The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-07
For the FARMER AND MEcHASIC.
immigration.

Reader do you know why the farming
lands Of New Jersey are valued at $50 per
acre? The answer is found il the reason
why farming lands around great cities com
mand from $50 10 800 per acre. The rea
son simply is that these farming lands are
adjacent TO great population that consumes
erery Htng that cnn be raised ~ erc,U
squire inch Of surtucc The lands above
referred to will not compare in naturpi Jtr
t7tty to ours, yet a farmer up there will
make more clear money on an hundred ache
farm than we can on "a thousand acre farm,
simply because he can sell ec0y thing he
can raise at good profit. 1t was emigra
ton that gave the Northern and North
western States the vast army OF consumers,
and in that way developed their agricultural
resources and made Their farmers rich.
During the days OF slavery, we repealed en-
igration and the difference III the value of
our lands and he lands of the Northern
States shows the result. Feeble individual
efforts since the war to induce imi grants to
come and settle among us has proved failure.
Political animosity and sectional hate on the
part of the North has baffied us and individ-
ual efforts have ceased. What ever is done.
must be done by our Agricultural Depart
ment What the Board of Agriculture is
doing in this direction is unknown to
have an agent in England. have
seen no notice at what port the cmigrants
were expected to land, no notice of who
was to receive them, or how they We're to be
received, no notice of cheap railroad rates
&c. \ ct we know IT the emIgrants land al
the Northern ports, Western Agents will
meet them, soon persuade them that we will
make niger Of them down here. and
away they will 90 West Not only will they
rob us of them, but they are robbing us at
home. They have cheap rates from here to
the Northwest, but there is none from there
(or any where elsel here
Before me lies pamphlet, edited for the
State by \ Dumont, Of Charlotte, n G.,
,rho tcW onsua all letters Of inquiry
The preface contains the resolution of the
Legislature under which it was issued,
which reads as follows:
4 Resolution to deteiope tie agricultural
md other 1,,atel7ol interest. qf North F".'.
olina.
WHEREAS; The Joint Committee on
Agriculture and the Committee on Immi
grafton, in Joint session, appreciating the
great necessity for immigration to our State
for the speedy development of her agrlcul-
tural and mineral resources therefore,
Be It resol,ed Jy tie General 4ssen,by Of
North Cdroitno, That (20, ,00O) twenty thous
and copies of the Appendix to the report of
the Geological Survey of North Carolina,
and the Proceedings and Correspondence Of
the Convention of Northern Settlers, held at
Charlotte, n. c., January 10, 1879, be
published in cheap pamphlet form, and dis
tributed under the auspices Of the Agricul
raj Department in other States than North
Carolina.
Ratified 9th of February, 1879. :"
The appendix to the report of the Geolo-
gical Survey is the most complete resume of
the material resources OF North Carolina
that | have ever seen; In fact am astonish-
ed to find SO much information about our
State In so small a space. | have seen
many pamphlets issued from the North
western States to induce emigratlon but
none of them will compare with this. The
etters from the Northern men who bave
settled among us are valuable, they refute
the slanders tnat we are hostile to emf grants.
They give the pOstoffice of each, also the
former post office, the company, regiment
and corps of the Union Army in which he
served, and his testimony of our kind treat
ment What better pamphlet could have
been gotten up to induce EN- grafton? Yet
have been informed that eight thousand Of
these phamplets were sent to Dawson 4 Cc.,
of Charlotte, and with part of their effects
were sold to paper r'ill. | hope the rest
shared hetter fate. \. Dumont who led
tied it for the State" has quit the real
estate business and moved to CASTOR county
Sc AL letters of inquiry" will be sent to the
dead letter Office Why he should have been
permitted to have placed his name on the
pamphlet and why he should have been
permitted to print on it that he would an
swer all letters of inquiry | am at loss to
perceive. | hope the Agricultural Depart
ment will not only be able to explain all this
salts iseactorily, but Will be able to show us the
results of its labors in the shape of emi
grants Has single settler yet arrived
from England?
Ifthe Department Of Agriculture would
expend half of its revenue In systematic
and business like way in behalf of lmi-
grafton, | believe it would show results
that would place it on a foundation SO firm
that ny iron clad retrencher' would dare
modest it. PRACTICAL FARMER.