The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-08
WILL TRY ID SELL
 CUT OVER LANDS
Timber Land Owners Want to
 Bring Immigrants
OTHER HATTIESBURG GOSSIP
Meeting of the South Mississippi Lum. Der Manufacturers Tuesday Promises to Re of Un.
 usual Interest.

Hattisburg Miss, July 7-(Special.)- | There Is every reason to believe that the big lumber syndicates of South Miss issippi, which have heretofore been de- voting their energies to the buying up of vast tracts of virgin timber land will In the future apply themselves with equal ardor to the business of selling over their cut-over areas and filling this country with desirable class of immigrants. During the past week there was filed with the chancery court clerk of Perry county a deed from the J. J. Newman Lumber company to the Blakely Manu- featuring company of New Jersey for HOO acres of land in this county for a consideration of s1O0. Inquiry developed the fact that the land in question is lo cated some four miles from Hattiesburg, that 1t is cut-over land, and that if is fertile and convenient to market It was found that the Blalzely Manufactur- Ing company is an organization devoted to the immigration business on large scale. It is composed of American and foreign stockholders and officers, nearly all of whom have at some time or an- other been connected with the United States consular service in the northern part of Europe and who have familiarized in Holland, Germany, Denmark and Scan dinavia. from which countries most of their immigrants are brought The com pany has had extensive and profitable re- letions with big railroad corporations
 
 which it has brought over thousands of settlers to fill immense tracts of land belonging to the railroad companies Hay ing pretty well exhausted the available vacant areas of the western countries this company has now turned its atten- ton to the south, and proposes to turn the tide of the immigration 1t controls in this direction. The cheapest and best lands obtainable for this purpose are the cut over lands of the big lumber syndi- cates which can be bought in big blocks and at moderate prices.
 It is known that correspondence reat- ing to this subject has been carried on betwen the Blai-ely company and the Goodyears, dhrough General Manager I. c. Enochs), the J. J. Newman Lumber company, Camp & Hinton of Lumberton the Dantzler Lumber company, Eastman Gardner x Go. of Laurel and perhaps others. The subject has been the topic of conferences between these syndicate representatives, and while nothing has leaked out as to the result of these con- ferences, it is known that the general policy has been viewed with favor and the transfer of this big block of Perry county land at a nominal figure to the | Blakely company would indicate that no l time Is to be lost in putting the enter | prise into effect. The Blakely company | Is known to have offered as much as s2O | per acre for the cut-over lands Such a ! price Is calculated to attract the CO., | operation of the lumber companies The | Blakely company would not purchase the land outright at this figure, but would take an option extenable from year, con tingent upon bringing in settlers each year sufficient to fill an agreed percentage of the land.