Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-08-16
PEOPLE ARE NOW
POURING INTO SOUTH
Few Southern People Leave
This Section.
by Richard H. Edmonds, Editor of

The Manufacturers Reeord.)
Last year one railroad carried into
Texas $4,000 settlers from the West
and Northwest. On one day that line
took out of Kansas City, as the gate
way into Texas, over 5000 settlers
Careful estimates make the number
of new people locating in Texas dur
ing the last year or two average 200.
600 annually 1t is notable fact
that there are as a whole Well-tO-do, a
very large number of them travelling
in Pullman cars and having ample
ready money when reaching Texas to
purchase land for cultivation. Many
of them are locating in towns AMI
cities, for there is a remarkable growth
in such places at San Antonio, Dali
las, Houston, Fort Worth and other
large cities, while towns are spring
ing up almost over night, ut the
majority of these new corners are far
mers who have cen selling their high
priced lands in the West and invest
ing in Texas, expecting to reap a
profit in the advance of lands. just
as they have done in the West. While
some of them are giving their after
ton to cotton raising, most of them
are going into diversified agriculture,
especially into fruit raising and truck
ing. On the Gulf coast of Texas, the
development Of onion raising has been
so remarkable during the last five
years that the Bermuda onion growers
have been practically run out of bus
mess, and some months ago eighty
Bermuda onion growers arrived in
New York on one steamer, stating
that their business had been pracr-
cally ruined by the competition of the
Texas onions, and that they had come
to this country because OF the fact.
The movement of population into
Oklahoma is, of course, generally UNI
derstood, for that state in the last
eighteen years has grown with sucn
amazing rapidity that it now has a
population of million and half to
two millions, according to local esti-
mates. There are towns of thirty to |
forty thousand people where not a |
single dwelling existed ten or fifteen
years ago.
The wonderful drainage operations
in Louisiana which are attracting the
attention of corn growers in the West |
are resulting in bringing into that sec
ton many Western farmers and land
operators, expecting to duplicate in
corn raising the amazing results that
have been accomplished in rice grow
ing in Southern Louisiana. In a linz
tied district where scarcely humal
being lived twenty years ago there
are now about $4,000 Western peo-I
pie, mainly engaged in rice growing
and in city pursuits in the dozen or
more thriving towns that have sprung
up as a development of the rice,
growing industry. 1t is estimated that |
in that immediate district 100000, 0O0l
of values have been created in the |
last fifteen or twenty years by the
rice industry, and land which twenty |
years ago was salable at % cents a..
acre now brings SIS to 800 an acre
and a dozen thriving towns of two
or three thousands to ten thousand |
population are existing where there |
was then an unbroken stretch of wet
prairie land.
There is a very heavy movement OF
population to Florida and a. more lin
tied but active movement to other
Southern states.
In connection with these facts it may |
be interesting to your readers to know
that the emigration from the South |
which was the greatest drain on the |
business life and vitality of that sec
tion after 1865 has practically ceased. |
Southern people now find ample CD |
portunity at home for the employment
Of their energies.