St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1884-03-08
TO PROMOTE IMMIGRATION.

lACeuC ToSOuTceS, cOTuldlty lUVlt0 Iu0
members of the Chamber of Com
merce. and other commercial ASSOC
ciations, as we'll as the business
men of New Orleans generally, to
join us in organizing State Immi-
grafton Society, to be incorporated
at the next session of the Legisla-
ture.
No portion of the United States
can offer as inviting a field to i'm
migrants as Louisiana. Onr lands
are wonderfully fertile. producing
almost everything necessary to the
comfort and happiness of man; they
are so cheap that the poorest can
Immediately secure homes upon ar
irving here, and no portion of this
continent has a better health record
than Louisiana. It is essential.
however, to let the world know
this, and for this purpose organiza-
ton is imperatively necessary.
When European agriculturists
know that our rich. alluvial sugar
land, which can be bought at from
SIS to 500 per acre, will give q gross
product of at least 500 annually,
and that central sugar mills eagerly
buy the cane OF those unable to put
up machinery; when they are in
formed that the vast prairies of the
five Attakapas parishes and those
Of st. Landry, Calcasieu and Came
ron. are simply open fields all ready
for the pillow, and while selling at
an average of not over So per acre,
yet are SO rich and give such abund-
ant pasturage that competency
awaits those who will occupy them;
that the Louisiana lake region, en-
bracing st. Tammany and the other
so-called Florida parishes, are ad.
mirab,y adapted to fruit and grape
culture aud the sheep industry; that
the parish of East Baton Rouge.
the Felicianas, and much of North
ern Louisiana, have high, richly
timbered land, and some minerals,
including coal and iron; when they
are convinced that all this vast re-
gion is the most healthful and de-
lightful, because famed by the
Gulf breezes, and cooler in summer
than any more Northern State in
word. when they know the truth
about Louisiana. and no longer-be-
lleve the slanderous reports SO long
and assiduously circulated to our
detriment. our State will soon re-
ceive her share of immigration, and
become the most productive and
wealthy of any in the Union, and
New Orleans will then assume a
proud position as a commercial en-
porium.
It is sad fact that OF the 26O,-
900 to 36u, 900 German immigrants
who annually come to the United
States, scarcely any locate in Louisi-
ana. It is so with immigrants gen.
orally. Hence the necessity of Or
gained effort to secure our portion
Of this wealth-producing element.
In no portion of Europe. among
the emigrating class, is Louisiana
ever heard of. While many other
States have representative there,
to give information of the advan-
tages of their respective sections.
none are found to speak for Louisi-
ana.
Next spring. hundreds of Ger
mans, destined for California, will
pass through New Orleans. If
determined effort is nov made to
enlig bten them about Louisiana,
before they leave their mother coun-
try, many OF them could be induced
to locate OH our idle lands, the
owners being willing to sell on easy
terms. Therefore. maps and circu-
lars should be prepared, setting
forth the inducements here offered
to immigrants, aud as the Germans
referred to are we'll to-do farmers,
with means sufficient to rapidly de-
velop the country, the State and
city will soon be we'll repaid for any
expense now incurred.
The first step necessary will be to |
raise sufficient funds for agitation
purposes in Europe. and provide u
place for the reception OF
immigrants, which can be extended |
as circumstances require.
The amount of $4,000 is needed
for immediate disbursements, and
therefore all merchants and bust
ness men are earnestly requested to
Join US and subscribe such sums as
they see fit. The amounts sub
scribed are to be made payable to
Adam Thomson. Esq, Acting Treas
urer. A meeting of the subscribers
will then be called to take the neces-
sary steps.
We cannot too strongly urge
npon the citizens Of New Orleans
and of the whole State the great
of immigration to Lou
siana, for the benefit of every in
lividual and the State at large.
r. S. Howard,
President Chamber of Commerce.
DUNCAN F. KENNER, |!
President Sugar Planters Assn.
j. C. MORRISON,