The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1923-06-22
A STATE PORT = WHAT 1T MEANS
,
WHOM 1T WILL SERVE--HOW GEORGIA PRODUCERS
CAN SECURE SUCH FACILITIES.


consent that this institution be GREAT
eel, owned and operated by any aGgre-
cation Of private capital, any partic-
ular City or County.
The project includes inbound and
outbound railway yards. The out
bound receiving yard will hold seven
sixty car trains. The classification
yard for the same service, will pro-
cide ten forty-car tracks, all directly
connected with dock facilities.
A storage yard with capacity Of
seven hundred cars.
A supporting warehouse five hun
bred (500) feet long by Two Hundred
(2O0) feet wide, and six (6) stories
high.
A grain elevator system, two mil
lion (2,000,000) bushel capacity.
FACILITIES FOR PERIsHAaLEs
A cold storage warehouse, two hun.
dred (200) feet long by one hundred
twenty-five (125) feet wide, seven (7)
stories high; five (5) stories being
for sold storage, approximately one
million (1,000,000) cubic feet Of refrig"
orator capacity. On each cold stor-
age floor will be we'll ventilated corri-
doris in which sampling, exhibitions
and sales may be taking place. The
ground floor constructed for offices,
to be rented to jobbers for cold stor-
age, and for the main offices of the
Cooperative Selling Organizations Of
tho Ctcto NJ NaOrpio
Ample storage and handling Of
Naval Stores, and other bulk non
perishable products
A modern plant for the unloading
and shipping Of Fertilizer products.
Ample facilities for the storage and
handling Of Cotton.
The site of Georgia's State Port will
surely become an all-the-year market
for cotton, and will very likely be-
como the chief market for cotton in
America.
Docking facilities will provide &C.
commodatiops for from eight (8) to
twenty 900 ships, taking general
cargo at one berthing.
1t was estimated that a compre
hensive Terminal based upon con-
struction costs for the Spring Of 1922,
Won cost approximately, allowing
One Million $4,000, 000.O0) Dollars for
unforeseen items, and One Million
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
| Isl ,250000.00) Dollars interest during
construction, Fifteen Million (S15,-
000,08.00) Dollars.
The site required of Savannah by
the HarbOr, Port and Terminal Com
mission is valued at Two and One
half Million Dollars. This site is to
be gift to the State. The proposed
Constitutional amendment provides
that the entire plant and the site are
to secure the bonds.
WITHOUT COST TO THE TAX
PAYERS: Georgia can build and
maintain State Port without cost to
the taxyers Of the State. Practical
| demonstrations elsewhere have prov
cd conclusively that this use of pub
lie credit does not necessltats In any
way the leVying Of any taxes upon tho
people. Louisiana, for instance, has
permitted the use Of It's State credit
up to thirty-five million dollars for
such plant at New Orleans. OF this
credit less than twenty million dol
lar have been used during the past
fifteen years and the people Of Louis
lana have not been called upon to ooEl-
tribute one cent. The great State
Port at New Orleans has met all ex-
penses, including interest and bonds,
and made handsome net profit in
addition. Is there any reason to be-
lieve the great ealth-produclng State
OF Georgia could not duplicate this ex-
perience while its producers at the
same time were enjoying the vast
benefits accruing from diverstfication
and increased production pnd up to
date marketing methods? The fifteen
million dollars includes the cost Of
construction, and interest on the
bonds until the entire plant Is con-
struoted and In operation. Thereafter,
the plant, as going concern, will pay
It's operation, interest and create
sinking fund to retire the bonds.
The proposed State owned and op-
Grated Terminal is to be built by the
State Of Georgia, under the direction
Of the State, to be paid for by the
State Of Georgia,-no City or County
Of Georgia being interested in the
slightest particular in the cost Of con
structiOn, or in any way concerned, or
participating In the expenditure Of
the cost Of construction The pro-
ceeds from the bonds as sold, will be
placed in Banks in different parts OF
the state, and draw interest until ex-
pended
The state will run no risk of either
losing it's money, or OF having to pay
interest on the bonds from other
sources OF income.
If THE PRODUCERS OF GEOR-
GIA WANT THESE SUPERB MAR
KETING AND SHIPPING FACILI-
| TIES, CREATED FOR THEM. MAN
AGED AND OPERATED BY THEM,
THEY CAN HAVE THEM. ALL
THAT Is NEEDED IS FOR THEM
TO BRING THEIR INFLUENCE TO
BEAR DIRECTLY UPON THEIR
LEGISLATORS TO SUBMIT THE
MATTER no THEM THROUGH A
| UNCONSTITUTIONAL, AMENDMENT