The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-21
NEW PROMISED LAND
MANY NORTHERN FARMERS SEEK
ING HOMES IN THE SOUTH.
Reports Received by baltimore Mag
axine Regarding the Exodus to
the Sunny Cline.

BALTIMORE, Nd, March 20.-The South
ern States Magazine, of Baltimore has
recently had reports from a number of real
estate agents in different parts of the
South. These reports show that the south
ward movement of population is very great.
One firm in Atlanta has sold in ninety days
an aggregate of 2,740 acres Of farm property
for $4,000. The same firm has an order
for tract of $4,000 to 10000 acres for
colonies of Swedes and similar orders from
Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Ohio for
smaller tracts, for colonization. A Memphis
firm has sold since Sept. /, 21,625 acres of
farm lands in Mississippi, Arkansas and
louisiana for s195,s50, the purchasers of
which were in part from Iowa. Dakota,
Nebraska and Illinois, buying for immedi-
ate occupancy and cultivation. A Chatta-
nooga firm reports having sold in the last
twelve months. thirty farms, aggregating
1890 acres. to Northerners. A company in
western North Carolina reports the sale of
a 5.0Oe-acre tract and number of farms.
An agency at Lynchburg, Va, sold 9,187
acres of farms to Northern farmers in
1894. An agent at Columbia, S. c., has sold
several large farms since Jan. /, includ-
ing one of 1880 acres to New Workers. An
agent at Cambridge, Nd, settled in 1894
twenty families of Germans from the West
and says that many others have come in
and rented farms with the privilege of buy
ing. III Haroldson county, Georgia, over
5000 acres have been bought in small tracts
for orchards and vineyards by over two
hundred persons from other States. At
Centreville, Miss, twenty-five farms We're
Pennsylvania. A correspondent ct Gillette.
Ark, says that over one hundred families
settled in that county in 1894 and that a
large number has come in since
"A Tedl-eSCate POCOmOke
Md, writes: Il have never known the
demand for farm lands in this section so
great as at present. During the year which
has just closed / sold about fifty FARMS"
An agent at Little Rock, Ark, says: I'm
seea es last In six one months oony n % b fas snt s nss
are principally homeseekers., who have set
tied as farmers Another letter says:
THE stream of homeseekers from other
States to this section has within the past
year attained a magnitude undreamed of
before. Few yet realize the magnitude of
families from the West are very poor-al-
most wholly devoid of means-but others
are. coming very we'll provided with money,
and many of our best farms are being
bought for cash.
In a letter from Crowley, La, it is said:
within the last three or four months orr
Office has been crowded with homeseekers
and settlers. The great business here has
been rice growing, and for the last two
or three years years farmers have been
able in most cases to pay for their lands
out of the first crop. We are beginning now
to diversity our products; This parish WI VIII
the whole State has done for many years
before. A larger area will also be planted
in corn than formerly. The growing of
. fruits. such as peaches, pears, figs, plums,
ETC., is also coming more and more into
prominence This is IL magnificent county
for all fruits of this sort. Cultivation of
small fruits and vegetables is also extend
ing rapidly.
A wealthy financial house in Memphis
writes as follows: The members of this
firm came to the South in 1882. from Indiana,
largely as a result of the interest which
the Atlanta exposition caused. We are glad
to find that men from the North are at
last coming to realize the undoubted adj
yantages which the South presents. The
normal trend of immigration for many
years should have been South and We
have no doubt that the natural advantages
of the South would have made it so but for
slavery and feeling aroused by the war.
Among Southern men of our acquaintance
there is but one feeling in regard to this
Immigration. 1t is welcomed with Q. strength
which it would. perhaps, be difficult for the
immigrants themselves to understand