The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-19


I The New York sun prints a letter from
/ "a college graduate. who speaks for him
self and a number Of other college gradu.
1 ates, asking advice as 10 the best section
Of the country In which 10 locate. The
] Young men are foreigners. The letter is
as follows;
] saw. some short time ago, an article
1 in the sun which said that young men
] ought 20 20 south, and seemed 20 praise
/ the southern states. Now, we are me,
/ hale and hearty young men-some In
glish. some Irish. We are all strong and
/ vigorous, and none over %. We are all
rraduatCs-one of Oxford, three of Cam
bridge one Of Trinity College, Dublin,
and one of the London University. / am
] the sixth man. our united income
amounts 10 S12 per week.
We nave completely de-tine-gentleman-
| lied ourselves, and consider no work I'M
dignitied or beneath us
We have talked matters over a good
deal. and we have almost decided to seek
"a newer country than New York, and TO
set about making our piles at once
Is IL too much to ask you to give US,
through your paper, a few words Of ad-
vice as to where we can get full informa-
tion of the kind of men wanted, the posi-
tons and modes Of living open. etc, south,
or could you Gf you think it would inter
est the public tell US briefly what we
want to know, in your cOlumnsl
In commenting upon the letter the Sun
says "The south is all right in its way;
but we are afraid its way is not quite that
of our six friends Georgia is the EN-
pire State of the South y in other words,
it is more like New York state than any
other southern state, and to Georgia we
should advise our friends to betake them
selves. But they will need capital; and
we doubt if the principal which produces
S72 week will go very far. Still it
may, and certainly if they all hang to-
gether, they will get along better
than by hanging separately. The fact
that negroes do most of the manual
labor of the south will restrict the field
for our friends to some extent, but prob
ably to their advantage. College men,
with pluck, and as level-headed as these
young Britons and Irishmen seem to be,
ought to make their own way south or
north. We wish them success; and while
they are gaining it let them not forget
their duty to this country-let them be-
come citizens as soon as they legally may
There are opportunities in Georgia for
young men of ability pluck and industry
to make good living and get ahead in
the world. If they want to try their
hand at farming there is no better place
than Chatham county. There are hun
bred or more other counties in this state
in which farming can be made profitable.
Chatham county, however, offers splendid
opportunities to those who know some
thing about truck farming The MORN
ING News published the other day the
statement of Maj, Ryals, a Chatham
county farmer, that he sold from his
farm of 1875 acres last
year produce that brought him
$4,000 gross. His expenses. were
nearly 20 per cent of his receipts,
leaving him a netproft of about 81 500
This year he made profit of $1,000 on
sixty acres of potatoes, and that sum is
not all he will make on that sixty acres
this season. t"-.
There are counties in which fruit can
be grown with profit and others which
are well adapted to grain, cotton and
stock. Yes, there are plenty of opportu-
mites for thrifty young men in Georgia to
do well at farming. And if they don't
want to engage in agricultural pursuits
there are other avenues for making a liv-
ing and acquiring a competency.