The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-03-07
THEY WANT TO COME.
Hale Cowley, Secretary OF the State
Immigration Bureau Writes
the Following Letter
to tho Wichita
Eagle.

The following letters are samples OF
those that are coming into this office
by the clothes basket full, which is
the strongest evidence that the loss
of immigl alton to Kansas the past two
years is due to lack Of Information,
which is always requisite to influence
an intelligent person to take ~ impor-
tant step as changing their home.
Every newspaper in Kansas should
have their people collect the name OF
every per.on they know Of in the east
that is likely to want to better their
condition, and send this list to the
State Bureau, that information and
fresh Kansas fruit may he sent to them
from this Office every week. We shall
soon have 100000 copies of pamphlets,
books, and papers a week to send east.
We have arrangements to distribute
them free. Now this il work. This
ia business, and it will bring one half
million people into Kansas within
fifteen months.
Anybody that will visit the Kansas
Immigration Bureau Office for one half
day and read the appeals that come in
for information from the east, from peo-
pie hungry for reliable matter about
Kansas, will certainly think that q
g6odly portion Of the whole east is
looking kanswar1. Anyone who shall
visit these offices fifteen days from
now will see ton Of printed matter
leaving here daily. Come again in
thirty days and you will see some real
live immigrants. A little later every
organized county In the State who are
working for immigration will have
hundreds of new people looking Their,
over for homes. The fair weather flag
of prosperity is out. The wave Is COM
ing. Every mail increases and in
creases the favoral winds and keep up
the tidal wave for Kansas.
We cannot stop it now. 1t has been
ordained, decreed aud set on foot. Get
ready for it, every one. Send in your
mail lists nybody, everybody, of peo-
pie. You that may want to read about
Kansas, send your lists to this office.
Let every paper in the State send a
thousand copies of good Kansas mat.
ter, relative to their county at least
once month to this office for eastern
distribution. The people in the east
are asking for it. Perhaps they think
we haven't any newspapers in Kansas
or any good reading matter that we
dare send them. They will be aston
ished when they get your paper. They
have never heard of country one. half
as good as this, Some of their commu-
nications say that if Kansas is one half
as good as 1 have written them it is,
that it W II satisfy them. The fact is
1 do not have time 10 write them one
fourth the real facts.
One man writes: 81 can bring two
hundred families, all of.whom have
money to buy property and FARMS"
Think off Wanting to come here
Waiting to come here with money to
buy good farms and property. Then
think of the sights we can show them;
endless acres Of grain, unmeasured
cribs and barns of wheat, seas Of salt
fortunes in sugar, hogs and cattle up.
on every farm, products 80 prodigious
that every loaded car quivers under its
overtaxed capacity. Every railroad in
the State will be burdened to it's ut.
most in it's ceaseless tread and endless
tails of teams that cannot even haul
one crop on. of the State before an
other crop more wonderful than this
will be upen Us. These are realities.
Everybody help push. Every body
send mail list. Every county send
papers. Every county contribute to
the State book. HALE CowLEY,
Sec. Kansas migration Bureau.