Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-16

bly, healthy, and live, thrive, yes, and fatten
the wear round without food or shelter other
than what nature has furnished. Sheep are
remarkably healthy, and require less care
than any other kind of stock. Flocks gen.
orally averave four and a half pounds Of
wool to the head.
This is a great inducement to the man Of
means; but they can do well anywhere. 1t
is generally the poor or middle class of soci-
ely that need a home. We know of no
country we have seen that offers inducements
equal to ours. Land can be had, as we
stated above, at government price, Or by
homesteading, and if a person is too poor
for either, a squatter's right is good enough
until enough can be made out Of the land to
pay for it. A yoke of cattle or a pair of
horses and a pillow, all together worth less
than 800, is all the capital that many of our
thriftiest farmers had when they began, afew
years ago.
Men, broken down in health and energy,
after a few years residence here, not infre-
quently find their health restored, and with
it renewed energy comes again.
Should a person prefer to labor for wages,
he can find plenty to do. Wages in placer
mines are from $3.50 to $500 per day ; but
there is little demand for laborers in this
branch Of mining. Quartz mines furnish
plenty of employment at from $50 to $75
per month for laborers, and teamsters never
need be idle as long as they are willing to
work at from $40 to 800 per month.
We did not intend, in this article, to give
a minute description Of the country. We
have scarcely room to mention h eprincipal
branches of industry.
Dairy %husbandry offers, perhaps as good
a field for business us any. Few OF our peo-
pie get rich from the fact that it is too much
like work. They generally quit It as soon
as they get money enough to get few hun
dred head Of sheep or a hundred head of
good breeding cows.
We have not overdrawn the picture on
the other hand, have not represented it as
fa%vorably as it would bear, for, Should we
tell the whole truth, our friends m the east
would think we were given to mistepresent-
alton; but such is not the case. For the
truth of our assertions, we refer to any one
acquainted with the facts. We may refer to
this subject occasionally in the future, but
will not mislead the people, as has evidently
been the case with our Texas friend Here
is what he says:
LAND was cheap. Letter-writers having
much to dispose of, | found it apparently
very cheap. could have boughtall [ want
for a dollar or two an acre, but, like the
the man who drew the elephant in the lot
terry, / might have asked what L would do
with it had / bought it; but this Is only the
beginning of what a man with a family re-
quires. Lumber, and, in fact, everything
the beginner requires, except seed, is fear
fully high. 1t takes three or four times the
that / was led to supposs would
need. Letter-writers would like every one
that has money to 60 there, because the
writer's know they will get it. But let no
one go there with less than three or four
dollars, if he expects to I've in any
Kind Of comfort, or even have d home he
;aii call his oWiI. True, Il man might, with
few hundred dollars, buy a piece of land,
md, by putting up with every discomfort,
very priyation and Inconvenience almost
Imaginable, for an indefinite period, have q
Of his own; but the end does not jus
ify the means. Many people there talk as
hough the honor O. the priyilegeof living
here was sufficient to induce one to put up
With anything.
"Allwhom | saw and talked with settled
here years ago, and, after years Of misery,