The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1869-12-29
Inducements to Immigration.

| 1t is stated by the best New York houses
that merchants from the South make theii
l payments more promptly and ask credit il
fewer instances, than those from any othel
section. Within the last three years the
South has not only bonght largely and paid
In cash, but she has paid off millions of in
debtedness incurred before the war; and
this, too, when her fields were desolated, her
banking capital was destroyed, herrailroads
torn up, and her institutions had undergone
greater revolution than could have been
brought about by successful secession. There
is not an instance In the annals of history
that presents parallel, and perhaps no
country on the face of the globe would have
so quickly sprung from the misery and pow
erty ola devastating war to peaceful pros
perity so noble and gratifying.
This marvellous production Under the
most adverse circumstances has attracted the
attention of Northern farmers and capitalists,
and to-day exploiting parties are traversing
every Southern State looking for the most
favorable point for investment. Visitors in
the winter, labor under disadvantage in
not be dng able to see the crops growing but
they ere recompensed by escaping the terri
BILE cold of high ATTITUDES and enjoying the
loveli.est weather they ever saw.
No State presents happier medium of
cir nate than North Carolina. Here we
esq ape the intense cold of winter, and the
h eat of summer is never greater than in New
FORK city, enabling white men to work in
the open air during every month in the
year. The soil is Easily worked, and in this
climate yields an abundance of every variety
of production, from cotton of fine quality to
every fruit that grows in the middle and
eastern States, as we'll as many that will not
stand their winter.
the apples of Western North Carolina are
not surpassed in the world. Peaches can
be, and are beginning to be, raised cheaply
in great quantities, and transportation to
New York costs only from % to 35 cents a
basket, and that, too, when they arrive in
market before Maryland peaches are ripe.
Grapes reach perfection rivalling Califor
mia. The Catawba is native of Catawba |
county, and fortunes are being made in wine
culture. Dairying has been successfully in
troduced in Buncombe county, by gentle |
men from New York, and we are informed |
that, buying the best grass lands in the
world at from three to ten dollars per acre,
they can make several times more money on
the capital invested than can be done in the
best counties of New York.
But it would be useless to attempt in one
article an enumeration of the varied
agricultural productions of this State. Let
the gentlemen now visiting through the
country, and those who may come hereafter,
be shown what can be done by prudent in
vestment, and soon the influx of capital and
skilled labor will not only add to our wealth
by increasing production, but will double
the assessed value of the State by enhancing
the value of land. Thus immigration will
be beneficial to the native by increasing the
value of his property, and to the immigrant
by giving greater return for the capital
and labor invested than in any State north
of Dixon's line.