The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-11-28
WHAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISH
ED BY ORGANIZED EFFORT
ON THIS LINE DURING
IL MONTHS.
New Settlers Along Some of the Prin-
cipaI Lines of Railroad-What
Is Signified in the Way of In
creased Wealth to Com
munities and States.

munities and States.
The Southern Farm Magazine of
Baltimore says that it may be safely
estimated that between 10000 and
100000 settlers have been attracted
to the south and that between q
100000 and 100000 acres of land
have been bought by them during
the past II months. This estimate
is based upon reports furnished to
the Southern Farm Magazine and
by representatives of leading rail
roads operating principally in the
south, and they reveal most crafty
ing results of the practical work
which the railroads are doing in the
cause of immigration to the South.
Commenting on the above the
New York Commercial says:
These results are, to large eX-
tent, cumulative, flowing from per-
sistent work carried on in some in
stances for 10 or 5 years, and prom
Using even greater records in the flu
ture. They have been gained through
following different policies. Some
railroads have lands of their own,
which have been disposed of to set
tiers of their own seeking, or to
agents working in cooperation with
them. Other roads, not landholders,
have directed the newcomers to
available homes within their terri
tory, and yet other roads have com
bined industrial upbuilding with ag-
ricultural development. They have
carried on a campaign in this coun-
try and in foreign parts by means OF
the widespread circulation of litera-
ture descriptive of the advantages OF
the south and it's opportunities for
the industrious and thrifty, of eX-
hibits of southern agriculture and
mineral products and of personal
contact with heads of families who
would better their condition in life.
Estimating the value of man to
the community at at least $1,000,
the addition to the south's wealth in
one year through the energies of
immigration agents of the railroads
may be safely placed at $200,OO0,-
900, or about one-fifth of the in
crease of its wealth in goods and
chattels during the same period.
These additions mean a much great
er rate of increase for the South in
material things in the future and an
acceleration of the movement of pop
ulation from other parts of the coun-
try to the south. That acceleration,
however, can come in the degree that
it should come only through prac-
tical recognition by the south of the
great work which the railroads are
doing for southern progress on all
lines, not the least of which is that
of immigration. Accompanying the
work of the railroads must be that
of the proper state authorities, OF
corporations or associations within
state lines and of individuals, all
alive to the absolute necessity of the
vast increase in the number of i'm
migrants, if the south is to come in
to it's own.
Typical of the accomplished facts
are the location along the line of
the Alabama Great Southern railroad
of 354 families and the purchase of
26,340 acres of lands within seven
months, not including coal and iron
ore lands upon which mines will be
opened, or the timber lands sold for
saw mill purposes; the passing of