The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-04
THIS IS VIEW Of
Sec IR'Y GREER
OFFICIAL OF GREATER GEORGIA
7 ASSOCIATION SPENT YEsTER-
DAY N THE CITY.
! Ne raiks Of ehs keca. Sitvatioa and
Says Moro Farm Land snd oeod
ear~e~s Are NssdsA--cives Drain.
age . s's eosn.
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II.
Jo&a w. 0reee. an old Brunsvick-
An. now Of Triton, ana secretary Of
The Greater Georgia association,
which ls doing q great work for Geor.
ata, especially the wiregrass- section.
was among the visitors to the city
yesterday. speading the day here In
the interest OF his association. Mr..
Greer states that the association is
making rapid progress all over he
state.
Mr.. Greer seems to know the key
to the situation In GlyHn county
thoroughly, and, as The News has
stated all along, he believes that
Glynn county must resot to the soil
make a support?
"The question with Glynn county
and Brunswick he says, "is the
same as everywhere-how shall we
make support
Heretofore the pines have been
the great source OF revenue which
has supported the wiregrass section
and this city. Since that source Is
nearly gone, there Is but one other
source OF income-the soil.
while Glynn county has a pecu-
liar problem, she win henceforth be
no exception. She must come to
the cultivation Of Che soil for her liv.
ing, just as the other counties OF the
section are doing. Hitherto she has
lived on her. shipping, but the profit
from that source never will re what
II has been, even with the tremen-
dous increase In her tonnage which
will eventually be hers, for the load.
ing of ships has been reduced to a
science and she can no longer look
to that source for the support of her
people, especially If she hopes for
her population to increase.
I'm other words. Brunswick in the
past has cultivated only her water
area. Henceforth, she must culti-
vate her soil area. Glvnn county
has something Hike 250,0o0 acres of
land. More than half OF it can be
cultivated without additional expense
beyond the clearing. This land will
yield minimum profit to her Of ten
dollars an acre, which would be a
profit to the county per annum of
more tran S1,500000. I understand
that there are not over 5000 acres
in cultivation in the county, which
at ten dollars an acre is a profit of
only $4,000 year she is receiving
from her soil. She Is losing $1,450.-
600 annually by not having her lands
in cult'vation, tir3t. is, these that can
be cultivated without drainage. Now,
If you drain the swamp lands and put
them In cultivation the yield would
be increased more than three times,
for the low lands in Glynn are sim.
ply alluyial deposits of fertile loans
which are the richest lands in the
world and the yield from them would
be beyond computation. believe
II the county were drained and put
in cultivation there would be O. clear
profit to the county each year of
more than five millions of dollars
That is not q guess, Tut calculation
based on statistics.
ouppOoC IL uOtc COSl IdtI x lnlt-
lion dollars 10 drain the county and
build your roads, that Is mere bag.
atelle compared with the clear prof.
It's that would accrue in one single
year. Ii would be like spending 30
cents and getting three dollars back.
Should you wait on drainage and
roads? No. With more than half
your lands ready for cultivation.
simply get little money together
and go after some farmers, bring
them down here and put them on
the test lands you have and stand
by them until they succeed and tylen
bring some more and keep up the
lick until you have farmer on every
80 acres that can be cultivated and
in the meantime, get your roads and
your drainage.
"rhs biggest problem you have
now ia to get people. That is what
the Greater Georgia association IL
planning to do-Bring more, people
TO Georgia. It must be done by the
wholesale, for local companies are
not strong enough to win alone. It
must be a general movement. When
the flood OF people are attracted to
the state as whole, Glynn will get
her share. Fifteen or twenty train.
loads a week pass through TfftoH
going TO Florida to locate. Nearly