The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-27
GETTING RESULTS.
Commercial Clubs Work for
immigration.
Advertising in London Paper
Attracts Attention.
JACKSON co. OPERATES
Head of Rock Island Freight
Department Takes Hand.
Oakland Industry to Install
Automatic Fire Escapes.
JACKSON co. OPERATES

proposition will be presented at
the next meeting of the Topeka Real
Estate Dealers association which may
prove, if followed up in a systematic
manner, of great value to the organ
1zation and the city of Topeka Some
weeks ago it was reported in this col
umn that the immigration committee
of the Commercial club. with r. D.
Blaine as chairman, had begun to act
in connection with a project to bring
people to the vicinity of the capital
city to farm on, at first. small scale.
Literature prepared by the chair
man of the COMMITTEES was sent out
by him to ten states of the union and
to many foreign countries, including
England, Germany, France, Scotland,
Belgium and Russia. as we'll as Can
ada and Mexico. This reading mat
ter set forth the advantages of To-
peka and its vicinity for a man of
small means, showing that there is a
most excellent market for produce of
various kinds.
On account of an advertisement
which was placed in a London paper
which advocated the vicinity of To-
peka as an ideal place to settle Alex
ander Jackson, general European
agent of the Rock Island and Frisco
lines in this country, wrote a letter
to the chairman of the committee of
the Commercial club asking for in
formation in respect to the possibili-
ties for the class of men which the
Commercial club is DESTROYS of bring
ing to the vicinity of Topeka. A re-
ply was Immediately sent stating the
acknowledgment from the Rock
Island official has been received
which is of considerable interest and
will come up for consideration when
the real estate dealers next meet:
at am in receipt of your favor of
are thousands of industrious young
men in England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales on the lookout for homes
in some part of the world where they
are reasonably sure of making a sue
cess, and escape the heavy burden of
taxation which exists in this country
at present.
''These men as a rule have from
$500 to $1,000 to make a start. and
they are being divided between Can
ada, Australia and the United States
There is no use to tell you that the
prospects in the United States are
way ahead of any other portion of
the globe, particularly in our west
and southwest territory
1.-The trouble, however, is that out
side the railways no land companies
or individual handling lands has
made any attempt to secure this val
udDlo CLASS VI Tor ter
ritory where they would undoubtedly
make good, namely, Kansas. Missouri,
Oklahoma and Texas, etc. I find that
several of the California land owners
have established offices over here, and
are getting a lot of people to locate
on California lands at good stiff
prices. The class of people 1 refer to
are young men who have enough cap
ital to make a good start on five or
ten acre tracts in the vicinity of a
good sized town in any of our west
ern states, in fruit, truck and poultry
raising, until they are firmly estab-
lished and able to take hold of a big
ger proposition.
1T appears to me that some of our
progressive people should take hold
of this matter on the same lines as
the California people are doing, and
if the people were handled right and
given a square deal it would mean
hundreds of desirable agricuIturists
from this country for Kansas or any
other state that would get after this
business in the right way and . think
1t is matter that you could with
propriety take up with your CONNER
ciaI club.
There is no use of my saying that
the companies I have the honor OF
representing over here will be only
too glad to give close cooperation and
assistance to any legitimate enter
prise tending to the welfare and up
lifting of any part of the territory