Wichita eagle., 1890-01-18
CENTRAL OFFICE
KANSAS IMMIGRATION BUREAU,

WICHITA, Kan, Jan. 10, 1870.
To the Counties not represented by delegates at the
State Immigration Convention held at Wichita on
January Is and IA. 1880.
There are few counties still left I'M
organized in this movement. And al
though we advised your county. by cir
cular, through your chairman of board
county commissioners and the mayor of
each county sea. of the convention and
the great importance of the steps about
to be taken, and still did not hear from
your county through delegates to the
convention, yet we understand that
there are many reasons why some few
counties may not have gotten the infor
nation properly before them in time to
take the necessary steps to be In attend
ance at this convention and understand
the magnitude, Importance and benefits
that this concerted action on the part of
the whole state of Kansas can bring
about.
Then, for the very evident reasons
stated below, we would again bring this
matter to your notice and urge that your
county at once organize local organiza-
ton and send the name of your director
to the secretary of this bureau at once,
thereby emitting you to all benefits and
privileges that may be secured by the
state movement.
And the first reason we state is this,
that it was the judgment of the state
convention, and was SO embodied III a
resolution, that every effort be used to
enlist your cooperation, that every
county may enjoy alike the great bene-
fits OF this important work that has
brought such magnificent results in other
states, and to combine in this
movement state harmony and unity; and
Second, to adopt policy statewide,
fair, impartial. mutual to all, and bear
upon its face and embody in its working
functions all the potency of wide guage
state movement, and SO qualify it as
such TO go before the railroads and
secure from them the rates necessary to
prosecute the work Of immigration at
once.
To create an organization OF less mag
nitude than the entire state, depriveS the
bureau OF the rates to be made by the
railroads. the cheapness of which rate
will make the bureau effective and pow
erful.
The bureau. to be successful, must be
characterized By the elements that
eliminate from il all sectional appear
ance; hence another reason and two-foid
necessity OF your CO operation.
We have the assurance that II the
bureau have the support Of the entire
state, that we will get such rates from
the railroads as we may properly ask.
We propose that every point in the
state reached by railroad shall be &C
corded rate. and will not be satisfied
unless rates are made 10 every couaty
seat and important town, and further,
that ever county viii feel justified IN
sending representative man east TO
work IN the interest Of their locality.
To those counties already organized
we urge the necessity OF seeing that all
ad joining counties organize at once, be
cause the advantages that you viii re-
ceive Will be largely increased by coop
Grafton or neighborins counties.
We again urge that you cal meeting
Of your representative men and select q
director and forward has name 10 the
secretary of the bureau ST once. and Per
feet permanent local organization IN
this Increment. apd also teIwaSd an