The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-04-13
BOOM IN The SOUTH.
The Trains Are Running in Sections
1 and Are Crowded Both
Ways.
Prosperity of North Carolina and
Tennessee-Many Emigrants
for the West.

Chicago. April 13.-Willam E. Curtis, in
q Knoxville. Tenn, special to the Record |
Herald, says: The railway trains in the |
south are running in sections and are al
ways crowded both ways. The freight |
traffic is equally great. The railroads
haven't rolling stock enough to handle |
either passengers or freight, although they |
have been buying new cars and locomo-
tives for several years. Nowhere in all
the country has the prosperity wave ma
terialized in more satisfactory manner
or to a greater extent. Nowhere has
there been greater activity In industrial
and commercial matters than in North
Carolina and Tennessee. I believe that
the census shows that North Carolina
made more rapid advancement in manu-
featuring in the United States during the
last ten years than any other state and
has increased the value Of it's output $50
per cent since 1900 The evidences OF
this great development may be seen from
the car windows New houses, new rae
tories, new business blocks, new churches
and schools, new fences and sidewalks are
visible at every station and at many
places you can see acres upon acres COW
cred with brand new cottages surrounding
brand new factories that have been
erected with both southern and northern
capital.
There is a decided movement Of emf
grants from the mountain country west
ward, from western North Carolina and
eastern Tennessee to Texas, Oklahoma,
idaho, Oregon, Washington and Cali
fornia. The conductor of our train told
me that car loads of home seekers leave
the principal points on the Southern road
for the western country every few weeks,
being temped by the representations OF
emigration and employment agents w}lS
are travelling around among the mountain
farms and villages in the interest Of
western railway and land companies.
They caryr with them descriptive litera-
ture handsomely illustrated, and supple
ment it with personal testimonials as to
the opportunities for securing fertile lands
and comfortable homes at nominal prices
and employment at high wages in the new
settlements of Oklahoma. In the OIL
regions of Texas and on the Pacific slope.
The pioneers of this movement who went
out west two or three years ago have
written home confirming the representa-
tions of the emigrant agents and 1t is un-
doubtedly true that most Of those who
have gone west from this section have
prospered, for the demand for intelligent
labor turnout the western country has
never been so great.
The people of North Carolina and Ten
nessee have always made first-class plo-
neers. They have the character, the en-
ergy, the strength and endurance and a
take care Of yourself under al circum-
stances spirit that is surpassed by the
natives of no other section You will find
North Carolina and Tennessee every
where turnout the southwest. Arkansas
and Texas were chiefly settled by them,
and there has been a steady stream OF
young sturdy, intelligent natives Of this
region flowing in that direction since the
middle of last century. The farms are
not deserted. They are still kept In the
family, but the younger children move out
where they can find more room and better
prospects.
This is the country of big families
The Scotch Irish stock with which it is
settled are great breeders of men and or
the farms in the valleys and in the
mountain cabins it is common to fine
families of ten, twelve, fftene and otter
eighteen children, and there is no room
on the farms for the most of them wher
they grow up. There are very few peo
pie of foreign birth. Most Of the popu
lation are native Americans. It is con
tended that in the mountains of western
North Carolina and eastern Tennessee
may be found the purest Anglo-Saxon
Celt blood of any section Of the United
States. Most Of the population are
Scotch Irish.