Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-13
n. c. PLANTER TELLS
Of MOVE To RICH
LANDS IN C0LQU|TT

Echoing the purpose OF himself
and others to migrate from North
Carolina to south Georgia, l.. a. Cur
rim Wednesday morning dlscIosed
the details Of an ambitious plan Tor
the successful development OF Col
quit and adjoining counties. MI
Currin is a tobacco planter, who has
been convinced by a personal lnVesLl'
CATION that the tobacco belt OF south
Georgia is far better and more pre-
ferable than the best lands in 1'ofth
| Carolina. Mr. CurIin is returning
70 his North Carolina home, at He's
ter, in Granville county, to COM
plete arrangements for moving TO
Colouitt county with his family.
Stopping in Atlanta on his re-
turn to North Carolina. MIR. Currih
declared that the enterprlsing busl-
ness men and farmers of ColqulCt
county are holding out almost IRE
sistable inducements TO the Cafollna
tobacco planters.
Il Know of many successful Caro-
/ lima tobacco farmers who are gong
to settle in Colquitt county he SAID.
"At Moultrie this week, l met per-
| haps twenty men from home VINO
! have decided on a change OF resi-
! dence, and who next year will be en-
! gagged actively in producing tobacco
| in Colquitt county,
Mr.. Currin added:
There is no doubt in my MIND
that hundreds of North Carolina TO-
bacco farmers will find their way 10
Colquitt county during the next year
and a large number Of them Will be
there in time for tobacco growing
season in 1925. l find that it only
| takes seven to eight months between
the bedding time and market time
to handle crop Of bright leaf to-
| baccO in south Georgia. In North
Carolina it takes fourteen months TO
complete the deal This fact will
enable our farmers to locate in Col
quit county to raise feed crops TO
be marketed through the live stock,
thus increasing the annual income
from their farm investment.
Il find thaat there is wonderfully
good tobacco land in Colquitt county
which will yield three to four times
| CTS iIluCl LODCCCO clS Jul dtSl dSS ~
bacco lands yield i'll North Carolina.
zone thing that particularly i'm
pressed the number of North Caro-
lima farmers who have been visiting
Colquitt county this week, is the fact
that the chamber of commerce has
| options on whatever lands there are
for sale and is protecting our people
| against advance, putting them on
| boc r,e
and seeing thaat those purchasing
| farms get adequate surveys and land
titles.
cit is a countrywide movement OF
the farmers as we'll as business men
to put into cultivation all the open
lands in the county and our people
were most favorably impressed with
the condition in Colquitt county and
. are entirely satisfied to live there.
They have 800 miles of the best
roads in the county l have ever seen
in any other county. They have five
large consolidated county schools
and are building three more
Taking 1T altogether ] think it is
! a wonderful opportunity to North
Carolina farmers to move to Colquitt
| county and there is no doubt that
hundreds OF our people VIII do so.
boys in khaki were vert stern the
first few days. But yA5efdre the voy-
age ended my guardS >weye my
friends and they voIqntt ere1fp take
back messages for h1e AID they
Again: while in Russia &, visited
in Archangel, that foWn WY up in
the north where British anf Ameri-
can soldiers were Ian led toffight the
Bolshevihs, Everywhere I'm Arch.
! angel, years after they had been
| there, I heard the people singing
the praises Of the American dough.
boys. And the fundamental kind.
ilness and fair play of the dough-
boy is that of the American people
when left to their better instincts -