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_ Area, square miles...TT.tV 58.725,
True property value..... .$3,8%,759,000 > *
U piSucte. man $ 192.186,000
\y %\ oil mills... ....$ 99.320.307 r '-\
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>*KrlL r. ' "han 8,000 carloads of peaches which
George s nips every season is really but a small s
| item in t« *e total of Wealth that she produces each
year. Fc+ Georgia is one of the great agricultural
state* oi tie South, having more farms —310,732 —
thuo any other truly southern state. '
ieortia has gone in for diversification and is reaping
rioh oe<%efits therefrom. To her great cotton crop ol
s. r ( > 600,000 bales, she has added other means ol
in 'losing her great agricultural wealth. Now, great
e. r ii r-am acreage, greatest in oat acreage, she it;
n jv? ' i r i '>rmous producer of vegetables, small fruit?
and the like. * J
ii, .- s |vvco crop has grown amazingly. The
lv° light leaf of the coastal plains yielded.
ip f in 1924 and the 1923 crop is expected
tu b*La£ $l 3,000,000. Her forests yield close to a
* ' billicvT feet yearly and her manufactories have more
ti an doubled since 1910. She is third in textile
op in the South. Her mines and quarries
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yield a great variety of products. Granite and '
marble from her quarries beautify cities throughput
the Union.
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Georgia’s hydro-electric power development has
been enormous. She now has more than 482,000
horse-power developed* moire than any other south
ern state with the possible exception of North Car
olina. (
Georgia has more improved roads than any state .*
In the South.
She is in a more prosperous condition than at any
time since the abnormal bootn days of the war.
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There is a vast market for our own products in *
Georgia. Instead of going to territories far away
where competition.is hard, where freight rates are ! / \ 4l
higher, where it is more expensive for our salesmen
to travel* let’s sell in Georgia, “The Empire State.”
Georgia s newspapers will cany for us the message [
of what we have, to sell. They 11 sell for us. i *
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