Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1872-11-09
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To the Point-Whnt Cooperation
VIII Do-Something Practical or
Immigration.
Il From the Nashville Journal of Commerce
Everybody really alive to the mate
rial interests of Tennessee recognizes
the pressing and immediate need OF
the introduction of the great produ.
cling elements, capital and skilled la.
Dor, into the State. Nature has boun.
tifully supplied us with resource:
which, developed, will rapidly intro.
duce wealth and prosperity. Immi.
grafton, which supplies these produ.
cling agencies most largely and rapidly
is flowing into far less favored but
better advertised localities; for, with
all our urgent need, no adequate effort
has been put forth to let the moving
capital and labor of the world know
what attractions VIC possess for them
The State would not, and private in
dividuals could not without co-ope-
ration. Cooperation works wonders
little from each will do much for all.
Now to the point. The Tennessee
Immigration, Labor and Real Estate
Association, having been actively en-
gagged for the past year, laboring for
the immigration of capital and skilled
labor, has acquired, through experince,
pretty thorough practical idea OF
what is necessary to accomplish the
desired end, and the cheapest and most
efficient plan of procedure. After
long negotiations at home and abroad,
the Association is prepared to make
the following proposition, which, if
accepted, will be simply the initiatory
of series of movements of similar
character:
The Association will publish twenty
thousand pamphlets of thirty pages
each, eight or twelve pages to be de-
voted to statistics, descriptions and
information concerning the resources,
condition, climate, productions, etc.,
of the State of Tennessee the re-
naming twenty or twenty-four pages
to be devoted to particular descrip-
tons, statistics, ETC., of those counties
subscribing to the work. For each
fifty dollars subscribed by a county, it
will be given one page and five hun
dred of the pamphlets. A county sub
scribing one hundred dollars will have
two pages and one thousand pamphlets
Not less than one page nor more than
four will be given one county. A
finely engraved map, twenty inches
long, of the State in counties, show
ing principal towns, rivers, creeks and
railroads built and to be built, and
boundaries of the Central Basin, Rim
and Plateau, will be folded and
fastened in each pamphlet. The As
ISOLATION has assurance of two other
maps being furnished; one showing
the railroad connections of Tennessee
with the United States to each coast
and the other showing the principal
routes from Europe to the United
States.
Thus will be furnished, in q compact
and convenient form, the most desira
BILE and authentic information for i'm
migrants, and that which will mos
strongly attract them to our State
, Should the distribution of these pam
phlets bring no more than ten or twenty
families to each county subscribing
; the result will be worth to such coun
ties from $4,000 to $4,000 at least
: The plan of distribution proposed il
for each county to distribute its quot,
, of five hundred for each page il sub
scribes for, which in event of twent
I pages being taken, will absorb tel
D thousand of the twenty thousand pam
, phlets. The Association will distrib
ute five thousand of the .remaindo
throughout the Northern States an
I five thousand in Europe.
Were each county to attempt to ac
alone, the cost of engraving the ma
+ alone would be more than the cost {
two pages. The printing and mailin
= of twenty thousand two page circular
i alone would cost them more, and til
t mailing of twenty thousand pamphlet
u alone, in stamps, costs 800, beside
labor and wrappers. But by coop,
: ration the expense and labor fall
+ lightly on each, and the combined e
fort furnishes a publication that, if
single county was to carry out I'll
whole, publishing and distributing.
c would cost it about two thousand do
i lars.
g Three plans are suggested to Il
n counties for raising the necessai
money:
/ 1st, That the County Court sui
o scribes it.
! 2nd, That citizens subscribe it
private contributions.
- Bird, The Association has a speci
l. contract with the publishers of ii
n Journal of Commerce whereby it
: enabled to offer this valuable paper
the regular subscription price, and (;
every club of fifty in a county, to civ
le one page in the proposed pamphlet al
| the five hundred pamphlets. So,
in case the County Court refuses to SUI
scribe and private citizens do not fe
~ warranted in paying the money out
rs their private funds, and there are ST
W some live citizens, they can get up
" club of fifty or 'onc hundred for Il
h journal OF Commerce, and while G
i cry subscriber gets Journal, for 81
IN year, that is fully worth his So, i
s. county secures an advertisement of
attractions that will bring it capt.,
manufacturers aud producers to 4
value of many thousand dollars.
In cachs case, the county subscri
* ing should select some reliable al
well informed citizen who shall act
Ia corresponding secretary and party
r reference, and who shall compile t
or report, for the county, TO be publish
ut in the pamphlet, with his nanae ttac
y; ed so that ho may be addressed
Ia those receiving the pamphlet, for pt
s. ticular information, This Sccrcta
II should be allowed a small fee, VIII
P laborers are secured through him
H. lands are sold, as compensation
pi, his services and expenses.
nd All monies subscribed are TO
". placed in the hands of r.. III. Gardn
by Esq, Of Nashville, Treasurer of /
by, Association, aud will be paid out
N, him only for the purposes above des
81. mated. For turiher information Q