The Brunswick news., 1922-07-30
.R0SEATE VIEW Of
. ST SIMON. ISLAND
AND IT'S FUTURE
Atlanta Correspondent Of TIE
News Sees Great Future for
This Queen of Islands
HISTORICAL AS WELL AS
MOST BEAUTIFUL SPOT
Now That Bridge is Almost an
Assured Fact, It is Believed
That Extensive Truck Farm
ing Will Follow as Well as
Other Big Developments.

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Other Big Developments,
| The Atlanta correspondent of The
brunswick News sends the following,
which is all true and full of interest:
| Brunswick is now authorized to join
Glynn county in providing half the
money for the st. Simon highway and
an election will be called at an early
date. s
! Glynn county voted for bonds last
fall. At that time the citizens of Bruins
wick were given an opportunity to ex
lpress themselves for or against the
bond issue. Out of the total register
ed votes of thety only thirteen votes
were cast against bonds for the pur-
pose mentionea ~
A vigorous @mpaign will be started
Immediately bythe citizens of Bruins
wick to secure he approval of the
bond issue and it ishxpected work will
soon be started on thfssAEoiect, whic1s
has had the attention of the peyp4e 81
South Georgia for years.
st. Simon is one of the most attrac-
tive seacoast recreation resorts in all
of the South. 1t is theaoiily island on
the South Atlantic coast Which is now
available for Development as place
of residence and recreation.
! A town site is proie&ted at Palm
Harbor, which is the ate of the old
HiltonDodge LumbeEMill, also the
site of the home ofSsfIon, Alexander
Couper. one of the$frst Settlers sof
Georgia At this pdht4ther@is a mag
iniffcent grove Of Fhmmoth hive oaks Ks
!set out by Mr.. q@Rper more than 100
years ago. The magnificent trees.
Vigorous and lhriant in foliage are
festooned with panish moss, and occu-
py a commaaing bluff ON beautiful
Frederick Rer, facing the Marshes OF
sGlynn, iustpposite Brunswick.
E Home kes will be provided for
Georgia eople at this point and it is
iexpectGE that an extensive develop
ment@ Satsuma oranges will be un-
dertA*en ON the fertile lands, upon
WiA3h Meade cotton-recently develop
es4 Iong staple. cotton now advocated
l# u. s. department of agriculture. in
s@lace of sea-island cotton--is being
Egrown by the st. Simon Island Invest
rnnent Company.
MANY acres of this long staple cotton
khas been planted on st. Simon island
this year and latest reports indicate
that the prospe9ts are favorable for
splendid yield-some of the cotton Civ.
ing promise to yield as much as two
bales of cotton per acre
/ w. w. Croxton, passenger traffic
manager of the Atlanta, Birmingham
and Atlantic railway, has been con-
Quoting some tests of calcium arsenate
to combat the boil weevil and reports
splendid and satisfactory results from
the intelligent application of calcium
Earsenate.
4 Few people realize that more veal.
THY northern people spend their win
ters in Georgia than any other South
ern state Jekyl Island Club, Where
the membership of America q wealth.
lest families spend their winters is To-
lcated on an island of that name. JUST
west of ST. Simon which. together with
i st. Simon, iandlocks the magnificent
brunswick sharbof Frederick river,
which passes between St Simon, and
1.-THE mainland. is part Of the route of
the inland waterways and along the
mainland side Of st. Simon, facing
i Frederick river, the soil is particular
lly fertile and splendidly adapted for
4 the development of the Satsuma
iorange, which has made. Mobile fam
sEous, as wei las other vegetable crops,
4 It is proposed, now that the bridge
is an assured fact, that extensive truck
gardens will be established on St Si-
mon in addition to the. development Of
beautiful building lots for residents at
Palm Harbor. Nature has been most
4generous in providing man with many
sources of livelihood and recreation at
4 st. Simon.
I st. simon is the largest island on
the Atlantic coast south of long ISL
and, The total areasof land is about
10000 acres. &