Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1886-04-24
IMMIGRATION TO NEVADA.
AN OPPORTUNITY To IN
CREASE OUR POPJLA-
TlON.
Interesting Interview with
John Drabek

John Drabek.
Yesterday brief mention wa
Y 4made in the APPEAL of John ORA
bek an Immi grafton agent who ha
; been looking through this Stat
j, with view of securing homes 70
some 800 Bohemian families VIII
are are anxious to settle in til,
West.
The writer had long interview
with Mr. Drabek yesterday, as fol
lows:
Are you a regular authorized
agent Of an Immigration Society,"
No, on the contrary | am as you
may say antagonistlc to them, es-
pecially the one in California. |
am however acting by the authority
Of my countrymen, and am en-
| deavoring to settle them in some
good location without the inter
vention of the California Immigra-
ton Society"
THE CALIFORNIA METHOD.
"What is your objection to this
! Society,""
1T does not look after the inter
ests Of the immigrants at all, but is
working in the interest OF the hotel
keepers and business men of San
Francisco. They send out glowing
circulars describing the advantages
of California and land all the In
migrants in San Francisco. A fam
lily reaches this point with a few
household goods and two or three
thousand dollars in money and 1t is
gradually eaten up. They fall in
with bunko men and card sharps
and are swindled at every turn.
They go down to Southern Califor-
MIA and find it all taken up and
selling at fifty and one hundred
dollars an acre, which is great set
back to them as they have been IN
duced to think that the land could
be had cheap"
THE CHINESE CURSE.
Then again they have to come
at once into competition with Chi
nese labor everywhere, and the
Chinese have brought produce |
down so low that there is no profit |
In selling. especially where the ,
price Of land Is 50 high. They talk
about getting the Chinese out of |
this State, but they are not going
very fast and | have warned my
eountrymen to keep away from
California, where they have Chi
nese, hot weather and malaria. I
have lived thirty years in Cali
fornia and | know all about it,"
NEVADA.
"Of late years | haye travelled
good deal oyer this State, and be-
|ieve it better State for new set
tiers than California. There is no
malaria here, and the dry climate
is very healthy. | understand that
and can now be gotten at $40 an
acre, and my ccuntrymen are peo-
ole who can do we'll on a small
of land.
Il have letters here from parties
Who represent over five hundred
'amiles in various parts of the
United States, and they want to
come to Nevada. Some of these {
antilles | settled along the line of
he Atcheson & Topeka Road some !
i've years ago, and they do not
ike that country on account of J
rasshoppers and high winds. l I
ave never heard Of grasshoppers '
lere, and you have no cyclones S
nd tornadees. This is bound to =
e a great farming State, and my
always do well with
mall farms and cattle. a
am surprised that this State f
as no regular Society to advertise v
IS great natural resources. All f
Their States increase their pepula- t
ion in this way but you do not "
eem awake enough here. These f
antilles know very little about a
Ievada except what they know r
.om me, There is a Bohemian Il
ewspaper published in Chicago {
nd | write letters for it, and [ s
ave written a good deal about Ne. t
ada because l think it just the D
lace for families with small
leans, while California is not"
What means have these famil- "
,s?" Il