Statesman, Salem, Or., We, J&lfr !), 1935- IM
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Georgia -Empire State of South'
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Atlanta, G..-Th. pictur.,q. st.t. eapitol at Atl.n,.-.n inland metropolis . coupl. of hundred jGeoa made treat- 11?-" " Vm
miUs northwest of Georgia's Atlantic Coast shorelint is of lato 19th-century vintagt In thtUgj Vit e Indians, securing with ! Flower Cherokee Rose. stock, which amounted to $24,000,
heart of other mora modem buildings which havo grown up around it. leach a cession of land from river: BirdBr0WI1 thrasher. j000 atql .aWJ &g'
II 1 In 1935, when the commercial ! ers, paid them $422,000,000 ml ' 1
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AHanta, Ga.-Ttxtil$ art major Georgia industry. Hert is a typical plant surrounded by a
model town. It is tho Oakleaf and Unity Spinning Plant of tht Callaway Mills Company at It
Grange, Ga. Georgia also is tho world's leading producer of watermelons (right) and harvest
time finds growers plenty happy with the outnut.
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By SCOTT CANDLER
Secretary, Dept. f Commerce
ATLANTA Georgia, the thir
teenth Colony, was founded by
I F.nland for two DUrDOSeS. Spain
owned Florida and claimed to
Beaufort, South Carolina. The
Spanish Crown had established
missions on the islands off the
coast and a Jew on the mainland.
This was a constant threat to
the prosperous colony of South
Carolina. The French had edged
in from the Mississippi River and
established themselves as far as
Fort Toulouse in the present Ala
bama. The Indians had swept into
! South Carolina and terrified the in-
habitants in the Yamassee War in
1715. To preserve that colony, Eng
land needed a military colony.
Religious Revival Aids
About the same time there was
a religious revival in England and
the attention of Parliament was
drawn to the condition of its hon
est poor people. Gen. James Ogle
thorpe, a man of wealth and a
member of Parliament, was ap
pointed to look into the welfare
of these people.
His recommendation that a
i home be created for them in the
New World, combined with thelble.
! caused Parliament to found Geor-I
eia. Oglethorpe was appointed toia
.take the colonists to America. It
1 was the only colony in which
irum and negro slaves were for -
! bidden.
Groan CarefuIlv.Chosei
i ( General Oglethorpe landed at
i i Savannah. Georgia, Feb. 12, 1733.
I with his band of sturdy, industri-
ous colonists who had been care-
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Atlanta, Ga. Capital of Georgia is Atlanta but Savannah (above pop. 119,638)
is known as the state's "Mother City." This aerial view (looking west) shows
many of ihm up-to-date business structures built around famous parks and
squares which late from the city's founding in 1733 when they were used as,
Farm - Industrial Economy Cited; Income Up
to river until, in 1825, Georgia
reached the Chattahoochee. The
United States government then
promised to remove the Indians in
exchange for the land from the
Chattachoochee to the Mississippi.
Prosperity Continues
Georgia aided in the Revolution
against England and was the
fourth State to ratify the Con
stitution, one of the three to do
so unanimously.
Georgia led the states in edu
cation by creating the first state
owned University. Wesleyan Col
lege, at Macon, was the first char
tered woman's college in America
i to grant degrees to women. The
first orphans home, Bethesda, was
located in Georgia, and the first
Protestant Sunday School in Amer
ica was organized in Savannah.
Georgia, with 53,876 square
miles, is the largest state east of
the Mississippi River. The Blue
Ridge chain of the Appalachian
Mountains rises to a height of
5,000 feet Georgia has Warm
Springs with its flow of 1800 gal
lons per minute, principal clinic
in the world for treatment of in
fantile paralysis. Its mountains
! has inexhaustible strata of mar-
Records 'show that Georgia has
greater variety of soil products
! than any other state. This state
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Area 58,8" 6 (20th). I .
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started the' peach industry by us
ing refrigeration in shipping
peaches. It excels in watermelons,
peanuts, pecans and tobacco. The
cotton gin was invented in Geor
gia. Its forests, with 163 species
of trees, furnish material for its
naval stores, pulpwood and paper
industry. !
Georgia was the first state to
build a railroad, which it still
owns. The state owns 22 parks
which gives year - round play
grounds.
. An agricultural stronghold from
its founding, Georgia celebrated
its bicentennial in 1933 by moving
toward industrialization. Its ad
vance on this front has been
breathtaking,
Income Up Sharply ,
Twenty-five years ago, the total
income , of Georgians from all
sources amounted to $700,000,000.
United States Department of Com
merce figures show that in 1953
Georgians received a record total
income of $4,245,000,000 This re-
fleets an annual income of $1,184
tor every man, woman and ctuia
jm the State, white and colored.
' Not only are Georgians earning
j more, but they have twice as much
money in the bank as 10 years
: ago. Operating banks in the state
went into the present year with
deposits of $2,101,623,000.
' In agriculture, a a 2o-year pe-
nod, Georgia s total cash farm in-
In 1935, when the commercial
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; broiler production for the entire
nation was only 43,000,000 birds
j valued at $25,000,000, the broiler
1 industry was almost non-existent
i in Georgia. Today Georgia is the
broiler capital of the world. Its
annual production of 154,000,000
broilers brings $110,000,000. i
Georgia cotton in 1953 was val
ued at $140,240,000, corn $87,390,-
000, tobacco $69,205,000, , peanuts
$57,352,000. Vegetables were worth
$17,801,000. peaches $9,413,000, pe
cans $7,692,000.
Second in Peaches i
' The commercial watermelon
crop, the largest in the world, was
valued at $6,033,000, tomatoes $4,-
050,000, and pimento peppers $2,-
240,000. Georgia leads the nation
in the production and processing
of pimentos and only California is
ahead of her in peach production.
Georgia led the South last year
in production of lumber with a
total output of 2,240,000,000 feet.
The State Department of Agri
culture places the total value of
all crops, livestock and livestock
products, together with lumber,
plupwood, naval stores, fishery
products, clay, marble ceramics,
etc., in excess of a billion dollars
a year.
Firms Gala in Number
la 1944, there were 43,700 busi
ness firms in operation in the
State, and in 1954 there were 75,
100. In 1939, retail trade sales were
$325,000,000. In 1953, they were
$3,000,000,000.
The 1939 manufacturing produc
tion figure, $677,000,000 has in
creased six times, was over $4,
000,000,000 in 1953.
As cotton still is Georgia's chief
farm money crop, so does cotton
manufacturing remain Georgia's
chief industry. Last year 300 tex-1
tile mills employed 113,000 work
ers, paid them $422,000,000 mi
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points of refuge against Indian attacks. At the left is Jekyl bland developed by
the so-called 100 Club (every member multi-millionaire) before the island be
came a state park. It once was a pirate stronghold, then a fortress over which
flew the British, French, Spanish. Confederate and American Flags.
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wases. and tumpd nut nrvwiiutinn
valued .at $1,283,000,000.
Food manufacturing and pro
cessing, which was a $134,000,000
a year industry in 1939, now
amounts to $351,000,000.
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transportation equipment auto
mobiles, trucks, airplanes, boats,
railroad rolling-stock were pro
duced in Georgia. Lst year's pro
duction was $416,000,000.
Paper and pulp manufacture,
which amounted to $29,000,000 in
1939, now comes to $250,000,000.
But let us not forget tourists.
Yes sir, tourists are big business
in Georgia these days one of the
biggest Last year the state en
tertained 10,500,000 tourists. They
spent $277 million dollars during "
their visit. v
Georgia has dependable labor;
adequate rain fall, cheap fuel;
vast developed and potential hy- ;
dro-electrk power; good highways, ,
and sea ports with deep channels.
It has breathless mountain scen
ery, fine beaches, good hunting
and fishing. On every side one
finds history as rich as "Gone
With the Wind" rubbing shoulders
with the throbbing modern world.
Georgia is truly the Empirt
State of the South! -
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