The daily mountaineer. (Dalles, Or.) 1861-1866, 1865-12-03
9ailg Wonntaine
SUNDAY MORNING. DEC. 8, 1865.
PRACTICAL sUGGEsTIONs ON THE
SETTLEMENT AND DEVELOP
MENT OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN

has been taken out of the mines of the Co.
lumbia Basin, in the last FIVE years, had been
invested in livestock, and turned upon the
grasses growing on the hills and valleys ad-
jacent to them, this country would now be
in prosperous circumstances. Money would
be plenty, and the growth of manufacturing
establishments would have fairy commenced.
Many persons having made thousands of dollars
in the mines, and lost or spent them in foolish
speculations and still more foolish dissipa-
tions, could have placed themselves on the
high road to fortune by investing the money
which fortune threw in their way, in sheep,
cattle ard horses. ,
Taking the prosperous community of Walla
walla as a sample, we can see that by locat-
ing one hundred and sixty acres OF choice
lands, which cost nothing under the provi-
sions of the Homestead Law, the settler gets
hold of a property which in three or four
years comes to be worth thousands of dollars
VI he goes earnestly to work to improve the
land which the liberalty of the Government
put out orchards and vineyards, produce nine
tenths of the provisions necessary for him
and family, and with even limited start in
live. stock, o few years sees him man oi
wealth and leisure. Experience promises no
such good fortune to the man who gives way
to that unreasonable lust of goldt which is al
once destructive Of mind and body.
In the range of every mans acquaintance
in this country, are many miners who have
accumulated much money n the miues. who
would now have been rich men by simply in
vesting in tlis line of business. By SO doing
they would have taken hold Of II certainty
and instead Of following an exhausting ant
laborious employment, would be engaged ii
an occupation requiring only moderate exer
tion, and which is abore all others, conduciv
to health and lorg life. This matter recon
mends itself particularly to the attention q
men who are now engaged in mining orera
.tions, and Rhk ng money thereby. Whe
there are several persons engaged together
who propose to keep on mining for numbe
of years, they will see that by the i:veslmen
of their earnings in ve-stock, they hay
placed money 50 as 10 make the largest p,'s
sible gains with the best of all securities.
will give rise to the re Election that, when the
have thrown down the implements Of mimi
atnight, they have money placed in specnl'
ton where ii is growing when they are sleeI
ing, or weather Sosnd 10 their cabins.
The great lack of all mining commun
ties is some safe place of Investment Mi
lions Of dollars Lave been squandered /
mining aIveutu ers, mnly because no pr,
missing enterprise presented it elf for the ou
lay of their money. Suppose that there VI
field Of he kind we men ion and that it
brought to the knowle ge Of men who ha
been successful in the mines, they will
once have an incentive to economy, fot til
notion obtains place in their minds as SO,
as IL cumulation begins.
There is nothing mo destructive to ma
in u business point of view, than having
possession large sums Of money for whica
fnis no proper employment. 1t always
suits in habit of extravaganza, or the grow
OF u miser y p ineip in u mans ratu
aud either one IS alike injurious in a mo
point OF view, and an jury to tie comm
nifty from the effects OF the xampe. A
minr who looks beyond his present
borious and exhauSting mode of life,
days of future ea e and cor,fort, wi find
the great centra plain of the Co um ia Ba
q field for stock raising op rations unequ'
eli on the ha table CLIQUE; containing