The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-06-20

The Hon. Chauncey +. BLACK, e4-Lleu-
tenant Governor of Pennsylvania, was
in Baltimore yesterday completing his
arrangements to assume personal charge
as president of the Southern lmmigra-
ton, Land and Title Company, lately
chartered under the laws Of Virginia, with
its headquarters in Baltimore. TIE du-
ties of this position will keep Mr.. Black
almost constantly in Baltimore, bringing
him into close identity, with the city
business and financial interests and
practically making the distinguished
Pennsylyanian citizen of Baltimore.
Mr., Black has been working over q
wear in uniting a number of important
and wealthy interests to carry out 6 care
fully planned movement designed for the
greater development of the Southern
States, His efforts have resulted in the
formation of the Southern Immigration,
Land and Title Company for'the purpose
Of locating colonies of the better class Of
Immigrants from the North and North
west, as we'll as f.on Europe, in the
South, and the securing Of capital for
Southern manufacturing enterprises and
for handling large Southern properties.
Mr.. Black has become actively interest
ed in Southern development, and looks
on the existing southwark tendency Of
immigration as shifting of population
toward that section that will become one
of tho most astonishing features OF
the countrys growth. Speaking of the
South to the News reporter Mr.. Black
said,
"Through my political duties, which
have been national in their scope, l have
been LED to watch and study Southern
conditions. A superficial attention at
first determined me to closer investiga-
ton, and my experience, added to being
thrown in contact with Southern men Of
affairs, enabled me to estimate properly
the opportunities and possibilities OF the
Southland. was brought to realize the
tremendous strides being mede in that
phase Of the South's adyancement-its
material progress. This has ovsrshad-
owed all other considerations, political or
social, and is now the dominant factor In
Southern life. Every class and every
section is permeated and penetrated with
this spirit of progress. Day by day more
attention is being devoted to material
things, and business principles are
shelving old and picturesque customs,
which, however pleasant and attractive
in themselves, are out of place in the busy
cycle of the worlds growth.
ment toward industrial and material de-
veolpment. Other sections and other
countries are in the race of progress. Ma
ture has lavishly gifted the South with q
marvellous diversity of resources, placing
it superior to any other like area in the
world in natural wealth, Intelligent,
liberal and continuous action is, how
ever, necessary to prove this to the
world. Cotton, iron, tim ber, coal and all
other essential resources for country's
life and growth the South has ip SUPER
abundance. Such is its wealth. Its pow
erty lies in its\lack of population. It
wants and must have more people,. 10
operate its factories, open its coel mines,
and equally, if not more important, to
till its lands, it has need for and can as
simulate all the sober, industrious immi-
grants it receives. The more consumers
thus added the more independent will
become it's factories and farmers and
the more solid will grow its business in
terests.
"The present is the ripest time for i'm
migration to the South. Baltimore should
share in every step forward the South
makes and am glad to see that the citI-
zens have under way project to hold
grand Southern exposition in Baltimore
in 1897. Such an exposition will attract
the attention of men and money both at
home and abroad and will be great help
to the South and wonderful stimulus to
Baltimore.
Mr.. Black added that he and his asso-
ciates would contribute all in their pow
er to add to the success of the exposition.
With Mr.. Black in this enterprise are as
socisted MIR. Julian 8. Carr, the million
aire tobacco manufacturer of Durham,
N. c.; Mr.. NJ. Erskine Miller, the lar
gest coal land owner in the Virginias;
Mr.. G. B. Orcutt, president of the New
pert News Ship-building and Dry-dock
Company Mr.. John Shelton Williams,
banker, Richmond, Va. the Hon. John
R. Proctor, ex-State geologist of Ken
lucky and president Of the United States
Civil Service Commission Mr.. Henry
w. Fuller, general passenger agent of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company;
Mr.. w. A.. Turk, general passenger agent
of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company; MIR. Edwin Fitzgerald, traffic
manager of the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia Railroad Company; Mr..
Frank Hammond, president Of the Peo-
ple's Bank at Greenville, S. c.; Mr..
James U. Jackson, banker, Augusta,
Ga; Mr.. Alexander A. Arthur; Mr..
William A. Clarke, the New York mil
lionaire copper mine owner, and others.
Mr.. Black will devote his time to the &C.
tive management of this company, which
promises to become an important fac
tor in Southern Developments t.-Dalttmorc
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