF individual
selfishness that moves humanity TO
occasional thought
In line with his persistent con-
tentions "lncle John presents a
proposition IN his article which APP
pears in this mornings News, that
may be worth more than passing no
tice: indeed. might be fully consid-
cred as to its possible bearings upon
q Greater Brunswick movement. Such
lschemes are fostered in the interest OF
public development and speculation in
many sections From the amount OF
money placed in advertising them they
must prove profitable There is an
advertisement in this paper of such a
venture in Colorado, where, instead
of nominal drainage cost large sums
| are invested in irrigation, entailing a
| cnn.ipun,,e tox fcc s,,oh ,ar,rf,o olec
! a necessary abandonment of such
/, farms, with short seasons that will
, permit only single crops
Il The Buffalo swamp. aud it, viii
] contiguous low lands. embrace almos
, the entire area between Bladen ant
Everett stations, are known to be yer!
I prolific 1t has been shown that the,
) grow exceptional qualities of celery
: cabbgae and other vegetables that pro
3 Ifitably bear long shipments. Wit
their possibility of successive crops
E throughout the winter as well as tn
h summer, it is only question cf no,
: far scientific intelligence may increas
: their production and value The fam
i GUS Kalamazoo celery farms were one
: Ionly a worthless, scrubby waste of mo
: rass that required hundreds of thou
II sands of dollars to reclaim. They az
II now of fabulous value. Large sum
e are now being spent on the Ocmulse
S swamps below Macon in reclaimin
y and draining them, and their over
e flow. can only be prevented by immens
e leyies. Those instances are cited I
. show the feasibility of draining II
t Buffalo and that the insured value sug
gested, is not so wild a dream as Nigh
1 be supposed.
4 AS presented by Uncle John h
/ scheme and its far reaching effect
d unique, and the Transformation wnul
a give advertising thar tho cost of
could not buy in print. II woull ne
AZ great thing 10 have Brunswick on dres
J parade for fifteen niles along III
seaboard front, whore probably mpr,