New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-25

our country can hardly b eKssssrsted. Wrcsches
huts Instead Of houses; bed water. ssuesinss cav
procurable at quito distance; wat Of teams, f'd'
der, food, eat, groceries, mills, roads, md almost
every auxiliary to effective labor - well % 10 COM
fot-such arc among tho discoursgemeats Of tie
industrial pioneer. Many settler in the wilder
ness has seen his crops twethirds destroyed for
the first ZEN years by Wild animals and birds; many
one has given years in the aggregate to road-mak-
ing, Jet dragged over the most miserable eow.pasAs
for twenty or thirty yean; many . one has
sbouldered . bushel of grain and lusgea it
twenty miles to mill, and the meal home
again; while boards split out with an AZ at ten
times the cost of saving are among experiences
almost universal. At least half the pioneers time
il spent on work which more compact settlement
would have Obviated; and majority die before the
difficulties Of pioneer life are fay vauqushed. But
for youths hope and energy, they would hardly DO
overcome at all.
The fruitful idea which tho settlement of Kansas
has developed il that of founding new communities
BY system and iorethought not BY the usual 'tras-
Cling in of individuals or families. Lot u Illus.
t1ate BY example:
A county in new State consists, we win say, Of
square thirty miles each way-that is, of twenty
five townships, each six miles square, comprising
in all $40, 900 acres. Deduct tho school sections,
ponds and streams, and some waste land in boys
and the steep sides of ravines, and there will b
left Half Million acres Of rich, arabic soil Let
US suppose an Emigrant Association were 10 buy
this with land warranty at q cost Of Half Mill
ion Dollars, and devote Half Million more to the
opening of roads, construction of mills, cabins,
school.houses, &C., and the erection of court
house. Let them sell one half in alternate
sections to picked settlers at cost, and LET
them, when this half shall have been fairly
taken possession Of, put the residue up at
auction, after ample advertising, knocking
down each quarter-section, village lot town lot,
mill privilege, mill, &C., to the highest bidder
does any one suppose that the Two Hundred and
Fifty Thousand acres thus sold would produce less
than Two Millions of Dolarsl We believe If the
land were we'll chosen and the capital faithfully
applied, that the whole capital might be returned
to the stockholders with fifty per cont annual in
tere,t within three years from the date of the first
call for an instalment. A location rich In coal or
other mineral, or even in timber alone, might easily
double this retum-to the positive and signal ad-
vantage of the pioneers a. well IS the corporators.
The idea first fairly developed through the opera
tons of the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society" Is
destined to indefinite extension and application.
Fifty associations may enter the feld-there arc
scope and work for them all. With able and eco
nomical management, fully paid.up capital, and
rigorous avoidance of debt there would seem to be
no chance of failure-no escape from generous
profits. Under this system, New. England County
may in any year settle Western township with
homogeneous and brotheriy population, whose chill
dren are only transferred from the Winter school in
their old homes to the Summer school in their new.
The moral, intellectual and physical benefits of this
substituton Of system for anarchy in most import
ant field of human effort cannot be Over.estimated.
Tn oiv;n0 an arcount anna time sinca Of the trial