The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-06-24
Facts About Georgia
Which Everybody
Should Know.


ISouth to dwell upon and in OLE
times the Southern orators that die
not talk about them stood a poo
chance OF accomplishing much wher
popularity counted for anything
THE South was fairly booming the
year preceding the outbreak OF thu
| War between the States, Georgis
having the most rapid progress o.
Iany State in the Unicn up to that
time, or any country in the world
1t was in consequence OF the
State having made such gigantic
strides that Georgia was honored
with the title of THE Empire State
of the SOUTH, Georgia led at that
time in the number of railroads
built, and, in fact, maintained the
lead in railroad construction for
many years. She led also in the
increase in taxable property, but
the whole South was teeming with
prosperity and wealth. 1t is inter-
esting to look back OH her great ac-
com plishments in order that one
may Judge of her future achieve
inents.
Among the latest boosters-and
he is disseminating good reports OF
the entire South-is Charles w.
Towne, who came to Atlanta re-
Gently from New York City as
manager of public relations for the
Georgia Railway and Power Com
pany. Mr.. Towne, soon after his
arrival, declared that he was going
to ioin the ranks of the Georgia
Boosters and he has been true to
his word. His first move was to
begin the publication OF The EN-
pire State", a bulletin publication
which is posted in every street car
in Atlanta and is read daily by
100000 people. The latest issue
carried a map of Georgia and facts
about its territory and resources
which should make every Georgian
exclaim, as Mr.. Towne does HIM
self in his bulletin, ITS Great to
he a Georgian. F" The bulletin is
Just one Of his many activities
reports are made regularly to north-
e.n and eastern newspapers, all
setting forth big facts about the
resources of Georgia and the South.
Here are few facts about Geor-
gia which everybody should know:
Georgia is:
First in peaches and sweet pota-
toes.
Second in cotton, peanuts, sugar
cane and oats and mules
Third in cotton and corn, water
melons and conteIoupes.
Fourth in wheat, tobacco, apples,
Deals.
Fifth in COW peas; sixth in hay !;
seventh in rice; eighth in number
Of horses and sheep; ninth i'll Irish
potatoes.
Value of agricultural products
$725 100000.
Georgia las the largest tobacco
plantation in the countrywide OC
acres with $500 employees.
The value of hogs in Georgia wal
placed at $53, 900, 900 and the value
of the cotton crop last year $107,.
100000. The by-products alone
of one Georgia cotton crop brough
more than S72,O00,000. One Ra
bun county farmer sold 81, 40(
worth of celery from one acre il
1918. One Dougherty county
farmer has produced as high al
1855 bushels OF sweet potatoes t.
the acre. A Lowndes county MAJ
produced watermelon that weighed
147 pounds. From $500 to $50(
per acre profit is common in Geor
gia.
/ Georgia is the largest state east o
/ the Mississippi River. 1t has ever.
climate of the United States, say,
e Arctic. The average telnpera
ture in winter is 48 and in summe
rs.
From North Georgia comes tn
marble that built the Capitol o
Minnesota, the Memorial Hall o