The Washington herald., 1909-08-01
SOUTHERN PROGRESS

Citizens Of the State Of Georgia are
beginning to wake up on the question OF
the nliteracy Of the white children OF
the Commonwealth. and the legislature
is considering a bill providing for COM
pulsory education.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has placed orders for new equip
ment for its lines amounting to about
100000.
According 20 Mayor Ross, OF Charles
ton, s. c., more than a million pounds
OF steel will be used in the new dam and
power house which is under construction
at Ninety-nine Islands 10 furnish power
20 that city.
The Tallahassee. Fla. Democrat declares
that Florida ought 10 adopt some method
10 rid itself Of the land sharks. who are
working irreparable harm 10 the best
interests Of the State.
Motor boats are being used 20 good
purpose as frelghters in the shallow in
lets, rivers, and canals of Florida
The progressive bug seems 70 have
stung deeply at Columbia. S. c. The
business men there have formed the
Ten Thousand Dollar Hustler Club
the main purpose Of which IS 70 raise
$4,000 with which 70 advertise the city
and adjoining country.
Last year when the Georgia-Blorida
Nut Growers Association was organized
about 600 acres OF growing nuts was
represented in tho two States. At this
years meeting the census gathered
showed 1000 acres. The greater part Of
this acreage is pecans In Western Florida
and Southern Georgia.
One Of the ambitious projects recently
launched out in st. Louis is a SlO.OOO.OOO
corporation, whose object Is 20 place
line OF steel bargos on the Mississippi
River for the quick and cheap transpo-ta-
tlOn Of freight by water.
From Wheeling comes the suggestion
that West Virginia should organize and
carry through a semi-centennlaI exposi-
ton Of the admission Of the State to the
Union. II II starts on time. the Presi-
dent of the United States will press the
button on June 20. 1913. 1t IS said in
Wheeling that some definite plan for the
exposition will soon be forthcoming.
An act OF the legislature OF Florida
approved last June provides for and re-
quires the teaching OF tho elementary
principles OF agriculture and Of civil
government IN the public schools OF the
State. The law carries a penalty against
the county authorities who do not make
suitable provision for obedience 70 the re-
quiremeuts Of the statute.
Capitalists and business men in the ter
ritory 90 be benefited are busily at work
on the details Of a project to build q
railroad from Tallahassee 10 Monticello,
which will pass through Quitman, Ca.
The board Of trade at Florence. Ca,
has published an interesting exhibit of
facts about their city. and it is being
circulated far and wide with a view to
bringing settlers, factories. and general
uDlift 10 the community.
A new bond issue for $4,000 has been
hoated 70 be used In extending the line
OF the Tampa and Jacksonville Railroad
farther South and for the better equip
ment OF the road.
ST. Augustine has taken the first steps
toward the installation OF a general sew
erage system for that city. A mass
meeting was held in the board Of trade
rooms the other night and the project
fairly launched.
The Florida Citrus Exchange Is n new
body Of fruit growers Of Southern Florida
which completed its organization last
week at Tampa. It is formed on the
general lines and with the same objects
as the exchange Of a similar name IN
Southern California
A proposition IS on foot to construct a
drainage canal seventeen miles long be-
tween the head Of Indian River and Turn
bull Bay. Florida. It is looked upon in
that region as a necessity to reclaim q
million acres or more OF ricn farming
lands from the palmetto and the alliga-
tor.
An enterprising farmer OF Luthervllle.
Ga, not content with raising potatoes N
the usual way, has found a breed that
grows the tubers on the staff as well
as under ground. A sample OF this new
product OF Georgia climate has been
proudly exhibited in the Office Of the At
lanta Constitution. and has received the
usual encomium Of praise.
Orlando. Fla. some time ago spent
5000 IN making known to the outside
world some OF the advantages OF buying
property in that part of the Southern
Eden. 1t IS now said that the expend-
ture brought results TO Orlando many
times greater than the amount spent
His name is d. X. Taylor, and he lives
near Fayetteville. Ga. He has raised four
crops on his farm this year, and his IN
come has been $50 TO the acre. Ten acres
Of peas was tho first crop, followed by
roasting ear corn on tie same ground.
this planted March o. The corn grew
while the peas were ripening. and where
they were field corn followed. The green
corn Is now gone and last week he sowed
field peas among the standing field corn.
The total value OF the crops figure out
al l,5O on the ten-acre farm.
New Orleans scenes to be deeply stirred
up over the matter OF the threatened
abandonment Of the immigration station
by the government. NJ. B. Trezevant
writes the Progress Section" that New
Orleans must and will have the immi- !
grant station 10 which the government
stands pledged.
The Charleston News and Courier finds
a text from which to urge greater actlv- |
ity in that city for its material advance
ment from the letter published In the