The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-02-02
Announcements.
immigration to the sonth.

cfat puDiishes letter from Dir. F.
J. B. Lockney, Of Waukesha, Wis,
to the editor Of that paper, in
which information is asked about
various localities in the Gulf States.
with a view to choosing a suitable
place for q colony Of farmers and
mechanics to locate. Mr.. Lockney
enquiries especially as to the health,
cheapness and fertility Of soil,
schools, churches, etc, of the diff
ferent parts Of the South, and says
that he longs for a climate in which
work can be done without discom-
fort every week in the year. Con-
tinuing he says:
"a grea,er tendency towards
the South and the Southwest will
gradually take place, for with many
it has long been a matter of choice
between the severe winters Of the
North and Northwest and past
prejudices Of many localities1n the
sunny South. Correspondence is
especially desired about property
in first hands with perfect title;
owners Of small tracts viii please
also write"
In publishing Mr.. Lockney's let.
ter and calling attention to it, the
Times-Democrat lays especial
stress on the necessity of some
system by which the advantages Of
the South can We properly placed
before the many people who ,are
willing and ready to avail them
selves of the many inducements
which this section offers. Texas
has already orgapized an associa-
ton for this purpose, and the fruits
of its work have already been
shown. Arkansas is getting ready
TO do like wise, and we heartily join
the Times-Demoerat in the recon-
mendation that Georgia, Louisiana,
Alabama and other Southern
States should turn their attention
to the matter as soon Us possible.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Appeal, speaking for Ten.
nessee. can assure the Constitution
and the Times Democrat that il
will heartily and readily cooper
ate with Louisiana, Georgia, Ala.
bama and Arkansas in a practical
scheme to induce immigrants to
settle in the South. But such q
scheme should embrace the coop
Grafton ofall the railroads, and il
should also, and especially, EN-
brace the location of large bodies
of land at a definite price IA price
that will make it an advantage fol
farmers in the Northwest, who are
anxious to escape the excessiv,
rioors of Arctic-like winters sucl
as are now upon the people Of tina
region to make their homes some
where, anywhere south Of the Ohio
river. Cheap land Is the first des
ideratum in scheme of immigra
ton. All the schemes that hav,
hitherto been setafoot in the South
and they have been many, hav'
failed because there was no grea
body OF cheap land which immi
grants could be invited to inspect
If the Memphis & Charleston Rail
road Company, for instance, woul'
purchase several hundred thous
and acres Of the worn-0ut lands
contiguous to its line between
Memphis and Chattanooga, estat
lish a land bureau ard make a bus
mess of settling immigrants com
fortably as the Illinois Contra
Railroad Company did thirty year
ago, the result would be an in
mense and immediate increase j
its freight as we'll as its passenge
traffic. What the South needs
the quiokening impulse of a larg
immigration Of intelligent and il
dustrious farmers. One hundre
thousand such men might be We
and comfortably located withis