The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-12-22
THE NEW SOUTH FARM AND
HOME COMPANY AND ITS
COLONIZATION SCHEME

A late issue of the Morning Star Of
wilmington, N. c.. in discussing the
problems confronting the south and
especially the plans suggested how
best to people our waste places, con-
tanned the following:
Colonization schemes bring people,
as has been time and again demon
strated. Senator J.. A. Brown demon
strated it right close to Wilmington
when he settled northwestern people
on the rich cut-over lands in Column
bus county. He converted a cut-over
pine region into an ideal agricultural
country, and altogether about 5000
people have settled throughout the
surrounding country. The conse-
quence is a thriving town of more
! than 1900 people as the nucleus of
their successful activities. The way
to get settlers is to go after them
with farm, like Senator Brown did.
1.-THE way to get settlers is to do
| like the South Carolina capitalists
who have purchased 1900 acres. of
purpose of settling farms on easy
terms. The way to attract settlers is
to do it like Mr.. Hugh McRae of Will
mington, together with his associates,
has done. They have gone after
them and got them. They provide
people with homes and farms and
help them in more ways than one.
People will settle in the south when
they are informed about the opportu-
mites here for them and when it is
made known to them how they can
pull up pegs somewhere else and
come to eastern North Carolina"
The Manufacturers Record of Balti-
more, Md, gives these colonization
schemes it's sanction and endorse
ment.
1t copies the above item from the
Wilmington Star, and comments upon
1t as follows:
"The position taken by the Star is
absolutely correct. There are dozens
of illustrations all over the south as
striking as those which it quotes,
showing what can be done by intelli-
gent colonization work by men fami-
liar with the settlement of farm prop
critics through colonization activity.
Many of the men long identified with
colonization work of this kind in the
west and on the Pacific coast are now
turning their attention to the south.
These men are TO large extent seek
ing to bring farmers and others from
the north and west into the south.
They are not wasting their time try
ing to turn the undesirable elements
from the dredges of southern Europe
into the south in order to relieve New
York of its congestion of this ele-
ment, but they realize that there are
tens of thousands, yes. hundreds of
thousands, of families in the north
and west who, when the matter is
rightly presented to them, are glad
TO escape the rigors of northern
winters and to avail themselves of the
boundless opportunities and the good
climatic conditions of the south
LET the south continue it's coloni-
cation undertakings; let its people
and those from other sections buy
large tracts of land, improve them
with good roads, with comfortable
homes, and then go out and get the
right class of settlers, and they will
be able to find many thousands OF
them. The growth of the Pacific
coast, the wonder of the day, has not
been due to turning the tide of the
lower classes of Italy into that Sec
ton, but 1t has been largely due to
the ability of the Pacific coast people
to make so attractive presentation
by ceaseless activity in their develop
ment campaign as to draw the best
class of Americans"
One of the most successful colo
nization promoters in Florida is Mr..
Chas. Seig, president of the New
South Farm and Home Company.
He was attracted to Florida several
years ago and bought up a large tract
of land for colonization purposes and
was so successful that he embarked
in the second and third and now has
launched his fourth proposition.
J, He believes in the potency and
power of printers ink and has spent
! nearly a half million of dollars in ad
vertising.
; Ir company with Mr.. Seig and mum
Der of other gentlemen the editor OF
this paper went over the properties OF
this company a few days ago.
They begin near Silver Springs and
, stretch beyond Interlachen in the
direction of Palatka.
II is natural that the company has
within its holdings a variety of soils
ranging from very poor to very ex
cellent and as many different kinds
as can be embraced within these two
extremes
There is one thing especially notice
able about this company and that is
its candor.
1t prints a magazine, and among
other things it gives pictorial illustra
lions of the colony development, and
these pictures tell their own story
they are exact reproductions. A log
house is not pictured as a, frame
: dwelling, nor is a frame DWELLING