HOW AMERICA BIDS FOR IMMIGRANTS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1668, 9 December 1873, Page 4

HOW AMERICA BIDS FOR IMMIGRANTS.

The following sentences will show some of the many inducements held out to settlement by America. A correspondent of the Argus has furnished that paper ■with a copy of a printed address to the farmers of England, issued' by the<, Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, and disseminated in the widest possible manner throughout England. The Argm tells us that this is a company which, received an immense grant of 'land from the Legislature — 360,001) acres — and has established agencies for its sale in nearly every town in Great Britain. At three of the principal outpo»ts— Liverpool, London, and Glasgow — it has stationed trustworthy persons to superintend the shipment of passengers, and to protect them against fraud and depredation. In New York and other American ports, it has an officer to attend on the disembarkation of immigrants, and to for- . ward them on to their .destination ; and at Burlington and Lincoln, on the line of railway, free lodging is provided for landbuyers. The " address," which consists of four large quarto pages of letterpress, and is embellished by three attractive illustrations of the* landscape scenery of Nebraska, points out that the fee simple of the company's land can be obtained at from 30s to 60s per acre, which is equivalent to the average rental of farms in England. It describes the soil of the State as a rich black loam, and vegetable mould, from 2ft to 10ft deep, and states that lime, salt, and atone are plentiful, ■while in the neighboring State of lowa there are 20,000 square miles of coal-

| fields already surveyed. The climate i and temperature are characterised as healthful and delightful, and the advantages which the country offer 3 for corngrowing and stock-raising are set forth in suitably glowing terms. We are told that Nebraska and lowa are the only States in the Union that are entirely free from debt, that hundreds of English families are settled in the former, and that they are eager to be joined by their struggling countrymen at home. As to the terms upon which the company sells its land, they are liberal in the extreme. The first, instalment of 10 percent, is not demanded until the settler has occupied his holding for two years, and the balance of the purchase money is to be liquidated by nine annual instalments. "When documents, such as that of which the foregoing is a summary by the Melbourne paper, are so freely scattered throughout England, and when we remember that the Burlington and Missouri Biver Railroad Company represents but one organisation out of so many in America which have projects for inducing immigration, we may conceive a few of the difficulties under which colonial immigration officers labor.