The Georgia Fruit And Vegetable Book

Author : Francis Fontaine
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ISBN 13 : 9781332200023
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book The State of Georgia written by Francis Fontaine and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The State of Georgia: What It Offers to Immigrants, Capitalists, Producers and Manufacturers, Fruit and Vegetable Growers, and Those Desiring to Better Their Condition "The comparative growth of the thirteen original States, presents a record that is hard to realize. But, as evidence of the strange truthfulness of figures, compare New York and Georgia, the two that exhibit the highest rate per cent, of increase, and this is the result: In the So years from 1790 to 1870, New York increased in population 12 fold, or 11.88 per cent., while Georgia increased 14 fold, or 13.44 per cent., the highest of any of the Atlantic States. That, too, with the greatest drawback as to distance from centres of population and trade, and in being out of the line of immigration. But, as a still higher proof of the vitality of the State, take the returns for 1870, including the five years of the war. During that time Maine and New Hampshire both showed a decrease in population; but, in spite of a bloody and desolating war, partly within her own borders, in spite of the loss of life and property, in spite of what has been called "the indirect loss by the war in the check given to the increase of the native population," and the total cessation of immigration, Georgia showed an increase of 8 per cent, in her white population. The losses by death and disease in the Union army were put at 500,000, while those of the Confederacy amounted to 350,000, of which Georgia bore her share. These facts, taken in connection with the depressed condition of affairs immediately succeeding the war, make any increase of the whites most gratifying, and to rebuke the cry of persecution to the negro the record is that while there was only an increase of 9 per cent, throughout the entire Union, in Georgia there was a growth of 17 per cent, of this colored 4 bone and muscle' of the country." General Wm. T. Sherman, of the United States Army, thus wrote to the Editor of the Atlanta, (Ga., ) Constitution, in 1879: "Now that slavery is removed, there is no longer any reason why Georgia, especially the Northern part, should not rapidly regain her prominence among the great States of our Union. I know that no section is more favored in climate, health, soil, minerals, water, and everything which man needs for his material wants, and to contribute to his physical and intellectual development. Your railroads, already finished, giving your people cheap supplies, and the means of sending in ever)'section their surplus products of the soil or of manufactures. You have immense beds of iron and coal, besides inexhaustible quantities of timber, oak, hickory, beech, poplar, pine, etc., so necessary in modem factories, and which are becoming scarce in other sections of our busy country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.