Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-07-12

with Sumter when it set the county to
building roads. One day a land hunt
er passed through Americas and some
men took him motoring over the
roads. He inquired the price of land
and hurried back to town to get his
check book Good land on good
road at prevailing prices set him
crazy and he bought up to his limit.
Behind him has moved a growing pro-
cession of investors, and million
dollars of new money has come into
Sumter within twelve months Real
estate men say that more than half OF
this sum represents enhanced value
due to good roads, but only $50 miles
out of l 200 in the county have been
built as yet. Land values have been
growing like weed, the ratio being
about as shown by the transfers OF
one little farm that has changed
hands rapidly as follows: $1,000; g.
OO0 $3.50; $4,000. The present own
err refuses $4,000, but it is the same
land, the same rainfall, the same eli
mate, the same railroad facilities that
were there when the automobile ar
rived.
The people of Sumter give full cred
it to good roads for the prosperity
that has come upon them, but not all
of them are wiling even yet to go be-
hind the roads and give full honor to
the automobile. There is where it
really belongs, and as the farmers Of
the county have bought cars they
have gone about more and seen more
of how the other fellow does his work
There are better farm homes, better
school houses better barns, better
crops and better people in Sumter, as
we'll as better roads. The mud-taX is
removed from the shoulders of only a
part of Sumter county people; prac-
tically all cross-country highways
have been rebuilt, but the work is
still hardly begun The influence Of
the good roads has extended to every
part Of the county, however, and the
upift is in evidence from the Plains
of Dura to the Flint and from the
line of Lee to Andersonvlle and
Schley.
1t Means Something to the Nation.
Georgia is building several miles
of road each year, and much Of it Is
almos as good as that in Sumter Oth-
er counties send their Toadbuilders
there to study methods that have
proven suitable and feasible under
ordinary conditions. The whole state
is being criss-crossed with splendid
roads over which an automobile can
travel winter or summer as fast as
Georgia has a mild winter climate, IS
well developed agriculturally and in
dustrially and affords considerable
interest to the touring motorist. II
will be possible this winter to go al
most anywhere in Georgia in comfort
except in the mountainous section
and hundreds of enthusiastic motor
lists from other sections will spend
some time in Georgia, going over The
| splendid roads and becoming BETTE
acquainted with the leading south
eastern commonwealth Georgia i
building more roads than any Other
state in the Union and frankly build
! ing them to attract motorists from
affair." The revenue to be expected il
merely incidental and does not entel
into the transaction, but more thar
any other state this one has realized
the future economic importance q
the automobile and the part it vii
play in teaching the people of differ
ent sections how to know each other
better. At Americas, for instance
they have built the Andersonville
road into a magnificent highway so
that tourists from the East and West
may comfortably journey to Ander-
sonville where several thousand Fed
eraI soldiers lie buried. Andersonyiliel
and Chicakamauga are linked by al
known and excellent touring route
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