The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-11-23
0zARKS FOR THE SWISS
A Scheme to Colonize Them
In Missouri.
FARMERS WILL BE FIRST SETTLERS

II Their Verdict Is Favorable, Says
samuel A. Hughes Of the Frisco
Railroad, Wine and Cheese Makers
VIII Come In Large Numbers-Re-
garded a. Good Co1onists.
New Switzerland" may be the title
Of the Ozark country In Missouri with
In flve years If the Swiss government
keeps It's promises made to Samuel A
Hughes, general immigration agent Of
the Frisco system, who returned re-
Gently from two months trip through
England, France, Switzerland and It.
aly, says the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
With him came a party Of Swiss
farmers, who are to report back to
thek government on the adaptabiIty
Of Ozark Land for the vine and dairy
industries. If this report Is favorable
the bulk Of Swiss emigration will be
turned to Missouri, and perhaps 80 per
cent Of the $1,000 farmers who set out
yearly for the new world will come to
Missouri In North America rather than
to Argentine Republic In South Amer
lea.
"Swtss farmers are the most desira-
BILE immigrants" said Mr.. Hughes, PRO
y1ded they are put In country that
resembles their native land. Some OF
the Alps are cultivated to their very
tops, the inhabitants going to lower
regions In winter, to move to upland
pastures In the early summer. This
condition can be duplicated In the
Ozarks, and there we shall try to colo
nize the Swiss.
3+Give them a few years and the
American Alps are assured. Travellers
through the Ozarks will then see the
chalet cltnging to the top Of cliffs,
around through which aocks Of goats
and cattle Will reap the mountain
grass, to turn It into cheese In the
cottage factories.
ION the lower ranges grapes will be
grown, and as the Swiss peasant Is
born winemaker Missouri wine from
the Ozarks may one day be sold In
Europe.
eBransvtlle, Howell county, has been
selected for the first settlers, and II
their verdict Is favorable numerous
other towns inhabited by thrifty Swiss
viii spring up In its neighborhood.
although averse to letting their peo-
pie leave the country, the tide Of I'M
migration is too strong to be stopped
by government action, and It Is pro-
posed to direct the immigration into
suitable fields rather than let the peo-
pie faH into the clutches Of Land sharks.
have the promise Of immigration
Commissioner Dryfus Of the Swiss
government that be will direct colonies
to the Ozark country II those already
here give q favorable verdict.
President Ruchet Of the Swiss re-
public Is deeply interested, and when
saw him In Bern recently he said
that U the Ozark country and Missouri
In general was rp 20 my description OF
it he would personally see that desira-
bic entgrants were directed to It. Not
only farmers, but manufacturers,
cheeeemakers and buttermakers and
winemakers win be included In the
Swiss settlers.
@Ona man IN Zurich has 100000
francs ready to put into creamery as
soon as tie first settlers make their re-
port
"As 30 the Italians, they, too, win do
web h su1ttGn Missouri and northern
Arkansas, but they must have a lead
er. Their colony at Tontttown, under
the leadership Of Father Bandine, has
turned timber hand worth $15 an acre
into frutt and berry farms worth 500
an aare tp seven years. Baron des
Piancee, who visited the colony a year
ago. assured me that he had never seen
q happier or more prosperous commu-
nifty.
The southwest has turned the food
Of immigration from the north and
Canada, and the country Immediately
tributary 30 ST. Louis Is destined to
grow win as great strides as did OKLA
homa In the boom days. It will be
lasting growth II peopled with desira-
bic fasm settlers, as is DOW the plan"
Aeoaa and the Lost Ten Tribes.
The Iewish World thinks It was per.
hans inevitable that the lost Ten
Tribes Of Israa gbouh be sought In
tha 1snauese, for the museums Of 5s-