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UNITED STATES: — GEORGIA

600 oz. (300 dollars). In 1911 coal was extracted to the amount of 165,210 short tons (246,208 dollars); stone to the value of 1,967,077 for granite, marble, and limestone. The marble of Georgia has a high reputation all over the States. The clay-working industries (bricks, tiles, pottery) in 1910 gave an output valued at 2,636,380 dollars. In 1911, 6,282 short tons of lime ore were extracted. The total mineral output in 1911, includmg iron ore but not pig iron, was valued at 6,171,367 dollars.

In 1910 Georgia had 4,792 manufacturing establishments with a total capital of 202,778,000 dollars, employing 118,036 persons (salaried and wage- earning), using material costing 116,970,000 dollars, and giving an output worth 202,863,000 dollars.

The chief manufacturing industries were as stated below (1905 Census) :—

Nature of industries.

Capital

Wage earners

Cost of materials

Output

Cotton manufactures .... Lumber, timber, planing.

Fertilisers

Flour and grist

Tvurpentine and rosin .... Foundry and machine shop Railway car work ....

Dollars

42,349,618 14,803,484 11,158,070 1,895,718 2,373,880 5,515,764 2,108,313

Number

24,130

18,967

2,192

464

11,736

3,279

4,777

1

Dollars 23,832,297 6,427,929 6,527,065 7,24,804 l,15fi,009 2,118,617 2,057,669

Dollars

35,174,248 21,054,107 9,461,415 8,178,926 7,705,643 5,587,811 4,775,109

In 1908 there were 153 cotton mills, 36,355 looms and 1,791,334 spindles.

The means of transportation by sea and land arc ample. The principal port is Savannah, which has 8 miles of river frontage, and which, by harbour improvements, is to be made accessible to vessels of large tonnage. The river is being deepened, and now has a mean low water depth of 26 feet, and a depth of 32 at high tide on the bar. From this port in 1911 the imports amounted to 1,297,921/. and the exports to 17,162,642Z., chiefly cotton, cotton seed, and meal and cake of cotton seed, besides turpentine and lumber. From Brunswick the exports were valued at 16,369,216 dollars, the most important articles of export being timber, lumber, railway sleepers, &c.

The railways in the State have a length (1910) of 7,056 miles, besides 395 miles of electric railway.

On June 7, 1911, Georgia had 114 State banks with aggregate capital of 17,536,780 dollars; 87 national banks with paid up capital of 8,958,500 dollars, and a few private banks.

British Consul at Savannah. — J. A. Donnelly.

There is a British Vice-Consul at Brunswick, Ga.

Books of Reference.

The Reports of the various Executive Departments.

P/iiHips (Ulrich B.), Georgia. In ' American Commonwealths' Series. Boston, Mass. 1907.