FACTS ABOUT VIRGINIA by J. O. Corliss

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1877

FACTS ABOUT VIRGINIA.

By J. O. Corliss

As a number of letters have been received here making inquiries about the country, I will state a few facts for the benefit of all.

Much of the soil in the Shenandoah Valley, especially the “bottom” land, is very productive, yet a great deal of the upland is quite light, and produces only fair crops. Land can be bought all the way from $10.-00 to $75.00 an acre, according to quality and location. Any one having means with which to purchase a home can live as easily here as elsewhere. Farm hands’ wages are from eight to twelve dollars a month, and mechanics get from one dollar to one dollar and fifty cents a day. Provisions and clothing are worth about the same as at the North.

The winters are short and comparatively mild, and the climate at the different seasons good. Fruit of all kinds abounds. Aside from these, I see no special inducements to those who simply seek a home; but if there are those who have the cause of God at heart, and desire something to do, they can find ample space here in which to labor. Here is a wide field, and many precious souls are hungering for the truths of the third angel’s message. I know of no field where labor in scattering tracts and obtaining subscriptions for our periodicals will be better rewarded than in Virginia. J. O. CORLISS.