Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1876-11-25
Chm Board of immigration.

uncomforta reports about Wash
ington Territory. This is new
country and has the drawbacks Incl
dent to new country. It far from
centers of population and is slow to
develop. 1t is unlike the country a
man leaves to come to it, and its ca
pacities, its goods and its bads, have
to be learned by the newcomer be-
fore he can understand it.
This country is only especially in
viting to the robust, intelligent, Ia
boring man, and he can sooner place
himself in state of independence
here, than in any other place in the
world. Tradesmen are not so much
in demand as tillers of the soil, but
even thev, can do we'll at their trades,
though would not recommend such
to come to a new country solely on
account of the employment they
might obtain at their trades, but for
the advantages of acquiring cheap
property and growing up with the
country.
Your "scale manufacturer who
had been here thirteen years." had
lossibly resided in a logging camp,
about coal mine, or in u settlement
composed of not the best class OF
white men, who have Indian families.
Into such places one ,could not wish
to take "a family accustomed to q
luxurious home," but you can settle
hundreds of miles from either OF
these, or right among them. You
can enjoy as refined society as there
is in the world, or the lowest to be
found outside of large cities. AS to
there being ten men for every job, it
stands thus: Our foundation is our
cheap and valuable land; prairie in
Eastern and brush land in Western
Washington. It is open for pre-
emption or homestead; large quanti-
ties may be bought at second hand,
or from the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company on favorable terms
and long time Here is an outlet for
over-stocked labor, room for SOC, 600
or l 900 900 of men women and chill
dren. Now to live and support a
family, a person need to have but five
acres of our first class land put in
perfect cultivation, and twenty head
of stock all told. After attending to
this cultivation and looking after his
stock, which needs no feed except
from the wild range, he may do
nothing, (which many are expert at)
or, he may extend his operations and
his fortune. But if he comes here
poor, what then? Then there are
: over twenty numbering mills in the
Territory, averaging daily product
of 10000 feet each, and employing
about them and in the woods, 200
men each, at wages ranging from
$40 per month for boys, to $125 for
expert men with board. Several coal
mines employ from 500 Ito 1000 men
each. Our farmers are poor; they
do not employ as many men as in the
more wealthy States. In the coun-
ties in which logging camps and
mills are situated, they complain that
they cannot hire men short of $40
coin, (All my figures are to be
counted as coin) and board per month
and then they do not get first class
men; such can do better at the lum-
Der mills, or, in camps and will not
accept their terms. In other coun-
ties they must pay $50 per month
and board and in neither case do
they get number one men; such can
get higher wages at other employ
ment.
Ship-building is engaged in to
quite an extent; it is growing bust
ness and employs from 100 to 500
men in the different yards in the
Territory and then there is the usual
trades work to be found in any civ
ilized country, such as population
of $1,000, scattered over $4,000
square miles of Territory requires.
In addition to this there are over
1000 men employed in fishing dur
ing the summer. On the Sound are
about 100 steamers of all grades con-
stantly plying its waters, and as
many vessels trading to the outer
world; and there is about the same
number on the Columbia river. This
is our labor bank. It will be OBJ
served that fine book keeper, a good
salesman, or o man used to all the
Injuries of life may not find place
to suit him. Our schools are good,
but we have about as many teachers
as children. Our morals are fair,
and we have great number of moral
teachers, seven .clergymen in this
town of Olympus containing $500
souls. Again, in the winter season,
business in the logging camps, &C..
is partially suspended. Then men
sometimes find themselves out Of
employ, but, if they are men who
have husbanded their gains, this
time may be employed in preparing
for themselves homes on the Gov
eminent land, and it will count more
to them, if judiciously employed,
than if it was given to another fol
ordinary hire.
Salaried men here, as elsewhere,
do not always save their earnings,
and in many instances, the larger the
salary obtained, the smaller seems to
be the gain, which is true the world
over. In many instances, it is chair
table to think men would act more
wisely, if there families were with
them. I think families should never
be separated, or, that q woman reared
in q town, should not be taken into
the - reept in instances which
she is POI reconciled thereto.
The opening u Spring is the time