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
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s from Savannahis the Jasper Spring, the scene of a daring exploit of Sergeant Jasper,when he and Sergeant Xewton rescued from the British guard anAmerican prisoner who was being carried to Savannah for execution.On the banks of the Ogeechee river are some of the largest rice planta-tions in Georgia. A canal connects this river with Savannah. The area of Chatham county is 400 square miles or 256,000 acres.The population in 1900 was 71,239; school fund $37,306. By the Comptrollei^Generals report for 1900 there are: acres of im-proved land, 189,026; value of improved land per acre, $15.10; cityproperty, $19,037,370; money, etc., $2,057,990; gas and electric lightcompanies, $201,420; merchandise, $1,652,800; value of shares in bank,$2,537,625; stocks and bonds, $859,275; building and loan associa-tions, $489,110; household furniture, $574,110; farm and otheranimals, $178,200; capital invested in shipping and tonnage, $568,-950; plantation and mechanical tools, $100,855; watches, jewelry,
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GEORGIA: HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL. 581 etc., $50,125; cotton manufactories, $00,750; value of all otherproperty, $235,990; real estate, $21,881,803; personal estate, $9,449,-690. Aggregate value of whole property, $31,331,493. Property, returned by colored taxpayers: number of acres of land5,899; value, $206,625; city or to^^^l property, $632,475; household fur-niture, $2,785; merchandise, $2,025; farm and other animals, $9,810;plantation and mechanical tools, no report. Aggregate value of wholeproperty, $914,320. The tax returns of 1901 show a gain over 1900 of $328,319 in thevalue of all property. Yields of crops in Chatham to the acre with fair cultivation: com, 20bushels; Irish potatoes, 100 bushels; sweet potatoes, 100 bushels; crab-grass hay, 4,000 pounds; ribbon-cane syrup, 350 gallons. The countyhad in 1890 1,000 sheep with a wool-clip of 1,220 pounds; 3,866 cat-tle, 1,499 milch-cows, 520 horses, 590 mules, 4 donkeys, 4,320 swine,10,399 poultry. There was a production of 25,0

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