Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-06-12
OUR LAND OF PROM
ISE" CHARMS VISITORS
Sumter Considered a Yer
liable Eden.
Farmers of South Caro-
lima Buy Lands in
This Section.


AS the Children of Israel were
shown the Promised Land" and fat.
tened upon the products thereof, so dc
the scores of South Carolinans coming
to Sumter view this land of promise in
which they propose to cast their lots
as have many who have already pre-
ceeGed them here and are delighted
with conditions and surroundings.
All WHO come here are agreeably
surprised and they not only become
residents and land owners instanter
but advise their friends at home to do
likewise.
Last week Mr.. c. F. Moore of Che
raw, S. c., spent several days looking
over Sumter county VIII lie planning to
bring a party of nearly one hundred
Carolnans to Americas on June 9th.
Conditions were even better than he
had supposed.
In a letter to a South Carolina
friend Mr. Moore thus tells the story
of Sumter county and the wonderful
undeveloped resources:
Best Country Ever Visited.
Americas, Ga May 81, 1910.
Hon. R. l. Freeman,
Bennettsville, S. C.
You will see from the heading OF
this letter that | am still at Americus,
Ga, again prospecting. l was down
here a few weeks ago, and made some
Investments that look so good to me
that l find it hard to keep away.
have Travelled quite a lot, and have
seen all of the best farming lands n
the South, and have often said that I
thought the finest farming lands and
the most fertile soil was in the Red
River valley of Lou siana.
l think they are better even than
those of the Mississippi Delta, but in
Sumter county, Ga, l think will take
the blue ribbon as being the finest cot
on soil and most fertile farmsf have
ever seen, and at one-fourth tie value
Of Marlboro county lands
The soil is a red chocolate color
Y tn small dark pebbles running all
through The soil; and the public roads
.fe finest I ever saw, wide and
nicely graded and in fact, every road
is a. boulevard Sumter county, Ga, is
known all over the south as being the
pioneer in road building, ond in hay-
ing the finest roads in Georg a.
They are built so wide and the
grade so small that automobile driv-
ing is quite a pleasure. l am simply
charmed with what I have seen in the
way of farms.
The land lies almost level, drainage
is perfect, the largest fields ever saw,
and the finest homes with all the mod
ern Improvements. Sumter is one OF
the first and oldest settled counties in
Georgia and for that reason the 1arg-
est percentage of land is in cultivation
with cheap labor-much cheaper than
in South Carolina.
Americas Thriving City.
Americas is a beautiful city of 10000
inhabitants, with a modern hotel fire
schools, churches, etc, and compress
that last year packed 10000 bales OF
cotton. Just think of two mules bring
ing 10 bales of cotton to town on q
wagon, and you can appreciate what
have said about Sumter county's good
roads. l find quite a number of South
Carolina people here.
At Plains, 10 MI les from Americus
small village on the S. A. L. Ry., are
mostly South Carolina people who are
doing we'll and making mbney
was very much struck with the
lands around Plains-very fine ret
chocolate soil, large fields in whi;f
twenty-five to fifty mules are Otter
seen at work in one field. I was iu
formed, however, that very little O
this land was for sale for the reason
that t had been bought several year:
ago and settled by South Carolina peo
pie who know how to appreciate fine
lands and hold on to their possessions
Fertility of Sumter Lands.
Why any of tLis land is for sale, an(
at the price | am at a loss to under
stand! They simply don't know wha
they have. The land here is more fer
tile, and will produce more than Marl
boro county at one-fourth the value
From a farming investment, some o
tn S land will double in value soon
as soon as the public can see them
and l wishl had money enough, for
would buy the whole county.
am more pleased than ever wiIl
the investment made few weeks age
and have just closed a bid for anothe
fine farm This county is 20 mile
south of Macon; and We are very muc
impressed with the earliness of al
crops and vegetation. Cotton here i
twice as large as that at Llome, an
corn large enough for the last plow
inU Peaches ara IN full hIact and h