The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-12-19
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s Adyantages I'D DIsadFahtases

us Advantages ana Disadvantages
+ AIR. EBiroRf--As it is customary
for people to express their xeiws
/ publicly on visiting new country,
perhaps it would not be amiss for
me to say few words concerning
/ Colorado. I have been here for
some time, aud have made the ag-
ricultaraI resources of the country
Tly study and have become con
vinced that whatever may be said
in hshalf Of anything, theee are al
ways tyo sides TO every question,
aud that Colorado forms ne exeep-
tion to the general rule. While
snis TeTlUory I'ussesses many ad
vantages over perhaps almost any
country, it also possesses many dis
advantages. 1t is an excellent
country for wheat and vegetables,
such as Irish potatoes, cabbages,
etc. on such lands as can be irri-
gated or cultiyateds yet it is fact
that cannot be eontroyerted that
there is not a strip of land twenty
miles wide, from North 80 South, in
the Territory that can be irrigated
1t is manifestly to the advantage Of
men who have capital IN this Terri
tory to induce immigration. Con-
sequently there are statistics and
reports gotten up by those interest-
ed, who secure the sanction of some
Of the Territorial officers, and hence
are called "Odlcial Reports" They
are circulated over the Eastern
States to induce immigration.
/ While these reports may be. correct
in many instances, and perhaps in
a majority OF their statistics, still
there are things that are true, that
are upspoken OF, that would be as
detrimental TO immigration as these
reports prove beneficial to it. The
official reports lay it down that
thirty sight bushels OF wheat to the
acre is the average yield. This. in
stead Of being an average yield, is
i scarcely ever realized. Even the
tpapers conspire with the capitalists
in misrepresenting tho country.
The thermometer stood At ten de-
grees below zero on the 10Th of
/ November. 1t was announced in
the Denver papers that it was only
about to, zero. T1ere is not sufil-
cient rain at the proper season of
the year to produce crops. This
want Of rain is supplied by irriga-
tion, and costs the farmer from one
and half to four and hale dollars
per acre, which he has to secure to
the ditch company either by mort
gage or in some other satisfactory
manner-simple credit not having
much show. Farmers have told rae
that they have paid ditch companies
for water for irriga,ing and that
they had entirely failed 20 get the
water then. 1t is.a splendid thing
for q man who has stock in the
ditch; yet it is very hard on the
poor man who cultiyates the land
It is hard on the poor man Wig
Gomez here at this season Of the
year His board aud iodging
will cost him at least twenty-five
dollars per month anywhere Ia the
Territory. while it is almost an inn
possibility for him to get anything
to do. Work Is suspended till
spring IN the country on the fafTas,
and the only opportunity to get Ia
Dor is an occasional chance now
and then in the city. Aud I VIII
venture to say whore there IS one
job to be done there are twenty
men to take It. Hundreds Of men
from the East, and miners from the
mountains are here, just willing to
take hold Of anything that viii pay
their board, or even pay a portion
Of it, until spring, when they may
get employment Che sir Is good,
but the climate is FAR more c nge-
able than in Tennessee. Tie water
is good, yet it is 50 strongly impreg
mated with alkali that g can be seen
precipitated on the banks Of streams
and in vessels ia which + Is al
lowed to stand. I believe this
good place for eonsumptiyes 10 tie
summer season, but / was told the
other day by a physician that be
did not consider il a suitable place
in the winter, owing to the severity
and ftfulness Of tile climate. Tax
es ia this (Arapahoe) comfy are
higher shan they are IN Giles. Up.
on the whole, 1 would advise any
one who contemplated coming here
70 first visit the country and Judge
for himself as TO its merits and de-
merits, aud not trust To the cxasger-
ated reports that are dying abroara;
because they only give one side Of
81 tie question, and that Is the
brightest side, which Is calculated
TO mislead Yours truly,
THos. j. STRICKLAND.
DESvER, Dec. G, 1872
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