Milford chronicle., 1883-09-14
amount of tax money.

are the most desirable for the PENN
'T sula, and to whom it offers great in
ducements. These are an exception
ally fine climate; a warm, easily, anC
therefore cheaply worked soil, ad
mirably adapted for fruit growing
and garden products; laying at the
door of the greatest and best mar
kets on the Atlantic coast, having
good railroad, and water cOmmuni
cation with them; with cheap land;
with social advantages of long stand
ing, and that do not have to be new
ly created although forming strong
contrast to the deprivations and hard
ships which confront the immigrant
who settles in our frontier states and
territories. Yet with all these adj
vantages the Peninsula and especially
Delaware does not obtain one out of
hundred thousand of the immi-
grants arriving in this country in
the course Of a year. How are they
to know anything about the advan-
tages of this state? Very few indeed,
know that it exists; and no efforts
are made by the State or by individ-
uals to draw their attention to it. al
though it ought to be one Ofthe most
thickly settled States in the Union,
instead of being probably one Of the /
most sparsely settled; in proportion
to its area, of any Of the middle and
northern states. Texas and many of
our western states have made ener-
getic efforts to obtain immigrants of +
this class, and have succeeded in
largely diverting foreign immigra-
tiOn to themselves. We know of two
Of the great railroads in the west.
which were subsidized by grants of
public lands, who have their agencies
in Europe and bring them in hund-
reds to their lands. They bring them
from any seaport in England. Ger
many, Denmark, Norway or Sweden !
or fifty dollars head, by steamer
md place them on the lines of their !
'Oads for that sum; and then give
hem free of charge forty acres of
and each for every male over eigh-
cen years of age. The state of ILL
ois was largely built up by the lib
raj policy Of its managers, who sold
their lands at very low
rices. gave them a long term in
hich to pay for them, transported
leir building materials &c, for little
nothing, and gave them other
milar advantages. The state of r
elaWare cannot give or sell lands Z
immigrants for it has none to dis
Dse OF, but individuals, or associa-
ons OF individuals might sell land
easy terms, and largely add to Uu
cir own wealth and the wealth of TT PI
e state. The Old Dominion Steam An
ip Co., offers to sell excursion tick he,
to intending immigrants at half ira
usual rates, and if they purchase sto
IDS to transport themselves and -
Miles, their effects, their stock.im.
ments and other belongings to
point on the D. NJ. and V. Rail 3
Id for half the usual rates. Peo- CIV,
may curse and criticize the rail
Ids as they please, one thing is ua, =
tain, they have everywhere added F
times their cost to the wealth of 10th
country. Without population LIS.
y cannot be run with profit, with F,
'rge population, they can be run
over rates of fare and freight and
Id profit. -
he most desirable class offoreign
migrants for Delaware are those
n the sOutherine Rhine provinces.
Lower Rhine, Nassau, Hesse,
EN-, Wirtemberg and Bavaria.
climate of these provinces is
? similar to that of Delaware: and 4
h Ofthe soil is also similar. The
Die are mainly small farmers. in
rious, frugal, and of good char
r. They thoroughly understand
growing, and how to make land
plentiful crops of small things y
n bring in largereturns ofmoney 3
can get more money from forty
Of land, than an ordinary Sus- A
county farmer could get from H
hundred and fifty acres. Immi- Q
is from Belgium, France and IS
zerland are equally desirable. .
hey are not to be had as read =
hey being less inclined to i'm Q
ate, as they to a great extent H
their own farms, although these AZ
mall; the avarage in France be- z
My ten acres per head to the
lltural population, yet the agri-
raj population of France sub z
ID and paid three of the five
ms of francs required by Ger X