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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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e were ginned in Madison county 11,443 bales of upland cot-ton during the season of 1899-1900. In 1890 there were 2,085 sheep, with a wool-clip of 2,830 pounds;5,097 cattle, 349 working oxen, 1,878 milch-cows producing 507,385 gal-lons of milk and 201,711 pounds of butter; 836 horses, 1,113 mules, 6donkeys, 8,585 swine, 72,588 domestic fowls of all kinds, producing77,671 dozens of eggs. This county produced also 16,616 pounds ofhoney. The timber growth is some short-leaf pine and the varieties of hard-wood common to that section. The many natural shoals on the water courses afford ample power formills and factories. The Seaboard Air Line Eailroad passes through the southern part ofthe county. A part of the Smithonia, Danielsville and Carnesville Rail-road is also completed. Danielsville, named for General Allen Daniel, and located on a high,■uneven ridge, is the county site. The railroad, designed to connect thistown with the Seaboard Air Line and Georgia Eailroads, is in process of
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AXD IXDUSTRIAL. 755 construction. When it is completed the coimtv will have good facilitiesfor trade and travel. Carlton, Mediciis, Comer, Five Forks and Dowdy, are stations on theSeaboard Air Line. The schools belong to the common school system of the State. Theaverage attendance is 1,255 in the -iO schools for whites and 370 in the17 schools for colored. Methodists and Baptists are the prevailing de-nominations of the county, and have good churches. The area of Madison coimty is 278 square miles, or 177,920 acres.Population in 1900, 13,224, an increase of 2,200 since 1890; schoolfund, $8,834.60. By the Comptroller-Generals report for 1900 there are: acres of im-proved land, 170,243; value per acre, $3.64; city property, $67,655;money, etc., $123,446; merchandise, $31,667; stocks and bonds, $4,200;household furniture, $67,678; farm and other animals, $131,521; planta-tion and mechanical tools, $35,931; watches, jewelry, etc., $2,971; valueof all other property, $2

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