The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-08-30
EMIGRATION TO VIRGINIA.

THE COMING POMOLOGICAL MEETING.
We have already spoken of the great i'm
portance Of the suggestion recently made
by our neighbor, the Enquirer, as to a
meeting of our citizens interested in selling
real estate, and i'll promoting emigration to
Virginia. The one thing needful in our
present condition, is increased capital and
more population. We especially need
skilled labor, to originate and prosecute
those employments which enrich all COM
munities where they thrive. In our mines,
forests, water-powers, quarries, soils, and
wonderful outlets to the sea, we have ma
tural facilities for manufactures unsur-
passed. Our railroad system is being
rapidly improved to meet present and fu-
ture wants. We have vast amount of
rude, but valuable operative labor, needing
only capital and skill to convert it into a
powerful productive force, which would
lift our whole industrial system out of pre-
sent helplessness and stagnation into
glorious prosperity. 10
Now wisely organized system of emil
grafton will bring US this great boon. II
will enable those who now hold tracts of
unprodIctive but valuable land, to dispose
Of their surplus at fair prices, and thus OBJ
tim capital to work the remainder. or to
change investments to suit their interests
and tastes. It will give us varied industry,
and thus find ready market for our
co1rser products near home with better
prices, and tend to keep up the fertility of
the soil 1t will diminish the burden of
taxation, by distributing the whole amount
over larger number, and increasing greatly
tn, taxable basis Of property.
For every landholder in the State of Vir-
GINA, whether he desires to sell or not,
this question is one of the highest import
ance. II is equally SO to the holders of
real estate in the cities and towns. There
can be no growth of the cities till we have
a larger and richer country population.
Cities dependupon the activity of exchange,
and that upon the amount of consumption
of the products Of industry, and that again
upon population, the quality as well as
number being considered.
The price of corner lots in Richmond is
determined by the kind and number of peo-
PIE living on every square mile of the area
to which it looks for trade quite as much,
as by anything which its own people may
do. We have grand natural advantages
here, which will enable us to secure our !
fair proportion of the emigrating classes.
What we need is an organized system like
that which has filed up the West with its
teeming population. To obtain it we need
consultation among all interested in the
growth and prosperity of our State.
The meeting Of the American Pomologi-
cal Sosiety will be an cminently favorable
to inaugurate the movement.
We most cordially second this important
suggestion, and invite all our readers
throughout the State to come up to the POI
biological meeting and also to the conre,a-
ton to promote immigration, to be held at
the same time, to wit: on the 9TH and Sth
days Of September. The pomologists meet
on the 9Th and hold over till the 9th, and
the meetings of the Emigration convention
will be held so as not to interfere with the
other.