TAXATION
is very light, amounting this year to 50J cents on the hundred dollars, (including the school tax,) less than the half of one per cent; last year it was 40 cents.
THE PRICE OF LAND
varies with the distance from market and fertility. The price of average qualities is from 3 to 10 dollars per acre. Good cotton and tobacco soils may be had at these rates in large quantities ; soils capable of producing, with intelligent culture, 100 to $500 per acre, and actually yielding at those rates in many cases.
The Swamp Lands of the east contain immense quantities of land of the highest fertility, requiring only drainage and clearing of timber to render' it capable of producing a bale of cotton or 50 bushels of corn to the acre. Large bodies of these lands are owned by the Public School Board, and are held at $1 and less per acre.
Mountain lands are purchasable in large tracts at 50 cents to $1 per acre. These are good grazing lands and heavily timbered, much of them having a fertile soil, but mountainous, and for the most part admirably adapted to grazing purposes. The best quality of improved farming lands are 15 to $25, in exceptional cases selling for 40 and $50.
IMMIGRATION.
Several thousand immigrants have come into the State within the last two or three years, chiefly from Canada and the Northern States, and from Scotland and England, attracted by cheap lands and an admirable climate. There is a universal disposition among all classes to welcome immigrants from all quarters. And special arrangements can be made with the railroad companies, securing a reduction of fares and freights.