The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-07-04

| L have promised him letters to you,
and to Governor Carter as well.
| I do not intend writing any lengthy
/ letters TO the officials, and will depend
upon you to make known these facts
/ to the Board of immigration. He also
/ informed me that the district from
which he comes has a people who are
| entirely different from those that we
Ihave had experience with in Hawaii
Those that visited Hawaii came from
| the district of Tifis, and more particu-
| larry from the outskirts of suburbs of
! the city of Tihis, and not from the
| farming districts.
| He also informed me that few of the
people from the Eriwan district have
Iemigrated to the United States. Those
/ that have, and are located largely in
/ Los Angeles, are from the Tif1is dis
! trtct. He says that the class of people
who have emigTated are those that
have land, and consequently they were
! those who were more or less of a mer-
chant type, or stevedores, teamsters,
/ drivers, and men who were able to
/ take advantage of their knowledge Of
/ their professions and save money,
while the farmers from the Tifis dis
| trict have held onto their possessions
and as yet have not emigrated to any
extent. However, the emigration fever
! is so strong since the return of many
of the Molokans from Los Angeles and
some of the Eastern States; namely,
| the Tif1ians, with their tales of the
money that is to be made, and the
security and peace which the United
States offers, that they are all more
or less anxious to emigrate. This
! g. i
district. These people are, he claims,
farmers through and through. They
make their living in growing of cereals
and fruits; they keep sheep and cat
| tie; also they are better educated than
the peasants from the Tif1is district.
| This man, who acts as a delegate
from the assembly which has sent him
forth from the city of Caucasus, Fri
wan district, is also representative Of
the chiefs. or assembly, of another dis
trict, known as Kars. He tells me that
! the people of Kars are a very hardy
and hard working people. They are
used to many privations, and are
trough class. By this, L mean an I'M
! educated class of people. He states
| that they have been prosecuted more
| by the Russian authorities, and that
! they are very suspicious; that they are
very ignorant, but are most DESTROYS
of emigrating so that they can educate
their children.
From that district it is possible that
emigration would have to be assisted,
but in the writer's personal opinion,
| it looks as if the people from the Kars
district are a harder working class
than those from the Eriwan district,
as he explained that it was a poorer
country, and much harder to make a
| livelihood. That the territory was very
mountainous and very hard to till, and
that those people worked against great
disadvantages. Therefore 1 am of the
opinion that he is representing in par
ticular, a more we'll to do class, as he
states that these families that would
first emigrate from the Eriwan dis
trict are quite able TO purchase lands
and locate; paying all their own ex-
penses. That if they secured condi-
lions which they hoped for that they
would assist many of the poor families
and peasants to emigrate.
Just how much money and to what
extent their finances go could not tell,
but it is possible that they might be
able to take up a small homestead and
pay for it.
He informs me that the people from
his district are opposed to liquor, and
are very religious. They have differ
ent faiths-one in particular, that is
emigrating is that of the Baptist.
Should you be able to enter into any
negotiations with this man, and could
take up and locate 100 to $50 families
in the district of Kona, I believe you
would eventually populate the whole
district.
I advised him to bring his people to
Vladivostok. The trip is twenty days
by railroad, as they would come by
slow trains; but the connections are
so simple and the route so direct, that
it would be much more favorable. Then
again, the people here connected with
the Pacific Commercial Company. es-
pecially Mr.. NJ. J. Sterelny, who is
the leading Russian representative OF
this firm, the Pacific Commercial Com
pany, could handle all business mat
tiers in connection with the chartering
of a steamer to take them to Hawaii.
The most economical way for them
to proceed would be for them to pay
stipulated rate per head, and con-
Germ, like the one herein named, to
charter a steamer and assist in the
forwarding of the emigrants as a
W
be followed if anything comes of this
matter as I have used Mr.. Sterelny in
the negotiations to some considerable
extent
The steamers which could be charter
ed are those of the company that L
have been negotiating with, or con-
tempIatfng negotiations in connection
with other immigration matters upon
which, as you know, / came to the
Orient.
The weather here is very much tnat
of California during the winter or
spring. We have had considerable rain
since I have been here.
Hoping that this will find YOU III
good health, and with kind regards to |
Mr.. J. B. Castle, I am.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES A. LOW. /
MR.. McSTOCKER'S REPLY.
July 1, 1907.
James A. Low, Esq, care Pacific Com