The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-31
ABOUT IMMIGRA-
TON.
A Georgian in California Anxious to
See Georgia Prosperous.

| STOCKTON, CAL, March ID have Just
read in your weekly issue of March 10,
synopsis of the plans TO be inaugurated by
the Central railroad to induce immigrants
and settlers to Georgia; also your editorial
on the subject.
Being native of old Georgia to the manor
born, | note this movement with much
| pleasure. The natives of Georgia, In
order to realize and fully appreciate the
many advantages their own State possesses
| over other sections that are so prosperous,
| should travel a little, and they would soon
see for themselves that they are standing in
their own light. All in the world that is
necessary to make Georgia one OF the most
prosperous States in the Uuion is to let the
outside world know of its vast resources
| and climatic advantages And that can
only be done by proper and judicious adj
vertising. In order to advertise to the best
advantage each county, town, or CITY
should organize and work tremendously
| ana in accord. Issue circulars and pamph-
| let descriptions showing their resources,
etc, and distribute them in Northern
States. Another good plan would be to
| advertise in the Northern press, and in your
own home papers, giving full description,
and see that they are properly distributed
through the Northern States. Make ar
rangements with the railroads, and have
| IcuuCeu Tdl6S, 50 intending SSUbleTS Cdu EO
and sSee for themselves. There are various
ways and means that can be devised to the
great interest Of the State if the people
there can only be made to see the benefit to
be derived and will take hold of the matter
and work it in proper manner.
The State should not be so cloSe-fisted,
and aid the cause by an appropriation, but
| believe your constitution forbidS State aid
for purposes of this character, still all can
M hn nil Sh in, no
| people should take hold at once and work it
with their own means until such time as
you could show the great advantage, and
change the law and get the State to take
part l know fully how it is, and there
would be great many "kickers," but they
infest every country. The way is-for the
enterprising to push ahead, and their (the
kicEers) voices will soon be huShed by the
advancement and hum of prosperity.
! admit that there is no State in the Union
that can surpass California in climate. 1t
is perfectly grand, and all that the most
fastidious could desire. Still the State in
other respects has its disadvantages. There
are several months in the year that we do
not have any rain, and as a result it re-
quires irrigation to produce many of the
crops In Georgia, while your lands are
not so productive unaided by fertilizers as
they are here, by fertilziDg you can pro
duce just as good crops as they can here,
and you do not have the expense of irriga-
ton, so it is as long as it is short-here we
have to pay money for water in order to
propuce the crops There you have to pay
money for fertilizer. 1t is the only differ
ence in that respect.
Here the price of land for farming and
horticultural purposes ranges from So up to
| $500 and 5000 per acre. There you can see
J good land well adapted to the same pur
poses for from 81 to $40 per acre, and with
a little fertilizing can raise anything that is
raised or produced here.
All you want is to get industrious farm
ers from the North and Northwest to go
there and demonstrate the fact. If the
J Southern people would display one-half the
industry that Northern people do, it would
. not be ten years before the South would be
the garden spot of America.
You can hold out greater inducements to
the farming class than California can.
! There are many thousands of families in
the bleak climates of the North and North
west anxious to get TO a tropical climate
that have not got the means to come to
California and buy farm, that could be in
| duced to go South and they would in a few
years by the same amount of industry dis
I played at their former homes become pros
porous. A farmer who has only a thousand
or SO dollars can go to your State and start
| in life fairly well. Here that amount
|
a wealthy man TO start herewith you it
does not. Your lands are within the reach of
ALL Still, while your State is in the back
ground, this is on the high road to pros
perity What is the cause of its This State
by advertising is telling the outside world
of her advantages. Yours is not doing so.
If your people would throw off that old
state Of lethargy that has so long FREEDOM
| mated, and do away with their old-fash-
toned ideas, and will show the world that
they want to be a prosperous State and
want settlers to go among them, and to that
end use printers ink judiciously-the result
will be success.
do not mean that the South is not ad-
vancing in growth On the contrary, she
is. Still, with great exertion on the part
| of her people Just at this time, ie-if she
will take bold stand and put her re-
sources and claims before the people the re-
| suit will not be SO long coming.
| | know in a few instances that immigra-
| ton schemes there have fallen through and
amounted TO but little, but they were not
properly managed. You want men at the
head of such project who have had ex-
perience before and know how to handle
| it,
Your States resources will warrant
! most elaborate and volumnious description,
and the truth can be given of it too with
out detriment, so that in no way to deceive
any one who may go to see for themselves.
| Get the tide turned that way once, and it
will then be an easy matter to continue the
flow until all of the waste places are made
to blossom with prosperity.
Your State | admit is behind the times in
many of its educational and social advan-
tages, but if you can get the people enthused
with the idea OF better times all of that will
soon be remedied, and then it will not be
long before that section, like this and the
North and Northwest, will be dotted in
| every district and hamlet with magnificent
! institutions of learning.
| have not the time to give my views as
fully as / would like on this subject, and
may undertake to do so at some other time.
| | hope what | have said will not be mis-
understood nor appear out of place. | con-
! fess, after reading it over, that / have
dealt rather plainly with the subject of why
| you do not move a hand in material de
! velopment as other sec ions; but as | am one
of you, only being away where | can see
| you as through telescope, and personally
knowing the cause, trust my views will not
| be misconstrued
No one wishes TO see prosperity reign in
the South more than myself, and if / can
say or do anything that will tend to stir the
people up in that direction, will be most
! happy to do SO. M.
Cashington, the millionaire,