Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-18
THEY ADOPT A PLAN.
The Work Of the immigration ConVsn.
tion Takes Practical Shape.
MORE PAPERS ARE READ
Rcv, DIR Menxel rendered Quite an Ova-
tion-Fuil Report of the Days
Proceedings.

at 10 O'Clock yesterday morning. Presi-
dent Koiner In the chair. The attendance
was not very large when the body was
called to order. but before half-past 10
there was quite a goodiy gathering.
The opening topical address was by
Judge Charles Grattan, of Augusta coun-
~, and was on the class of immigrants
most desired and the sections OF this
country from which 1t is feasible TO
secure them.
There are certain underlying princi-
pies" said Judge Grattan, that in large
measure determine the question as TO
what sections OF our own country It Is
best for us to look for immigrants. one
OF these is that natural desire OF man
kind for Ike surroundings. when he
changes his location in soil. productions.
and occupations. Another Is that we
may not look for an exodus from any
section TO our borders, no matter what
inducements We offer. The man who is
doing well and has made the money TO
pay for our lands is generally well salts
fed where he is. The man who needs
TO sell his land to buy ours must ma a
purchaser. and where any great number
wish to leave few wish to go. Then We
must look to the gradual overflow.
"Stul another element In the considera-
tion of this question arises from the IN
cidents of locality that promote desire
to remove. and from which we are free;
clpal. extremes Of heat and cold. iroughts'
and wet seasons of long continuance, and
consequent malaria. storms, ana cyclones
yIRGINIAS WIDE FIELD.
"The next question to which we should
| address ourselves Is the wide held Nir-
! ginia offers, thus sui.ing herself to tne
| wants Of such A variety of settlers. NO
! country I'm the world with such climate
has such variety OF soils, minerals, sur
| face and productions, and by reason U.
| this variety offers larger variety 10 u:ei vi
! emuloynent In the light or these laet'
and principles. beginning at TlieWa'ef'
embracing one fourth the surface OF the
State. with l.J0o miles OF navigaole water
line. and with scarcely any portion "oIc
than ten miles from water udhspoi I'd
| tlon. by reason Of her innumerap!e INei :,
creeks and inlets, with soii auap.e -
| co we'll 10 the frult-grower and trucker
| and so accessible to market you ~ ~.
| Inducements unparalleled. You may iooh
for settlers here from Maryland Deid-
| var. New Jersey, Eastern PennsyiVahid, a,
and Northeastern Ohio. and along Tue
sou,born shore Of our lakes to Mlchisai''
"Middle Virginia, with SOIL easily cur
! ,,vsted and that readily respohnS u ,"1
use of fertilizers, and with care 'ahe1
u'oIl in grasses. besides the crops ana
fruits OF Tidewater, produces the hsn'e'
| and finer tobaccos. which coInfnshu t"e
! highest prices and she may ara" ne'
! settlers from the same sources, anu oe
sides from the Valley OF the Connecucu'
| and finer tobaccos, which coinfnatu 'he
! Ohio for her sheep Industries, Whcn' NY
reason Of her nearness 10 market anu i,eI
| ability 10 put her lambs In the shsniois1
one month earlier than the NaiieE anu 'ne
West gives her such An advantage III
,'.,cn as ought TO make her the early
! iamh producing section Of this country
SOILS OF PIEDMONT.
.The soils OF Piedmont are heavier and
| her surface more broken ana roIiif's
| Here flourish, besides the corn ana "hea'
and grapes OF Middle Virginia, the hea'y
ahinning tobacco for the foreign market
4 al
| countrv. For her heavy tobacco, as well
| as for her dairies. she should find settlers
| from York and Lancaster and the cum
| herIand Valley Of Pennsylvania; for the
| cattle and sheep feeding. the roilinS prai-
rios Of Iowa and Minnesota, and lor her
wine and fruit, Southern ONO ana west
| ern Kew York
.The Valley Of Virginia Is characteris-
| ,Ically limestone and her soils heavy
| CLAWS. well adapted 10 wheat, corn ana
| the other grains; her great resource Il
| tho prass indigenous to her soil, and that
| STAMPS her as a stock-raising ana ieedlhe
| and hay-producinR cOuntry. The Cumper-
| land Valley, York and Lancaster. In Penn
| svlvania, Kentucky the Lseston ana
| NIuskingham Valleys Of Ohio. Iowa. and
| Kansas should furnish her settlers. and
| as II has been demonstrated by actual
test that she produces sugsr-beats with
4 greater percentage of sugar than any
| cher section of the United States, she
| should look TO the beet-growers OF Ne
| braska
THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
| "Anpalachia. including the great South
| west Is a country Of mountains and mar
| row valleys. and sometimes wide, extend
| ed and fertile platvaus. The finest and
| most fattening OF grasses grow here. ana
| she invites the stock growers from North
| and South Dakota Nebraska, and Min
| nesota and the feeders Of Iowa.
| VERY few persons, | suppose, have
| made any calculation as To the money
| value Of an immigrant bringing 5000 into
| the state 10 the State and county trea-
| sury. The State, at 20 cents on the $l,
| tax. can afford to issue her per cent
| bond for 1866 and the county her pei
| cent. bond for $1,000 to procure such a
| settler. Supposlns the county levy 10 be
eo cents. Mr.. President. you and | may
| not see the dear old State repeopled by
| earnest. honest. patriotic people. the pick
| and flower Of our sister States. for the
| shadows of the pathway of life fall to us
| from the west, and the SHOWS OF more
than half a century of winters whiter
| our locks But there are men who hear
me now whose glad eyes shall behold
These long caravans that never pass us
| by.
| And bear upon their camels backs the
burden OF the sky
| grow bluer still in the smoke or thou
| sand furnaces. The hills of your lovee
| Valley. yellow with the golden grain
that. through this fair city's mills, shal
find the markets of South America trem
| ble under the tread of ilOcks and herds
that shall supply the shambles OF Liver
pool and London. The red lands OF Pied
mont take deeper glow from the pur
pie grape, the luscious peach. and th'
rpening apple as they blush under th'
ardent eye OF the garish sun. Looking
| away to the east through Middle and Tide
water they shall see our noble rivers
! like ribbons OF silver stretching through
| green carpets OF tobacco and tasselnl
| corn and gardens more beautiful thar
those that hung in Babylon, and more
| productive than those that bloomeC
around Amsterdam: far away to the sea
where the twin cities nestle amid th'
masts of a commerce greater than evel
crowded the Mersey. and richer than eve
choked the Clyde.
ADDRESS OF REV. DR.. MGNZEl.