Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-05-29
AUTOS ON STATE TOUR
IN CIRCUIT 800 MILFS
Greatest Race Planned in
the South.
Interest is It Height in
Contest Now Beng
Ara 1ged.

luton, cooperating with the Savan
nah Morning News, Macon Telegraph.
Augusta Chronicle, The Athens Bar
ner, Albany Herald, The Americus
Times-Recorder, The Valdosta Times,
Brunswick News, The Waycross Her
aid Griffin News, all Georgia daiIies,
launches today the greatest campaign
ever projected for the development
and upbuilding of Georgia.
A campaign which will stir every
militia district in the state.
That will add $50,O0O,00O annually
to property values for the next five
years. That will easily save $4,000
year to the people.
That will be a tremendous factor
in increasing our population 40 per
cent. and almost doubling our states
wealth in the coming decade.
The people and the press of forty
counties are organizing a grand, far
reaching educational campaign for a
comprehensive system of good roads,
the first season to culminate next Nc
vember in the most spectacular.
est-compelling auto ENDURANCE contest
ever held anywhere.
While this run will traverse al
most one-third the counties of Geo.
gia it will not be speed race; > it VII
be SO exciting that it will arouse the
most intense local enthusiasm in ev-
cry city, town and hamlet.
Every car will start and finish in
its own or some nearby town Thus
Americus, Brunswick or Athens will
be just as keenly interested as Allan
ia Or Savannah. And it will not Be
any more an Atlanta or Macon event
than Augusta or Valdostas.
Every city will be on the same foot
ing. Each town will be pitted
against all the others in friendly ri
valry, and the best car and the best
driven will win-barring accidents.
This State Route IS a
little more than 500 miles long, and
the trip can be made with plenty OF
time for rest, and seeing Georgia, in
six days.
All the details will be worked ont
later and announced in due time,
In the meantime it can be stated
that every city on the route is the
starting and stopping point for it's
own cars. On a given day all en-
trants start from their respective cir
les, going in one direction, making
the whole route and finishing at
home, where local committees viii
hace charge of timing, etc.
In this way every city stands ex>
actly alike and every car will pass
through every city and town on the
route.
Georgia has the acreage, the soil
and the climate to produce 20,000,090
bales of cotton year, and at the
same time raise all the corn, hay and
meat she needs If all Georgia's COT
ton lands were cultivated and made
to yield bale to the acre she would
raise twice as much as the entire
South produced last year.
We have not the population, one
may say. But build a system of good
roads throughout the state and the
population will come. How was the
great West populated? First, the
railroads were constructed and the
settlers followed.
Provide easy transportation to ey-
try county in Georgia, and then with
the rural free delivery, the telephone
and intelligent farming, young men
VIII stay on the farms, people viii
flock in from other states, and lands
which are now thought to be dear at
$50 an acre will be considered cheap
at 500 to 5000 an acre.
He who says, this prediction is ab-
surd does not know conditions else
where.
Homeseekers coming to middle and
soutb Georgia from the North and
the West do not say that $50 an acre
IS high.
They ask: "why is this land SO
cheap?"
Why are men from South Carolina
paying $40 an acre for lands around
Americus
Because they see that the soil IS
almost identically the same as the
soil in Lee and Marlborough counties
in Their own state, where it is cas-
lily WORTH $1OO an acre, and they
cannot buy a farm in Marlborough
county for 5000 an acre.
twenty-five years ago asSlost any
land in that section could have been
purchased for So an acre and hum
dreds of thousands of acres sold at
so cents and 81 an acre.
Think of soc and Csc silks for 15c
yard. We want to clear out the entire
stock: nothing to be moved that any