The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-03-10
For the Standard
Inducements to Immigration.

-. MEssRs. EDITORS Il have written several
letters to you respecting the movement in
favor of Southern investment by North
erners. 1t is surprising how many land
hunters crowd the lines Of travel. | think
one fourth of the travel is of this kind
4 But though simply desiring to locate in
of buyers reach no further south than Vir-
nation as to other regions. The. agents
representing these lands sent north by these
States, manage to stop the capital and
Virginia, though under military rule, not
reconstructed like your State. is improving
rapidly. Richmond is decidedly improved
since 1851. The buildings are far better,
while the population is greater. Stores
from street to street are common, and four
storied iron and marble fronts are every
where visible.
But the most instructive development of
wealth, is seen in the search for Virginia
lands These lands north of this are al
most deprived of timber, making fencing ard
wood serious matter. Yet, from the
persevering efforts of Emigration agents,
owners succeeded in locating these strangers
on lands by no means equal to North Caro-
lima farms. It is really surprising, how
much can be done by keeping before the
mind one thing. tits Virginia Virginia
till Northern men scarcely know any other
State. 1t is announced to-day, that 1900
acres of land have just been sold near Fred
ricksburg, or say ten or twenty miles of, for
$4,000. Lands are higher between here
and Alexandria than before the war.
Were North Carolina lands, resources, all
kept before the now restless northern settler,
and the tide turned in that direction,
year would mark noted changes.
I was in Norfolk while ago, and found
the population in the two cities included
about 10000, while every thing showed
q growth. Modern dwellings of costly kind
were going up all around. e4-
-s Emigration goes by sort of mania, and
so does Immigration. Each settlers is a
living advertisement His friends come
after. Neighborhoods are thus put on the
move, till cities and country places are
: filled. The buyers OF the lands named in
Z this letter, were from New York, where
there is really much good land and railroads
and steamboats, everywhere The climate
is great consideration, and the word be-
comes patent all through the North-The
Southern climate is so fine.
II, then, climate is so much, let me ask
where a better than, in North Carolina 2
% With land at from S. to $40 per acre.
including the very best Tobacco and Cotton
soils, if your States not settled as thickly
as Delaware, the blame is with your General
Assembly. 1t is not with your Governor.
because he a progressive man, anxious for
1mmigration-for millions of men and
money both to come. t
1t is impossible to become State of
celebrity unless you have more to the
square mile than at present, and more money
wherewith to improve the town, and coun-
try. ~
Even the seekers of lands in Florida deny
its elegibiity--and are indisposed To buy.
1t is too fiat a region-and not the thing
precisely. Knowing most of the States-it
is plain the belt Of land embracing North
Carolina and Tennessee include the most
desirable locations, and when it is seen
that your State lies on the coast. and has
her fine timber, and her ports, the advantage
- Iies there, and five years will show this. Il
- you are but true to your future There is
-a9but one watchword all along these lines Of
Eravel-and the Immigration agent cries
. That Settle among 4lsl Settle among us
q fnd they settle. .rsseoa,z ALBEMARLE. :