The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-01-11 00:00:00

MIGRATION.

• well-known anther and journalist-4a* isms
being no other than Mr. Bones Greely—says " that
there was a better time for a man of moderate
means and expectations to imwiffeas from the older
states to the west than the present. Those who came
oat with a few handfed dollars can find im-
proved landsorithin reach of civilization, with tea",
stock, and grain, and nearly everything to match."
This gentleman's opinion, from north to Routh, and
east to west of America, on any subject, is tithed for
gospel truth. But, apart from anything be inay say
on Us. numerous advantages offered by the western
skates of America to the settler, we can find sufficient
evidence of their attractions in our newspapers, and
lately in a graphic description of the western
country, from the pen of Dr. Bell, in his new work on
"New tracts of North America." The west com•
prises a marvellously fertile region, consisting of
nearly 300,000 square miles of country, generally
known as Colorado, Kansas, and Minnesota. So
great has been the rush to them lands by settlers
that we aretorry to observe spa:misters purchasing
VIE tracks of country from the railway companies,
on long terms of credit, and selling the same to the
emigranta for hard eash,need we add,at great profits.
The different railway isompanies—the Union Pacific
and others, running through the fertile valleys and
over plains thousands of feet above the level of the
sea, determined to stop such practices, and, with a
view to so doing, have formed an important com-
bination of American rai:way companies, who now
offer to European settlers their lands in Kansas,
Colorado, and Minnesota, granted to them by the
Government, at the market crieo at which they are
now offered to American settlers. Lend speculators
and "middle men" will be prevented from selling
land to the emigrant at exorbitant prices, thus rob-
bing him of capital which he can badly spars, and
hindering the rapid occupation of the railway lands ;
and as the intending settlers know from the first with
whom they are negoinating, they will have confidence
because these same railway companies are the direct
gainers by their prosperity, and are bound by self-
interest to deal fairly and liberally towards them.
Reduced fares are now offered by those companies to
the farmer, mechanic, and working-man from
England and the continent of Europe, direct to
their lands. A special agent will superintend their
safe and speedy transit to the Far West, free of
charge. Early in this year through tickets will
be issued by the Pennsylvania Central Railroad
Company, through their European agency, where
detailed information, tables of reduced faree, maps,
pamphlets, &Al, will be furnished upon application,
about the end of January, to Mr. Gilead A. Smith,
Bartholomew House, City, Londe°. No land will
be sold in Europe, nor will any payment (except
money) be demanded of the settler until he
iatuirEve seen, examined, and approved his lands.
Be can thee bay, at the current market price, direct
of the railway companies, at their land offices, pay-
able by tray instalments, extending over several
years.