The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-10-08
A Splendid Movement.

Mobile section to investigate the ben
Gifts that have accrued there from
the agricultural development made
possible drought the attraction
and pulling power OF the Satsuma
orange, and 10 report on their return
the result of their Investigations to
the Board of Trade, deserves the com
mendation of the entire community
The News bespeaks for them the
thanks Of the community. and especi
ally to the public-spirited officers oil
the three banks, who have agreed to
lay aside their business affairs and
make the trip. is credit due.
The position occupied in the com.
munity life by the banker is one OF
great responsibility. More than any
other one man, he can make or break
the community itself He has grave
responsibilities in deciding upon loans
to business houses, and he has a duty
to the community to perform of even
greater consequence in acting as a
judge Of the merits Of new PROPOSE
tons for the upbuilding of the manu-
features, or agriculture and In assist
ing, or refraining from doing so, ac-
cordingly as the proposed industry
contains merit and possibilities for
the upbuiding OF the community
wealth.
We feel sure that Messrs. l.. T.
representing the National
Bank of Brunswick; N Emanuel, rep
resenting the Brunswick Bank and
Trust company; and Il. l.. Stephens,
the Glynn County Bank,
will make a most thorough investiga-
tion of the agricultural development
In the Mobile section and the benefits
to Mobile and Mobile county which,
according to data in the hands OF
the Brunswick Board of Trade, which
has been investigating the matter for
over six months, have, directly and
indirectly, amounted to $20,0O0,000 to
$50 900 600. The information as to
total increase In wealth was obtained
from different reliable sources, among
them the Southern railway company,
the Gulf Coast Citrus exchange, and
the Mobile chamber Of commerce, and
may well be considered reliable, and
at least worthy of investigation
The News desires TO commend the
banks of this exhibition of their in
terest in the advancement of agricul-
ture in Glynn county. and also to
express the community's appreciation
of the action of the Glynn county com
missioners in voting unanimously to
send Farm Demonstration Dunn with
the committee of bankers for the
purpose of investigating soils and
and fitting himself to aid
the large number of our local farm
ers who intend to plant considerable
acreages in Satsuma oranges during
the coming winter.
Ii The report rendered by the COM
mittee is favorable to the establish
ment of Satsuma and general farm
ing development in Glynn county, it
will result in the forma.
ton of one or more companies to
plant and develop our waste cut-over
pine lands and to bring in thousands
Of settlers as has been done around
Mobile, whore the lure of the orange
has enabled some forty or fifty de-
companies to colonize fast
enough to keep their expenses of
operation from eating them up. 1t
win decide number of Glynn county
farmers for or against planting the
Satsuma orange in commercial way.
no investigation has ever
been so fraught with possibilities for
the development of Brunswick and
Glynn county. for without an agrieul'
tural foundation in well.settled,
prosperous back country, no city can
expect to attain great size or porma-
nent prosperity.