INFORMATION FOR EMIGRANTS. 



KENTUCKY versus THE NORTHWEST. 



The publications issued from this office have been designed simply 



^o give an accurate account of the resources of Kentucky, based upon 



•a knowledge of the facts, and to bring to the notice of persons seek- 

 ing desirable homes and profitable investments, some of the advantages 

 offered by this State. 



Hitherto, no comparisons have been made between this and other 

 States ; nor would this policy have been departed from in this publica- 

 tion, but for the following reasons : 



The Federal Government and States of the Northwest have granted 

 immense areas of lands to railways to aid in their construction. These 



Toads, to sell their lands and settle up the country adjacent to their lines, 

 have established immigration agencies in this country and in Europe, 

 and are publishing, world-wide, illuring accounts of the wonderful fertil- 

 ity of their lands, the delights of the climate, and the superior advantages 

 of such lands for colonization. The severe winters of that region, the 



ifrequent droughts, the visitations of grasshoppers, and the high freights 

 paid by the farmers to transport their produce to a market, coupled with 



'the fact that the Southern States are now offering a most inviting field to 

 immigrants, threatens not only to check immigration to the North and 

 West, but evidences are strong that there is danger of an emigration 



.from those regions to the cheap, fertile lands of the South. 



To counteract this, the immigration agents representing that region 

 are publishing statements concerning the States south of the Ohio river 

 which are untrue and calculated to deceive. So long as these agents were 



•content to advertise their own region, it might have been well enough 

 to take no notice of their statements ; but as they have undertaken to 

 speak for their own section and the South, I deem it uncourteous not 



"to reciprocate the favor, and will, in the following publication, try and 



