The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-09-02
4 SPLENDID MOVEMENT.

Inc movement started yesterday to
send an exhibit Of GIynn county prod
acts to the fairs and expositions this
fall is preeminently one of the most
important steps this city and county
has undertaken in many years. In the
first place It means renewed inter
est in Glynn county lands and agri-
cultare-the primal factor in human
activity and commerce.
In the next place, it means the ad-
vertisement of Glynn county, her
lands and her products feature of
our commercial life we have neglect
ed all too long and one we must in
future depend upon largely for the
prosperity Of this city and county.
In the third place, this exhibit sent
to the South Georgia Land and Agri-
cultural exposition at Triton will
bring Brunswick in touch with the
agricultural section out there in the
Wiregrass which is developing at a
tremendous rate and cultivate
friendship among the people of those
counties which is vital to this city
for her future wholesale trade and
manufacturing interest. Brunswick is
the natural wholesale port for all that
section, but because we have not Gull
tiyated those people and advertised in
that section, we are enjoying only a
very small portion Of what we ought
by natural right to have the major
part.
What are we going to do about it?
Sit idly down and boast among our
selves that we have splendid lands,
a magnificent port excellent facilities
for wholesale business and let this
knowledge stop within our gates? The
action Of few citizens in meeting
yesterday says no. We know We have
three fine grades Of soil in this coun-
ty which win produce crops of every
variety second to none in the South.
but this knowledge does us no good
unless we advertise the fact to others
and bring settlers here to cultivate
these soils. We know that the Wire
grass country here at our very doors
is growing at the rate Of 100 per cent.
every ten years, but we are making
no effort to increase our business
among them, and allowing other cities
further away to sell the goods to those
people, and most of those very goods
are shipped from northern markets
through our own port to those cities
and then distributed back into the
4 section -tEbutary' to us.
And after all, it is our Wholesale
trade and manufacturing which must
contribute very largely to the support
Of this city ip future. Our shipping
/
interest may Increase and will, but
there is no longer any great profit
in port shipments where those ship
ments have through bills of lading and
are not bought, sold and exchanged
from the port they pass through. In
other words, vessels no longer spend
large amounts for loading and unload
ing as they formerly did and mere
shipping must henceforth be subsid-
larry to the actual purchase, manufac.
ture and sale of goods, and the sooner
the people of this city become recon
ciled to that idea the sooner we shall
get started on the new road of com
merce and further our interest alone
the great highway of prosperity which
is pushing through this Southland al
startling rapidity.
We trust the city council and county
commissioners viii recognize the
value and urgent necessity of sending
out this exhibit to advertise the city
and county this fall and we believe
the people will gladly sanction any
expenditures they may see fit to make
for this purpose.