The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-08-17

and from New York and Charles
ton, so that the expenses Of trans
por,ation might be reduced to the
minimum. For the securing Of
cheap transportation is quite an
item to the immigrant selecting {;
location for a home, as we'll as to
the farmer who must advance the
cost Of transportation Of any i'm
migrant coming to him as a laborer.
This pamphlet to answer the
purpose, should have a complete
map of the State, with a descrip-
tion Of each county and its eli
mate. For our State, though small
in area, combines every variety CT
climate between her sea coast and
and mountain range. And can
furnish home for the European
Immigrant approxim ating his old
one; whether he comes from the
bleak shores of Sweden or the
sunny slopes of Italy. Its pro
ductions too should be mentioned,
for with this varied climate and
varying altitude above the sea
level are grown products Of quite
as varied a nature.
Cotton might be put down as
the staple crop, and one secure
it from the ravages that attend it
in warmer latitudes, but at the
same time corn, rice and the cereals
are also all our standard crops, with
vegetables, vines and fruits Of al
kinds growing in profusion, lum-
ber and minerals in abundance.
And one important point worthy
of mention, that we have water
communication and rail road ia.
cilities to all points.
To an emigrant going west as
sound advice as can be given him
is to examine his location as much
with regard to rail road facilities,
as to the fertility Of the land itself.
With US the transportation ques-
tion is Of small moment, the Sc
lection Of home can be made
anywhere.
This point also should not be
lost sight Of, that in giving the
price of land in this State, it is of
land having rail road facilities,
with as general thing more or
less improvements upon it. Such
land as out West would be classed
as improved and be rated at from
SO to $40 per acre. We have no
land so destitute Cf market IA
cilities as much of that in the
West which is offered at $3.50 per
acre. And the immigrant seeking
a home should consider that
though he may in the wilds Of the
far West procure land at a cheap
price that will bring him thirty
to forty bushels of corn or wheat,
that those are their only crops
While in this State be can divcrsi-
fy his crops if he chooses, and if
he makes only ~ to ~ bushels Of
corn, be can sell that corn at from
seventy-fve cents to one dollar
per bushel and is realizing really
more money than the Western
man who sells for from 25 to 33
cents per bushels. And besides we
are apt to rate the productions Of
these Western lands too high.
Asin Western Oregon the average
yield is put at 20 bushels in Min
nesota at Is bushels, in Dakota at
25 to % bushels on the large i'm
proved farms and not more than
Is or Is on the average farms.
With the difference in price the
balance stands in our favor as to
the net results, for the cost of
transportation far more than
makes up the difference, of produc-
tion, especially when you get a.
way from railroad communication.
This is the strong point that the
lands in the older States have to
put as a set off against the cheap
Government and State lands in
these new States, which can be
bought from 80 cents to 50 so. 1t
is that these lands generally lack
railroad facilities, and often the
most advantageous situations have
already been bought up by specu-
lators and held at large advance
upon the Govern ment price. Now
our State has but little land that
she could put upon the market at
at a low price, but what she has
might be utilized in this way as
much as possible. Every piece Of
State land might be surveyed,
and when in larger bodies than 40