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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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nually, and within a radius of a milemore than 40,000 grape vines are in bearing. Though Powellsville con-tains only 79 people, the Cedar Creek district, which includes it and forwhich it is a shipping point, had 1,150 inhabitants in 1900, The fruit industry of Coweta county is steadily growing, and severalthousand acres are devoted to peaches, grapes and strawberries. Thelargest fniit farms are in the districts in which are located Newnan,Moreland, Senoia, Turin, Powellsville and Coweta. At the last namedplace, nine miles east of ISTewnan, a company of !Newnan gentlemenhave 125 acres planted in peaches and an equal number in grapes. Hereis located one of the most complete wineries in the South, kaiown as VinaVista, having a capacity of 100,000 gallons of wine in a season. Ex-cellent fruit lands can be bought in this county at from $8 to $50 anacre, according to degree of improvement or proximity to one of thelarger towns. Coweta countv has excellent mineral resources. Immense beds of
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 617 granite of a superior quality are found in the vicinity of iSTewnan, andnear Grantville ai-e mines from which gold is obtained in paying quan-tities. Two miles from Grantville is the Wilkes gold mine, operated byBoston capitalists, equipped with modern machinery and producing agood output. The character of the soil of Coweta county varies from a light loamto a heavy clay. Taking all lands, good and bad, the average produc-tion to the acre of the various crops is: Seed cotton, from GOO to 800pounds; corn, 10 bushels; wheat, from 8 to 10 bushels; oats, 11 bush-els; sugar cane, 100 gallons; sorghum cane, 200 gallons; Irish potatoes,from 50 to 100 bushels; sweet potatoes, from 100 to 150 bushels. Onthe best lauds and under the best methods of culture, the production isfrequently 1,500 pounds of seed cotton (equivalent to 500 pounds of lintor one bale) to the acre, 30 or more bushels of wheat to the acre andother crops in like proportion. The forage

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