The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-08-07
WOULD DRAIN
SWAMP LAND Of
COAST COUNTIES



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Thousands OF acres q swamp i,fs
IN Georgia seashore counties viii s !
drained and put under cultivation
uithia the next year OF tWO il the
legislature succeeds in passing
drainage bill which has been drafted
and is ree@y to be put before taa
house, according tc j. Y. Phillips, aa
engineer Of the United States drain
axe Z pertinent, who WAS n S2F3'.-
nah Friday.
A-r faI.i9s. Vao has $ ent severe
months investigating drainage cona r.
SONS in the several counties Of Geot-
e.a bordering OH the Atlantic, is in
pressed with the need OF draina-e
law Sol Georgia aud IS fns ever
in- he can 10 have the bill passed.
re Aas jUst completed number o.
surveys Of swamp lands in North an3
South Carolina and is going over 10
James Island this morning to tes.
another survey on some OF the CRAY
f.h land On that island.
The bill referred to De Nj. Phil!i>7
has been drafted at the insusation ot
several drainage experts, and is
ready 10 be placed before the less
}aliye body for action. The bill pro
yides for the formation Of drainage
clubs in any seci-n in the state.
These clubs can be formed where q
majority OF people in q single section
desire that their lands be drained.
After getting majority Of the pe'-
pie in section to agree to dralf
their lands according to survey
made by government experts the dis
senting ones, in that section affected
by such d club can be forced to drain
their lands also. This in brief is the
scope Of the law.
Mr.. Phillips points cut that prac-
ticaily every state in the Union eX-
Cepting Georgia and very few otos
ers nave already passed drainage
laws and they are proving highly So
ia.actory. He shows that the laws
do not force a section 70 drain the
lands unless it is the desire CT ma
iority of the people to do so. These
clubs are usually formed TO admit TO
membership those holders in Ger
tain block Of land say ten or twenty
thousands acres.
In six or seven Cf the counties On
the Georgia coast, said Mr. Phillips,
there are immense Land holdings in
urdeVeloped state due to the fact
that they are TOO sWampy for cu''i-
yari0n 1t has been s1oWn by the
government experts, he said, thai
this land can he drained at compaf-
atiTeiy low price and rhe land wljen
drained, is the most fertile imaeina
Bile.
He cites an instance which illus
trates the fertility of the drained
land. The state cf South Carolina
gave to the Clemson University re-
Gently a tract of 300 acres of crawfian
land, located near Jedburg. This
land was drained under the direction
of the government experts and has
now been under cultivation for a
year and half. The crops raised on
thIS !dHd thIS year SuIpdSS any eFtI
raised on any of the land in that part
of the state. The land is easy t.
cultivate, and the manner in which it
produces is nothing short of remart-
able.
There is another tract of 25,)09
acres in Hopkins, S. c.. said Alr-
Phillips, which is to be drained sooH
The people in the two Caroltnas are
thoroughly interested in the drainage |
scheme and are eagerly asking the
engineers how best 6e.a /
lands can be drained 4
The Georgia swamp lands Faya !
been investigated by NJ. Phillips ana /.
other engineers and it has been |