The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-08
ALABAMA IMMIGRATION
nULLETIN IS ISSUED BY THE STATE
 ASSOCIATION.
Tn its First Public Document the Late. Iy Formed Organization Dis- cusses Matter in Very
 Interesting Way.

 The Immigration and Industrial Asso- citation of Alabama has issued bulle- tin No. i on Immigration to Ala bama" It reads as follows: The census of 1900 shows that the entire South, including the old border states, had only about 62o,oo0 inhabi- tants of foreign birth--6 per cent. of the foreign born population of the United States Michigan had as many. New York three times as many. the five of the next producing States-Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi. North and South | Carolina, out of a total population Of S.S30,424, of whom 4,122,540 were me- groes, the foreign born element num- bered 44,9s6, or about as many as in Vermont. which had a total popula- ton of 34s,640.
 Since the Civil War the South has sent to the North and West about B. | 50o,000 whites, and has received from all parts in return less than half as many.
 In 1900. 307.132 people born in Mas sachusetts were living in other States. but the loss was more than made up by | the immigration of 1,262,257. Of whom 415,s33 were from other States and | s46.324 from abroad.
 Alabama has but 35 persons to the square mile. On the other hand, Ohio has 102 and Massachusetts 34s. During the twenty years from 1880 to 1900 the white population of the South increased 57.3 per cent. and the negro population S7.5 per cent Dur | ing the same period the total value of Southern products increased 61.7 per cent, almost all in white counties. Since 1860 the total Southern popu- lation has increased so per cent. while the value of products has increased | 25O per cent, the increase being nec- essarily in the industries controlled by | the whites.
 The development of industry in the South has far outrun the increase of population. For instance. in 1895 in Southern mills 362.S3s bales of cotton were manufactured--2.0s .0s3.S39 bales in Northern mills; in 1908 Southern mills used 2,000,729 bales against 1.967,635 bales used by Northern millss Commerce. business. manufacturing and railways have more than absorbed | the increase of white population. l The State of Maryland secured 1000 desirable immigrants in one year. at an expense of only $15.000; and political | economists estimate that each white immigrant is worth $1.000 to the State in which he locates.
 l In Lauderdale County, this State, a. German colony purchased land at $10 | to SIS per acre. This land now com mands $50 to $60 per acre.
 The railroads have proved to be the most potent factors in the immigration movement. These railroads cannot af- ford to deceive new corners; they are
 working for the future, for perma- nent settlements and for increasing | settlements. They do not expect great | returns at first. They proceed on the
 principle that the best course to pur-
 sue is to do SO we'll for the first com | CTS that these will send for their rela-
 tives and friends.
 The Southern Railway settled LIDO
 families along its line in 1902. and in | 1903 1000 families were located on
 2,27001S acres. In January. 1905, this | railway was in correspondence with 35, 900 persons who desired to purchase from one acre to several thousand acres of land.
 For sex eral years the Alabama Great Southern Road has been making an av-
 craze of 1000 land leases per year to | settlers from the West.
 The Atlantic Coast Line is settling about 1000 families each year of fruit producers and truckers, besides placing
 many importation industries in Ala bama, Georgia, Florida and the Caro- linas.
 The Louisville and Nashville sold in 1903. so.7O2 acres of farm lands and | 255,04S acres of mineral and timber lands. Along this road eighty-seven new industrial establishments were set
 up by newcomers from thirty-one States, principally from Illinois. Wis consin and Indiana. Other of our Southern railroads have made similar | records
 During the year 1904. 1.i5o families of 4,11O persons, were located on the line of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, of which number 704 fami- lies, or 2,8s4 persons. located in Ala
 bama.
 In Alabama today there are lying luncultivated 12.000. .000 acres of cleared land for the negroes have been flock ing from the farms to the mines and factories.
 Since 1865 there have gone out of the
 South nearly 2.50o,O00 white people, and al the present time 1,5O0.00O South
 ern-born whites are living in other
 sections and giving their energy to the Iupbuilding of the North, the West and the Pacific Coast
 Against the 1,5OO,O00 Southern born
 whites living outside of this section, we have only 750,000 people born else
 where, all living in the South. Thus
 1t is shown that we have given two for
 one. If the estimate of political econo- mists is correct: that the value of an
 individual to a community Is S1,000,
 measured by dollars and cents, the net
 drain of 750.O00 Southerners now living outside this section Is $7,50O,00
 The building of the Panama Canal, to say nothing of its completion. is
 to make the Gulf of Mexico and Car ribean Sea the chief maritime waters of the South. and the Gulf States will face the greatest activity the world has ever known. The port cities and the coast section of Alabama will thrive as never before, and this will influence the interior to advance and
 grow in population and wealth. Our State is at the beginning now of an
 era of ievelopm snt and upbuilding. and
 we must meet the opportunity by en-
 couraging high class immigration.
 The Panama Canal Is to open a new
 market for the great coal. iron and lumber productions of this State While
 the coal production of Alabama in 1904
 was 1l,163.t94 tons, and the pig iron
 production 1.453,573 tons, 1t is a con
 ceded fact that this production will be
 doubled within the next decade, pro-
 ytded labor can be brought into the
 State to meet the demand.
 MT A. H. Stone, a planter of Green
 vile. Mississippi has published a pdper
 on the Italian Cotton Grower" in the
 South Atlantic Quarterly. January
 1905. He states that the matter has long since passed the experimental stage" and that the white man has
 become the negro's problem
 In regard to negro and Italian labor he says: Tt is always difficult to get
 a negro to plant and properly cultivate