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la Empire State of the, South Manufacturers?Sell and Distribute Your Merchandise In This Populous State Here is a big market right at home. You can reach it effi ciently and the low cost of selling and low freight rates will enable you to meet competition of distant manufacturers. Sell \otjf"goods-in the South Advertise and sell them in Georgia? one of the South's greatest states. Georgia Is A Highly-Developed State How Many of These Dealers Do You Sell? General Stores 7,700 Grocers 5,809 Drug Stores 1,098 Hardware Stores 453 Auto Dealers 2,528 Book and Stationery Dealers 795 Clothing Stores 532 Confectioners 279 Department Stores 93 Dry Goods Stores 988 Electrical Supplies 181 Furniture Stores 1,206 Jewelers 318 Shoe Stores 479 Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi Kiver. It is one of the lirst manufacturing states of the South and is consequently highly developed. Georgia has attained fourth place among the agricultural states. It pro duces more peaches than any state in the Union; and is a great cotton state. Other agricultural products are pea nuts, sweet potatoes, corn, etc. Among its leading industries are cotton and woolen goods, lumber, cotton seed products, leather, machin ery and farm implements. Savannah is a large port, Atlanta is the great distributing center. Sales managers will do well to lay out an advertising and sales cam- f paign and go after the Georgia mar ket this fall > These Newspapers Will Help You Build Your Business Bigger in Georgia Albany Herald > Atlanta Constitution 1 Atlanta Journal Macon Daily Telegraph 1 ? "j ; Moultrie Observer . ^ Rome News-Tribune - Savannah Morning News ''pi Savannah Press Waycross Journal Herald Statistics Population 2,895,832 Area in sq. mi 58,725 Farms 310,732 ((/. S. Census 1920) Poat Offices 1,203 CV. S. Postal Guide 1920) Miles of rural roads 80,669 (Office of Public Road* 1919) Miles of improved roads 13,200 <Office of Public Roads 1919) Miles of R. R. lines 7,464 (Interstate Commence Commission 1917) Automobiles and Trucks 161,374 Telephones 124,479 (Census of Electrical Industries 1917) Electrically wired houses 80,700 (Electric World Survey 1920) Banks 776 Cotton Goods Mfrs. 145 Fertilizer Mfrs. 275
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