The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-10-20
Outside Capital Started The In
dustry But Mobile Business
Men and Others Saw That
The Groves Would Be Good
Investments.
Committee Says The Soil of
That Section is Different from
That About Here But Does not
Think it Will Prevent Sue
Investments.

A mass meeting, called by the
Board of Trade, to be held in the city
hall next Tuesday night, will deter
mine Definitely, and prbably for good
wheather Brunswick is to have Sc
cure foundation for the future BY get
tling up the back country with pros
porous farmers, or whether the city Is
to go depandent on industries located
within her own limits and depend
ent upon financial and general bus
mess conditions prevailing through.
out the United States and the world
for their continued operation, and
even existence. This mass meeting
is for the purpose of organizing a col
loniZation and development COMPANY
through the effects of entire commrn
lty, and fer the gcod of the entire
population. Every citizen of Brun-
swick and Glynn county should attend
and do his part toward enabling
Glynn county to settle up her waste
lands and make them productive of
wealth, as they should be. The re-
port of the ccmmitte of bankers who
recently visited Mobile and invest
,igater the benefits derived from simil-
ar development and colonization there
follows. and should convince every
citizen that this mass meeting af-
fOrds the opportunity of a lifetime to
the people of Brunswick and Glynn
county and that the entire community
should attend;
The committee is composed of E.
L. Stevens, vice president of the
Glynn County Bank; L. #. McKinnon,
director of the National Bank, and N.
Emanuel director OF the Brunswick
Bank and Trust company. has made
the following report to the Brunswick
Board of Trade:
Your Committee representing the
three banks begs to make the follow
ing report:
Arriving Mobile at 4:30, Tuesday,
October 10th we were met by several
prominent citizens of Mobile and es-
corted to the famous Battle House"
where we were furished elegant buar-
tiers. Wednesday morning ia COM
mite composed of the following
trip through the Satsuma Orange
belt:
."Messrs. M. j. McDermott Presi-
dent, Bank of Mobile; NJ J. Wise, of
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad; w. ].
Henderson, Land and Industrial Agent
of the Southern Railway; R. R. Mac
Gregor, of the Grand Bay Land Co.,
w. H. Reynalds, E. F. Ladd. President
of the Merchants Bank; ]. H. Webb;
f. M. Bailey President of the Cham
Der cf Commerce o. F. f. Winbelg,
President of the Gulf Coast Hort
icultural Society; John c. Hensch and
d. r. Barbee. Mrs. M. J. Nc Der
mott. her sister Mrs. Lawless, and
MissAnnie McDermott were the ladies'
of the party.
"A careful inspection of the land
and the development brought to our
minds these facts:
First What appeared to have
wild. cut-over land five years ago,
is now cleared and planted in orange
and Pecan Groves, with cottage hire
and Pecan Groves, with cottages here
and prosperity. Three year old Sat
suma trees had quite heavy crop of
oranges-the older trees the heavier
the crop.
Second. The soil that is planted
in Satsuma oranges appears to be
quite different from our soil in most
parts of our county, theirs being a
clay-pebble formation, very similar
in appearance to the land around in
what is termed THE Cotton Belt. This
d Inference in soil however may not