Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-18
IMMIGRATION.
A Letter From Maj. Frank Y. Anderson Which Is Commended to Every Commu-
 nityin Alabama.

Mai Frank Y Anderson, general man. ager of the Alabama State Land compa- nv. has addressed a circular letter to the people along the line of the Alabam Great Southern railroad in this state urging upon them the importance of taking some steps towards inducing immigrants to settle in their respective vicinities. He says he will send the prospectors to the different places if the citizens will entertain them and show them the coun- try. The letter reads as follows:
 Office of Land Commissioner,
 Queen and Crescent System,
 Birmingham, Ala, Aug. +, 1895. To Whom It May Concern:
 The great exodus of people from the east to the west, which has been going on for the past twenty-five years, is now changed, and the movement is from the north and west to the south, and this will increase more and more as the ben efits of the southern country become known to the people of the north.
 Thousands and thousands of families seeking a more genial climate, a fertile soil and low priced lands will locate in the south this coming fall.
 It is true that there are theirteen south ern states, and possibly thousand places in each state competing for these home-seekers, and if we are to get the : share that our productive soil and cheap lands are entitled to we must be ready to show what we have to offer in the shape of favorable inducements.
 The Alabama State Land company, who is the owner of most of the lands along the line of the Alabama Great Southern railroad, and for a long dis tance out of Birmingham a great deal of the lands along the line of the Louisville and Nashville and all it's mineral hr9nPhaS. E Memphis and Birmingham, and the Co., lumbuS and Western, is spending great deal of money in advertising it's territory, and the Queen and Crescent system has agents in the north and west advertis- ing the section through which it runs
 Most of the people we are now locating are buying improved lands from the citi- zens, as the company's lands are all un- improved, hence the work that we are doing at present rebounds chiefly to the benefit of the citizens, and not to the company.
 advisability of each county, and the towns and communities near stations along the line of the Alabama Great Southern railroad call meetings of the citizens of their immediate neighborhood. appoint a committee on reception and raise sufficient funds to entertain and pay for the use of hacks to show the country to all those visiting their terri tory with a view of locating.
 If communities will do this, and give us the names of their committees. we will send home-seel<ers to them and it will make no difference to us whether they buy from the company or from the citizens, and as 80 per cent of inquiries that we have are for improved lands the chances are all in favor of the citi- zens selling their lands.
 The company will go to the expense of advertising and bringing these people to the different points having committees, who will thus help themselves by show ing their own lands.
 We will go even further than this, and say to all communities of this kind who desire to print a description of their country in leaflets or pamphlets and will send the same to us, we will distribute them free of charge throughout the north and west.
 FRANK Y. ANDERSON, General Manager the Alabama State
 Land Company.