The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-10-08
Going to Mobile Tomorrow
Night to Visit the Many
Large Groves Around That
Section and Report to Those
Locally Interested.
L. T. MCKinnOn, From The Ma
tiOnal; N. Emanuel, From the
Brunswick Bank and Trust
Company; E. L. Stephens. of
Glynn County and Mr.. Dunn.

BY sending to Mobile committee
from the three banks, accompanied
by the farm demonstration agent for
Glynn county, Brunswick is going to
determine the benefits that Mobile
has derived from the far-famed agri-
cultural development that has been
in progress for the past six or eight
bility of the same plan for the up
building of the cut-over pine lands
of Glynn county. The report of tn"
committee of bankers and that from
the farm demonstration agent will de-
termine whether Brunswick shall i'm
undertake development
along somewhat similar lines.
On Monday night the bankers com
mittee consisting of l.. r. McKinnon.
from the National bank of Brunswick; /;
N Emanuel, from the Brunswick
Bank and Trust company, and f. L..
Stephens, from the Glynn County
bank, with j. l.. Dunn, county farm
will leave for Mobile.
via Atlanta. at which point several
prominent railroad OFFICIALS and bust
ness men likely will join them, on
invitations from the Brunswick Board
-" Trade. 1t is understood that these
Atlanta people are ''ery much inter
ested in the investigation and the pos
sibilities of securing a tremendous de-
velopment and colonization of the
waste lands in Glynn county and the
coast section of Georgia. though the
pulling power of the Satsuma orange,
which is admitted to be more power
ful in its attraction to prospective set
tiers than general farming. trucking,
or cattle and hog raising can be, be-
cause they can raise all of the latter
in the west, while they recognize the
of growing oranges
where they now live. The Mobile peo-
nle say that the Satsuma is the secret
If the successful colonization plans
hat have been worked in that sec
lion, that every northerner hopes
some day to own an orange grove in
he South, and that. with this attrac-
ion, settlers can be secured in such
numbers as tc make the average cost
FOR securing each family so low as to
permit a good profit to the develop
ment company which is rarely the
ease with the companies attempting
an,Nt nd
onization, because the settlers they
secure are so few and struggling that
he expenses of securing them eat up
Ill the possible profits.
II the report of the committee Is IA
to Brunswick engaging in sim
liar development at least one com
Dany will be formed to undertake a
development CT land, in
Z demonstration farm, and the coloni-
,ation of Glynn county lands. 1t Is
understood that the efforts will not be
confined tc Satsuma groves, but will
over general farming truck growing
r., tho raising Of some hogs and cat
-ie, it being the determination Of the
Interested parties to make the entire
we'll fitted to provide a
wing fer the settler during the time
his coming and the time
when his Satsuma grove begins tn
vield a handsome profit II is part Of
he plan that the proposed cornora-
ion operate on anv suitable lands in
he county or this immediate section.
md colonization NAV take place at
various points at the same time as
he plan will not confine the oDera.
lions to anv one tract or locality.
The work done by Secretarv Sh,'th
If the Board Of Trade during the six
months of investigation and negotia-
ions he has conducted, including n
trip tn the Mobile section in July. has
already resulted in one Of the latest
.lurscfv cnmpanies N the Mobile dis
rict securing a tract Of thirty acres.
admirabl located -)r observation
rom trains and automobiles. and IL
T.. stated that thew intend to ocnuire a
acres or more additional
'and for nursery and orchard Dur-
7cses. This concern. the Chronicle
Nursery and Orchard comnany. Cit
rorelle Alabama. has written the
Board of Trade that they will begin