The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-21
NORTHERN PEOPLE COMING SOUTH


A Fitzgerald (Ga.) dispatch in the
Morning News on Monday stated that
Capt. D. c. WEIGH of that place had
gone to Indianapolis, where he ex-
pected to join p. II. Fitzgerald in the
work of establishing another colony in
this state. We have no doubt these
gentlemen will be successful in their
undertaking. Mr.. Fitzgerald founded
the town of Fitzgerald, and it has
fully met expect atoms. The thousands
of people who have made their homes
in and around that thriving city are
well satisfied with their new homes.
They have prospered, and we venture
to say that few, if any, of them would
prefer to return TO the states from
which they emigrated to remaining in
Georgia.
1t is doubtful if it is generally I'M
derstood how large the movement of
population from the North to the
South is. A letter from Jackson, Miss,
published in the New York Evening
Post a few days ago, contains some
statistics on this subject. 1t is evil
dent that the writer made no effort
to get the correct figures relative to
the number of Northern immigrants
in all of the Southern states, but dealt
with such colonies as were brought to
his attention i'll one way or another.
From what he says, thousands Of
Northerners have made their homes
in the South within the last fourteen
years. Many came prior ito 1890, but
the great movement has taken place
since that year. Most of these imEai-
grants bought land as soon as they
found satisfactory location, and set
to work to make themselves farms in
accordance with their own views as
to what a farm in the South should be.
The information is that the number
of these Northern immigrants is in
creasing each year. AS rule, they
get as near railroad as they can,
and it takes them but little while
to build up prosperous communities.
There are very fourishing settlements
of Northern farmers in Tennessee,
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana,
Texas, Florida, Georgia and North
Carolina. Hammond, La, for instance,
has more than 1000 Northern settlers,
and Roseland, in the same state, is a
thriving Northern colony. There are
ments in Tennessee, and, as is well
known, there are thousands of North
ern families in this state.
These Northerners make excellent
citizens. They are energetic and thrifty
and in a very few years after deciding
upon a place in which to settle they
have attractive and profitable farms.
The South cannot have too many of
them.
A few years ago a movement from
the Northwestern states to Canada be-
gan, and it is going on yet. The rich
wheat lands that were made available
by the construction of the Canadian
Pacific Railroad attracted them. The
climate of Canada is so severe, how
ever. that it is probable that large
percentage of the homeseekers of the
Northwest would much prefer to come
to the Southern states to going to
! Canada. AS matter of fact, they
know nothing about the advantages
| of the South. If the Southern rail-
roads were to make an effort to get
them to settle the lands along their
lines the money they would put into
such an effort would yield very large
return. Some of the railroads are
making an effort of this kind, while
others are doing little or nothing.
Those that are showing enterprise in
this matter are we'll pleased with the
results of their work.