The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-09-26
SETTLERS ARE
LOOKING SOUTHWARK
Settlement and Development Or
ganization to Give Them En-
couraSement.

Editor Star: The following ex-
Clement s. ticker. director of coloni-
cation OF the Southern Settlement
& Development Organization, OF Bal
timore. may be of interest TO the
people of Marion county:
Il am in receipt of your letter of
the %, in which you advise me of
river, involving the draining of 5000
acres of land, the building of bunga-
lows and of an extension spur OF rail-
road, ETC.
October 1st, and | shall make it
point to visit your property and look
over the ground. In the meantime,
| wish you would communicate with
Mr. H. H. Richardson, secretary of
the board of trade. Jacksonville,
Fla, who has accepted a position
with this organization as state mana
ger for Florida, and our Baltimore
Florida in October. | am leaving
in few days for Canada to make
study of the emigration question and
it is possible that Mr.. Richardson
will join me-. / shall expect to place
a great number of settlers in Florida
shortly after the first of the year,
and | shall want to be in touch with
locations similar to yours, Mr.. Kirk
land
/ Again on September 18th, Mr.. W.
Fl. Manss, the vice-president and
general manager, writes:
Il am in receipt of your kind fav-
or of the 11tK addressed to Mr..
Ticker, who at the present time is in
Canada investigating the situation
there with view of bringing some
OF those people into the south, in
Guiding Florida Mr.. Ucker and I ex-
pect to be in Florida in October, and
we hope to have the pleasure of in
vest gating with you your land"
Now a word about the Southern
Settlement & Development Organi-
cation. There are certain vital in
terests in which the southern states,
particularly those of the southeast.
have common cause and which
therefore. they can best promote
through organized rather than indi-
vidual effort. Such for instance is
the widely manifest need of bringing
the south'S natural resources more
| wildly before the notice of the ma
ton at large. to the end that they
may attract new capital and new set
tiers for the great fertile areas of un-
cultivated land. This is matter of
keen concern to Florida, Georgia,
Alabama the Carolinas and Tennes-
the southern sisterhood. While each
state may accomplish much in this
field by working independently of its
neighbors, it can accomplish a vast
deal more by working with them co.
operatively; their combined energies
will attract more attention and bring
more abundant results than scatter
led efforts could ever produce. With
this end in view the Southern Set
Element & Development Organization
was perfected. This enterprise had
its beginning in Baltimore some two
years ago. when the growers OF six
teen southern states, together with
representative of trade boards and
transportation companies, assembled
in that city to discuss plans for ex-
plotting the south'S resources and
especially for bringing into this
section a larger number of desirable
settlers. These public leaders realiz-
ed that the trend of American immi-
grafton, which once flowed into Can
ada and the northeast was turnin g
southwark and that with due encour-
asement AMI direction il could be
mande a source of far-reaching de-
veIopment for the south. The sug-
gestion that a we'll organized system
attic movement TO this end be under
spread favor The result is that the
| legislature of Maryland has approp-
/ rated thirty thousand dollars TO be
used for his purpose. The CONNER
cial interests of Florida subscribed
forty thousand dollars and have
pledged themselves to increase that
amount % one hundred thousand. In
other southern states chambers OF
commerce and kindred agencies have
enlisted in this cause so that within
the immediate future it seems the
movement will be we'll under way
and win be producing practical re-
suits.
This assistance will be renierei
through four channels: one OF pub
Iicity. one of colonization, another OF
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