Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1882-05-05
The Southern Land Emigration and
improvement Company

The following is the prospectus of above
named company, an organization having
its chief office in New York city. The
prospectus was lately received by the cor
responding secretary of the immigration
society, and is laid before our readers as
of probable interest.
PROSPECTUS.
The objects Of the Southern Land Emigration
aud Improvement Company are:
TO act as agents for all who wish to buy or
sell Lands.
| To show the seekers for new and comfortable
and economical homes why their interests may
lead South instead of est
TO show how thev may establish themselves
in the South on the very smallest sum of money
through the power and credit of this Company
To enable them to pay for their homes grad
ually through term of years.
To enable holders of property in other sec
tions OF the country TO exchange such property
for property in the South
To hire and to loan money, on terms by which
the lender may have ample security, and the
borrower from the Company NAV live.
To bring to the notice of capitalists the ma n
opport for investment in farming grazing
timber and mineral lands, in manufactures.
water power, ana business properties OF all
kinds. To this end:
This Company will have agencies in all the
cities of the South and Ncrrh, and in the
moneyed ceutres of Europe.
This Company maintains such relations with
all the raiiroau and steamship lines connecting
with the South as will prove of the utmost
benefit TO its customers.
By advertisements in newspapers, by circu-
lars, and all known agencies of reaching the
- N H.,
made known through this Company.
The capitalist will find an almost endless
range OF opportunities for investment advertised
by us.
The settler. even with the most limited means.
may not only found home in the South in
the most fertile fields and under the most genial
skies, hut he may himself turn capitalist. What
Mr.. John Walter NJ. P, aud proprietor of the
London Tunes, recently said of the [ nited
States emphatisaly holds good of great part
Of the South, that "anv Englishmau going to
America who is good judge OF land, and who
is stead aud industrious, might be certain OF
becoming wealthy before he was fifty years
old I"
Great blocks Of land in the Southern
States are being purchased by European capital
lists
That the South now offers eater induce
men,s to capital, enterprise and Intelligent in-
dustry than any other quarter of the globe, Is
beyond question TO those who sre informed up
on the subject. -
The area Of the Southern States is so vast, and
the attitudes are so varied. from tte low plains
OF the sea coast and the bottom lands of the
great rivers up through mighty mountain ran
ges like the Allegheny, the Blue Ridge or the
, Cumberland. that ali varieties OF climate ex epl
the extreme cold can be fouud-for pleasure,
health. or the culture of greater range of pro-
, ducts than Europe can show. from the Mediter-
. ranean to the Baltic. II is indeed The Sunny
South
The abundant natural riches Of the Soath. il
, pictured TO the old Mayfower people, would
have been simply pu, down AS fabulous. From
Ponce de Icons Land Of Flowers, to ihs
| IRON Mountain and Pilot Knob. with their
deposits of iron larger than all the forges OF the
world could b .adle for hundreds of wears, tn,
extremes are seen of the beautiful, and eh'
I sturdiiy useful. The mineral resources Of Ih'
South from cuu 10 god. are simply wonder,
Iful and some uf the richest mineral lands cat
he purchased far what seems little more thar
i song" The South possesses the best cottoE
belt in the world, and the best rice fields aut
2 hat arc among the richest sBgTcane lands
, her orange groves are already rivaling those o
her near neighbor. Cuba. But Passing from
these matters. which readily touch the i'm
$ agiuaiiou the cool hasiness maa--of good ani
/ cheap aruling lands, Of niner,l., of 'im'er
corn tebaeco. grain, ifnits. vines ards, tar, tar
peuline. petfcleum, hsy grsxiag, etc. Tfuci
I fArsnsng alone 10 supply the Northern markets
is . u,ine os wealth. wha, is needed in raAn'
sections i simpiy deve.opment- A glance tell
nj thar The riches are there; the causes leading it
The long retardstion of Development to,
obvious 10 call for The telling.
Bu, In this matter of devsiopment a surpris
ilaz asAsSn saz iskss nlass - tin iae .asi Z !
, years ard the movement is gsinins heahway
every day. The rapid incrrase in the price OF
: lands shows this Population from the North
,.d from kurope is flowing 10, with its own
jid~s Of money. and nes aad wiie-fcAching and
profits enterprises are constantly springiug
up. The Southern psople themselves are
,horoughfy awakened al last to the fact Of the
abundance Of their resources. They are put.
ting forth every energy 10 secure their share oi
, the oyerhowing tides Of population from the
Old World and from the North Ev.ry Ssuih-
-rn State nov has its emigration commission
{ Ex-senator Gordoa, OF Georgia, is going ic
Eutops on business connected siih the develop
meats OF land in the Souihern States
D Ths, which largely prevented in fnrme'
yeSs tremendous influx Of immigration
slsvery-has been done away and ore conse
qaence Is that the various peoples Of The worlC
; nov have better knowledge of The South
kaoWiedge whose traits s,rewn hrosdeas
by ever! new colony or emigrant established
L ihere.
81 The great river Of emigration flowing 81
A steadily for so many years 10 the West is hein.
more and more diverted to the Southern States
: Here the emigraut hnd~not only cheap homes
but an old organized society, with it's churChr
snd schools and law.
All, whether Immigrant or old settler. ma
: hire money through The agencies OF this Com
\ PAW, without payius the old crushing rates @
interest which ale out the hearts of the wealth
= lies, planters Of the South The interest vii
not exceed The local legal rates
= All lnquirrs in regard to location, prodnc,
and prices of property in the South, the rates O
travel by railroad steamship; etc, will b
d answered without charge by addressing the
n SOUTHERN LAND, EMIGRATION AND IN
= PR0VEMENT COMPANY,
RooNs rs, 76 AND ~, Temple CouRr.
+ Cor BEsKsAS AND Nassau STREETS
NEW YoRK
NEW YoRK, May l, 1882