This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...summer and winter; while the State, to encourage investment of foreign capital, has exempted manufactories from taxation for the term of ten years. Moreover, the southern and southwestern cities furnish a ready market for all her products. Augusta and Columbus take the lead in the manufacture at cotton ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...summer and winter; while the State, to encourage investment of foreign capital, has exempted manufactories from taxation for the term of ten years. Moreover, the southern and southwestern cities furnish a ready market for all her products. Augusta and Columbus take the lead in the manufacture at cotton and woolen goods. Athens, Macon, West Point, Decatur and Atlanta are also important centers for the production of these goods. Thomasville, Dalton, Albany, Marietta and Rome are also manufacturing points of considerable importance. Augusta and Columbus have important advantages over any of the rest, and daring the financial depression of 1877 their mills were kept constantly going, and paid profitable dividends. Nor was the same less true of many other plants in the State. The fact that in three years, from 1870 to-1873, the consumption of cotton in her cotton mills increased from 24,820 hales, to 39,122 bales, shows to some degree the growth of her manufactories. Population.--The census of 1880, gives the population of Georgia as 1,542,180; 817,047 being whites, 725,133, or nearly one-half, blacks. The following shows the increase since 1790: The density of population in 1880 was 26.01 to the square mile. In 1880 there were only 10,564 persons of foreign birth in the state. This population is distributed among 136 counties, in which there are eight cities and 134 incorporated towns. Georgia is the twelfth State in the Union in point of population, and tenth in area. Indications point to an increase in population, and especially in her northern districts. v Education.--No organized plan of public instruction was in operation in Georgia previous to the year 1873. Since that time there has been increased interest in public schools among the...
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