The Dawson news., 1921-06-28
Georgia Resources Are Told to World.

| Southern resources are never ending
theme for the enthusiastic friends OF the south
! to dwell upon, and in old times the southern
orators that did not talk about them stood
poor chance OF accomplishing much when pop
uarity counted for anything. The south was
fairly booming the year Immediately preced-
ing the outbreak OF the war between the
states, Georgia having the most rapid prog
ress OF any state in the union 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 miles OF railroad built, and, an tact,
maintained the lead in railroad construction
for many years. She led also in the Increase
in taxable property, but the whole south was
Iteeming with prosperity and wealth. 1t IS IN
teresting to look back on her great accom-.
plishments in order that one may Judge OF
her future achievements
Among the latest Georgia boosters~-and
he is disseminating good reports OF the entire
south-is Charles w. Towne, who, came to
Atlanta recently from New York city as man
ager of public relations for the Georgia Rall-
way and Power Company. Mr.. Iowne, soon
after his arrival, declared that he was gong
to join the ranks OF the Georgia Boosters and
he has been true to his word. His first move
was to begin the publication of The Empire
State a bulletin publication read daily
by 250000 people. The latest issue carried
map of Georgia and facts about its territory
and resources which should make every Geor-
gian exclaim, as Mr.. Towne does himself in
his bulletin, ITS great to be a Georgian"
The bulletin is just one of his many acttvl-
ties-reports are made regularly to northern
and eastern newspapers, all setting forth big
facts about the resources of Georgia and the
south.
Here are a few OF the facts about Georgia
which everybody should know. Georgia is:
First in peaches and sweet potatoes.
Second in cotton peanuts, sugar cane and
oats and mules
Third in cotton and corn, watermelons and
cantelOupeS.
Fourth in wheat tobacco apples, pears.
Fifth in cowpeas; sixth in hay; seventh in
rice; eighth in number OF horses and sheep;
ninth in Irish potatoes
Value in agricultural products, S725,000, ,000
Georgia has the largest tobacco plantation
i'll the country-25,000 acres, with $500 en-
ployes.
The value of hogs in Georgia was placed at
$53,000000, and the value OF the cotton crop
last year at $107000000 The by-products
alone from one Georgia cotton crop brought
more than $72,000,000. One Rabun county
farmer sold 81 400 worth of celery from one
acre in 1913. One Dougherty county farmer
has produced as high as 756 bushels of sweet
potatoes to the acre. A Lowndes county man
produced a watermelon that weighed 147
pounds From $500 to $500 per acre profit is
common in Georgia.
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mis-
sissippi river. 1t has every climate of the
United States, save the Arctic. The average
temperature in winter is 48 and in summer 78.
From north Georgia comes the marble that
built the capitol of Minnesota, the Memorial
Hall of Kansas the Corcoran Art Gallery at
Washington and the Girard Trust Building in
Philadelphia.
In Lumpkin county may be seen the mines
from which the government obtained its en-
tire supply of gold prior to its discovery in
California in 1849.
Within sixteen miles of Atlanta is the larg-
est single mountain of granite on the face
Of the earth.
The Georgia apple took first prize at. the
fair in Oregon. The peach ranks with the
watermelons as the best the world affords
and solid trains carry these products from
Maine to California
The south has more than half the iron ore
in the United States and Is per cent of all
the cooking coal. Five million horsepower is
available in southern streams