The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-06-13
EDWARDS TALKS
OPT|M|ST|CALLY Of
FUTURE OF A.B8A.
Assistant to Receiver Pays Visit
to Brunswick After Max
ing Observations.
RAILROAD ALMOST
PAYING EXPENSES

Wf. EuWdfuS Gays prosperity is
Springing from the Fields and
the Woods Throughout South
ern Territory TraVersed by
A., B. & A.
]. L. Edwards, assistant to Receiver
B. L. Bugg, of the A, B. & A. Railroad,
spent yesterday in Brunswick looking
over the general situation with ref
erence to his road. During his stay he
made number of calls ON friends and
incidentally discussed business condi-
tions as relates to the A, B. & A.
Mr. Edwards paid a pleasant call on
The News and was exceedingly opti-
mistic as to the future of the road and
business conditions generally. He
stated that the A, B. & A. was now in
better condition than it had been for
some time, in fact for the past few
years. In making a general observs-
tion of conditions, Mr.. Edwards said:
March, April and May have been
the best months the Atlanta Birming-
ham & Atlantic railroad has had since
1916. We are not yet quite up to the
point of paying our operating expen-
ses, but we are getting so close to it.
that with the seasonal increase in gen.
ara I,rcf fFn Iaaf
only little way ahead of us. If our
good friends and patrons will continue
their support, we will be on a solid
basis of doing business in a compare
lively short time
THE industries, big and little in
the Birmingham district. coal mines,
iron furnaces, steel plants of all kinds,
pipe works, ETC., are now in full oper-
alton, and are good for large ton
mage to the A, B. & a. Lumber and
naval stores industries, both of which
commodities we handle in large vol
ume, are quite active, owing to the un-
Pl bClAldAd lOl
throughout the country. These, to-
gether constitute an important source
of revenue to the road.
THE increasing volume of business
into and out of Florida secured by the
A, B. & A. has been quite an impor-
tant factor in the improved earnings
reported during the past several
months.
'The dairy, live stock and sweet po-
tato industries of Georgia, and Ala
bama have been developed to the
point where the income secured by the
farmers who have gone into them, has
helped very aterially in lettering the
financial conditions now prevailing
throughout the territory traversed by
the A, B. & A. from Brunswick to At
lanta and to Birmingham.
''The general crops in most of the
A., B. & A. counties over the entire
road, Notwithstanding the heavy seas
onal rains which came earlier this
summer than usual. and have so far
done only a minimum amount of, dam
age, are much better than at any time
in the past five years. A substantial
Improvement of freight and passenger
traffic, due to the favorable crop pros
poets, may be considered as a practi-
cal certainty in the near future
"The first carload of tomatoes were
shipped from Georgia, was loaded at
Nichols last week, and understand
brought satisfactory price. This crop
ought to become a good traffic produc-
er for the road as well as good mon
ey maker for the growers of South
Georgia.
South Georgia has had success
full year in the growing and marketing
of cucumbers, green peas and snap
beans, and has shipped for the first
time many carloads from a considera-
BILE number of points-cukes from
Mershon, Nichols, Norman Park,
Moultrie and other points, snap beans
and peas from Woodbury., Mershon,
Warm SHprings, etc.
''The cantaloupe crop at Fitzgerald,
Moultrie and Norman Park, is in good
condition, and begins to move this
week. There has been no injury from
recent rains. The watermelon crop,
the largest ever planted in Georgia,
has suffered some from recent rains in
the extreme Southern tier of counties,
but the movement will be very large,
and will get under way from our sta
tions this week, few cars have al