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

already effected for securing and
forwarding from Castle Garden,
! n. Y, to Colum bia, any imml.
grants wanted as laborers. Cheap
rates Of transportation arranged
with the Railroad and Steamship
lines from New York to Colum bia,
so that the adults fare is but
$1,000, children from 5 to y years
only SIS 90, and those under 5
years free. And with a building
secured as temporary home in
Columbia, and cheap rates for
boarding; and the fares or our
State Railroads reduced 10 q mini
mum; we have al Immigration
Bureau in good working order
ready to supply any class Of labor
ers wanted, at such small cost,
| that already during the few
months Of its existence 500 i'm mi
grants have been settled in the
State. This may look small but
when we consider that the census
of 1880 only showed 7,641 foreign
born inhabitants this may be but
q beginning that will swe'I that
number, 90 that when another cen
sus is taken those few thousands
will be hundreds Of thousands.
But we want not only laborers,
but those emigrants who reach
our shores with means and money
to invest in lands and homes;
these are the immigrants we want,
and TO reach this class the opera
tions of the Immigration Bureau
must be extended. For at pres
ent from the small appropriation
at the disposal of the immigration
Bureau they have not the means
to get up the statistics and proper
data which decide these immi-
grants in their selections Of locali-
ties for homes. This can only be
done through liberal aprropria-
tion BY our next Legislature. And
the immigration Bureau having
the advantage of being able to
profit by the experience Of the
other States already engaged in
this work will avoid much of the
useless expense attending untried
experiments. For these States,
and the trunk lines Of Railroads
leading West from New York,
have for years been spending
their money freely in bringing to
the attention of the immigrant
all the advantages other sections
possess. They have books, pam.
phlets and railroad maps carefully
nrenared for free distribution. de-
scribing all the Counties of their
State, the soil, the climate, the
population, the productions, the
manufacturing advantages, the
mineral deposits, in fine anything
likely to attract an emigrant's eye
And these are not only given TO
the emigrant upon his arrival IN
New York, out, in the hands Of
trusty agents, arc distributed on
ship-board, at all the sailing ports
and even amid the hamlets of the
rural population in the old world.
So that one desirious Of emigra-
ting can with little or no trouble
procure one Of these pamphlets
before he leaves home to seek his
fortune in a strange land; can
study the country he proposes TO
make his future home, And count.
ing up bis money be can even
before starting map out bis ex-
penses. So much for: travelling,
so much for land, so much for q
team, so much for farming utensils,
so much for the first years sup
port, as this pamphlet often ap-.
proximates the cost of each of
these items. So with all this in
formation before hand the party
decides to seek a new home, when
without it his careful training and
habits of saving 1ould have kept
him from running the unknown
risks Of an emigraDt's life. Now
to such inquiries in regard to our
State but little information can be
given. We have such a pamphlet
in preparation by our Agricultural
Bureau. 1t should have q large
circulation, in fact such pamphlet
would give valuable information
to many of the residents Of the
State itself, and if distributed
through many Of the Northern
and North western States would
be the means Of bringing to the
attention of many seeking new
homes the advantages our State