The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-19
President OF Southern Settle
mcnt and Development Or
ganization in City.
TALKS OF GEORGIA LANDS
Trouble in the Past, lie Says,
Has Been Defect in the Law,
Which Has Caused Trouble
in Titles.

r. NJ. Pindell, Jr., vice president
of the Southern Settlement and De.
velopment Organization, of Baltimore
was in Brunswick yesterday and call
ed on Major c. Downing, treasurer
of the Georgia Land Owners asso-
citation, and Secretary Smith, of the
Board of Trade. For nearly two
years Mr.. Pindeli has spent most OF
his time in Georgia working to better
conditions for the settling up of the
millions of acres Of fertile, but un-
developed. land in South Georgia To
lay the foundation for development,
Mr.. Pindell long ago recognized that
it was first necessary to eradicate
the cattle tick and to secure the pas
sage of legislation in Georgia that
would enable land owners, who arc
so inclined, to register and establish
in court clear titles to the land they
own. When interviewed. Mr.. Pindell
said:
"Throughout Georgia's history much
Of the land, especially that in South
Georgia, has been difficult to sell be
cause of defective titles. Purchasers
or rather would-be purchasers, have
come to Georgia, struggled and fought
to find clear chains of title to land
and have gone away disgusted to buy
in Florida and other states, amona
them Alabama, where the land was
originally in the possession of the
United States government and the
titles run back, without even a cloud
direct to the government grants OF
homesteads.
For more than a year the South
ern Settlement and Development Or
ganization, which owns no land and
is not interested in any particular
section, but was founded to work for
the development of the entire south
has been trying to organize an asso
citation of land owners in Georgia
as we had already done in Florida
with wonderfully beneficial results
to work out the two necessary pro.
jects which must be carried out be
fore the waste lands can be settled
up. These two projects are tick Grad
ication and the registration and val
idation of land titles. We have near
ly completed the organization of the
and expect to reach the point of hay
ing 100000 acres pledged, at which
time it will, under the agreements,
be formally and permanently organ
lied, before winter We have nearly
that acreage pledged to tick eradi,
cation now.
THE officers and members of the
Georgia Land Owners association
have already accomplished a great
deal toward the desired end even
though formal organization has not
been perfected. Much sentiment in
favor of the proposed legislation has
been aroused by meetings and throuet
the quiet influence Of those who have
enlisted in the campaign to make
Southl Georgia the center of meat and
crop production of the union.
Il am highly gratified tnat the ses.
sion of the legislature of Georgia,
just closed, passed both of these
measures. The law passed affecting
tick eradication provides that tick in.
tested cattle shall not be transported d
from one county to another. The
United States laws already provide
a quarantine against the transporta.
ton of infected cattle in interstate
commerce. Under the provisions OF
the law of Georgia, as | now under
stand it, an owner of cattle will be
obliged only to dip his cattle and rid
them of ticks to be permitted to ship
them either for slaughter or breed.
ing purposes, so that the law, while
it prevents the distribution of the
tick into freed territory, and will tend