Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-03-21

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boom would result for the State. The
present Legislature can bring this about
by materially increasing the appropria-
ton Of the Bureau of Agriculture, I'M
migration, etc.
The Jackson Tribune and Sun says
that Northern prospectors are in Jack.
son every week looking for lands in
vestments. If Tennessee had well
sustained Bureau of Immigration, or
rather if the present Bureau of Agricul>
ture, immigration etc., were properly
supported, land would not long go
begging within her borders.
AT least fifteen families have settled
in Madison County, this State, from
the North within the past year, and
the report is that still they come. Oh,
for broad and liberal policy in Ten.
nessee for few years.
Commissioner McWhirter says that
the immediate fruit of the Louisville
and Boston Expositions, on which
occasions Tennessee made creditable
exhibits of her resources, was that
1000 families and over $500, 900
were brought into the State. Suppose
the Commissioner was afforded the
means of making frequent exhibits of
the States products; timber and min
erals in the fairs and centers of capital
North? Would not the result astonish
commend the facts to our legislators.
Haywood County has received TWEEN
ty or thirty families of the hundreds
that have come into the State since the
immigration movement was inaugura-
ted at Jackson in the fall of 1883.
This county possesses fine land and
very cheap, quality and location con
sidered. She has the nucleus of a
large immigration and is on the sure
road to prosperity. With proper legis-
lative help all the State may share in
the blessings that flow frow thrifty set
tiers and capital.
Henry, Gibson and Obion Counties
have come in for a share of the rich tide
of immigration now setting in so hope
fully from the North. They are good
counties and solid for legislative recog-
milton of the value of this great move
ment. ....
A colony of Pennsylvanians settled
in Dickson County some years ago.
The colony has grown steadily ever
since. Recently colony from Michi'
l
gan located there, and more will come
to that part of the State if proper
encouragement is given.
Forty or fifty farmers from the
North have settled in Robertson and
Sumner Counties within year.
Warren and Coffee Counties have re-
ceived many Northern settlers and con
siderable capital during the past few
months.
The inquiry from the North in re-
gard to Tennessee is simply wonderful
Stacks of letters are received every
week by Commissioner McWhirtel
asking for handbooks, maps and gener
al information. The Commissioner il
powerless to meet the demand as il
should be met, because be neither has
the books nor the money to publish
them in sufficient quantities. 1t il
hoped that the present Legislature viii
see to it that this is no longer the case
The liberal support of the Bureau o.
Agriculture, immigration, etc, is the
road to prosperity and power.
The producer of the corn which took
the premium in the contest Instituted
by the Spirit of the Farm, has jast
sold at New Orleans 1, 500 bushels o.
it for seed to Northern men. A farm
er in Shelby County also contracted tc
furnish several hundred bushels. Mr.
Clark, of Mckenzie, in this State, sold
at New Orleans 1900 worth of -four
corn to Northern parties frow samples
on exhibition.
First class creameries have been es
tablished within the past year at Nash
vile, Murfreesboro, Paris and othel
towns in Middle and West Tennessee
partly with Northern and partly with