The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-06-30
Our Southern Letter.
necial to TIE CAnpoN ApvocArE.

South, SO as TO avoid the more vigorous
climate OF our section. 1 had a sujourn
of nearly three months in the South.
principally in. North Carolina. | now
wish through the medium of your paper
to briefly communicate with the indus
trial classes of your vicinity. Doubtless
til IRE are in your section. as in all thick
ly populated States, many persons who
eke out bare subsistence by bard labor |
aud close economy. Their earnings are
not sufficient to meet many of the actual |
necessities OF life, much l,ss to provide
for themselves and families II comfortable |
LONE for the future. Lands rents, cost
of Lying, are too high in proportion TO
wages paid for labor. Aud, this state OF
things canuot we'll lo renedIed better
than by imrigrNion iu some direction
where greater aGydntngescan be obtained.
For many years tue tide OF immigration
has been flowing almost uninterruptedly
toward the West, which section of our
| Union has been converted from vast
prairie to pupulons country of many
| advantages To the working classes. Bat
heso advantages to-day are not to be
found in tue near West. Oue must 90
long way from his present home, and run
| the risk of comirS into contact with an
undesirable social element, which can
, MY partially be avoided by coloniz'
| hor.
The inducements Offered to men OF
small capital aud Industrious haGits to
immeraLe West are not to be compared
| # 4l.a Gpni1 80, Ia.
sneak, the South has lately come into
market. Millions of acres of good lanis
for mining, manufacturing and asrlcul-
tural purposes can now be leased or
bought on easy terms for small amount
of money. To speak plainly, the South
has never encouraged to any great ex
tent, foreign immigration, through fear
Of the introduction olreligious skepticism
and the pollution OF social morals.
Previous TO the war immigration was
not desired They had labor system
with which they were satisfied. Those
large plantation owners each seems to
have lived in little world of his own.
Men owned their thousands of acres, aud
many own them yet, still unwilling to
cut them up into farms of tillabl- size
, But the labor system has been revolution
izsd, and many plantations are now for
sale in so and 100 acre lots at from 81 to
$40 per acre. according to location, quail
, Ity OF lands ana improvements. passed
through IA tract of well timbt red lands il
the middle section of the State through
? Which the Carolina Central II. Il. rms,
p that can be bought for 50 per acre This
is only one chance among many. Three.
filths Of the forests of North Carolina are
] yet standing. And III this age of search
" of timber these forests are invaluable.
, The finest lumber to be found in the
United States for bailding purposes is III
the Old North State. Some enterprising
: men from the North are now travelling in
: the South bnying up lands for various
, purposes water sites for factories, tim
= Der lands for lumber; the rich alluvial
D grounds of the east for trucking, etc. Il
L the advantages of North Carolina were
fully known in the Northern States, anC
they are rapidly being made kuown-ir
less than Eve years the State would bt
!. densely populated. Only few months
II ago the State Geologist was sent to Pitts
burg to represent the invaluable iron
copper, gold, AMI other ores, which are
j. 80 be found all over the middle art
H Western division of the State, The
eltel of that visit is the projected anc
partly finished Pittsburg Southern Rail
u road from that point TO reach Western
e G. and Va This will be the means o.
bringing millions of dollars into thes,
States. 1t will make their ores and lum
6 her marketable at the highest price
There are in North Carolina l50 diffcren
e kinds of valuable ores, and over 100 va
e rieties of timber, the most valuable being
v white and yellow pine, oaks and walnut
/, The soil is adapted to the raising of an!
= thing that can be grown in all our State
u and territories. 1t fills the agriculture
e report, aud is the only State in the Unior
I, that does. The climate of the east il
somewhat malarious, but in the middle
and western sections most henlthtul
= The people are not only willing bu
e anxious for the industrial classes 10 settlt
% among them. The doors of immigration
are being thrown wide open to men o
IS small capital. Enough to take you ther'
l. will answer to begin with if willing L
# help develop the resources of the coun
, try when on the ground. You hav,
guaranteed TO you all social, politica
II aud rel gious rights that you can Obtain
re elsewhere. ty is good; the state o
\ morals above the average; every man &C
corded his religious freedom; the righ
TO follow any landahle nVochuon, an
lie garner the results. What more can b.
ir wanted? Does the West offer better nd
:, vantages? No; it cannot equal the advan
1t tages OF the South. Besides. it will no
cost you half the money to secure them
Through Mr.. ]. T. Patrick Immigration
70 Agent at Wadestoro, N. c., frst.clas
ot through passage from Baltimore. Ney
=, York or Boston can be obtained for
. small sum of money to any noint hav
u hinted at in this communication. Let
q. man go down and see for himself "See
to ing IL believing" l have written thu
"a for no selh,b purpose. / have no land
to ell in the South, and no agency 70
H. any realty whatever. ! have simply civ
ce en- briefly the results of my own obser'
be- atiOns, hoping thereby to benefit tha
class Of persons who are struggling har
= for a liyliLo1d REV. II. II. WHITLocK.