The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-09-28
NEWS NOTES FROM
THE STATE CAPITAL
What the State Officials in Atlanta
Are Doing.

/ ~VsSAAAoA 5AAAAlns proceedings Will De
instituted at an early date to compel
the lessees Of the Western and Allan
tic railroad to comply with the provis-
Ions Of the lease contract, WHICH re-
quires that Georgia rates, instead Of
southern classification rates, shall be
applied to interstate shipments OF
freight.
It IS definitely known that the gov.
ernor is of the opinion that rhe les
sees are charging much higher rate
On number of articles than is au-
tkorized by the lease. This decision
of the governor is based on the evil
dence shown in the record which the
commission submitted to Governor
Brown during his administration.
However, Governor Smith is faced
with the same difficult proposition
which confronted Governor Brown.
There is no specific instance cited
by the commission in the record
which would tend to show that the
lease is being violated and upon which
the governor could hang case should
| ne go INTO court.
Accordingly, as stated several days
ago, Governor Smith has called upon
the commission to furnish him with
definite information as to the reduc-
ton of rates or the modification of
classification, which in the opinion of
the commission, the railroad company
should be required to make.
This puts the burden of furnishing
a case on which the courts can be en-
tered on the commission.
Shipping Cash From Atlanta.
I The heaviest shipment of cash from
the Atlanta banks to their country
correspondents for the 1911 cotton
season went out on the train. 1t is
said che express company transported
/, 100000 in money to three-score
Georgia towns.
The wires have been singing for
some time with hurry calls for money
for currency from the small country
banks, in messages like these:
Rush $4,000 in silver"
Ship $4,000 in currency
Let us have $4,000 here sure by
Saturday morning"
The money clerks of the larger
banks we're busy counting the dough
and bundling it in packages.
I The Atlanta banks have already
called in heavy stocks of ready cash
from New York, and are now begin
ming to distribute it to the cotton
towns out in the state.
The increasing demand for money
shows a free movement of cotton and
is very gratifying to the Atlanta finan-
ciers, who rejoice that Georgia is add
ing the value of nearly two million
bales of cotton to its present wealth.
A great deal of this money will very
shortly find it's way back to Atlanta
III payment for tons of it's products.
Fine Prison Farm Crops.
/ This years crop on the state prison
farm in Baldwin county, near Mil
ledgeville, will be the biggest since
the state has operated this plantation
according to R. E. Dawson, chairman
of the state prison commission. The
farm embraces 1900 acres and about
$500 acres have been under cultiva
ton this year. Mr.. Dawson makes
the following estimates of the years
crop: 500 bales of cotton, 10000 bush
els of corn, 100000 bundles of fodder
5000 gallons of syrup, 1000 bushels
OF peas, 500 bushels of potatoes, zoe
loads of hay, all vegetables needed
fer the convicts on the farm, 10 hogs
to kill this fall, 200 young pigs fcl
slaughter next year, enough beef cat
tie to kill one beef a week and cthe'
miscellaneous products
Under cultivation this year have
been 1,040 acres in corn, 1000 acres
III cotton, 800 acres in small grain
about 200 acres in miscellaneous
crops and the remainder of the farm
in good pasturage.
Chairman Dawson says that mex
year the cultivated acreage will be
greatly increased, much of the pas
ture land being planted.
Last year $4,000 of farm produce
was sold, besides what was consumed
By the convicts.
No Agricultural Statement Soon.
The statement which the agricultu
raj department has been asked tt
make to the legislative committee
which is charged with the investiga
ton of the department will not bt
Grady for perhaps two or three weeks
Commissioner t. G. Hudson return
ed from Montgomery, where he at
tended the meeting Of the Southern
Cotton Growers Congress, and h'
stated that it would probably be two
or three weeks, maybe longer, before
the statement is ready.
1--WE have had to stop work on the
preparation of thi statement" sale
Mr.. Hudson, Gin order to finish the
work on the fertilizre bulletin, which
must be issued from the office OF
October /.
"This bulletin is Of great import
arce to the farmers of the state, ant
we were compelled to drop everything
else and get to work on it.
School Teachers Paid.