The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-02-09
TRAIN CONTINUES
GREAT ATTRACTION IN
THE NORTHWEST
BELIEVED TO HAVE DONE MUCH
GOOD WHERE IT HAS
BEEN.
Al. GREAT ADVERTISING SCHEME
Farm Lands in Iowa as High as $3.50,
and that Not More Productive than
Can Be Bought Here for Hall the
Money.

CENTERvILLE, Iowa, Feb. III
is believed that Tennessee and the
other States CT the South could have
secured a large part of the emigra
Ion to other States from Iowa during
the last ten years. In the decade
from 1900 to 1910, Iowa lost 1852 In
population-the only State in the
Union to decrease. This exodus
from Iowa was of a thrifty class of
; .ts c.tizenshlp-th who owned
/ small farms and sold on account of
the high price to be obtained for
thei lands, and those who had ac-
cJmulated some Means and wanted
10 invest in land, but found it neces-
sAry 10 go tC States where lands
were cheaper. The long and severe
winters and the short growing sea-
son also had something to do with
emigration from this State.
IF your State had begun this plan
Of advertising ten years ago, said a
les Moines man who visited the
'ennessee exhibit at Centerville,
the great variety of products you
show, and the splendid yield per
acre, combined with your cheap
lands and milder climate, would have
attracted many who have gone to the
States of the Southwest and to West
ern Kansas, Colorado and Idaho.
There is no question but your plan
of advertising your State will be
very effective. Your exhibit is COM
prehensive and easily handled, and
you can take IL to the thickly settled
rural communities, where land has
advanced until the man of moderate
means can not buy, and attract the
attention of the land hungry"
The exhibit of the immigration
bureau of Tennessee, in charge of
J. j. B. Johnsonius and T. G. Settle,
was ut Centerville during the week
jast closed, and was visited by a
great many 1owans, who we're sur
prised at the extent and variety Of
the products and the yield per acre,
as well as by the cheap lands and
mild climate described in the liter
ature given out. The stereoptician
snow of views from all sections of
Tennessee attracted crowd of over
400.
1t is believed that the immigration
bureau exhibit, so far as it has pro-
ceeded on its journey, has done ruch
good, and will serve to draw &tten
ton to the great opportunities Offer
ed by Tennessee to the homeser and
Investor. All the newspaper com |
ment has beer most favorable, and |
the comment of visitors to the ex-
hioit was that Tennessee was cap
able of producing a more varied crop
than they had thought.
The first stop in Iowa was at Cent |
erville. the largest town in Southern |
Iowa, and the center of the coal min
ing industry west of the Mississippi |
river. There are a great many
mines in operation in this county |
aid all over this section of the State,
and nearly ali the lano is underlaid
With vein II fairly good range
coal about tn, ee feet thick.
Farm lands in this section sell for
$50 to $3.50 an acre and in other
sections o. the State at still higher
prices. and the fact ha good improv-
II lands can be had in Tennessee at
rom $40 to $50 an acre and unim-
proved lands from S. to SIS an acre
las attracted the attention of many,
ind II is believed that the State will
ret some desirable immigrants from
mis- section, as well as some capital
invested in the cheap unimproved
ands. A number of capitalists in
1es Moines, Sioux City, Centerville
Ind other cities In Iowa have invest
ID large sums Of money In lands in
TEXAS and other States of the South
vest, and II Is believed that some Of
his money will be attracted 70 the
south through the advertising given
ne State by his exhibit.
The Tennessee exhibit goes from
lere to Oskaloosa and will be there
me week.