, 1877-10-21
HOMES IN TEXAS.


CHICAGO ILL.,, Oct. 1S.-As Mr.. o. c. Gibbs
has now returned and has reported on what
requested that he should in my letter published
in your paper OF Aug. 2u, aud has verified what
therein stated with reference to renting lands,
! beg space to say few words in behalf Of the
! inttrcs: represent. Our Association is com-
posed Of landowners rho have no connection
with railroads further than to be fricndly1o all.
No man should go to Texas who cannot
| take with him undoubted evidence Of
| his worth, and, unless he takes letters to
/ good people there from parties here that are
| known, he had better stav away. Our State
| has been cursed by an immigration induced by
| bad asencies,-so much that stranger going
there without letters is very apt to be looked
| upon as some dead-bcat, to dsprore which rp-
quircs time and the loss Of guou trade
In renting lands credit is dispensed to the
tenant. The more worthy of this credit he is
the greater the credit, and the better the oppor
tuuity afforded to make living. What others
may do We are not saving OF caring, but We arc
not sending parties to our associates who cannot
show up a good record. To that class NC our
selves pledge good-paying positions and places
with good people who will aid them in all
ways most wanted by the poor man. who may
honestly be striving to make wherewith to buy
him home- We are not trying to do big
business, but good. safe. honest one, the
evidence OF which We hold to show to any one.
None u our iSsocllLcs clfaFrc parties lot pro-
curing them homes. We have on our tables let
ters from the best people in our State stating
their wants, and which are free to be inspected
By every person calling On us That we: tell as
many men not TO 60 to Texas as encourage
to go, is a fact,-fur oue-haff who want to go if
VIC or your charitable people would pay their
way, are slftless, worthless, communistic set,
whom we do not want
We have ,cYeryct failed to provide way and
place for every good honest man that has called
on US meaning business, however poor he might !
yers, doctors, clerks, or those wauting light |
Jobs, genteel employment, or something for |
nothing.
Now, as VIC hare done moro to bring this mat
ter of cheap homes before the people in having
you send Nlr. Gibbs TO our State, VT now desire
to make an otter through you to your readers |
aud to the world which may appear novel;
surely it Is new,-and will convince every reader !
Of The TRIBUNE that we are honest and sin
cere, if any have doubts. Our offer Is that |
every reader of your paper who may 20 to |
ent Of The TRIBUNE. TO report for the benefit !
of all mankind any false statements we may or |
shall have made him. either as respects the !
character Of the peaple we may send him to,
the trade he may make, the productions of our
soil, tue climate. or anything else we shall Tcp-
resent respecting our State. Thus we put up
guarantee we defy any one to excel, and no
other emigration agency would think OF offer |
'ng Oar State has no equal On the face OF the
globe for the honest laborins man, or for the
capitalist, if he will only 70 the right Places
and the right men there: and that all depends
upon these conditions hone will deny. We arc
not engaged i'll the formation Of colonies or in
any similar frauds. Very respectfully,
THOMAS NOEL, General Manager.