And so it is in other parts of the State. in the great iron and coal regions of the South millions of capital are going from Pennsylvania and other places farther East seeking investment in these large properties and building up an immense production of iron very much to our gratification. We are delighted with it. But there is one region of country to which no man emigrates. and that is what is called the "black belt." that is where the negro population is very dense. Why do they not go there I We try to persuade them to go there. Lands that in that belt sold from sixty to one hundred dollars an acre in gold before the war can now be bought for from six to ten dollars an acre.
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