Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-06

WIN StSS WINDOWS ana DflCh cnlmneES
and q garden to each house. Part of the
garden work will be done by the
general plantation force. but the tenants
raise a supply of vegetables for their own
use.
To Provide Am scments.
e I'VE are planning d combination church
and schoohouse, ard viii engage a negro
preacher and negro teachers for the folk
on the plantation. There will be about
100 workers. | have encouraged the form
alton Of competing baseball teams among
the younger negroes, too. and every Satur-
day afternoon they play for prizes given
by the management.
In the future we expect to plant 600
acres in pecan trees" continued Mr. Bag
ley. we shah divide this into flve-acre
tracts and sell TO bona ide settlers A
dve-acre pecan orchard win support a
family in comfort
Mr. Bagley is confident of a success
from a businesslke mana cement of a
plantation. But then he has been used
to success since he was II years old He
was born near Americas, graduated from
Mercer at II, the youngest in his class
and assumed entire charge of a big plan
tation when his father. Daniel S, Bagley
attracted the attention of Samuel H.
Hawkins, one Of the great fnanciers of
south Georgia. and was made cashier of
a we'll known bank. Then began the ia
nous fight between Americas and the
Central of Georgia railroad.
The Sumter county representatives in
the legislature were fighting for a rail
road commission, and the roads were bit
ter against the move. The Central began
a campaign Of retaliation against Ameri-
Gus. 1t took the name of the town off it's
schedules and referred to it as NO az, -"
and began building network of roads
around the town to cut off all wagon
trade and wipe Americas off the map
Colonel Hawkins and Mr. Bagey began
10 fight for their town-and won They
built the Savannah, Americus and Mont
gomery railroad now a part Of the Sea-
board, and kept Americus from being bot
tied up.
Railroad a Success.
Henry Clay Bagley was just q then,
but he was made president of the Ameri-
Gus Investment Company, which financed
the road and developed real estate hold
ings. At the end of two years il had
cleared half million dollars and paid
100 per cent dividend
II was Mr.. Bagley who laid out the
town of Cordele and named it for Colonel
Hawkins daughter, Cordelia Then, al
the junction OF the new road and the
Southern he laid out and developed an
other town, called Helena, in honor of
Mr.. Bagley's youngest daughter Helen
now Mrs. p. c. McDuffie, OF Atlanta Both
towns are thriving and succeeding.
In 1898 Mr.. Bagley came to Atlanta and
became cashier of the Maddox Rucker
Banking Company, now the American
National bank. Two years later he en-
tered the life insurance business, becom-
ing general agent Of the Penn Mutual
Now he is senior member Of the firm OF
Bagley & Wflet. Of Atlanta, and Bagey,
Willet & Paine, of Macon, general agents
Of that company.
But through all his other operations Mr.
Bagley never lost interest in farming
His visits to his plantations are to him
what vacation trips to the seashore are
to most men. lie loves outdoors and the
soil
For many years he owned the famous
Bagley plantation near Americus a $500
acre tract. Most of this was bought at
from IS TO s15 an acre. He sold the prop
erty last year at, $50 an acre. Several
years ago he became interested in the de-
velopment Of great tract in Macon coun-
ty, part Of it within the limits of the town
of Oglethorpe, and his success with this
plantation led him to project his corpor-
alton plan for further developing its re-
sources He expects to bring out Of this
tract all that experience and careful study
can do. For Henry Clay Bagley Is that
rare combination in agriculture man
with actual farming experience natural
bility, scientific knowledge of soils and
plant life and the capital TO carr~ out his
IDEAS If there's any money in farming
it ought to spring from his plows.