The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1924-03-18
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'',D Counties Neighbors to lerren IN
{, Il, ~ extending Across Georgia Are
Rich in Deposits
ICON Calf we only had a
p., , 10 come here and buy Our
0l''1 Georgia would be one OF the
8', ,,.t industrial centers IN the
Sl Az declares George Carswell, pres
''l' Of the senate OF Georgia, in an
, 81, here before the Macon Civltan
.,b on the mineral resources OF the
~ Ia was the guest of honor and
.. ,.;o.l speaker at the weekly meet
W. tbo Hotel Dempsey, and dellv-
.o Of series of addresses on
s o,o G, mineral deposits.
T Ss s,+ Carswell related something
2 "" history OF the clay industry OF
s ,nT '' and quoted figures to show
SO' immense quantity of natural de-
e., s exported from the state as con
r..od TO to the negligible quantity turn
1' ;nto finished product here.
"a l|'G hundred and seventy-hve years
ct. o found in Georgia was shipp-
70 - Fogland for test purposes, he
a oTbe shipments were continued
w. tor wears but the British govern
.at w. orotested and said that the in
,.t,r in England was being injured.
5 ,a' protest was evidently vigorous
4 Elective for from that day to this
ers s' hasn't been a factory for making
M or pottery in Georgia. "
There is enough clay alone IN
eorgia to pay the expense OF the
rid" the senator said. I'VE call our
Ives the empire state of the south,
ID vet we are like a cow-be1ng
liked every day,
THE value OF pottery, that is china
are sanitary ware, electrical porce-
n etc. during the year 1921, the
test available statistics, amounted TO
4000O0O and we import from Eng
nd and elsewhere an additional SIZ,-
#0OOO. OF this amount Georgia con
med approximately $l,500,OO0, and
with the vast deposits of kaolin
china clay not a dollars worth was
anufacturcd, but all was imported
ON elsewhere Senator Carswell
i'd
This takes no account of face brick
bd refractory brick. We can boast OF
Nv one refractory brick plant, the
be at Stevens Pottery There is not
single plant manufacturing light col
ed face brick 1t is somewhat en-
buraging to notice that our produc-
pn Of kaolin or china clay has in
eased from $4,000 tons in 1907 to
1000 tons in 1920. 1t is small in COM
arson with the English production
approximately 100000 tons.
Now the question is: Why have
eSe resources not seen greater de
opment and what can we Georglans
to develop them? 1t is certainly
b question of the quantity, because
have a clay belt extending across
e state which is over 200 miles in
#ngth and twenty to fifty miles IN
idth Its thickness, as far as 1t IS
|Alown, is from few feet to thirty or
Rrty feet he continued. The value
marble in Stone mountain has been
ktmated by the state geologist as
ping worth S5,280,62566, Mr.. Cars
#ell said, and added that at that 1T
"a worth scarcely 'one-third as much
i the kaolin in Wilkinson county
&one.
1t is estimated that there are 1872
YOOOO tons in Wilkinson. Crude clay
worth from s. to 81 ton. Make the
Forage s. and you have $13,027, 200,-
w. II it were refined it would be four
i've times this amount" the speaker
Pc Like the Stone mountain estl-
late, this is somewhat fantastic, so
as the present generation is con-
frhed, but it illustrates our undevel-
Ped resources and wealth.
Remember Wilkinson, although
#oOably the richest, is only one OF
Teen counties in this great belt of
Meorgla extending from Augusta to
Ghattahoochee river. There are
NJ Richmond, Glascock, Washing
II, BIB, Twiggs, Houston, Pulaski,
aaron Sumter, Webster, Stewart,
EIlley Taylor and Randolph coun-
virtually all OF the kaolin mined in
eorgla has been used for filler pur-
kSeS' that is in manufacture of paper,
cloth, rubber, paint and so on. We
~ Vt; over at Hephzibah the large mine
Ie Standard Textile Products Co.,
iIICh mines clay for its own use in
manufacture of oil cloth, automo-
tops and various other purposes;
81 thlS IS shipped to their plants
me north continued the senator,
lLillg other plants operating SINH
Heofgla welcomes these develop
D iL'S ana they have brought many
pn mars INTO the state, but the opera
nd. Vi these mines is largely in the
,1s Oh clay producers, who are not
interested in mines elsewhere in
h., country but importers of clay.
4, are not manufacturers and have
lhe interest in either the manu-
.n 'ale Of the clays in Georgia or the
pq ,S OF the uses of the clay as
\ do VINO would be benefited by such
0t u competition in the use of our
n. 'o oi cookery ware, floor and wall
s'pl;s ILiectrlcal, porcelain, etc, is the
i 9| ,,r clay. English clay is highly
farJ iii55,9 10 refined and sold under
sre5 Ti IKE flour and meal, and is so
y raiy rehned and blended there is
&slt;a .a u IN shrinkage or burning