The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-05-11
We ONLY need
MORE FARMERS
immigration Movement Is Of Vital
Interest To This Section, And We
Will Profit GreatIy.-Gov. Noel Is
Enthusiastic In Favor.
Special to The Neps.

Jackson, Miss, May 11.-South Mis-
sissippi is deeply interested in the
immigration convention, called to
meeet in Jackson, June 21-22, accord
ing to Representative w. L. Crawford
of Covington county, who is spending
few days in the city on business.
Mr. Crawford, while here, conferred
with Governor Noel in the matter, and
seemed pleased with the situation,
and the Governors views on this ques-
ton, which Mr.. Crawford considers of
paramount interest to his part of the
state, where there is room for thou
sands of industrious farmers.
We want immigrants" said Mr..
Crawford, ''but we want the best
class Of people-people who value
property rights and citizenship in our
state, and when we get this class of
immigrants We will have one of the
richest states in the Union.
South Mississippi has several hum
dred thousand acres of land that has
never, so far as any living persons
know, been cultivated This last is
susceptible to high state of cultis
vation and will produce almost any
crop. Most of it is cut-over timber
land, of course. but there is none bet
ter in the state. as has been shown by
experimenting with various products.
1T is especially adapted to truck
growing, and we have enough of fhis
Land to supply the whole country with
garden products. Sugar cane grows
abundantly on this land. The yield of
cotton to the acre is good. while corn
and other products grow and yield as
well as on any other land
South Mississippi has much to of
fer migrants, provided We get the
right class of people-and l think this
convention is on the right lines to get
the people We want: Individual effort
TO settle the state have brought good
results, but with unanimity of action
in the matter we should bring several
thousand settler to Mississippi in the
next year.
Il feel that Mississippi has been
sleeping on her rights" continued Mr..
Crawford, and l am not alone in that
opinion, as Governor Noel and others
take the same view of the situation
We are on the verge of a great growth
and development that viii make
the past ten years look small, think.
for, with the completion of the Pana-
ma canal, which will be within the
next four or FIVE years, Mississippi
will become one of the most important
points in the country
Railroads will build through the
state to reach the Gulf, and that
means more population, and we must
get the farmers here to produce food
for this increased population. If we
develop our farming interests there
is no state in the Union that can live
so well or will be as rich in agricuI-
turall resources as Mississippi.
Conditions are improving rapidly
Any one can see thatl but this is nat
ural growth and without effort on our
part. 1t is few persons who, real
izing what nature has bestowed upon
Mississippi. are coming here to make
their homes and grow rich. With
concerted action. we should accom-
plish much in the, next two or three
years, and by the time the increased
population comes We will be ready to
supply them - necessaries Of
Seminary lngton county
will send del this eonven-
tion as our / alive 10 the