t28 INFORMATION FOR EMIGRANTS. 



Hemoteness from Seaboard Markets. 



Grain, the principal product of the Northwest, has its value deter- 

 mined by the prices ruling at the great Atlantic ports, and by the cost 

 *of transportation thither. The center of population of the United 

 'States is located by the census of 1880 at Cincinnati, on the northern 

 border of Kentucky. The Kentucky farmer finds a ready market for 

 all his products nearer home than does the Western farmer. The great 

 distance tax must be paid by the farmers of the West until manufac- 

 tures have been established in their midst. The scarcity and inferior 

 quality of fuel, the want of timber and iron ores, the scarcity of reliable 

 water-powers, will always place manufactures in that region at a dis- 

 advantage; whilst, on the other hand, the unequaled combination of 

 climate, water-power, excellence and abundance of coal, iron ores, 

 vclays, and minerals of all kinds along the great Appalachian uplift and 

 their flanks, extending for a hundred miles and more on either side, 

 insure to this region the highest possible development of manufac- 

 tures. In fact, no other region in the Avorld of like area possesses 

 such a combination of natural resources and adaptability to agricultu- 

 ral development. Nowhere else in America can lands of equal fertility 

 and desirability be had so cheap. Here, in the States of the Virginias, 

 Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Ala- 

 bama, is an area of over 340,000 square miles, larger than the German 

 Empire and__ Great Britain and Ireland combined — here are happy homes 

 to be had for millions of industrious people. 



I am aware of the great progress of the Northwest in wealth and 

 population, and know that thousands of farmers have succeeded there 

 in establishing themselves in comfort; yet I am confident that the same 

 energy, industry, thrift, and economy, so necessary to success there, will 

 produce better results in Kentucky and the South Atlantic States. 

 -Much of the boasted progress of the Northwest is the result of the 

 many miles of railway built by donations of public lands by the Gen- 

 eral Government, and capital brought from the older States and from 

 Europe. So, also, were the schools and many of the public works. 

 Immense immigration, induced by the most extensive advertising the 

 world has ever known, has poured in upon that section, bringing wealth 

 from abroad. The mania for speculation has drawn i.mmense sums of 

 money to the West, making a constant drain upon the productiveness 

 of the East. Thus the West has been built up — not by the wealth 

 produced from the soil, but by the wealth brought from abroad. 



I have briefly put forth some of the advantages possessed by Ken- 

 tucky on the map accompanying this publication. The peculiar advan- 

 tages of the region I have mentioned are so graphically portraved by 



