Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1925-10-29
A Glorius Future
For Southwest Georgia

the sale 10 barron OOlller, INeN
York and Florida realtor, of Blu
Springs, near Albany, and mil
lion-dollar development there.
Friday and Saturday we wer
told of a two million-dollar rea
estate transfer at Valdosta, witt
others in the same vicinity includ
ing the sale of d $4,000 HON,
site in Naldosta. Quitnan open
a big subdivision for sale thi
week. A land development
corporation purchases more thar
500 acres near Savannah at {
price satisfactory" but which
the purchaser declines 10 divulge
However, the Savannah Pres;
says that farm lands are bringing
500 an acre at resales in the
same vicinity.
Of the Quitman subdivision
auction, the Free Press has this
to say
The Free Press, along with eV-
cry other citizen of Quitman, is
very much interested in the APP
preaching land subdivision auc-
ton which is scheduled for next
Wednesday.
Subdivisions have brought for
tunes to people in Florida. 1t is
the modern and up-to-the minute
way of handling real estate. If it
can be done successfully elsewhere,
why not in Quitman?
We hope there will be an i'm
mense crowd at the land sale Wed
nesday and that all who go will
carry along with them the thought
that If the sale is a success, it
will mean the beginning poin. for
great development in this section.
Much depends, as a matter of tact,
upon the spirit and interest of the
crowd next Wednesday.
A writer in a recent issue of
the Literary Digest says that the
lines of immigration no longer
are running East and West, but
from North to South.
A movement greater than any
ever before seen in America has
started with the trek Southwark
ot people from every State in the
Union. They are flocking into
every State bordering on the
Gulf of Mexico and the South
Atlantic. From the Far North
west and the Far Northeast the
tide is streaming Southwark.
We are only witnessing the be-
ginning = what is happening in
Savannah, Quitman, ALBANY,
Townsville and other South
Georgia cities. The same thing is
being repeated, in a more or less
degree, in every State from Tex
as to Florida.
1t Is an entirely different kind
OF migration to anything America
has ever witnessed before. In the
past men rushed to California to
dig gold. Then it was the free
lands of the West which attracted
hundreds of thousands. Oil drew
its hordes from every section,
Zach of these rushes of humanity
were rushes for gold or land. It
was a people seeking madIy for
a more profitable means of earn
ing a living or acc1mulating
wealth.
The immigration Southwark
now is a different sort of thing
taken as a whole. People are
seeking the comforts of a milder
climate. They are pleasure bent.
They ale looking for a means of
earning their sustenance, yes; but
less rigid means than those
.practiced in the past. The early
settlers sought, expected and
found hardships, no comforts
dangers and often death. Those
immigrants of today are being re-
ceived in hotels costing millions.
Every subdivision has its bathing
pools and golf courses. Paved
roads must lead to and from II
There must be paved streets and
sidewalks; schools and churches +:
sewers and running water. No
hardships will be overcome bv
the modern emigrant. His is a
search for comforts.
If he be farmer in search of
lands. he demands every modern
Improvement, from running water
and lectric lights. to screened
porches and flower beds.
But he is willing to pay. He has
he cash and he knows what that
cash will buy. The price does
not matter so much as the COM |
'ORT and Improvements.
The movement Southwark is
merely beginning now. 1t will
continue steadily as the months