The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-06-17
LETTER FROM GEORGIA.
J. Cal Mann Writes Of His Impression
of Conditions in The South Land.
Cheap Farms.

an expert mechanic takes him all
over the country writes interest
ingly of a State that the average
Northerner knows but little about
Here's his letter:
Thinking that some of your
readers might be interested in
some of the things that interest
me in this south land, will risk
sending you a few items. First,
let me say that am especially
interested in the railroad pro-
ject you have in hand now to
connect Fort Loudon and McCon-
nellsburg. The Fulton county
newspapers do no seem to be
greatly excited over it, however,
for an event of so much impor-
tance to Fulton county should be
heralded in 6-inch type, an d
painted on all sign posts. Well
[ am hoping that when / come
home | can buy a through ticket
at Fort Loudon, and make the
trip to McConnellsburg on a fast
train without stops.
"On the oath of May, COM
pleted the building of a grain ele-
vator at Norwalk, 0. / Ihad nev-
err before had opportunity to see
Ohio in spring attire; and she is,
certainly at this season, a beau
tiful state. | am led to wonder
whether those thousands of ac-
res of wheat, corn, and oats shall
become sustenance for the war
ring nations across the seas or
shall remain at home to make
cheaper food for our own people.
My trip through Ohio might be
pictured by the letter 4. Going
in out of Pittsburgh to Toledo;
from Toledo to GAINESVILLE and
Cincinnati. Taking a night train
out of Cincinnati saw little of
the country as | passed through
Kentucky. Day broke probably
an hour above the historic old
city of Chattanooga. At one o.
clock, p. M, we reached the city
of Atlanta; at 4:45, we were at
Macon, Ca, and Culverton-my
point of destination-at 8 o'clock
p. m.
"Culverton, the town at which
| am at present located, is a lit
tie village in a farming district
in Hancock county, Ca, about so
miles east of Macon, on the Geor-
gia railroad. We are about $50
miles northwest of Jacksonville.
The northern part of Georgia is
rough; but down this way the
country is simply beautiful. The
climate is fine, the sun of course
comes down the near way, but
there is always a nice breeze GO
ing. Hancock county is not flat,
but rolling sufficient for fine drain
age. There are no hills, one can
see the head light of a locomotive
six miles away. There is practi-
cally no twilight. After Old Stl
sneaks behind the horizon, form
ed by pine groves, pecan and
peach orchards, it is dark. The
soil is mostly of a red clay under
laid by a deep subsoil that is any
where from six to thirty-five feet
in depth. The eastern section is
underlaid by gray canister rock,
and when there is an occasional
rock cropping, tits always ganis-
ter. The soil is very productive
of all kinds of crops, except
where it has been robbed by sue
cessive groupings, and this is
quite frequently the case. Two
crops year of almost all kinds
of grain may readily be grown.
when | came here on the 2Sth
of May, oats harvest was in full
swing. They raise a winter va
riety of oats which is sown in the
late fall. After the oats is har-
vested in the last of May, they
make the ground ready for cot
ton, corn, beans, peas, or pota-
toes. Two crops of Irish potatoes
are grown, one succeeding the
other.
"There-is quite colony of
Northern people in this county,
and the surprise to the writer is
that there are not more of them