The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-07-12

IMPORTANT TO REAL ESTATE OWNERS
From now till the 18th of August is the
only proper time this season for breaking
new land. There are thousands of acres
around this city owned by our citizens and
by non-residents with agents here, which
produce nothing but an annual crop of tai.
es. The interest on the money is lost also
by their unproductive condition, and the
owners finding no sale for them at any price
are holding on with sick hearts, waiting for
the good time coming. Year after year
they grow less valuable because they are of
no use to anybody, and the hardy pioneer
and the brawny man of muscle pass them
by, as does the farmer, with capital, and 60
further west, where improved land can be
found ready for the pillow and hoe. We
have evidently passed by the age of corner
lot speculations, town site mania, and ad-
ditions to st. Paul." for many years. The
process of extracting sunbeams from Gu
cumbers is abandoned, and we have entered
upon strictly unitarian epoch, when
nothing but what can be used is worth any
thing 5000 and $500 per foot has given
place to $50 and $50 per foot, because feet
are more abundant than we have use for,
and dollars are not.
If real estate owners wish to stop the fa-
tai cancer that is slowly wasting away their
estates-the drain of taxes without inter.
est, and make their lands produce enough to
pay taxes with interest, double their
value, and make them salable, now is the
time to break for a crop next season. Sod
broken after August 18th will not rot for
years nor produce we'll.
Land broken now and fenced, by next
spring can be rented for one third of the
crop; 30 acres broken on each 160 will
yield from 200 to 300 bushels of wheat to
the owner as rent, which will change pro-
gressive indebtedness 10 a progressive in
come, and allow fair interest on an other
wise unproductive and expensive invest
ment.
There are hundreds of poor men in this
city who have strong arms and willing
hearts, but no means to improve farms of
their own, and no work to earn support,
who would hail with delight an opportunity
offered them by capitalist to pillow, fence and
till their lands, and make their waste places
productive.
Only open ever so small feld--ten acres
to begin on, and this motion would be
promptly seconded by the laborers, whose
employment would serve the double pur-
pose Of supporting and giving business to
our own laborers and keeping them among
us, bene6tting our merchants and every de-
partment of business, and at the same time
developing and increasing in value our out
lands, and reacting bene6cialy upon city
property. Will not gentlemen cease their
dog-in- the-manger policy-either eat or let
somebody else eat. If they will not break
their lands, their lands will break them.
We have no rise to look for but the rise of
vegetation for many years: The biters and
the bitten, the humbuggers and the humbug-
ees must die of, and get old enough to be
snubbed as fogies and fossils by Young
America, before the golden ages of ~ and
: 81 return. Men must be practical. Land
that brings nothing is worth nothing. Land
that brings 30 bushels of wheat to the acre,
annually, is worth 30 bushels of wheat per
acre annually, less the cost of raising.
The Lacrosse Democrat says =" The
tide of westward travel from Illinois