St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23
Two Pictures.
GO SOUTH, YOUNG MAN, GO SOUTH.

From the Baltimore MANUFACTURERS
Record we take the following strong points
in favor of the South:
Here is d picture that embellishes
magazine and illustrates story. The
scene is rolling prairie in one Of our
Western Territories. In the foreground
little New England settlement with a
church and school house, a store and sew
eral dwellings. On one side flows rapid
river. All beyond to the horizon is the
broad boundless prairie, with neither tree
nor shrub to relieve the eye, or to shelter
men or animals when the dog star is in the
ment from the Atlantic States, one must
ride to St Paul, thence to the nearest rail-
road station, and thence by wagon some
twenty miles This means for the Eastern
prospector a journey of from three to five
days, at cost of from $40 to SIS. When
he gets tiere he will find country good
for mixed farming and stock raising"
where land can be had under the home
stead act or purchased from it's present
owners at government prices. Wheat, it
is said, twill probably average as well in
few years as in New England or Ohio"
but lit should not be depended upon as
market crop" The settler is advised to
break up 40 of his 100 acres of homestead
and to SOW grain of various kinds, to plant
corn and TO keep few cattle, sheep and
hogs. With this start and with fair en-
dowment Of industry and economy, he may
hope to succeed. ''No fault will be found
with the climate by immigrants from New
England for the winters are never as SO
we're, and there is no long, wet cold spring
with muddy roads and other tribularions
The cost of lumber in large lots is $25 per
1000, and other building materials cost
proportlonately. But coal is cheap, for all
along the river there are outcrops of lig-
mite that can be mined and delivered at
81 Is ton. In fact, cheap fuel seems to
be chief attraction, for one writer in re-
ferring to it naively remarks that after
spending part of the summer in distant
sett' ement in the same territory, con my
return | knew better how to appreciate
our>coa1,for fuel. The fact that our south
ernristh bors are succeeding so well (while
tv0 ing hay for fueD argues much for
IA Deir patience and perseverance"
3 We might continue quotations from the
writings of these Eastern emigrants, who
are apparently pleased with their new
homes two thousand miles away from the
Eastern markets, where, amid treeless
wastes, they are helping to plant civiliza-
ton, but those given must suffice.
Now for another picture. Within
days journey from New York are thous
ands of acres of as fine land as there is in
world that can be bought at few dollars
Ier acre. Within short distance of and
often traversing these lands are railroads
that will carry farm products to all the
coast and interior markets. The climate
deeds no apology or invidious comparisons.
No severe winters early springs; garden
vegetables ready for gathering about the
time the territorial settlers are planting !;
land that will produce all the cerals, all
the grasses, all the fruits and vegetables
of the West, and many that can never be
grown there at all. Add to all these
things, healthfulness. for there is no part
of this continent where longevity returns
are as extraordinary. The West has been
settled and is still drawing immigration.
because of the glamour that rests upon it,
because there is a fascination about the
stories of it's boundles areas and it's rapid
growth thai few can resist. But as call
that glitters is not gold,' so of many of
the attractive tales that comes to US from
beyond the Missouri. Vivid imaginations
and the pens of ready writer's have led
tens of thousands of families to break up
their old homes and make new ones in the
midst of surroundings to which they were
unaccustomed, and to engage, in occupa-
tions entirely unsuited to their tastes or
their training and experience. The glow
ing stories we resd and hear never men
ton the drawbacks and obstacles. Were
one-tenth of them told, the rush Westward
would be diverted to the South, for in that
favored part of our land there are more
avenues opening to prosperity, and fewer
obstacles to success than in any other. The
time has come when every journal that is
called upon for advice by those contem
plating immigration should adopt the
vigorous words of Horace Greedy; changing
only the direction and iterate and reiterate,
Go South, Young Man Go South