144 THK ALAUAMA OPPORTUNITY. 



immigrant, but they are selling him their best lands, if he 

 treats them right. They are cheap lands, cheaper lands, per- 

 haps, than he can buy anywhere else. Some splendid farms 

 can be bought as low as $io an acre. Other acres, and rich 

 ones, too. when a man cultivates them right, can be bought 

 at even a lower figure. 



A hearty welcome, a Southern welcome, awaits them. The 

 people want them and will appreciate them. For them the 

 latch hangs outside, the door is open and the hand is out- 

 stretched. The people want a white section in Nortl; Barbour, 

 even as they have it in South Barbour. The negro continues 

 to leave rapidly, and the white people want his place supplied 

 with the white land owner and the white producer. They 

 want the immigrant in colonies', in communities, and they are 

 willing to sell their lands cheaply and help the new-comer 

 where he wants or needs help. 



THE NEED OE FARMERS. 



"We need the white farmer, and we need him badly," said 

 Major J. N. Williams, of Clayton. "The negro is passing as 

 an industrial or agricultural factor. The few of them that 

 are left and are at work want to rent the lands on their own 

 terms, and they want to cultivate it free from any supervision 

 by the white man. We need the white man as the West has 

 him, the man who rides and plows. We need the white man 

 who knows how to use the agricultural implements as they are 

 used in the \A'est. The negro is rapidly deserting the farms, 

 and his successor should be the white farmer, such as have 

 made great the agricultural communities of the West." 



Cashier Browder Pruitt of the Clayton Banking Company 

 was firmly of the opinion that Barbour County, the northern 

 portion of it, ofifers' perhaps a more inviting field to the immi- 

 grant than any other section of the State. 



"The cheapness of the land should certainly be an incentive 

 to them," said Mr. Pruitt. "It was the best land in the county. 

 I dare say that it would be the best land now with proper care. 

 The white people have in a large degree abandoned these 

 farms and plantations, not because they were not fertile and 

 productive, but because of the preponderance of the negro and 

 the longing for the more social life of the towns and cities. 



