N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual: containing a Catalogue of American Newspapers, a List of All Newspapers of the United States and Canada, 1903, Volume 3 Page: 1,056
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GEORGIA.
Populatin 2,216,331.............................. Dem. Plur. in 1900, 46,665
Dem. vote. 81,700; Rep. 35,085; Peop. 4,584; Pro. 1,396.
STATE CAPITAL, ATLANTA.
GEORGIA is bounded north by Tennessee and North Carolina, northeast by South Carolina,
southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, south by Florida, and west by Alabama. Its extreme length
from north to south is 320 miles, extreme breadth 254 miles; land area, 58,980 square miles. The
surface is varied; along the coast, it is intersected by numerous rivers and sounds, and the country
for miles inland is a succession of ridges of pines and live oaks and swamps of cypress; the
great Okeefinokee Swamp is in the southeast. Back from the coast is a stretch of sandy land,
mostly pine barrens, and yielding large amounts of timber and naval stores. A series of terraces
bring the land in the middle of the State to about 575 feet above tidewater, from which
elevation it rises toward the north more rapidly, until it becomes mountainous, being there
crossed by spurs of the Appalachians. The soil of the islands is sandy, producing sea island
cotton; that of the mainland, rich alluvial, producing corn, cotton, and rice; the middle region
is red loam, yielding good cotton, corn, tobacco, etc. In the north there is much fertile soil;
grain, tobacco, fruits, and vegetables are largely grown, but not much cotton, which is mainly
raised in the central, west central, and southwestern regions. Sugar cane is grown in the south,
and considerable pork fattened, mainly for home consumption; sweet potatoes are largely
produced; wool is prominent, but corn and cotton are the leading staples. Among the
leading industries are lumber, flour, boots and shoes, carriages, cotton and woolen goods,
wool carding and cloth dressing, leather, saddlery, metallic wares, furniture, castings,
machinery, farm implements, etc. There are very many cotton factories in the State. The
most important are at Augusta and Columbus, the other chief seats of the cotton manufacture
are Athens, Atlanta, Decatur, Macon, Savannah, and West Point. Savannah, the
commercial capital of the State, is the most important South Atlantic seaport. The city
is the seat of a large foreign and domestic commerce. Its railroads extend to all parts of
the country, and its steamships ply daily to the principal North Atlantic ports. Savannah is
the largest naval stores and second largest cotton and rice port in the United States, andalso an
important point for the manufacture and shipment of lumber and fertilizers. Atlanta has large
iron works, and is developing as a manufacturing city with highly encouraging rapidity.
Rome, Dalton, Marietta, Thomasville are manufacturing towns. The iron and steel trade is
overtaking the cotton manufacture in importance. Other important branches of manufacture
are lumber, flour, pulp, etc. Darien, Brunswick, and St. Marys manufacture and export
lumber. Minerals; bituminous coal in the northwestern portion; immense deposits of iron ore
in Bartow and Cherokee Counties; copper ore in Gilmer County; gold is most plentiful in
Cherokee, Carroll, Cobb, and Lumpkin Counties; silver, lead, and many other minerals,
granite, marble, gypsum, slate, and petroleum; excellent marble in Pickens and Cherokee
Counties; hydraulic limestone in Bartow County. There are numerous mineral springs of
which the Indian Spring in Butts County and the Bowden Lithia, or Salt Spring, in Douglas
County are the best known. The development of the rich marble resources in north Georgia
during the past five years has been wonderful. There are inexhaustable quarries of the finest
marble in Pickens, Cherokee, Murray and adjoining counties, and millions of dollars have been
invested in opening them. There are 137 Counties in Georgia; newspapers are published in 131.
APPLING CO. (S.E.)..............Pop. 12,336 BAKER CO. (S.W.)...............Pop. 6,704
Dem. vote in 1900, 477, Rep. 446; Peop. 4; Pro. 20. Dem. vote in 1900, 478; Rep. 87; Peop. 1.
Level; soil sandy. Products-Corn, oats, sweet Products-Cotton, corn and sweet
potatoes, rice and molasses; a little cotton. Naval Level; sollfertile.
stores, lumber, saw mills; and turpentine. COUNTY potatoes; lumber largely exported. COUNTY SEAT,
SEAT, Baxley, pop. 488. Cir ewton, pop 329
Banner.............................. Dem.. ...Baxley t............ 750 No Papers.
CIRCULATION: Bold face-sworn. * Detailed statement. t Publishers' reports. Roman figures-estimated.
POPULATION: Census of 1900. * Estimated. t County Seat.
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