The Brunswick news., 1912-10-15
ocTosER ISSUE CONTAINS FINE
ARTICLE ON RESOURCES
oFSrHE CITY. s,-,-
LEADS WORLD IN TIE EXPORTS
Commerce Totaled $43,666,t7t in 1910.
Second Port in Value of Naval
Stores, and Value of Cotton and
Lumber Reaches High Figure.

The following article is from TIE
October number of the Southern EialG
the magazine issued by the LAM ana
Industrial Department of the So 18th
ern Railway in the interest OF the
South.
The article was prepared by T IL.
Lamb editor of the Southern Field
who was in Brunswick gathering data
early in September:
Brunswick, the. coastal terminus of
the Macon Brunswick line, has a har-
Dor with depth of 80 feet, docks to
sea. Because it is practically land
locked by the islands to the east, the
port IS never liable to damage by
storms. The report of the chief of
engineers, United States army, for
1910 shows the commerce of the port
that year totaled $43 ,666,171. Bruins
wick is the largest tie exporting point
in the world, and second only to Sa-
vannah in value of naval stores. In
1910 Brunswick received 1885, 900 bar
rels of rosin, and $4,000 barrels of
spirits. Cotton exports annually ag-
gregate 100000 bales; lumber and
crossties, 202,7 feet B. NJ, and ma
val stores Al, ,0S3 barrels of turpen-
tine and 100000 barrels of rosin.
Among Brunswiek's industrial en-
terprises there are veneer aud pac-
kage factory which sends its prod
ucts to nation wide points; a naval
stores plant with an annual output
valued at $t,0O0,000; canning con-
cern which handles $4,000 worth OF
oysters annually; a lumber plant
which is one of the largest in the
South; marine railways capable OF
caring for 1,000-ton ships; two cigar
factories employing $50 men; ferti-
lizer factory; an iron foundry, bar
rel factory; twenty wholesale estab'
lishments and jobbers; and numbers
of lumber and cross tie exporters and
cotton dealers. -
The census of 1910 places the pop
ulation of Brunswick at 10000. The
citys federal building cost $1j0,000;
and the city hall and county court
house are well equipped, handsome
structures. There is street car ser
vice which will be extended to eight
miles at an early date; paved streets
and eleven beautiful parks. A pro-
gressive daily newspaper, an active
board of trade and an Advancement
Association with a membership alive
to the growth of the city, are among
the actors in Brunswick Three banks
have a combined capital of $375,000.
An excellent school system and i'm
| posing church building attest educa-
tional and religious interest.
Three railroad lines and half-doz-
en- steamship companies give Bruins
wick excellent transportation ABILITIES
| by rail and water.
Hardwood working plants, furniture
factories, cotton mills and cottonseeo
oil mills will find here desirable To-
cation. Raw material can be brought
by rail or water down the Ocmulgee,
Altamaha or OcOnee rivers ana the
finished product shipped by railroad
or steamer lines.
OF the soils Of Glynp county and
their adoption to truck growing the
United States Soil Survey report says:
Sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, Or
ions, beans, tomatoes, lettuce, pep
! pers, okra, and a number of other
crops have given excellent results.
With proper effort there is no reason
why there should not be built up di-
yersified and extensive agricultural in.
terests, particularly in trucking. as
with proper soil selection and man
agement there should be no trouble
in growing the crops"
Six miles from Brunswick TO the
eastward lies st. Simons island, once
an important producing point for Sea
Island cotton. In the muck soils of
st. Simons the long staple thriyes. but
of recent years the production Of this
crop has decreased. The island has a
population Of 700 people, and is IA
miles long and 3 IL miles way. There
are lands available at $40 and $50 an
acre that have produced and cTn pro-
duce again a bale Of long staple TO
the acre. and Sea Island cotton sells
for 20 10 % cents a pound
Indicative Of the salubriety Jt this
.., cr ls The es.sDllshmen' ~ o nil
ug1ares club with magnificent