Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-02
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GEORGIA BLOOM
GREAT WEALTH IN IRRIGATION
Judge SpGGr Points Out Re.
markabIe Facts

From Article by Judge Emory Speer)
The observant people of Georgia
have long been aware Of the blessings
many enjoy through the inductive phil
osophy of distinguished and unpre-
tentious son of our state. Our Uni
versity has honored him and itself by
the degree Doctor of Science. Dr.
John P. Fort was the first who made
/ evident how practical and how bene-
ficent are those artesian wells whose
copious and healthful supply are now
gushing in every community and on
many farms in that fert lie empire
known as South Georgia.
To have banished the wasting mis-
cries of ague, the swift horrors of
hemorrhagic and other deadly fevers,
to hive improved the yigor and glow
of health to a stalwart manhood, the
rose and lily to the complexion of
now radiant women, to substitute a
rudy and clear eyed v gor, frosty
but kindly" for the ashen hue of age,
have sufficed to convince his people
that this thoughtful and observant
man has been a benefactor to the gem
Grafton contemporaneous with his
/ long and distinguished life, and to
multitudes which will live after him.
/ To him also is ascribable the fact
that the luscious and juicy peaches of
North Georgia, to the very foot of the
mountains, will rival the mantling
charms of Queen liberia herself in
the orchards of Hale, Rumph or
Willngham. A late achievement in
his demonstration that the apples
carefully cultivated under the refresh
ing precipitation of Rabun, Habersham
and the contiguous mountain counties,
will surpass in beauty and attractive
ness this hitherto unequaled fruit as
grown in the state of Washington and
other Pacific or transane states
where the Japan currant brings daily
to the vast orchards reviving fogs like
those which rest upon the romantic
Rabun Valley and gently creep down
through the Rabun, Testatee and
Unicoy Gaps to fruitfy and beautify
whatever gift of Pomona Their soft
vapors may caress.
I NH this
I triumph of the Georgia apple hangs
on the wall of that high school in the
/ Tennessee valley maintained for the
training and culture of our mountain
youth.
| While all of this is true the peop'e
of Georgia should know that recent
demonstrato on by this practical scien-
fist may be made of such value to
our state that it is simply inestimable.
/ 1t is this-that underneath many of
the counties of Georgia there flows or
sleeps a mighty subterranean stream
or lake. By tapping its pent-up and
/ ineXhaustible supply of living water,
the broad and long territory under
which it lies may be given a produce
/ tiveness richer than the valley of the
Nile. The attention of DR.. Fort was
drawn to this great subterranean sup
ply when his duty as Confederate
! so der called h m some miles south
| of Tallahassee, Florida. There he
saw for the first time the the Wakulla
River. At one leap it forces it's way
from its subterraneah imprisonment.
1t instantly becomes a great river,
twice the width of the Ocmulgee at
Macon, its waters clear as crystal
and deep enough, in the opinion of
the observer to float to the Gulf one
of the Dreadnaughts of our navy.
The Wakulla is but one outlet of
the stream or lake underlying the
Eocene formation of the state. An
other outlet it is thought discharges
in the ocean between Brunswick and
Fernandina There the flow of sweet
water from some unknown source oy-
ercomes in a wide circumference the
brine of the Atlantic. The latter
stream, DR.. Fort concludes, is tapped
by the artesian wells in the country
stretching from Midwife and Millen
to the coast at Tybee and to the south
ward into Florida.
1 The stream or AXE whose outflow
constitutes the Wakulla river has
been ascertained to head beneath the
county of Laurens. 1t is tapped by
the artes an wells of Dublin and other
communities of that county 1t eX-
tends from the north of Danville in
/ Twiggs far to the southeast OF Val
ambrose, the historical Plantation of
Governor Troup in Laurens. 1t under
/ lies the entire county of Pulaski and
from a point scarcely southeast OF
Montezuma in Macon to Vienna in
Dooly. The freeholders of the broad
and level lands of Sumter, of nearly
all of Webster, all OF Randolph, Ter
rell and Lee, much of Clay, all of Cal
houn, much to the east and all to the
west of the Flint River in Dougherty,
all of Baker, Early and Miller, much