The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-22

transportation facilities of this section
are not better here than that OF Tide
water. which has both water and rail
transportation and consumes but IA
single night in reaching the biggest
and best markets OF the world And
Yet ,he settlers are coming and iocat-
ing on lands that VIII never be much
. good till drained and paying higher
rates for freight AMI necessities OF
iiie Their IS ouly one solution why
VIRGINIA is not favored with a large
influx oil immigrants and that is print
cr's ink.
Judicious advertising has brought
thousands upon thousands to the far
south. and they are still coming.
( Printers ink used In booklets. mag
a"ines. circulars. and In the big city
daiiies OF the North and West. has
proven TO million of readers the sup
rosed advantage OF this section over
That Of any other. Printers ink is
the magnet that is drawing the mon
and their families away from the
North. the West ana Middle South TO
south Georgia and Florida.
And what is Virginia doing TO help
keep her citizens at home and reap
the many advantages TO be found
I there? What are the boosters OF the
Tidewatcr section doing to attract
settlers within her vast domain and
! locate there? How many OF your
readers are aware that Tidewater
Virginia could supply the United
states with produce?
The state OF Virginia. and more es-
peciaily Tidcwatcr. have been lying
asleep at the switch. While train load
after train load of new settlers have
passed by to points in South Georgia
ana Florida, whose advantages have
been told to them by judicious adve.-
Using.
BOT single line has been printed
about the good things that are raised
in your State. The farmers of the
North and West, who have been roast
ed ont in summer and frozen out In
winter and now flooded out are read
ing literature and adv artiscmcnts OF
the far South. and are writing to-day
of tho possibility e making change
They do not know that the State OF
Nirg MIA has million acres or more
awaiting the plow that bigger and
better crops can be raised
The man who is Disseminated with
his lot and life in the North does not
know that Underwater Virginia offers
Lin good lands at cheap prices, and
that section is but IA nights ride from
inc DIX markets.. lie does not Know
that he can come to South Georgia
and be three nights away from any
Scod market and take his chances
on crops on undraincd soil
Tidewatcr Virginia offers gold
mine to any farmer or trucker. or
fruit raiser. or chicken crank that
VIII buy about twenty acres. The
new settler can pay for his land with
Il few chickens, a few hogs sheep or
I'm. ,,.ftl
end crop of peachhlow potatoes. There
are many possibilities and advantages
now lying asleep in Tidcwatcr tnat
need rude awakening by the touch
O: the man behind the piOw.
By the liberal use Of printers INK
Virginia could be made one of the
biggest and best agricultural States in
tho Union, and the best by far in the
entire South Instead OF vast wild
crncss of pine and oak trees it should
be filled with men Of Drawn ard mus
Gle, coupled with Intelligence and il
oosrc to hustle.
There is a farmer In Ciarcmont to-
day who began operations there TWEEN
~ years ago without Il cent in his
pocket and paid for his land by doing
Jobs of surveying. To-day he owns and
works twenty-five acres OF go0d ;urry
county soil, and is n director in the
local hank at Claremorl What that
man has done in Tidcwatcr can he du-
plicated BY anybody that will work
WILL II. STEVENS.
Waycroes