The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1892-11-16


About a year ago fourteen negro
families FROM the neighborhood of Little
Rock sailed for the black republic
in Africa on board the bark Liberia.
They numbered City persons in all. The
American Colonization society takes
care of all the colored people for six
months after their arrival from this
country: after that the Liberian colonists
are expected to shift for themselves.
Each immigrant over eighteen years old
has a free gift of ten acres of land.
Heads of families receive twenty-five
acres, or twenty acres and a town lot.
This offer Of land and six months sup
port is open to every American colored
person who wishes to return to the land
Of his ancestors and COLOMBO and civilize
it. Garden vegetables. cassava and rice
grow in abundance. and each family can
supply itself with food Of its raising
six months after arrival.
Some of the blacks who go from this
country suffer awhile from sickness at
tached to decentralization, but not ex.
cessively, we are led to believe. Coffee
plantations offer a source of wealth
which. judging from the present high
price of that article in America. would
be fabulous. But it takes three or foul
years for a coffee plantation to come
into bearing. just as with orange trees.
Finding this to be the case-tinding, too,
that they must do their own thinking
and planning-three of the families re-
turned to America. The rest. the
American consul general. Mr.. Mccoy,
tells us, are doing well, and say they are
satisfied. One family has planted out
5000 coffee trees and expects to wait
till they come into bearing and then
reap u fortune. One man has opened a
business house successfully.
On the whole. it does not appear that
the negro emigrants TO Liberia will have
half as hard a time as the pilgrims who
settled New England did. aud New Eng
land has made no mean mark in the
worlds history. For the emigrants who
go from America to Liberia in the fu-
ture Mr.. Smith. of the Colonization So
ciety, makes the following recommenda-
tons:
First-Thai instead Of "A or Is families 40 TO
10 persons) from 80 to loo families 400 to 800
personsl be sent out. even IL they be not sent as
often.
Second-That the companies be made up of
mechanics and artisans. as well as of farmers,
instead Of nearly all farmers, IA In the past.
T~hird-That they be. sent ina steamer In
stead Of the cramped quarters of a 800-ton bark.
Fourih-That the Liherian government use
the appropriation made In preparing n place to
receive the immigrants, and In having a sufi-
GENTLY large garden planted with vegetables
that shall be ready for use by the time immi.
grants arrive.
Fifth-That inasmuch as nearly all planting
and cultiyating Is dons with the hoe immi-
grants be encouraged to bring with them i'm
proved machinery and adopt modern methods,
which will yield them much larger returns,
besides the repairing and even making Of
which will furnish employment to the mechan-
les and artisans.
S~ixth-That immigrants be supplied nine
months instead Of six. as ut present. This will
give them more time In which TO become ac-
climated and get their houses and surround
ings In u more comfortable condition.