Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-06-16
the Pacific. An this builds up yicks
burg, Eanice aud Fulton, but does
nothing for Little Rock, while~it is
death to Memphis"
CHEAP LANLS W4NTED.

CHEAP L4NIlS W4NTED. y
a great deal of complaint reaches
us from persons engaged in the real
estate business, that their schemes of
immigration are thwarted by land
owners, who find some excuse for
advancing prices whenever con-
fronted with bona fide purchasers or
settlers. One firm complains that,
even in cases heresubscription We're
made in seeming good faith, parties
have availed themselves of some tech
nieality or loop-hole, through which to
crawl from what they considered the
dilemma Of low prices for their lands.
Nothing "a be more disastrous or
detrimental to immigration or pro-
gress than acourse of conduct, which,
while it exhibits bad faith, is liable to
be Interpreted as an endorsement of
the statements of Southern exclusive
ness and prejudice, which it is one of
the great efforts Of the press to refnte.
So far from acting in this spirit, U
land owners should initiate the ex-
ample of their brethren of the North
west, who practice the most liberal
policy, and have largely prOfited by
it. They haye their lands properly
surveyed and laid out, and regular
profles and plats made, which they
place on view at the real estate
brokers, who sells for them every
alternate lot, sometimes giving them
away, in order to induce a price and
sale for what remains. They gener-
ally determine on a plan and a pur-
pose, and then stick to it. Such a
course is of the utmost importance to
the broker, because, when he effects a
sale, there is no going back ON it. His
say-so is final. Confidence in him is
strengthened instead of, as with Us,
jeOpardised by shifting and in
definite conduct. Our real estate
men-to whom We look, in the absence
of any proper State effort, for encOur-
agement to immigratiOn-cannOt be
expected to accomplish anything
commensurate with our desires
If they are not assisted by the
large land owners who, as it We're,
hold the key to the door of settle
ment. People viii not come here
and lease when they can go to equally
inviting localities, and buy at very
low figures. 1t cannot be expected
that men viii leave the great high
ways of travel to the west, and direct
their steps in this direction, to be on
fronted by uncertainty and doubt in
the face and conversation of real
estate brokers or land owners. The
class of immigrants whom we invite
this way, have no money to spend
gadding about the country in search
of suitable localities and have no dis
position to come here for the mere
purpose of chafering for lands, when
in Kansas and Nebraska, along the
line of the Pacific road, they car pur-
chase and locate Immediately on their
arrivaIat rates nearly rs low as those
that rule in the public land Office.
Instead of throwing obstacles in the
way, greater than they have already
to encounter in their own preconeep-
tons of Us, we should be opening
wider and wider the gates to immi-
grants; selling cheaply, and, If neces-
sary, giving away half that we have,
in order to encourage what We 50
much need-the immigration of
healthy, enterprising and active men
and women. We trust the attention
of land owners will be given to this
subject and that they viii determine
to conform their views, upon consul
tation with their brokers, to stand
ard that viii go far to meet the antici-
pations of intending settlers, and then
stick to it, win or lose.