Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1884-12-04
for the Advertiser.
A Late Immigrant From EdgeGeld
Delighted With Arkansas.

Dear Advertiser: As a great many
OF my friends in Edgefeld requested
ne to write them concerning Arkansae,
send you a short article, which
please publish. First, l will tell you
about my trip. We left Batesburg
on Monday. November II, and ar
rived at Atlanta, Ca, 6 o'clock on
same day. Atlanta is a beautiful
city, a city that the South ought to
be proud of; it is lighted by electrici.
ty, and in one senee There is no
night there" We left Atlanta II 40
o'clock, and arrived at Chattanooga
Tenu., 6 o'clock A. M. 1t is a very
pretty city, and has some magnificent
buildings. We left Chattanooga 7
o'clock, for Nashville. The country
along the line of Railroad is perfectly
beautiful, saw many aountains rising
hundreds of feet above the general
level. Lands in Tennessee valley
are good beyond shadow Of doutt.
Saw corn that has made at the least,
this year, forty or fifty bushels per
acre. Grain is up, and is looking
we'll. To see Tennessee farms, is
enough to convince US that it will not
do to plant cotton for living. We
saw as many as dozen mule colts
on one little farm, and corn still un.
gathered to feed three times that
number one year. The little towns
along the line seem to be fourishing.
While our spirits were highly buoyed
up by the land gradually getting bet
ter the farther west we travelled, we
arrived at Murfreesboro, the old bat.
tle6eld Of the Western army. Our
hearts felt sad as we gazed at the old
breast works, and we thought of our
gallant soldiers, how they fought and
struggled for our rights. We saw
the graves of our Confederate dead,
with scarcely signs enough to mark
their graves-while on the other side
the Federals have beautiful GENE.
terry, with green grass, lovely flowers
and tomb stones to honor their dead.
The Confederates are sleeping under
the sod of Tennessee with no mark
of respect. We know that . ~-cry
Southern mans heatt there is love
and honor that will never be lost for
these heroes
"Their bones are dust,
Their good swords rust;
Their soulsare1ith The saints. we trust
We arrived at Nashville at II
o'clock it is business place in eve
ry sense of the word, and a beautiful
city. We lett Nashville 7 80 P. M
for Memphis; we saw but a very little
Of the country, as We travelled the
whole distance at night. Arrived at
Memphis 6 o'clock A. NJ, and it was
there we crossed the Father of Wa
ters, the great Mississippi; the whole
train ran into a steam boat, which
carried US safely over. l thought Of
De Soto, and how awe stricken he
must have stood as he first looked at
the great river; it Is mile and
half in width where we crossed. This
is great sight for boy who has
stayed at home all his lie with ala
mother. We left Memphis at I
o'clock, and arrived at Little Rex
lilo. The country from Memphis
to Forest City, distance OF fifty
miles, is one continued swamp. The
land from F, rest City to Little Rock
is simply splendid. Saw hundreds Of
acres OF level land that will make
this year bale OF cotton per acre.
They have more cotton to pick in Ar
kansas now than We made in S. e.
Edge6eld County.
We live % miles from Little Rock,
op Iron Mountain and Southern Rail.
road. l can truthfulIy say that Ar
kansas can not be beat in the United
States for good land; there is plenty
Of land here tina. will make two bales
cotton per acre, on river bottoms, of
course, but such land can not be
bought for less than forty or fifty dol.
lars per acre. Good up land can be
bought here from two to sixteen dol.
lars per acre, according to improve.
ments, locality, &C., As regards SO
ciety, schools, &c., I never saw bet
ter country. The people are very
attentive to strangers, and are very
social. can truthfully say I never
met better people. And my ad-
vice to young men in the South is
that they could not make better
move than to come to Arkansas.
What can the average young man
promise himself in the South? He
can come here and buy land at one
third the price as in South Carolina,
and will make three times as much;
he has plenty of room; he can grow
up with the country; and he has
great many advantages here that he
has not in the South. There are but
few who have no homes here; they
seem to be a happy people. Boys,
you need not be afraid to leave your
fair Southern girls; you will find
numbers here who are just as lovely,
noble and good. You need not think
because this is in the far West that
the people are behind; you will find
them up with the older country in
everything; and a head of us fnan-
cially. My advice is, come and see,
young man, for yourself, and 1 will
guarantee that you will make this
your home. Come along, we will be
glad to have you. l will correspond
with any one who will enclose stamp;
with pleasure.
Yours Very Truly, &c.
EDWARD G. IOMAN.