The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-02-15
THEBEs CORRESPONDENCE.

Mr., EDITOR: Why is it, that from the
westward or any other stream of lmmigra.
ton so little stops in this portion of the
statei 1t does seems strange, when we
look around, us here, and see the wonder.
full fertility Of our soil of both upland and
bottom land the abundance of valuable
timber, such as poplar ash, oak, walnut,
hickory, gum, maple, and many other vari-
cites, also the nearness to market for any
thing the land may produce or the people
manufacture and to see this county, which
can richly support farming population of
twenty-five thousand to be represented in
that industry by only about five thousand.
Don't the world outside Alexander county
know this' If they don t, they must be
informed of these facts; let them know
what we have to offer, and what We want
| dare say, they do not even know that they
are wanted here, and you don't suppose
that an intelligent people, possessing self
respect, will 90 where they are uncertain
OF welcome. Yet know that we want
just such a class of people to settle among
US. This subject OF immigration and the
advantages that we have to offer emigrants
should be talked up, written up, and work.
ed up until 1t doomed" eastward, even to
hamlets among the Grampian hills, the
snowy range OF the scandinavian peninsula,
the romantic villages on the Rhine, and
the miners hut in the Hartz mountains
The bottom lands of this county, will
produce under reasonably good culture an
average Of fifty bushels per acre of corn,
twenty bushels Of wheat. two hundred
bushels Of potatoes, and this without man.
uring and under high state of cultivation
and favorable season eighty bushels of corn
thirty-tye Of wheat and three hundred OF
potatoes Our upland does not produce
quite so well, yet have known twenty
bushels of wheat per acre to be raised on
our Hill land; and the upland wheat is not
surpassed in quality by any country in the
world, 1t is fact well known to millers
that the uplands in a belt of county run
ming about $50 miles south and north and
about three hundred miles east and west,
Of which, this section forms nearly thee en-
trial portion produces the wheat from which
the premium -four Of the world is made
As before remarked, looking about over
this county and seeing the great induce
ment offered to honest and industrious set
tiers with the Cheapncss Of the land the
question, why do cmigrants pass thi,
land of promise, looms up into big
prominence, The most conspicuous thai
present itself is that the people Of AlcXon.
der are not fully alive to the Importance
that an honest industrious and intellgen,
immigration would be to this county, ana
therefore have never made any persistent
and systematic effort to obtain It, Now
this should he done aud it will cost labor
and money, bu, will venture
to say, that no enterprise will bet.
ter repay the people of Alexander county
than that directed N earnest toward immi.
grafton into this country. In the first place
It would be well to rrctfy a mistake our
county dads made little over two years
ago, when n magnificent stroke ofcconomy
hit them about the upper story, or some.
where, They virtually ignored the com.
mon school system by depriving the super.
intendcnt Of the means Of inteliigently per.
forming rhc duties pertaining to the office,
they only allow her forty days per annuu
for her whole work, which is insufficient
even tor the office portion of it. The con-
sequence is, that she cannot visit the schools
and how is she to judge the capacity of per.
sons TO impart instruction to scholars when
she has no chance of personal observation
Economyis a great thing when used in the
right place, and it is what all public officers
should practice, but is it not the poorest
economy in the world which requires pub.
lie servants to perform duties for half or
less than the same amount of labor and
talent would command in private business
Mistakes, though, will happen even in the
management of county business, therefore,
let us throw over this, the mantle OF charity
whenever the mistake is rcctited.
1t would be too late now, for the honor.
able commissioners to do very much In re-
gard to schools until next fall, but they
could, ut their March term, make appro.
priation for the superintendent TO hold
teachers institutes, and us she knows