The weekly Thibodaux sentinel. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 1898-1905, 1903-08-29
Four States immigration
League.

Ns . ~hOs
The following interview had by a
reporter Of the Times Democrat with
MIR. Mayo, Secretary of the New Or
leans Progressive Union is interesting.
"The coming convention OF the
Four States immigration League will
undoubtedly set in motion a number
OF active influences which will have a
very beneficial effect upon immigra-
tion INTO Louisiana, Texas. Mississip-
pi and Alabama, and tend to the
development of these four States"
"lt is hoped 10y the promoters and
those interested in the expansion of
the -Four States Immigration League
that the convention will prove to he
one of the most important gatherings
OF it's kind that has ever characterized
the city Of New Orleans. The great
scope of territory already covered by
the Leagues, unions and boards of
trade which constitute the member
ship OF the Four States immigration
League will. necessarily, cause the
meeting to he representative of a
great variety Of interests and an
infinite degree of resources, aud thu
delegates from Tn. several sections of
the four States, conversant as they
undoubtedly will I've with the needs
and demands of their immediate
territory, will sound the toc'in in
support OF their individual iustliu-
ions and the agricultural and m ':u-
featuring OppO tunitles afforded by
their several communities.
sit is gratifying, indeed, to the
Progressive Union and its members
that the movement inaugurated last
January, when the Four States
League was organized, has expanded
and developed gradually but surely,
and it is hoped that there will be an
utter absence of jealous competition
at the cOnv.ntiou. While the detail 5
Of the piO, Osed meeting have not, as
vet, been carefully thought out, or
any set line of action decided upon,
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nv good fortune to get in touch, II
only in q limited degree, with the
plan of organization adopted some
years ago throughout the agricultural o.
sections of that Western State, and
believe the Californians generally
have. by a process OF evolution. con-
summatcd the most complete and
commemorative plan Of Organization
now q feature of any State in th,
Union.
"rhc fact that the great frui
regions of California have been cvOlv
ed by human energy and the cxpcndl
ture OF capital from what We're prac
,icallv uOnproducing deser. valleys
and the additional, fact of -imilart,
of interests, practically all of tn
farmers or growers being in,ereste,
in horticulture or the growing o
irrigated crops has tied these farmer
together IN a bond Of Self interest
Thus what was of possible good I,
one became of possible good to tn
other and this principle seems t.
nreyail not alone in the orchards O
Southern California, but up ,hrougl
the great San Joaquin Valley, tn
Santa Clara Valley, and even mort
of San Francisco, where semi tropics:
fruits are also brought to a splendi
state of perfection.