The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1917-03-16
DRAINAGE MOVEMENT
IS COMMENDED BY
! COUNTY BOARD
Fine Bottom Land Would
Make Excellent Crops
Of Fine Corn

The movement headed by Judge
n. A. Morris and large
number of other land owners on
Alatoona Creek near Acworth to
cut big ditch about s miles long
and drain out the rich bottom lands
along this creek is rapidly getting
in shape ana the success of the
project seems assured.
This move has aroused interest
among large number of other land
owners who own the richest kind
OF bottom lands which could easily
be made to produce thousands of
bushels OF corn and add an enor-
nous amount to the land values Of
the county. The farmers are Just
now beginning to realize what they
have been losing all these years by
allowing the streams to fill up
and the bottom lands to overflow.
- Under the Farm Drainage Act it
Isl rendered possible for the owners
of 80 Of the acreage to be drained
on any given stream or 81 % OF the
number of owners affected, to come
together and get the benefit of the
act by cooperation and reduce the
cost to a minimum.
1t is said that in Gwinnett and
Walton counties several big drains
have been cut and hundreds of
acres reclaimed. This was just
few years ago. The land was too
wet for good pasturage, even but
now is converted into big corn
fields, worked by machinery and
annually producing enormous crops
Of corn.
This can be done in Cobb ana
it seems that the interest being Ia
ken in the matter now is going to
produce big results.
1t will be great benefit not on
! Iy in a commercial way but just
think CT the benefits a good drain
age system all over the county
would bring from sanitary stand
point
We already have a county prac-
! tically free from typhoid and mala-
ria and if all our swamps were
drained we could stamp these ont
entirely, we would have the health
lest section in the world.
Coco roads and low land drain
age viii in a few years completely
reUolutionize our conditions of
wealth and health and advertise us
to the world.
Judge j. NJ Gam, Ordinary, John
?. Cheney, Cobb's next Represen-
tatiye in the Legislature. Mr.. ]. M.
Austin, Mr.. Henry Shaw and a num-
| Der Of others who own land on Oh
ley's Creek, south of Marietta, have
made applications to the u. s.
Government to survey the bottom
lands ON this creek and it is their
intention to push the matter as
rapidly as possible and drain these
lands this year if possible.
Cobb Board of County Commits
sioners have become interested to
such an extent that at their meet
ing held Monday they passed the
following resolution:
WHEREAS a movement is now
on foot to drain several hundred
acres of creek bottom lands IN Cobb
| County under the Farm Drainage
act, one movement being already
well under way near Acwortn and
another being formed to drain out
Ollcy'G Greek, south Of Marietta,
and,
Whereas, in the opinion Of this
Board of Commissioners, nothing
could be done that could result in
greater benefit to our County ana
enhance the value of our lands, re-
claiming thousands Of acres of the
richest kind of bottom lands that
would produce all the corn cur
County could consume:
Therefore, be it resolved, that
this Board of Commissioners hereby
nearti!y endorse this movement and
we commend it to our people as
practical and economical way in
which TO cooperate with one ana
ther in bringing into cultivation
these fertile acres which have lain
idle and unproductive SO many
/ years
We believe if our people all get
together in this movement and en-
courage it we will soon have the
healthiest and richest county in
OR whole country.