Brooks County GaArchives History.....E. H. Cope - Quitman in 1915
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The Crenshaw County News Vol IX
Luverne, Crenshaw County, Alabama
Thursday, November 25, 1915

Mr. E H Cope, of this city has just returned from an automobile trip to St.
Simons Island on the coast of Georgia. He says the most prosperous county
through which he passed is Brooks Co. with Quitman as the county seat. The
reason the great prosperity of this county, he says, is that they raise so
many hogs. Hog rising is the chief industry. All over the county the farmers
have turned to this particular industry and they are growing meat in a big
scale. Mr. Cope says that he saw more hogs and finer hogs in the Quitman
territory than he has ever saw in his life before. As evidence of the money
that is being made, the farmers all have nice homes, barns, and fences. Mr.
Cope is authority for the statement that down there the farmers are loaning
money to the merchants, instead of borrowing from the merchants as they do
here. Right here it might be well to mention the fact that Brooks County is
in the territory of the Moultrie packing house and this accounts for the
farmers going into hog raising on such a large scale. It shows to what a
packing house will do for any section of the country. Brooks County joins
Colquitt, of which Moultrie is the county seat. Mr. Cope did not visit
Colquitt, but would of probably found the same conditions there and also in
the other surrounding counties. He saw enough to assure him that hog raising
could be made one of the most profitable industries