The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-04-06
1pFY ARE ASTONISHEO At IT.
s,vD DOLLARS AN ACRE
IN I'm FOR PECAN GROVES.
.,ropnah Paper Takes Notice of
ln' c.owipg and Valuable Indus
=, Southwest Georgia.

Growing and Valuable INDUS
nv in southwest Georgia.
n,. savannah Press prints the
,,rg interesting article on the
follows nIustry of southwest Georgia:
pecann thousand dollars per acre for
acres OF ground on which
ere isre pecan trees ten years old IS the
Wels era offer for land of this kind in
recoI .arntv. in the southwestern part
Lee Oo' s+are. and it is the interest
OF TASTED by the offering of this
MAN. snm of money for pecan trees
aI5o ,ond that will grow pecans that
anu n ,',,h to Lee and Dougherty
ns sories during the past year a large
CoL a-ber of northern syndicates who
nun swing I'D land and putting out
are NJ traes on a number of farms in
5Sot section of Georgia
'n" according to a visitor now in Sa-
nh this record price for pecan
en-' and pecan land, mentioned
~ was made TO Mrs. H. c. Ram
aye who owns a farm OF several hum
sly 3s,d acres Of land in Lee county,
w. r+ eiv miles above Albany and
es,,r miles from Leesburg, on the
LLO.on.naved sand and clay road that
D onracrs the two places. A wealthy
D .oli5ont of Boston, Mass, who was
listing southwestern Georgia re-
o ,s, made Mrs. Ramsey the offer
" onp thousand dollars per acre for
.bo sightv acres of her plantation
IN which is the pecan grove. Mrs.
pomsev refused the offer. The Bos-
+onian then paid Mrs. Ramsey one
JoIIar for a cluster of seven pecans
that had grown on one small twig,
saving that he wanted them, among
ether reasons, as a proof of what he
had seen. as his friends in Boston
would not believe what he said
about the pecans of southwestern
Georgia unless he had some visual
evidence.
Dollar For Seven.
Mrs. Ramsey took the cue from
the offer of one dollar for cluster
of seven nuts, and she afterwards
sold several other clusters, which
she found, for an equal sum or more.
Her entire crop as harvested was
sold without trouble in the markets
at Leesburg and Albany at prices
ranging from fifty cents to one dol
lar per pound. The pecans are all
of the delicious paper shell kind, and
largely of the variety known as the
Mobile" which is a large, meaty
nut rounded at each end.
Practically all the land between
Leesburg and Albany, distance of
ten miles, is suited to the growing
of pecans, and it is this land that
northern buyers are eagerly seeking
in order to set out their trees as
soon as possible, as the pecan is a
tree of very slow growth. There are
as many as a dozen syndicates that
have bought up tracts during the
past year in Lee county alone for the
purpose of planting pecans, and the
trees have already been set out.
For large part of the distance be-
tween Leesburg and Albany newly
planted and well tended pecan trees
greet the traveller by rail or automo-
bile on each side of the road. The
Splendid sand and clay roadway be-
tween the two towns, which is hardly
by any in the state, adds
another great inducement to north
arn planters. This section of the
state is gaining by rapid strides the
recognition in an agricultural way
that has long been due it."
The Press might also have men
toned the fact that a Terrell county
lady, Mrs. c, W. GunneIs of Bron-
wood, recently refused an offer OF
$4,000 for her pecan grove of 10
acres.