The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-14
THE FAR WEST.
Some Glasses Of People
Who Go There.
Aud Why They Do Not Sue.
coed In Business.
Very Little Employment Except
at Hard Manual Labor.
No Golden Opportunities In the Ter.
IitorieS for Persons Without
Capital.
Correspondence Of The chIcsgo Tribune.


that railroad, throughout the Territorie
or tho Pacific Coast, fully one-third O
the males return East in less than tw(
years. Various causes have been as
signed Tor this; but the main one Is, thci
aspirations are almost always
GREATER THAN THEIR ABILITIES.
How to make money fast, and with tn
least possible labor, Is the great question
at present, with our people. After epeCu
iatlons, bad Investments, and poor man
agement have depleted the purse In TIT
East, the victim rushes for the West
thinking that his tricky business Gduca'
ton, learned by bitter experience, will
give him employment where he can turn
it to good account lie expects to meet
ignorant, hall civilized men, eager and
ready to turn over their money TO him Tor
investment, and ask his advice il every
matter OF business. Instead Oh this much
to his surprise, he finds the moneyed men
OF the plains fully his equal in anything
requiring sharp practice, and much-his
superior when 1t comes 10 long, head cal
culations as TO whether or not something
will turn out paying transaction. He
sees himself surrounded by men In buck
skin suits and cowhide boots, who always
take their whisky straight, curse loud and
deep when they feel like 1t, and eften
flight the tiger to the tune OF thousands,
and still have always enough 10 stock a
rancho or open gold mine; men whose
simple word is better than thousands oil
contracts, "signed, sealed, and delivered"
and whose every action Is open, honest,
and reliable. In company like this our
emigrant secs at once that all his fine ex-
peCtations are ended In smoke, and so he
hurries back to the East with the excuse
that "the climate was too severe; the peo-
pie too rough; and, in fact, 1t isn't half as
good place to make money as one would
suppose"
Inere IS another class, younger In
years, but more numerous, consisting
chiefly oil young professional men, mining
experts, book.keepers, and clerks II has
been well and truly said, that many par
Cnts prefer to sec their sons selling shoes
over counter, Tor SO week, than have
them learn the trade and earn $l9 by
making them" 1t is this
SHABBY GENTTLITY
that makes the majority Of our fast young
men, and furnishes many inmates for our
penitGntiaries. After an imperfect and
superficial education, the youth finds him.
self In the office Of come "eminent advo-
cate" Here he remains o couple Of years
skimming over books in which he finds
neither interest nor pleasure. At the end
of that time he has no trouble in passing
asoCalled examination, and receives au.
thority to 60 forth to prosecute or defend,
although, in these latter days, he is apt to
know more about beer than briefs. The
West is chosen as the best field In which
10 display his talents; his carpet-bag is
packed, and some place fixed on Tor set
Element which, If landspcculators' reports
are 10 be relied on, must surely rival
New York City in few years. On his
arrival, how great must be his disappoint.
ment when he finds it nothing but
mining-camp or railroad station, with,
houses few and far between, interspersed
with tents and dug-outs. Early as he
may put In an appearance, he will be apt
to find from three to a dozen OF the legal
fraternity ahead Of him. He hangs out
his shingle, but waits in vain for clients.
There being but little property, every
man knows his own without the asSis-
lance of the law. Qusrrels are settled on
the spot, resulting often in death Of both
parties; where only one falls, the Coron.
er's jury always exonerstes the other in
verdict that, III he hadn't killed him,
he'd been killed" Criminals are invited
toa "dance on nothing and thus all the
trouble, expense, and anxiety, which
necessarily arise from a legal trial, arc
saved the county. Our young limb Of
the law sees with dismay that there is no
call for his advice; he fluids living ex-
pensive, his money giving out, and moth
log being done toward another supply, as
he has no inclination for manual labor,
his patience becomes soon exhausted, and
he returns to the East.
Tho experience Ola
YOUNG PHYSICIAN
differs little from this, except that he
stands a better chance to make enough
tosupport him in decency, II he Is some
thing Of a surgeon, and understands the
treatment of shot. wounds, Ie.cuts, and
bruises. He will find but little else 10
claim his attention, as the country Is
blessed with remarkably healthy eli
mate.
TIE MINING RXPERTs
are astonished 10 find hundreds Of filter
ate men who know far more about mines
than they with all their fine theoretical
education; and that rough but practical
prospector will be first depended
on In all questions OF mincralogy, al
though he knows nothing Of ages or strata,
for his education has been gained, not
from books, but from experience pur.
chased at the price Of long years OF
patient, constant digging. He cannot
mystify by throwing out lot Of teChni-
csl phrases, but he can converse soundly
on iodes, veins, dips, and spurs and, II
any situation be open, he will receive the
preference. While such men as this are
so plentiful, Is it any wonder college
made scientific characters are at a dis
count?
But the most numerous, by far Of this
second class OF immigrants, arc the many
who rush Tor the Far West with the ex'
pectation oil finding situations where
LITTLE WORK SECURES BIG FAY.
They have received something oil an edu'
cation, write fair hand, and may have
had some experience in stores and Offices
so can be all placed under tho general
head Of clerks, They have been trained
TO look on anything resembling hard
manual toll as lar beneath them, and their
condition Is almost pitiable, as they find
themselves In strange land withou,
money or friends. Such work Us they arc
seeking is hard to find, for all men e1gag
cd in business send East Tor their owr
relatives and friends to fill all vacancies
Plenty Of odd jobs arc TO be found a
which they might did they feel inclined
earn livelihood and lay the foundation
for fortune in the future; but, as they arr
totally "onpOsed 10 all manual labor OF