The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-01-18

Editor F0rjdiGn: Your correspondent mo
doc" writing on the subject Of immigration,
wished, doubtless, TO DO understood when estimat-
ing 90 900 square miles of land to be benefited not
TO mean that they are day in the hands of actual
settlers or purely private parties, bu: as sepa
rated from the public domain, and In the hands
of parties who are directly and indirectly
whether as corporations or otherwisel interested
in their development and their enhancement in
value. The increase Of population for the last
decade has been about 5000 per annum-over 40
per cent. For the next four years at the same
rate would give $1,000 increase This is doubt
less probable without any State aid. By
the expenditure of $4,000 per annum there
can be 1000 to $500 per year more increase made
from immigration alone; and that a promise of
a liberal amount would so stimulate the rivalry
of the competing lines of transportation as to
facilitate intercourse with the north and north
west, 80 as to attract by the cheapness of excur-
sion rates, more than double the number of tran
sient visitors that we now have who in return
would become living instances that our state
ments were true.
Again, the increasing facilities of transporta-
ton means increase of shipments OF fruit and
vegetables, and the productions of Florida that
can only be obtained elsewhere through the hot
house, would in q short time be considered as
necessary to every well-to do Northern family as
are oysters from Baltimore or ice in summer
Gardening for profit would be conducted on
scale heretofore unknown, and tens of thousands
of acres of land now idle would become produc-
tive and profitable, and source of income to the
transportation lines and the State at large
Methods and means Of attracting the class of
immigration desired will be suggested by the
dozen, but first of all give it the endorsement of
good appropriation-not less than $20, 900 per
annum, which is only 2 cents per 800 valua-
ton. Let the proper person be fully author
lied TO contract with transportation lines, and
give the excursion or immigrant" ticket an
official status and recognized value that shall be
beyond doubt, and adoertise freely where and
how these tickets can be procured. The Trans
portation Department of the Bureau of Immi-
grafton should be in the hands of man accus-
toned to deal with transportation matters, and
familiar with its demands and possibilities, and
one who, when he goes 10 talk to the managers
or officers of great railroad corporation, knows
what to say, how to say it, and show that he has
the State to back him and the money to do what
he proposes.
What shall be published to induce immigra-
ton?
Facts, gathered from time to time through the
year have condensed selected information and
State news put in shape once in two months, or
monthly in winter ii you prefer, that shall be an
epitome of Florida for the time-not filed with
long-winded opinions of anybody. Let there be
subcommittee in every town or county, and
let them have as many of the monthly papers
sent them as they will send out of the State
Have brief description of each county printed
on the back OF letter sheets, and the heading
with name Of post Office, such paper sold free of
aharge for the printing; or, in other words, print
UGH paper for nothing for each county; have
envelope designs TO match. Have a gazetteer
and guide, giving the name Of every post Office,
and how to reach it. and have them furnished
free to all post offices for distribution Have a
new sectional map of the State, cheap. Have
county maps In cheap form and free 10 all.