Greene County GaArchives News.....A Handbook of Georgia January 5 1877
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The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.
The Daily Constitution, Atlanta, GA, January 5, 1877
A Handbook of Georgia.
Dr. Thomas P. Janes, the state agricultural commissioner, has for some time 
been engaged in supervising the compilation of a volume which will be known as 
the “Handbook of the state of Georgia.”  The volume has been completed, and 
will be ready for delivery in a few days.  Judging from the table of contents, 
at which we have been permitted to glance, the book will be one of the most 
valuable contributions ever made to the material history of Georgia, and we 
have no doubt that it will succeed in convincing those who were opposed to 
establishing an agricultural bureau, and whoever no opposed to its 
continuation on that score of economy, that it is really one of the most 
important, necessary and economical departments connected with our state 
government.  Dr. Janes’s volume contains two hundred and fifth pages, and the 
information therein given as to the material resources of Georgia—developed 
and undeveloped—is calculated to not only open the eyes of strangers but to 
astonish even our own people, and if it be judiciously circulated in the north 
and northwest the facts and figures therein clearly and carefully set forth 
will have the effect of turning a steady stream of immigration in this 
direction, and just such immigration as the state needs.

We have not time to analyze the table of contents, but it is sufficient to say 
that it is complete in every respect—comprising information in regard to every 
class and every interest, and treating of the social, commercial and physical 
condition of Georgia.  The volume is rendered additionally valuable by a 
geological map of the state, the first ever compiled from authentic data.

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