The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-07-14

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estimated above.
HOW POOR MEN MAY GET HOMES.
give the above calculation of Whai
capital may do, judiciously invested
and prudently managed. But would
prefer to see it used in a way which
would do more for the development Of
the country, be profitable for the CAPT
talist, and at the same time help poor
men secure homes, which many of them
cannot do without such assistance
Saying nothing about larger capitalists
there are all over the country Well-to-dC
farmers, business and professional mel
who have from one thousand to five
Thousand dollars surplus money. Their
there are others-young men with nc
capital but strong arms, Industrious and
| sober habits and an earnest desire to Sc.
cure homes for themselves. just bring
the capital and labor together on equit.
| able terms and the result will hardly
fail to be entirely satisfactory to both
Let the capitalist furnish the means to
buy the land, the team, the necessary
farming impliments, and put up a small
house. All this property he may hold
in his own name as security. Let him
receive such share of the crops raised as
is customary among farmers, for say
five years, when should stipulate that
the man who furnishes the labor have the
privilege of buying out the business ii
he wants to. This is but an outline OF
the plan. It can be varied as the par
ties think best, but some such combina-
ton of labor and capital cannot fail to
prove profitable to both partners. II
they can then unite with some colony
the result will be satisfactory, for the
more i see of the west the better am
Satisfied that colonization is in every re-
spect the most satisfactory and profita-
BILE method of emigration. But on this
subject more hereafter.
SOUND POLICY OF A RAILROAD co.
The Atchison, Topeka s. Santa Fe Rail
Road has adopted sound and business
like policy in regard to its lands. 1t
has grant OF about 100000 acres, and
the aim of the managers is to keep
them out of the hands of SPECTATORS
and get them into the hands of actual set
tiers, thus as the lands are sold the bus
mess of the road is Increased by bring
ing in the articles the settler consumes
and carrying out those he produces.
This business amounts on average to
one hundred dollars a year to every
family of five persons, being twenty
dollars per capita. A population of
1900 is worth 100000 a year to the
company that commands the business
How much better is this than running
road through an uninhabited country,
or one but scarcely settled. Some land
grant roads seem to regard their lands
as resource from which they must re-
alize as many dollars as possible, and
every concession made in favor of actu-
al settlers as so much money lost.
When the truth is that every family that
settles on the road and cultivates the
average quantity of land, will pay to
that road every five years, or cause to
be paid, considerably more than the
whole amount the road will realize
from the sale of the lands so occupied.
This is a calculation which but few
railroad managers seem ever to have
made. The road alluded to, however,
set out on the principle that settlers are
worth more than land and offers ex-
ira inducements to those who will bring
its lands under cultivation. Thus if a
q man purchase land of this company
and wi hin three years from the date of
purchase improves or cultivates Cor
causes the same to be done) one-tenth
of the land the company will deduct
from the remaining payments. the sum
of seventeen per cent, and if in five
years from date of purchase another
tenth shall be cultivated another deduc-
ton of fifteen per cent. is made on the
remaining representatives. deductions
amounting to twenty-five and q half
per cent. on the entire amount of the
purchase money. Besides this the lands
are sold on eleven years time with inter-
est at seven per cent. per annum. The
effect of this policy will be to secure
the rapid settlement of the company's
lands and create for the road business
far in advance of those that pursue the
opposite policy.