Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-03-30

stitution for the "Valley Immigration
Society,"" and to obtain charter for the
same. The resolution was unanimously
adopted and the following committee was
appointed:
Augusta-Bishop Samuel Driver, J. A &.
Patterson. E. A. Fulcher, A. G. Gordon,
Jno. E. Hamilton, G.. Julian Pratt, and B.
F. Eakle. Judge Charles Grattan. was on
motion, added to the committe.)
Rockinqham--Maj. Geo. Chrisman,
John Lincoln, Cornelius Driver, and Rev.
Samuel A. Myers.
Shenandoah VIM. Miller, DIR. King,
(President,of the Shenandoah Agricultural
Society, and Edward Rice.
Rockbridge-Col. j. Z. Shields, J. 2.
Moore, B. G. Moomaw and W. B. F.
Leech,
Roanoke-Rev. D. G. Moomaw.
Alleghany-A. A. McAllister.
Highland-J. B. Bradshaw.
Page-Hon. VIM. Mines.
BotetQurt-Col. Ed. Dillon, Indian
Greek, Botetourt.
loAUOA UuO u4OOulh& gu uCA udO Sho14-
man revised the list and added several
names of prominent gentlemen to the
com mittee.
The Chairman of the Committee, Rev.
Samuel Driver. has issued his call for the
Committee to meet at the Court House in
Staunton, on Saturday, April 18th, at IL
A. M.
THE FEELING AT THE NORTHWEST
Mr.. Chas. F. Nelson, the head of the
well known real estate firm of Chas.
F. Nelson & Co., said his firm had
received a number of letters of in
quiry from the Northwest-M Minnesota.
Wisconsin. Michigan, and Iowa. ask
ing about lands and saying there we're
many inhabitants of that country who
would like to get out of it. Lately, the
firm was visited by Mr.. Hanson of Green
Bay, Wisconsin. a very level headed and
intelligent farmer. He said there was
great dissatisfaction among tie farmers.
The older farmers had come cut to the
West, young men. at periods ranging from
forty down to fifteen years ago. and had
taken large tracts of land cheap and by
hard work had managed to keep going,
make good farms, and increase the value
of Jheir land from year year. People now
see that money invested in those farms,
&C their increased value, will not give more
than the same amount invested here, and
the contrast of our climate with that out
there is in our favor to the extent that
if they get to know our advantages we
will have emigration from there. Mr.
Hanson said that if the cheap Baltimore
& Ohio BY. excursions to the East had
been running at the time he was here,
not less than dozen men in his own
neighborhood, would have come to the
Valley, prospecting. These excursions, Mr..
Nelson said, did not reach far enough
West and he had been in correspondence
with Mr.. Richards of the B. & o., and
Mr.. R. had expressed the opinion that ex-
cursions from still further West could be
gotten up.
G. s. O. EXCURSIONS.
Postmaster W. A. Burke said he re-
ceived, almost daily, letters making in
quiries about lands. This seemed to be
the time to strike. The Chesapeake q
Ohio r y. he understood would also run
excursions from the Vest to the Valley
two in April and two in May-from points
West of the Mississippi River.
SOME OF THE THINGS THE WEST HAS TO
CONTEND WITH.
Mr.. P. A. Baylor gave from his persona
experience graphic account of some OF
the drawbacks the Western farmers have
to contend with. Last year he spent from
June to August at Kansas City, Mo-, and
there was but one shower Of rain in that
section of the country during his stay. On
the second day OF his arrival, on going
down town he found merchants out of
their stores, standing in the streets, and
citizens had run out of their houses. On
inquiring the cause be found that some of
the weather signs had indicated a cyclone
and the people had sought the street for
safety. The drouth in that section was
dreadful. As he went, he saw corn high
up and green in the fields. AS he returned,
it was still there but burnt up by the
drouth. The grasshopper and the drouth
had done their work. and farmers swarmed
into Kansas city offering their farms for
sale. Hetravelled through Northern Illi-
nois where it was no better. The streams
had dried up, and water was in some
instances hauled thirty miles. An Illinois
farmer told him if the wteat crop had not
been good the people would have starved,
for all the corn was burnt up. Mr.. Baylor
gave vivid picture of the fires that fol
lowed the drouth.
APPOINTMENT OF A DELEGATE.
On motion of Mr.. Gordon, Judge Graf
tan was appointed a delegate to the con-
vention to be held at Hot Springs, N. C..
In the interest of emigration to the South
ern States, on the 25th of April. Sever
of the eleven Governors of Southern States
will be present there.
LOCAL COMMITTEE TO CONFER WITH
EXCURsIONIsTs.
On motion, the following committee was
appointed, whose prov lnce it shall be to SET
such excursiorists as arrive here from the
West and give them such Information al
they may have about the advantages o
the Valley as a place for location:
Judge Charles Grattan, Chairman; q
E. Dudrow of the B. & o.; P. H. Wood
ward of the G. & o.; Charles F. Nelson
Judge VIM. A. Hudson, Judge j. M
Quarles, E. M. Gushing, A. e. Gordon
Charles Curry, William A. Burnett, ClerE
of the County Court; w.. A. Burke post
master, w. E. Craig, and Col. George L
Peyton.
On motion the meeting adjourned.