Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-10-06

business community of business houses
and commodious dwellings.
Vienna, Moultrie, Thomasville-they are
all in the front rank and going good
and strong.
1t is interesting 10 listen to the retro
spective' tales that are told at twilight
in these little centers CT business acttv-
ity 4ney sound like fairy tales. ONE
man. who started in on a borrowed cap
ital at Cordele only a few years ago,
is now a millionaire. He sawed lumber
for a living then, but when he sold his
saw mill it was earning clean $500 a
day profit. There are Atlanta men down
there who left pitiful little salaries and
sought the Eldorado-there's town
named Colorado down there, too-and
they have amassed fortunes. At first
il was the turpentine and nobody dared
discuss what would happen after the
trees had aaI been boxed and the turpen-
tine was exhausted. 1t looked like then
thai the turpentine was the whole SHOW
and after that was gone, there would De
years of famine and exceeding leanness
throughout the land.
Turpentine made many milllona1res'
but lumber made more. saw mills Got
ted every forest and the hum OF the
saw was as familiar in south Georgia
in those recent years as the buzz OF
the locust was in Egypt during the
plaques.
Men shook their heads when any ten
derfoot asked: What viii you DO
when the trees are all cut and the lum-
Der business is done for?' 1t was a
sad day and a respondent heart that
came about as the trees began TO grow
thin and the saw mills grew silent, put
what about the land?
The man who asked this question was
really in truth and indeed a Moses. The
land is worth all the turpentine ano
the lumber, and these pioneers used to
think they would have to move away
when the turpentine and lumber was
gone. Now the land is the kernel OIL
the nut It's a gold mine; il is as pro-
ductive as the widows unfailing cruise
Of oil and today throughout the length
and breadth Of this section land is being
sold according to the advanced thought
of Mr.. vending, who used to talk abou,
Acres Of Diamonds.
It's real estate IN south Georgia to-
day. 1t will be the same trade tomor-
row and for many generations the peO-
pie will tend the land and till the soil
and leave fortunes to posterity whel.
they die. From Macon to Valdosta,
from waycross to Albany and Thomas
VILE the fields are white with cotton.
The crop has been prodigal and prolific.
Mile after mile you are whisked on the
train by square miles Of white fields.
A bale to the acre is what they tell you,
and if YOU know how many acres you
have under cultivation, you know the
size Of the crop. It's wonderful in its
allurement and the city man has every
inclination TO yield to its insidious and
coy invitation and join Eugene Fields
in saving: II love the country lots the
best"-particularly If il be in the wire
grass region.
A farmer, attired in nifty clothes and
surrounded with an atmosphere of fl
nancial prosperity, told me in the par
Tor car yesterday that he sent his cot
ton at o'clock in the morning TO a
gin, thinking he would be the first on
the ground. only TO find there were 40
wagons lined up ahead of him and he
had to wait until o'clock In the after
noon for his turn And the gins are
working day and night and are still be-
hind. But If you haven't a gin at homo
YOU would like TO take down there and
run a money mint, you can make a good
living if you will only give your con-
sent TO pick cotton. 1000 ness knows,
south Georgia needs your nimble fin
gers and strong back, if you've got EN-.
Cotton pickers are making lots more
today than the striking firemen on the
Georgia and Florida railroad are de-
manding as a basis of satisfactory set
Element, and then, too, you can ride in
an automobile to your work and back
again at night-ir yeu happen to work
for a planter who owns car!
Plant pecan trees, they will tell you.
And hundreds of acres once white with
cotton. are now green with the produce
i've fruit tree, which. in many in
stances. produces a crop worth more
than a man can earn for full month
on a salary. and these wonderful pecan
trees work while you sleep.
There are lots of things can be done
with the land in south Georgia and a lot
OF good people doing il today.
And when the farmers market their
crops and set THAR money, thsy viii
have a good chance 20 spend IL at the
the Brooks county fair, which. will be
one of the best shows in recent years in
Georgia
And then they can come on to Macon