Ware COUNTY  GA  History   1907 Industry

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INDUSTRIAL EDITION OF THE WAYCROSS EVENING HERALD
                   Waycross, Ware County, Georgia
                              June, 1907
                            HENRY L. CHASE
     Mr. Henry L. Chase, of Duluth, a recent visitor to Waycross,
represents capitalists of St. Paul, Minnesota, who are negotiating
for the purchase of 50,000 acres of land in Ware County, near
Waycross, which will be cut up into small tracts and sold to thrifty
farmers of the northern states, who will bring their families here
for climatic and other reasons, and execute diversified farming, grow
truck and raise proultry for the local and northwestern markets.
     As soon as the deal is made Mr. Chase will bring his large
family here to locate permanently  He says many of his neighbors will
accompany them to make their permanent homes in Ware County.
     Mr. Chase is a large lumber merchant at Duluth, Minn., and also
owns the wholesale paint, oils, varnish, white lead, and turpentine
house know as the Red Star Supply Company.



(Submitted by Barbara Walker Winge, barbarawinge@yahoo.com)


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