. The Southern States. al-together reasonable to expect a fulfill-ment of its peoples prophesy, that itwill control the trade between theFHnt and Ocmulgee rivers and will 472 GEORGIA & ALABAMA RAILWAY AND ITS TERRITORY. double its population within the nextfive years. After leaving Cordele the next pointof more than passing interest is Abbe-ville, practically at the head of naviga-tion of the Ocmulgee river and thejunction point of the Abbeville &Waycross division of the Georgia &Alabama Railroad. Although Hawkinsville is the ac-tual head of navigation, at some sea-sons boats run no farther up
. The Southern States. al-together reasonable to expect a fulfill-ment of its peoples prophesy, that itwill control the trade between theFHnt and Ocmulgee rivers and will 472 GEORGIA & ALABAMA RAILWAY AND ITS TERRITORY. double its population within the nextfive years. After leaving Cordele the next pointof more than passing interest is Abbe-ville, practically at the head of naviga-tion of the Ocmulgee river and thejunction point of the Abbeville &Waycross division of the Georgia &Alabama Railroad. Although Hawkinsville is the ac-tual head of navigation, at some sea-sons boats run no farther up thanAbbeville. This place of some 1500population is receiving the benefit ofimmigration, as are other portions ofWilcox county, to which is being at-tracted a thrifty class of settlers fromthe West. At the corn and cotton ex-position at Fitzgerald in Septemberthe exhibit of Wilcox county productswas one of the most interesting and in-structive of anything there seen. Toillustrate the adaptability of lands. Cordele, Ga.: Suwanee Hotel. liereabout to any crops it may be men-tioned that there is within five miles ofAbbeville a farmer who is growingrich, devoting himself to the exclusiveraising of hay. He puts in from 300 to500 acres annually, uses the latest im-proved first-class machinery and sellsall he can raise right at home to localtrade at about $15 a ton. He cultivatesa mixture of native grass and Germanmillet, which is preferred to fruit industry is already beingdeveloped in this section. Three milesfrom Abbeville is an orchard fromwhich the owner last season netted$350 on 100 crates of peaches, a con-clusive evidence of the excellence ofhis fruit, the usual price per crate ofaverage Georgia peaches being onlyabout $ The hard-wood timber interests ofthis section are very large. There isstanding within a distance of twenty-five miles north and south of Abbe-ville, in the swamps of the Ocmulgeeriver, cypress, ash, hickory, white oak,elm, sycamore, sweet gum
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