. The Southern States. s line,but all along the Georgia & Alabamaroad new towns have sprung up andold ones received a revivifying im-pulse. A good illustration of this is fur-nished in the case of Cordele, inDooley county. Though not thecounty-seat, it is the most importantpoint in the county, and is the largesttown on the main line of the Georgia& Alabama between Americus andSavannah. Yet eight years ago itssite was an old field, which containedonlv a single house. Todav it has tel, the Suwanee House, would, withits private baths and other comforts,be a credit to a much larger town, andits ad
. The Southern States. s line,but all along the Georgia & Alabamaroad new towns have sprung up andold ones received a revivifying im-pulse. A good illustration of this is fur-nished in the case of Cordele, inDooley county. Though not thecounty-seat, it is the most importantpoint in the county, and is the largesttown on the main line of the Georgia& Alabama between Americus andSavannah. Yet eight years ago itssite was an old field, which containedonlv a single house. Todav it has tel, the Suwanee House, would, withits private baths and other comforts,be a credit to a much larger town, andits advantages in every way, commer-cially, industrially, socially and edu-cationally, are superior to those ofmost cities of 10,000 inhabitants. Thisis so conspicuously true as to excitethe comment of even the casual ob-server. Cordele is a typical illustra-tion of the industrial conditions inwhat is called the new South, said onevisitor recently. And all this has been accomplishedwithout any land boom. It is simply. Ameiicus, Ga.: Windsor Hotel. three independent lines of railroad, hassanitary sewerage,waterworks,electriclights, an independent telephone sys-tem, with connections taking in all thetowns for twenty miles around and fur-nishing service at cost; it has a cottonmill with 3600 spindles, foundry andmachine shops, cooperage works, fer-tilizer works, variety works, bottlingworks, ice factory, planing mills andother smaller industries; it has a largeand growing jobbing trade in the gro-cery line; has ample banking facilities,and is in every respect equipped as animportant trade centre. Its chief ho- the legitimate resvdts of an energeticdevelopment of resources on businesslines alone. Today there is not evena real estate agent in Cordele, andwhile real estate values have steadilyincreased, so that no one who hasbought property there is unable to sellit at a profit, such sales as are madeare not for speculative purposes, andprices have consequently remained ona conservative ba
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