The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-14

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violence prove that many prefer the
latter.
The numerous beats that are continu-
ally hanging around railroad stations,
waiting for q chance to jump on an Eas-
tern.bound train, may be taken as fair
average Of those too lazy 10 work and too
cowardly TO steal. After many short rides
and long walks, they find themselves
East again, sponging on the neighborhood
unfortunate enough TO be claimed 90 their
home, there to remain and die, never
higher than clerk, but always having
the greatest contempt for a mere me-
chRnic."
Such men as are already mentioned
ARE NOT WANTED
in the Far West, and their immigration
TO II will end, as II should, in unhappiness,
misfortune, and vain regrets. What IL
needed is capital, muscle, and BRAINS
not slip'shod aristOcracy, tops, and
winners. Good strong constitutions,
healthy minds, and willing hands, protes-
stonal or otherwise, can always find plenty
Of employment; but they must DO pre-
pared 10 rough II, perhaps for years. Sui,
the knowledge that fortune and inde-
pendence will surely crown their efforts
in the end, ought to be sufficient induce
ment. Men are wanted In the Far West
who, on finding nothing to do at their
own particular calling, will be ready and
willing to accept anything, be It In the
shape Of pick, shovel, ak, or pillow. All
over the plains can be found lawyers and
doctors stock. raising and herding, while
the mines have many college-graduate
to whom Greek and Latin are familiar
tongues.
Last Spring had the pleasure Of visit.
ing South Pass, and, while there, was the
guest Of the Probate Judge and the Clerk |
Of Sweetwater county. They are men
young In years, but old in frontier. life,
and, as such,
KEPT BACHELORS HALL"
in It's most primitive state, doing their
own cooking, baking, and house clean
ing; and doing II well. They preferred
this 10 hotel lie, and were greatly gain
ers BY It, not only In purse, but In public
estimation. II Is not stinginess or love OF
money that makes them live in this way,
but they find It the custom OF the country,
and, as they started out to gain success,
they know they must do in Rome as the
Romans do" They were reared in every
luxury, but their sound common-sense
showed them the loolishness OF their city
airs in a land Of sand, sage brush and /
savages. Such men as these prove q
blessing TO any country, but more especi-
ally TO a young and growing one. Their
pluck and energy have good effect on
the motley crowd who are their neigh
bors; and, In the end, seemingly without
an effort, they have influence, friends and
fortune.
A great deal Of misery often arises
to whole families by the premature break.
ing up Of households In the East and i'm
migration 10 the Far West. While so
much land remains unoccupied In the
Western States, il is only,
FOOLISH AND RASH
in small farmers to attempt to better their
condition in the Territories. Flaming
advertisements may show the land to be
far cheaper; but the uncertainty Of crops,
the danger, not only TO property, but life,
IS well as the scarcity and high cost Of {
have proved to many who {
have tried it that 1t Is more than expens-
I've in the end. Owing TO the scarcity of !
lumber, il costs more 10 build plain log. =.
'anche, and fence few acres, than It
would take to buy good.sized farm, Z
partially cultivated and with some i'm c
east Of the Missouri. Men '
lsed to productive fields and running
streams cannot take kindly to barren G
racts, scarcity OF water, and short sea.
IONS, where irrigation keeps them con- =
family employed, and they then find that,
or all their time, labor, and expense q
hey have but about one.third Of an East.
I'm harvest. 1t is true that sometimes O Z
ew passalle acres are found near a
mining camp, whose proper cultivation [
.nriches the owner; but such are the ex- I
;eptions, as a mining region is seldom an !
agricultural one.
FARE NO BETTER THAN IN.
DIvIDUALs;
md those best known, and with the great.
.st names, are no exceptions. Owing to
he high price of labor, and the enormous
Ium requisite for the proper irrigation Of
heir lands, 1t will be some years before
he amount invested can be returned; and
t cannot be otherwise than poor pros
sect for farmer TO know that he must
Jay for every acre watered by artificial I
means; that hereafter his work must DO q
more OF scientific than practical charac. c
Ter; and that the visionary theories held 4
BY Agricultural College Professors are TO / i
DO put in operation by him, as he Is one {
Of joint stock company, to which he {
bears the relation Of being q tpart owner /
In, and slave to, at one and the same
lime. . II
There are spots scattered throughout the
Far West, which for agricultural pur-
poses, will rival any in the East, but their
distance from civilization renders them
at the present time impracticable Tor cul.
tivation and dangerous for settlement.
Time will give them occupants, but not
until it becomes necessary for farm labor
10 look for homes and occupations out
side Of the Border States; and as they can,
for years, offer better inducements than
the Far West, we cannot expect 1t soon.
The very reasons that go far to keep
small farming Improbable prove to be
favorable to the man of capital, but only
in one way; he must invest in II
CATTLE, HORSES, on SHEEP,
and give his time and attention to them.
Money, and plenty Of it, is required to
build ranches, stock farms, and hire a
sufficient number Of herders to prevent
any attack by either white or red thieves.
Those who have tried It have been amply
repaid, and have found that the Far West
affords, at least, one opening for speedy
fortune. The parched sandy soil Of nearly
the whole country west Of the Missouri,
which proves 80 detrimental to sgricul-
ture, gives growth TO an abundance Of
strong good grasses, Of such excellent
nnalitu that cnnntlesa herds live and TAT.