The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-05-30
LETTERS TO EDITOR
To Get Desirable Jmm;gr,rts

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 Noticing in various newspaper matter | to the effect that About s100, 900 will be expended at the Pan-American exposit;on
 in San Francisco by Alabama's depart .
 ment Of agriculture, for the inducing of 1 immigration, "one naturally is lead to
 consider whether or not some new source of revenue has been discovered by Ala | bama's financiers, or some correspondent slightly @ raised in figures some amount proposed to he expended, or has Alabama gone wild upon the methods of induc,n o 1 of immigration
 | Texas and Florida have for some time
 been leading in the matter of desira bIe immigration to occupy the land (both by purchase and renting), and improve the
 revenues and other material interests. and
 the tactics used are worthy of adapta-
 tion, and are pot by any means new with them as matter of invention, having been used much in the west for years Let Alabama real estate men and owners of realty desired to be disposed of in
 each county, get together and form an | organization for the purpose of aiding in the inducing of desirable immigration and the sale of real estate to those caring
 to purchase and to publish for distribu- l tiOn, strictly truthful matter regarding the county and it's soils, products and in- ternal Improvements in localities where 1t is sought to induce immigration and purchasers from.
 Each town and city should have it's own local organization of real estate men
 and land owners desirous of selline their lands. and inducing desirable immigra- ton. and who should also be members
 of the county organization, thereby form ing the most far reaching organization possible, and sure to work for the whole countys reputation and benefit. The lo- cal organizations would obtain from the county organization whatever they needed
 in way of literature published by the lat ter tat cost of course), and would, of course, also publish matter describing their locality. its soils, Improvements, and advantages for distribution with the mat ter descriptive of the county. Each of the local real estate people in a town or city would go to work and arrange with real estate, agricultural implement and otner people in good northern, western ana eastern localities to obtain desirable immigrants from, upon division of com missions basis. to distribute literature and work up desirable buyers and send them oown' or come down with them upon the regular land seekers excursion dates, di- rect to the local agent. No other known method has ever shown results so sats- factory to all concerned, nor anything like as economic, and 1t is probable that $iooO0 to $l6,000 expended on these lines would show more satisfactory results than the proposed expenditure of $100, 600 at San Francisco, and ask real estate men and owners of lands in Alabama If they wish to sell to carefully consider the matter. They will ind the railroads stand ready to aid in the premises. espe- cislly the Louisville and Nashville, South ern and Illinois Central and Frisco, and can do them much good in reaching northern agents who will help produce business to the benefit of all concerned.
 JAS. F. SLATER.
 Birmingham. May 27. 1914