Smyrna times., 1876-10-25
Mancha InterYiewad.

Mancha interviewed.
The St. Michaels Comet editor has been in.
teryiewing ]. Frank Mancha at Easton, and
here is a portion of the interview:
REPoRTER-How long have you been sci.
ling land in TalbotP
Mr. M.-About three years since l got
fairly started.
R.-How much land have you sold in
Talbot?
Mr. M.-The last time l went over the
books l found the amount to be l2,2SS
acres, which brought the sum of 1864, 744,
or S2944 per acre. The purchasers repre-
sent the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New
York, Connecticut, Kansas, Mississippi,
Michigan, New Jersey, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Maryland, Virginia, Iowa, Maine, Missouri,
Vermont, Montana Territory, and also
Canada, England and Scotland.
R.-How do people in foreign countries
find you out?
Mr. M.-Some get my pamphlets from
friends and relatives In this country, but
most of them see my advertisement and
write for pamphlets.
R.-You must use printers ink pretty
freely.
Mr. MI have advertised in over 20OO
newspapers.
R.-Do the majority of your visitors
buy?
Mr.. M.-Not one in twenty. In counting
the list recently l found l had over 800
visitors in twelve months.
R.-Are you sometimes overrun?
Mr.. MI have never failed to accom-
mOdate all with conveyances around the
county, although had one day thirty-three
visitors, taking seven teams and an ON
nibus.
R-Do you keep your own horses for the
business?
MR. M.-Yss sir, 1 have been keeping
from nine to a dozen, and am largely in
creasing the number.
R-How many clerks or assistants have
you?
Mr.. MI have had five regularly for
the last year. and have added cne more
lately wish to state here that | have re-
Gently associated with me in my Easton
branch office, Mr.. William Holstean who
will take charge of this field while am
absent in Dover or Smyrna. He is an
energetic reliable gentleman and thoroughly
posted.
R.-You make no charge for showing
visitors over the county?
Mr. MI do not; it costs them so much
to get them to come that could not afford
10 frighten them off with charges. l offer
come and see our county, even to reduced
board at the hotel.
R.-Your expenses must be heavy.
Mr. M.-Yes, sir; over 5000 a month,
and yet some think that 5000 or $500 COM
mission on large sale is too much, while
trustees get one-third more without any
risk or expense, and they are always sure
of sale.
R.-Our people must reap much benefit
from this outlay?
Mr.. M.-Few people know or stop to
think what wonderful increase in all
branches of business and trade results from
this influx Of settlers. These new settlers
have not only purchased land to the
amount of $3.50, 1000, but they have bought
furniture, groceries, farming utensils,
horses, &c. Every thousand dollars, by
changing hands, pays $4,000 Of debt,-re-
lieving hundreds from pecuniary embarrass-
ment, enabling all to buy and sell and carry
on trade with life and activity widely in
contrast with other sections where "dull''
and 'hard" times are stereotyped words on
every tongue. One gentlemanfhanked me
with tears in his eyes for rescuing him
from threatened bankruptcy. When l
asked for an explanation he clearly showed
me where the money realized from a
certain sale, after passing through certain
hands, though not through his own, saved
him from paying security money, which he
would otherwise have been compelled to
paw at a sacrifice of all he was worth.
This is but one among hundreds of instan-
ees of relief to individuals resulting from
this accession to our population and wealth.
R.-What are your charges for ceiling
land in Talbot county?
Mr.. M.-Five per cent on the first S., 900
and q per cent on the residue.
R.-Are persons who bought land here
two or three years ago satisfied, generally ?
Mr.. MI believe all who remain that
long are entirely satisfied. We quickly
sell out for those who are not satisfied, and
let them go. A very small percentage of
them become dissatisfied, but there is a
great deal more noise made about one of
these, than about twenty who remain and
are contented.
R.-What defects do strangers find
amongst US that seems to strike them more
fOrcibly7 and what do they consider the
the chief advantages of our section?
MR. M.-They look with the greatest
suspicion upon the general absence of
clover and timothy, and when we take
them to soc farms where these grasses are
raised, they are exceedingly puzzled to see
how luxuriantly the grass thrives while
probably Immediately across the fence on
an adjoining farm the fields are almost
bare. Farmers in the north SOW at least
three times the quantity of seed per acre
that we do, while leaving a field without
seeding down all would be regarded as the
most consummate folly. But few find any
fault with the natural features of our
country, but they complain of high prices,
and the general look of order and neatness
about the farms ans premises.
The chief attraction is our climate. The
long severe winters Of the north and west
drive hundreds to look for milder and
more uniform climate. The fruit, saltwater
Injuries, aud proximity TO our large cities
are also advantages looked upon with much
favor.
A MATTER OF TAsrE.-The dish for which
Esau seld his birthright-s dish of lentils-
was hardly equivalent to one Of dried beans.
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