Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-30
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W|ouM Be IT Georgians
Worked. Like Calft0rnianS!

mot as good as they are before they
are canned"
Georgia as Known Afar
That's the way those who know
Georgia out here look upon our
products. have had California
peach as good as the Georgia peach.
They all frankly admit that Geor-
gia is the pecan section and that
this. one crop alone would make
Georgia world-famous if we would
only go after it like they are go
ing after development out here.
was talking with one of the Califor-
mia live wires a day or so ago, and
when 1 told him that Georgia ap-
pies had taken five international pre-
miums he couldn't believe it. He
frankly said he did not know we
the country. Truth is, the great ma
jority of people out here, those who
have only general knowledge of
the south, thinh that Georgia is a
corn and cotton state and that we
raise nothing else. One man I met
who is stock man, said ~he was
in Georgia about twenty years ago
and he remembered Georgia as a
state that made cotton almost ex-
elusively and bought her meat and
bread in the middle west. In fact,
he started out to give me some ad-
vice and advised that l go back to
Georgia and tell the Georgia people
to go to making their own meat and
bread. You should have seen how
surprised he was when I told him
we were already doing that.
They have told me of the Won
derful Sacramento valley out here
and what it will produce. One of
the crops they boast of in the Sac
ramento valley is tobacco. They
We're very much surprised when |
told them that. in Georgia we had
the country, $4,000 acres with 3D.
500 employees. They have been boast
ing to me ever since 1 came out
here that CALIFORNIA; rice crop last
season amounted to $72,000,000. 1t
may interest you Georgia people to
know that he by-products alone
brought more than $72,0OO,00O. Re-
member, by-products only.
Some Failures in California
They tell you only of their sue
cesses out here. That is why their
descriptions are so glowing. L have
side of California, however. 1 have
talked with hard-headed bankers
men who are not accustomed to ro-
mancing-and their information has
always been that there is a "seamy"
side-that there are failures as we'll
DIS SuCSSSSSS. VIC 1Cd1 CStdIS IIAdAL
was Boosting to me of how a
friend of his had sold his crop of
grapes this year for $500 an acre,
and the buyer is to do the picking.
That sounds fine. but that land is
worth 81, 900 an acre. Considering
and don't forget, it certainly costs
something to look after grape
misunderstanding with now and
then failure, do. you think that
is such a large yield? 1 told him
sold os sf46o 1V Worth e of Celery from ONE
acre in 1913. He was surprised of
course, because they didn't think we
could raise celery in Georgia. Most
Georgia people don't know it either,
but you can if you prepare for it
like they do out here and in Florida.
One Dougherty county farmer has
produced as high as 756 bushels of
sweet potatoes to the acre, and you
know what they are now worth. A
LoWndes county man produced q
pounds. I have been told that one
Georgia farmer made around 81
900 on one intensively cultivated
acre. 1 don't propose to vouch for
that, but I just give you this to
show that we make some claims as
that from $500 to $500 an acre prof
it's are common in Georgia, accord
ing TO agricultural reports in my
aeorgia's Mining Opportunities
They are very proud of the fact
out here that California is only
sixth from an agricultural and hor-
ticultural standpoint, but did you
know that Georgia is only fourth.
Georgia is first in peaches. She is
second only to Texas in cotton, and
if it were not for the area of Tex
as she would be first. Georgia is
third in meat production. While
Georgia is largely an agricultural
state, her mining opportunities are
wonderful. l paid a visit to the Cal
ifornia state fair this week and had
a rather interesting talk with the
man in charge of the mining ex-
hibits. He took a great deal of
pride in showing me an exhibit of
asbestos. Georgia laid claim for a
long while to the only asbestos mine
in the world, with the exception of
Wyoming. Georgia has the largest
deposit of kaolin. She has 142 square
miles of coal; IT'S square miles of
iron; besides her deposits of gold
and other minerals.
The thing that impresses you
most out here is the bigness of the
undertakings. These people out here
are accustomed to thinking in big
figures. They think in millions when
they undertake a project of any
kind. They have to do this to get
anywhere, because they have to
spend millions and millions Of dol
lars getting their land so it will
produce. They have faith in them