The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-06-10
A FARM MEETING
HELD LAST NIGHT
INTERESTING REPORT WAS SUB.
MiTTED BY THE SPECIAL
COMMITTEE
TO PURCHASE EIGHTY ACRES
Which is to Be Cleared, Sub Divided
Into Ten-Acre Tracts and Sold to
Farmers on Easy Payments-Fisht
ION for Better Farming.

To form company to be known as
the Glynn County Farm company,
with a capital sto%z of $4,000 said
company to purchase eighty acres of
land and sub-divide it into ten-acre
tracts and sell same to farmers, is
the features of report ubmitted at
a general meeting of citizens held
last night by special committee re-
Gently appointed to recommend a
plan for improving farming conditions
in Glynn county.
The committee, which was appoint
ed some time ago, and being uompos-
ed of F. E. Twitty, chairman L. H.
Haym, E. c. Bruce and C. D. Par
ker, has looked fully into the matter
and the plan they have recommended
seems to be very feasible one and
it is more than likely that such a
company will be organized at once
The report in full, giving details of
just what is contemplated is as fol-
lows:
To the Citizens of Brunswick and
Glynn County in Meeting Assem-
bled June 9th, 1914:
We, the undersigned, comprising
the committee appointeii by tho
board of trade to devise and submit
to the public some feasible plan for
the more rapid development and util-
ization Of the lands of the county,
beg to submit the following:
That a corporation to be known as
Glynn County Farm company be or
ganized with minimum capital
stock of $4,000, all shares to be Of
the par value of $25 each, to be paid
in ten equal monthly instalments,
with authority to increase the stock
from time to time according to the
requirements of the company.
That the corporation purchase at
first about eighty acres of land and
subdivide the same into eight ten
acre tracts -four of these tracts lying
adjacent to be enclosed with substan-
tial wire fence, four acres on each
tract to be cleared and made ready
for cultivation small but substan-
tial three or four room house to be
erected on each of the four tracts,
these houses to be near together on
the community plan "a three inch
artesian we'll to be bored and the
owner of each of the four tracts to
have equal and perpetual rights in
such well.
1t is estimated that each ten acre
b.act thus improved will cost the
company $3.50, Each of these tracts
shall then be put on the market at
$1,000, not less than one-fifth of the
purchase price to be paid in cash,
and the balance on easy payments,
say at six or seven per centum per
annum. AS these places are thus
sold the company will continue to i'm
prove the other tracts in the same
manner.
The great r..-S4acle to the develop
ment of our lands is that it is now
impossible to acquire small tracts
that are ready for immediate occu-
pancy and cultivation. All settlers
must first build houses in which to
live. clear and fence the land they
wish to cultivate and this would re-
quire at least twelve months. This
is the old western frontier method,
and cannot longer be successfully
operated.
There are thousands of industrious
and capable farmers in the middle
west and in other sections of the
country who can sell their lands at
good prices and who would be glad
TSta come to the South and particular
ly to Georgia If the proper indu e.
ments were offered. We believe the
plan, If adopted. VIII solve the prob
lem OF the development Of our lands
and in our judgment this develop
ment-so essential to the prosperity
of our City and County-will be in
definitely postponed unless such a