Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-11-07
NOW FOR IMMIGRATION
The South Offers This Opportunity.
Thousands and Tens of Thousands of
People Could Find an Opening in Any
State From Maryland to Texas.

Under the above caption b Manu-
facturers' Record this week printed an
editorial which seems to us so timely
and pertinent as to be worthy of repro
duction. There was never a time when
there was such an opportunity as now
for the people of Virginia and North
Carolina to make with chance of sue
cess an attempt to induce migration to
these States and other States of this
union.
A vast territory which has hitherto
been without transportation facilities,
has lately been opened up by the ex-
tension of the Norfolk and Southern
Railway and the construction of the
Virginia Railway. Along the line of
the latter, in Virginia and West Vir-
ginia there is an immense area of ex-
cellent farming land and wood land,
and the former has opened up in North
Carolina perhaps the finest timber and
agricultural section which has been
brought directly into market in he
older States for a generation.
LII 1do tCI1 HOI Ill OdIO1Lhd lnS 1dlS-
ing of small fruits and vegetables has
Of late years been demonstrated to be
very profitable, these products finding
an excellent market in Norfolk, Balti-
more, New York, Philadelphia and Bos-
ton, and reaching these markets in
very quick time. The two railways
mentioned are making an effort to
thickly populate the territory through
which they pass. The people of the
4 States through which they pass should
aid in this work as much as they posi-
bly, can.
The article previously referred to re-
cites:
In times ofuniversal business activ-
ity and prosperity, when every man
who wants to work finds employment,
it is difficult to get people interested in
moving to some other section. Hence
immigration work for the South has for
the last few years been lone under very
considerable disadvantages, because in
the North and West farmers and manu-
facturers, mechanics and all othe class
es ave been SO busi1y and probably
employed that it has not been easy to
interest them in the advantages of the
South as a place fol- home-making. Now
+ that some changes have come about,
and here and there mechanics are be-
r ing thrown out of employment and la.
borers are beginning to look for work,
there is presented to the South an op-
p~Ortunity such as it has nothad during
the last 10 years. Now is the time
when Southern communities, Southern
States and railroads should all pu1
forth their very best efforts to make
known the advantages and attractions
r Of this section.
; 1.-THE thoroughly contented, well
employed man rarely looks with favor
, upon any appeal to move from his
home into another region, but the mar
out of employment or the man wht
, finds it difficult to get ahead is Away.
. hoping that he may find some new OPP
= portunity for better employment ano
: for the establishment of a home FREE
from harassing cares due to lack O
work.
LIE Ooutu oueTS ILLS opportunity
: Thousands and tens of thousands o
people could find an opening in an,
: State from Maryland to Texas in tn
f raising of fruits and vegetables, il
| poultry and in dairying, where com
O. paratively little capital would be re
quired and where, with proper attention
= to business, a comfortable living, will
ease for old age would be PRACTICAL,
, assured. Let the South make the mos
of the opportunity"