Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — Farmers Go to Isle of Pines. [ARTICLE]

Farmers Go to Isle of Pines.

T. J. James of Fairfield, la., passed through New Orleans Friday en route to the Isle of Pines, Just south of Cuba, which has been reserved by the United States. Mr. James goes there to make arrangements for the extensive colonization of the Island by farmers from lowa, Illinois and other western states. Thirteen families from the town of Spirit Lake, lowa, are already settled there and are well pleased with the country. Their letters home have been so satisfactory as to promise a large emigration there, and Mr. James goes to the islands to put the lands in condition to receive the emigrants.