The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-04-15
sHEEp-RA1s1NG.


article in. the st. Louis Globe-Demo
crat FROM an intelligent correspondent
in Brighton, ILL.,, in regard to sheep
raising, thought fit to write him letter
setting forth the advantages of the hill
country of the cis- Ouachita section and
received a reply which we are in pos
session OF. AS the subject of immigra-
ton is one of no common interest to
our particular section, az well as prac-
tically a great benefit to the State, we
will endeavor to comment upon the
considerations so well taken in his let
ter of response. He says:
"fn the article you refer to of the
Globe-Democrat I am given far more
prominence than desired, not that
have done less, but certainly not more
than others whose address is not
named. Now this, sir, (sheep-grow-
ing) is only one of the thousand like
enterprises being started not alone in
sheep, but in other stock. The severe
winter now so 10th to so from us, has
opened the eyes of men somewhat as
~ SSOSh Wv "SoAs
ton is ready to go South. There are
some things you in Louisiana as we'll
! as all the South need to do to draw this
to you. All emigrants are not alike.
There is a nightly sight of difference
in people. Texas got an immigration
once from Georgia (by the way that is
my "faderland ~ they were of the
wrong kind and were curse and by
| word to the enterprise and thrift of
Texas. Those protectors of the
scheme don't want any more immi
grants from anywhere. AS rule the
emigrant who has to be hired or
helped to come to a country is worth
nothing when you get him. Men with
ready money is what you need. They
require some show. Your State has
gotten much abuse, as take it, from
political prejudices. These have to
be disproven and outlived. The world
needs to know you have such a stock
country and that it is safe to live in
for life and property. These last two
are the assurances of capital always and
anywhere for Investment. You will
bear these suggestions from me,
hope, in all good feeling. know your
country from correspondents there.
have always had hankering for the
Sunny South. Born here despise the
climate. The soil. and people do not
find an equal on the globe, but the
extremes of temperature are hardly
endurable. What Inducements have
you to offer either a company to come
and occupy or man to come and see
and work up an emigration and
stock enterprises? Both are possible
within months if we'll managed. At
no time in the past has the South been
so favorably looked upon as now.
Snow-banks are terrors, I tell you, and
we have had them since the first half
of November. Most of us desire to 90
where snow-banks never can come.
Tell me nothing Of your perennial pas
lures. They make mo disguised with
eight months grain-feeding as we come
near doing this year"
| We have copied, M erte,lso, the sub
ject matter of this gentleman's COM
municatiOn,in order to show his views.
which, as we have stated before are
we'll maintained. With soil AS fertile,
with temperature as even, with advan-
tages as free and as open to mark ct,
| with such Il vast domain of untitled
lands as we possess, the wonder is, that
the tide of immigration has not poured
into our midst, long ere this.
The fact that the country exists, how.
ever, leads us TO reflect with some in
terest upon the causative influences
which have prevented such desirable
ends. The prime cause, we take it, of
the meagre immigration to the South
is that she 10 wrapt up in her grand
specific enterprise, cotton raising, and
it being the most lucrative ostcnsibiy
lit being that industry which has
been handed down rs the inheritance
of an antebellu,n regime to the pres.
ent generation, there is a lothing upon
their part to get out of the old ruts OF
traffic. and seek new fields Of enter.
prise. Again, she has contcnted her.
self to rest under this onc-system idea