The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-05
LAND SEEKERS COMING.
Excursion Rates Offered This Month
TO Prospective Settlers.

and Alabama From All Points in
of One Fare for the Round Trip
Promises to Bring a Large Number
of Them to This Section-The Gen.
trail Railroad Passenger Department
Has Advertised Georgia Throughout
Those Sections From Which the Set
tiers are Expected.
The rates for the land seekers excur-
sions to the south have been promulgated
throughout the west, and next Thursday
the tickets for the first of these monthly
excursions will go on sale.
The MORNING NEWS has already given
an account of what the excursions are to
be. The Southern Passenger Association
has made an arrangement by which rates
of one fare for the round trip have been
extended from many western points, to
points in Georgia, Alabama and Tennes-
see. The objective points in the south TO
which the tickets are to be sold are
mainly on the lines Of the Louisville and
Nashville and the Central railroads.
These excursions are to take place
monthly. and tickets will be on sale Feb.
s, March and April 9. The tickets are
limited to continuous passage in each
direction with extreme limit returning to
twenty days from date of sale, thus giving
any pros pector full time TO examine into
the advantages of any locality and the
inducements it offers as a permanent
location.
THE SECTION WELL ADVERTISED.
General Passenger Agent Halle, of the
Central YqilpOad haa fai1ad m
forth the advantages of points in Georgia
and Alabama to those who may desire to
take advantage of the cheap rates
offered. He has had prepared about
10000 circulars, setting forth briefly the
advantages of Georgia towns in a general
way, and also giving a few brief lines of
the advantages of several Georgia towns
which are making rapid progress, and
which are easily susceptible of being
further built up.
These circulars he has had distributed
throughout points in the west, principally
in the small towns in Minnesota, Iowa,
Illinois, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Ohio Kansas and Missouri. They have
been put in the hands of the agents of the
lines at points in these states for dis
tribution among those who may desire
to seek homes or investments in the
south.
The excursions have been similarly
worked up by other lines which expect to
participate, and which will bring the
land seekers to points in other states.
THE ADVANTAGES OF THE SECTION.
In speaking of the advantages of Geor-
gia in general way Mr.. Halle says in
the circular which he has had distrib-
uted
1.-The eyes of homeseekers have gradu-
ally been turning from the vast expenses
of prairie and table lands of the north
west toward the fertile valleys and the
wealth-a bounding mountain districts of
the sunny south.
They have been opened to the great op-
portunities which this section presents.
In order that they may view the Prom
ised Land" low excursion rates have been
granted by the several railroad lines into
this section. Land seekers cannot fail to
see the advantage in moving to a partly
developed country rather than to a terri
tory separated by great distances from
the commercial centers, away from rail
roads and devoid of the comforts and con-
venienceS of civilized communities
The great resources of the south, in
agriculture, mining and for manufactur-
ing purposes are limitless."
After quoting Wendell Phillips on the
south and its many advantages, Mr..
Halle gives a few interesting facts and
1lS uLCS dUOub NTCOIEld, lbS advantages IN
railways and facilities for handling com
merce, and concludes with few words
about Georgia towns.
The rates are not made to the large
business cities in Georgia as Atlanta, Sa-
vannah, Augusta and others, on account
of the fact that the regular winter tourist
tickets are on sale to these points and
parties who desire to do so can take ad-
vantage of them. On the back of the cir
cular is a man Of the section IF tho eOutb
which the Central railroad and it's auxil-
larry lines traverse.
MUCH SUCCESS ANTICIPATED.
1t is expected that these excursions will
meet with much success. Every effort
has been made TO thoroughly advertise
them through the west and northwest.
but few reports have been received as to
how the people have taken the idea. The
rates are so low, however, that every
prospector who has desire to secure a
southern home can take advantage of
them and come down and investigate for
himself. An arrangement will, of course.
be made by which those who desire it
can see more than one immediate section
TO which his ticket carries him
MIR. Halle has had many inquiries from
people in the west about the south and
the advantages it affords, in answer to
which he has sent out good deal of
printed matter as well as many personal
letters. The idea is to build up prosperous
sections of the south which, may be made
more prosperous by new settlers and new
inhabitants. If the excursions meet with
the success that is anticipated for them
they will probably be continued from
month to month, as connecting lines in
the north have agreed to make the same
rate for them, at the request of the
Southern Passenger Association.