The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-04-11
a SUGGESTION no THE IMAfIGRA TON
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resolution introduced by Huntington,
Of the Window Reporter, was adopted,
as follows: 81, ~ %:s:,4| 4
RESOLVED, That the secretary be in
! structed to prepare All article for pub
| llcltlon in the American Newspaper
Union, briefly showing Minnesota's re-
sources, one time; also, to prepare and
! publish Il pamphlet, in size to come UNI
der one cent postage, showing the adj
Vantages Minnesota offers to immi-
! grants, and also containing !. map Of
the State; also, tlMt Il short article be
published i'll the Chicago and Milwa,l-
kee German and scandinavian papers;
| that the secretary publish three inch
| advertisement III both the foreign pa
pers and the American Newspaper u
nlog, to stand three months, calling
attention to the pamphlet, which will
ne distributed free Of postage to all APP
plicants.
We suppose it is now in order to in
t1oduce resolutions and we rise for that
purpose and introduce the following:
Resolved, ~ That the Board prepare,
or cause to be prepared, an article
showing the advantages, prospects and
present development of Minnesota,
such article to occupy when in print
not more than six columns of Il couu-
try newspaper; ~ that this article be
furnished to each newspaper in the
State with Il request to publish and
that each editor he requested to add to
| it an account of the county or immedi-
ate vicinity III which his paper is pub
! lishcd; ~, that the Board order from
| each publisher from 900 to 10000 cop
les of each newspaper for distribution;
az, that each editor publish Il notice
| calling upon every resident in the coun-
ty to come forward and procure copies
| OF such newspaper to send to friends
and acquaintance III other States. the
postage AMI Ill the expense Of such
sending to he betrayed by the Board.
We commend this to the. attention of
friend Huntington, who is IL member CT
the Board, and who, as all editor, knows
that no advertising is so ctfe, tive as
that which is done in til ,lumns of a
regularly-pubished newspaper. The
plan we propose would not be expensive,
as each newspaper would charge for
the extra copies only at the rate OF prob
ably s. or 50 a hundred and nothing
for composition. a supply Of 5000 to
10000 extra copies III each Office would
last for several months, and i constant
stream of papers under this plan would
he going out Of the State, and going
directly to persons who are interested
and who are looking westward for fu-
turc homes.
We have had considerable experience
in the business of advertising the adj
vantages of Minnesota. During the
first two years Of our residence in the
State we wrote letters to orcr fre han
ta'el different newspapers, from Maine
to Missouri, and it is safe to say that
these letters were read by 500 to 1000
readers to each newspaper, or over .,
Co., 600 persons. We know by the re-
sponses received to these letters that
hundreds of people had their attention
turned to minnesota III this way, and
but for the terrible grasslopper curse,
or blessing in disguise, or whatever it
was: we feel satisfied that hundreds Of
settlers, above the number now here,
would have been comfortably located
on our beautiful prairie lands, as a re-
suit of such advertising, which cost
nothing for insertion in the papers to
which the correspondence was sent.
Many Of these readers will, of course,
come yet, and if some suc! plan of adj
vertising us this could be kept up, the
result would pay Il thousand fold the
small expense incurred.
POURING; INTO llIyNEsOTi.
The ADVANCE predictions made last
fall and winter that the present Spring
would witness III immense immigra-
ton to the West, are being fulfilled to
the letter. The immigration mill is
running to it's fullest capacity day and
| night. During our visit east last win
ter we found nearly evsry man with
whom we conyersed looking westward
and the rea! estate agents of Chicago
operating nearly altogether in western
lands and land schemes. Nearly the
whole east is ut work for us shaking the
bush while we have our beautiful prai-
RE netspread andare c itching the birds.
That Southern Minnesota, admitted
to be the garden spot Of the State and
the cream of the pr;irirs, should at
tract large immigration is quite nat.
ural, and that Mobiles county, and the
country within a radius of twenty miles
of Worthinyton, should he the centre
Of attraction, is also natural. A St.
Paul Pionner-Prcss correspondent, a
few days ago, interviewed the officers
of the st. Paul 4 Sioux City railroad
and learned the following facts con-
corning settlement in this vicinity:
A visit to the general offices of the St.
Paul Il Sioux City railroad company,
in st. Paul WAS rewarded with the in
formation that t!irty-tight thousand
five h'Hdred and cighty-three acres of
the land OF that company were sold in
the month Of March, mostly to settlers
who will ut once proceed to open farms,
or who have already commenced opera
tions. In addition to this, the same
| with large body Of intelligent and H.
| ble-lodicd farmers of Goodiuo county
and vicinity, who propose moving in !,
body in the neighborhood OF Heron
Lake, where they have selected thirty
five thousand acres Of land for their
use, and which will be largely occupied
this spring. The Druils' Colonization
Society, Of st. Paul, lave also closed a
contract for two townships, or about
$4,000 acres, of land near Graham
Lakes, ard, finally. Bishop Ireland,
finding the demand for land 50 great ly
tic people in whom he is intere ;tetl, has
concluded to purchase an additional
thirty-five thousand acres Of land from
the st. Paul Il Sioux City Railroad
Company, little north of the present
Catholic colony at Adrian.
These, however, are only large sales,
and have no reference to the hundreds