Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1871-05-05
Farm and FzreS1de.
SH.ILE F.TK.uERS E.NIGR.JTE :

The emigration Of today is very differ
cnt thing from the emigration of fifty and
a hundred years ago, that peoplcd Western
New York and the States that border up
on the great lakes. Then the rule was sol
iary removal and single-handed fight
with the forces of nature. The Yankee
struck out into the Wilderness with his AK
and ddle-bags, ielled the forest, built his
log cabin, grdlcd trees and planted his
first crop of Indian corn alone. The sec
ond season he might think of horse and
human companionship, if he could induce
a woman to leave civilization and brave
the torrors of the wilderness. There was
great suffering for years from insufficient
shelter and clothing, from disease and
inconsistencies, from the loss of school and
church privileges, and the manifold ills of
transplanting family into new country.
All this is now matter of history or ro-
nance, and we read of frontier life in well
warmed and lighted parlOrs. The children
and grandchildren Of these pioneers cmi-
CRATE almost exclusively in colonies, and
take with them almost every convenience
of civilized life. A hundred or more fam
lilies, representing almost every depart
mont of industry and professional life, are
transplantcd in Il week from the hills of
New England to the prairies of Kansas or
the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. 1t is
comparatively easy work to the last depot
on the Pacific Railroad there is n little
roughine Of it from this point to the new
I,,,. ts.t
rated 50 many of the wants of the now
comcrs that they soon find temporary ac-
commodations, and after few weeks arc
fairly installed in new home. Crops are
put IN the first season, and needed sup
plies are forwarded from the nearest settle
mont ut less than Eastern prices. The
whole atIdi" has only been Il prolonged pic
mic, and the younger portion of the party
ut least would not object to another re-
moya. They are mostly quartered in log
houses or tight frame dwellings, but these
will answer Il good purpose until the see
ond or third crop is sold, when they vii
have the means of building more pcrma
ncnt abudes. They have around them n
an carly date almost every convenience
prospects for the future. The church ant
school house are Immediately provided for
MS the pa, tor and teacher have come alon!
with them. Public worship is hardly in
terruptcd, for Sabbath, and the boys ant
Girls have only a short vacation from thei
studies in Eastern schools. The carpente
is there to frame the house, and every item
al a.
spot is scut up from the depot, with abou
ihe same facility as in the east The black
smith is there to shoe the horses, and sc
the wagon-tire, and mend the broken tool
The merchant is there with his dry good
and groceries, and the old stores are n
sooner gone from the trunk, than they AZ
replcnished from the corporation building
or from the establishment of some enter
prising Yankee, who contrivcs to under
sell them. The doctor has put out hi
shinrle before the first child is sick, and
is not far to the depot whore the apotheca
nv has already established himself with
choice assortment of drugs. The shoe
maker unstraps his kit of tools the mex
day after his arrival, and as soon as he ca
miliar tap of his hammer. The dentist WI
be on hand Just as soon rs there is spar
shnnty to let, and the bono orchards thu
wont untrimmed and unscraped in tn
older States, will be dug out, scraped, I'll
ed. polished and swoetenod, to the gre'
ioy of their owners, and all their friend
In a very short time the new settlemer
will be rounded into shape-streets lai
ont. plant ed with trees, bordered with sidt
walks, the architect will be called in
nlan the new church, school house, cou
house and other public buildings, and IL
Mace will be one of hundred candidate
for the capital of a new State, and If 1t ia
TO Get it, it will not be from want OF an
Dragging about its unparalleled advanta!
cs.
The substantial advantages of cmigra
inc by colonies are so great that we are n
surprised that most people prefer tn
mcthod. The selection Of location is mat
Inv Intelligent men who have ample tin
and means TO attend to the business Al
who have a strong personal motive to
the best thing possible for themselves al
their neighbors. Tho members OF tho &C
ony got their one or two sections OF lana
uovcrnmont prices or less, and the mono
the colony is located and Settled the
lands begin to appreciate in value FOR
the PURPOSES of livelihood, oil supportll
and educating family, they are more VI
uable than the Same number OF acres