58 Negro Migration 



operating farms, 1 and that in 1910 there were more than 

 20,000 owners of rural land in Georgia. 



The growth of these land-holdings is indicated by the fol- 

 lowing figures from Banks' study of land-ownership in 

 Georgia : 2 



TABLE 5. 

 Georgia Land Owners Distributed According to Size of Tracts 

 Owned in 31 Typical Counties. 

 Acreage — Number of Tracts 



1873 1880 1890 1902 



Negro Land-owners — 



Under 10 57 231 950 1,450 



10 to 20 19 154 372 713 



20 to 50 88 434 678 1,068 



50 to 100 107 451 664 883 



100 to 500 237 576 802 1,048 



500 to 1,000 6 17 39 50 



1,000 and over a 2 5 9 



Total Land-owners... 514 1,865 3,510 5,221 



Total Acreage 58,556 174,940 249,469 336,216 



Average Acreage 114 94 71 64 



Median Acreage 93 63 49 33 



White Land-owners — 



Under 10 136 290 540 782 



10 to 20 97 187 376 575 



20 to 50 817 1,331 1,862 2,644 



50 to 100 2,006 3,084 4,152 5,251 



100 to 500 10,559 12,206 13,724 14,623 



500 to 1,000 2,303 2,327 2,231 2,044 



1,000 and over 1,337 1,300 1,173 1,038 



Total Land-owners... 17,255 20,725 24,058 26,957 

 Total Acreage 6,734,398 7,036,536 7,066,506 7,138,586 



Average Acreage 389 340 294 265 



Median Acreage 311 279 249 216 



It is to be remembered (see ante p. 47) that these fig- 

 ures cover somewhat less than one-third of the land-hold- 

 ings of the State. They were gathered by examination of 

 the tax digests of 31 typical counties, and are representa- 

 tive of general tendencies to acquire land and typical size 

 of holdings. The total number of land-holders in the State 



1 Banks, Economics of Land Tenure, p. 73. 



2 Banks, opp. cite, Appendix. Table B and C. 



