The Brookhaven leader., 1883-06-07
OFFICE OF G.. w. p. AGENT, }
Ill. CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY.
B. T. HOBBS.

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MANCHESTER, IA, May %, 1888 }
B. 7. Hobbs, Esq, Brookhaven,i Miss:
DEAR SIR-IIave received your favor of
May 25, also a copy of paper. There is no
longer any question about the South hav-
ing IN the near future such boom as no
other section has ever seen except perhaps
the Territory of Dakota, which was beyond
all reason and has already produced re-
action, the effect ofwhich is likely to be
advantageous to the permanent settle
ment of that country. In my mail of yes
terday were letters from Minnesota and In
diana, as we'll as Iowa, making inquiries as
to when we would run our first Land Ex-
cursion South; to which replied as soon
as practical after the warm SKINNER
months were passed. My judgment is that
the last of October will be the beginning of
this Southern Land business which will be
kept up during the fall and winter months;
and we expect them to grow, each succeed
| ing excursion being larger than the one
that preceded r.
| Your exhortation to yOur people is to the
point, and it will be pleasure for me to
distribute any printing matter you may
send me, where l am confident the result
will be to the advantage of your partcu-
lar section. What the South needs to-day is
MORE FARMS AND MORE FARMERS.
A thousand acre farm should be divided by
4, giving $50 acres to the farm, which is
more than the average farmer can work to
advantage, A higher state of cultivation
is absolutely demanded in order to reap
the greatest possible results. Look at the
celebrated ''Belle Mead" Farm, near Nash
vile, owned by Gen. Harding. 1t is not
only the pride of its owner and all the
State of Tennessee, but it is fcrtlized and
cared for so as to yield handsome profit
to it's owner.
Your pamphlet should specify lands for
sale, with description of same, prices, etc;
your school and church advantages, bust
ness and manufacturing interests-every-
thing that will give the people of the
Northwest ii true idea ofyour advantages.
Avoid any extravagant description of your
lands; rather let them prove to be better
than described, than to be in any degree
overdrawn. have no confidence in
spasmodic effort of this kind doing any
thing that will result in great good, but
have confidence, based upon actual expert
ence in constant, persistent and continued
efforts to populate any section that offers
SUCH INDUCEMENTS
in the way nj climate, soil and cheap lands
as your State is now offering. / have
seen northwestern Iowa, Nebraska and Da-
kota grow within few years from bar
ren, bleak and unoccnpied prairie, to a
thickly and elegantly developed country
whose Inhabitants have many of them be-
come rich; and so, my dear sir, the South
is sure to reach degree of prosperity
hitherto unknown. But it requires hard
work.
Our company will name such extremely
low rates that
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE FROM THE NORTH
WEST
will visit you. and they are quick to take
advantage of special opportunities for in
vestments. May / not suggest that one
thing your farmers especially need is more
pride in the general appearance of their
plantations and farmsf Dilapidated fences
and buildings are scarce indeed in the
North, and nothing will impress these
n Northerners with the fact of thrift and
profitable farming in your locality more
than to see everything cleaned up and
made attractive, even though the houses
and buildings be small and humble. lam
writing you fully because am interested
in any and everything that will aid in the
further development of the South.
SEND ME- YOUR PRINTED MATTER,
write me freely, and use me in any way
that win contribute to the success of this
enterprise IN which we are mutually in
terested.
Wishing you abundant success, am, my
dear sir, Yours truly,
| J.F MERRI, G. ". p A.