....Dental Sem. Quar'ly...Quarterly .....Kind Words...............Monthly........ .Dental. .News and political .Methodist. .Telegraph and Mess..... Daily and weekly.....News and political. ....Wesl'n Chris. Advo..... Weekly.... .......... Madisonian...... .Phoenix Agricult'rist... Monthly. ......North Georgia............ Weekly Milledgeville..... .Georgia Chronicle........ ........... Union and Recorder... ..News and political. ............... 46 PART III-THE PRODUCTIONS. CHAPTER I. After the COUNTRY and the PEOPLE naturally come the PRODUC TIONS-the uses made of the country by the people. These divide readily into two heads, viz 1. WEALTH, the accumulation of past productions, and2. CURRENT or ANNUAL PRODUCTION. WEALTH OF GEORGIA. We treat of wealth first, because it enters into current production, as a most important factor. Each successive generation of men has not only nature, but wealth, as its heritage. The portion of wealth devoted to reproduction, i. e., CAPITAL, has even a larger bearing (incomparably larger) on annual production than nature itself. The aggregate wealth of the State by the census of 1880 was $239,000,000. By the Comptroller General's Report of 1884, on the same basis it was $295,000,000. In each sum the railroad property of the State was omitted. Including this, the aggregate for 1884 was $317,074,271. To show its history for several decades, the wealth was as follows for 1850, etc: The increase between 1850 and 1860, notwithstanding a large emigration westward was 90 per cent., almost doubling the wealth of 1850. No re Losses by War-The next decade embraced the war. turns are to be had of the years 1865-6-7. In 1868, the comparison stood thus: The wealth of 1868 was not one-fifth that of 1860. At the old rate of increase the wealth of 1870 would have been $1,227,000,000 instead of $189,000,000 in gold. The white population which really possessed all the wealth, numbered in 1860 not quite $600,000; in 1870, 639,000. The reduction in wealth of the whites exceeded $800 per capita-the amount left being less than $300. The French indemnity of $1,000,000,000 levied on about 37,000,000 of people was less than $30 a head-not one part in twenty-five of the relative loss in Georgia. This gives some idea of the stupendous losses of the war to the South. Georgia was in 1850, the sixth State in rank as to wealth; in 1860, the eighth; in 1870, the twentieth. Along with her wealth she had lost the cream of her population From 1868 there was a gradual advance to 1874; then a retrogression, due to the financial crisis, until 1879, and since that time a more rapid progress. A historical table showing the wealth for successive years will be given in the Appendix. TERRITORIAL DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH. By Table No. 1, in the Appendix, it will be seen that North Georgia in 1882 had a total wealth of $44,500,000, being $3,941 per square mile; Middle Georgia, $91,750,000-$7,028 per square mile; Southwest Georgia, $42,750,000-$2,980 per square mile; East Georgia, $33,250,000-$3,178 per square mile; Southeast Georgia, $26,500,000-$2,704 per square mile. DISTRIBUTION ACCORDING TO FORM OF INVESTMENT. By the census of 1880, in round numbers, the two great items |