Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-09-26

tons, unequalled facilities for select
ing, transporting and locating the
very best class of immigrants from
France, Switzerland, Germany,
Norway, Sweden, etc., and such as,
from their previous habits, educa-
ton and pursuits, would be best
qualified for settlers in the States
named, it is the desire to submit
to the owners of lands contiguous
to the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road system propositions looking
to a land-pool, which must aggre-
gate not less than 10000 acres, the
interest of each to depend upon the
value of the acreage put In. In
order that the interests of the diff
ferent parties may be equalized and ti
determined, the lands pooled shall
be surveyed into tracts of twenty
five acres or more, with reference
to a proper distribution Of water,
timber and cultivable lands, and
shall be valued by disinterested
board of appraisers, consisting OF
not less than three persons com
petent in such matters, and entire
ly independent of, and unconnected
with, the interests involved, to be
nominated by those joining in this
plan, and the pooled interests OF
each landowner shall be based up.
on this valuation. certificates CT
this interest will be issued to the
several owners in exchange for the
lands, which will be placed in the
hands of a Trust Company, or
trustees mutually selected.
= So soon as the trustees are IN pos
session of these lands and can pass
title for any tract that may be sold
the Baltimore and Ohio lmmlgra-
ton Company will proceed, with
the aid of the foreign emigration
agencies associated with it aud the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany, to secure the most thrifty
and desirable immigrants, and
such as are best adapted to the
peculiarities of climate and soil OF
the tracts to be settled, and trans
port and locate them upon such
lands within a reasonable period
and without expense to the land
owners. .In order to secure the best
kind of immigrants, provision VIII
be made for furnishing houses,
tools, cattle, ETC., to the immigrants
it settles on saids lands upon re-
asonable terms, so to enable them
to make a good start.
This is sketch of a plan which,
it is believed, will readily commend
itself TO favorable consideration
1t needs no argument to show, II
carried out, the great advantages
which will result to all concerned,
particularly to those who own large
tracts of lands now substantially
in the wilderness and difficult o.
disposal at remunerative price
Under the program proposed such
lands can be sold, populated and
improved without trouble or eX
pense to their owners other thai
| the appropriation of 90 per cent
of the net proceeds, which, 1T is
believed, would be almost imme
diately more than covered by the
enhanced value of such adjacent
tracts as they might reserve fol
private disposition. The history
of settlements in the West anC
Northwest shows that where lane
companies with sufficient resources
have been properly managed, under
well-ordered system, the result al
most invariably has been large
profits to all concerned. While tb'
condition under which settlement
must be made in the above name(
State are essentially different from
those encountered by colonization
societies in the West, it is believed
that the proposed plan can o'
started under such favorable aus
pieces as will insure equally tayO
rable results.