Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-05-04
FLoCKTNG TO FARMS.

| started out to keep an account of
the number of people who have re-
Gently gone to farms. | got to $4,000
and the next jump put the figures up
to 100000. SO now | give it up. The
people who are going to farms are
soberly in earnest. All who can seem
to be coming to the South. Even our
Southern Maryland already has several
thousand colonlSts and more are ex-
pected. There is no parade in the
exodus to the land. Nobody knows
anything about a movement until the
purchasing agents necessarily make it
known. 1t is a genuine folding of the
city tent and quietly stealing away.
Single takers can hardly believe it.
When Iquote them the facts, as recited
as news in the most reliable papers,
they write and ask me if | have not
made Il mistake. They have refused
my arguments and now they would
like to refuse my facts But while
they are arguing and wondering the
world moves. Facts are proving to
them that the land of this country is
not at all seriously monopolized and
that the masses can get an 'access" to
it entirely satisfactory to themselves.
That is enough.
EX-Gov. w. 7. Northen, of Georgia,
has just secured a site for a settlement
of IA 900 Northern veterans and their
families in South Georgia. The colony
has been organized by 2. H. Fitzgerald
and others, of indianapolis. 1t is
called the Soldiers Colony Club"
A large proportion will locate on
small farms, while the balance will
found a new city. The lands are pur-
chased on easy terms and are well
adapted for agriculture and fruit
growing. About 100000 acres will be
required at once.
The above is from the N. Y. World.
With an average of four persons in II
family, the above colony would num-
Der $4,000. Did single tax ever APP
proXimate colony of those numbers
The German Baptist Brethren, I'M
der Rev. P. S. Miller, of Roanoke, Va,
are about purchasing land in that
section for colonists from the West
and Northwest.
Some of the Chicago railroads are
instituting "Homeseeker's Excursions
South" and hundreds of car loads of
household furniture are continually on
the move to the South from the West
and Northwest.
EXcursionists from the North and
West and Canada recently visited
North Carolina and bought up lands
on the Wilmington, Columbia and
Augusta railroad. on which some of
them will Immediately put in crops,
and the entire colony of several hun
dred sturdy and desirable people will
all be on by the fall.
An excursion of Western home.
seekers were recently looking for land
IN Worcester county, Md.
A large party of eX3ursionists from
OHIO recently arrived at Lynchburg,
Va, looking for lands. They were
rendered a reception and addressed by
U. S. Senator Daniel
Agents from New York State have
been looking for 10000 acres on the
Western shore of Va. for the colonial
ton of II 600 women, comprising "The
Woman's Industrial League They
propose to raise the early products,
for which that section is famous, and
poultry, with no men in it. They were
attracted thither by the salubrious
climate.
One hundred and fifty of the starry
ing families, of Pullman, H., are
about being colonized. Money was
raised for the purpose, but the Pull
man company out witted the colonlzers,
OF, at least it fell into the hands of the
company and that ended it. Now the
Rev. George r. Mitchell, 7. H. Coglan
and John Rusk, of Chicago, recon-
mended a monster entertainment us the
means of securing funds from the
charitably inclined for the colonization
scheme. They will undoubtedly sue
ceed. At last my plan has reached
Pullman. When the ministers of that
town and Chicago were ventilating
their airy nothings for reform and re.
lief | quietly scattered some literature
on farm reform from little Maryland
papers (the JOURNAL among them) on
the scene. Chicago papers published
the reform and now it is taking effect.
If every Pullman operative had with
drawn his savings from the Pullman
bank at the outbreak of the last years
strike and hied off to a little farm,
Geo. M. Pullman would have been the
supp!iant and not the operatives.
Mr.. w. H. Rand, of Wisconsin,
writes me:
| have just read with much interest your
letter in the Chicago Times am largely in
| terested III the sale of Wisconsin lands and
am also agent for the N p. r. company in
the sale of lands owned by them. think at
least 10000 people have left Chicago within
the past six months and settled on farms :;
quite a number have come into this State.
am now negotiating with a party in Chicago
who has spent some time in the mining sec
| tons of Pennsy lvania and Ohio to locate
about 800 families in Minnesota. This all
goes to show that the people have turned
away from theIcitles and desire homes in the
country.
A New Yorker who has several
thousand acres in northern New York
has offered the half Of if to be divided
up INTO ten-acre farms, eXacting from
those to whom the deeds are handed
over that they shall always live and
work on their farms
William Saul, of Jersey city, has
asked me through the press-how men
who have been making so cents day
can ever get to own farms? This kind
of charity and State aid is the answer.
1t will be a pity, however, if the com
pulsory education law of New York
State should be the means of detraud-
ing tho purchasers of the above ten
acre farms of their children's services,
make them worthless for work and
speed them back to the cities. We
must educate to work, and not to