New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-03-31

True there are few here and there well off but they
get all the hell they want Of their poorer neigabors
There is any amount Of fine land there The cheap.
est and best saw was in Franklin County. - miles
from Lawrence i could get prairie there by settling
down on for 81 so per acre. and timber land for Co.
Well now, suppose knew all about that in Buffalo.
started with nv family from there For railway fare
for myself wife and family it would cost four full fares
| that would be Sl52. About dray load of "punder'
would cost about $50 more. That would be to Law
renee. From there. for team 10 the farm $50 more
that would cost 1872 10 land us on the farm Buy 40
acres, $50; the toughest kind Of shanty woud cost
900. Total would amount to $3.50. and not ounce
of bought yet to keep family from starving
until they raised crop. The fact IS this: any man OF
family going out there without be has at the least
500 in cash after he lands else yoke OF oxen. plow
six months provisions etc, he runs great risk OF
starving as his neghbors all too poor 20 help him.
That would require him TO be possessed Of 500 before
he made start from home. II would take that no
matter whether he bought farm or took homestead
as he would have TO go 100 miles west Of Leayenworth
TO get homestead.
there to st. Louis the building trade is very
dull in ST. Louis at present. great many men out Of
employment. L was lucky in getting work. L shall
stay until earn enough to take Inc home.
You may ask what il the reason that these Western
city newspapers puff no their places So and cry that
there's plenty OF work Tor all comers The reason Is
this: they are controlled generally by set OF land
sharks and boarding house "pimps;' the one class
want boarders the other tenants for their shanties
and buyers for their lots To get them. they resort
10 any mean dodge" thew can think Of / should
heve liked to have said this question. as
gathered many items my travels; but am afraid
have transgressed now too much on your time.
Respectfully YOURS L. MCDoUGALI-
81. Louis, March -, le66.
We are very thankful that our father Adam
was not of like stuff and spirit with Mr.. I. Nc
Dougall; for, if he had been, he would have
given up the ghost at the start, and that would
have been the end of the human race.
Mr.. McDougall demonstrates, after his fash
ion, that no man can leave Buffalo with a
family with less than 500 in cash and settle
on a homestead in the West without starving
to death. We meet this with our assertion,
founded on pretty extensive knowledge, that
not one-tenth of the millions who have gone
West and made homes for themselves in the
West had so much as $500, yet most of them
have thriyen, and not one in million of them
ever starved to death. And as to the imposs-
blity of living in log house that costs less
than $780, we say with confidence that the
houses of the pioneers from Plymouth Rock to
Puget's Sound have not, in the average, cost
$50. Mr.. McDougall is clearly not the stuff
whereof new States are made; and, if we ever
advised him to go West and seek home, we
deeply regret it.. Let him come back so soon
"a may be, and when he gets home, let him
stay How he ever got hold of 500 is mys.
terry which We cannot hope to fathom.-Ed.1