The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-22


what wages?
Answer-Yes; such can always find
work. On farms, $15 per month for the
year.
Q-Is there always work at some price
at any time Of the year
Ayes, plenty, except in the few rainy
days, which have averaged about ten for |
the past three years.
Q,-What seasons of the year is work
most plentyp
A.-Come any time.
Q.-Is there plenty of chance to buy
small farms on easy terms of payment
Ayes In Lompoc-a temperance
colony, like Vineland, N. ].
Q Us there good show TO buy small
farms for cash?
Ayes plenty of them.
Q.-At what prices
A.-From S25 to 5000 per acre.
Q.-Is irrigation necessary
A.-No 1t is only used in forcing,
Trees grow and crops mature without it.
The colonel added "Your questions
are good. They reach the point every
time. At which of course your CORE
epondent felt duly flattered l have
answered them square. Smart, industrious
men get rich here, but don't send any lazy
ones. 1t is the finest country for homes
you ever saw"
VERMONT IS GOOD ENOUGH
for me. | have always thought so, and
have not yet changed my mind. A thous-
and dollars will bring forty acres of land
at Mr.. HOLSTERS lowest figure. Possibly
a habitable building could be erected for
another thousand, but it would not COM
pare with the house on some 100 acre
farms | wot of in Vermont which, with
barns, fences, etc., can be bought for ST.
900. On this supposed forty acre farm you
must raise grain or some special crop, as
raisins, peaches, castor beans, linseed or
something of the kind. There is no money
in raising beef, mutton or wool unless you
have a ranch of several hundred acres,
which you can fence with two or three
men on horseback-a slight Improvement
over the "dog fence" on which shitless
farmers east sometimes depend, In butter
making there is some money, but it is
hard work for poor pay at best. have in
mind farm at home which was sold four
years ago TOR $500. There are seventy
acres of land, house and two barns. Now
you may build as good house as you can
for 81 900 on one of these 40 acre Califor-
mia farms, burn up the two barns on the
eastern $500 farm and give me my choice,
STIMULATING that | shall go upon the farm
aud live, and will
CHOOSE THE EASTERN FARM,
valued at $500 less the coat Of two barns,
in preference to the farm and house In
California which have cost $4,000. There
you can bid defiance to drougths without
building any costly canals, and the gigantic
Southern Pacific railroad does not stand
ready to swallow up all the difference be-
tween the bare cost of the production of
your crops and the market value. a few
cords OF wood will bring you little cash
II you want 1t in January, February or
March. few pounds of sugar will do it
| in April few pounds of wool in June /;
| butter all along; lambs in August; pota-
toes in September, and grain, beef, ETC., all
| the fall and winter. The wood, sugar.
wool, lambs and beef have come, q part
| from what the census sets down as the
"uncultivated" land, and the rest from pas
lures with comparatively no labor. II the
disconnected Vermont farmer could travel
all over our country, or al over the world
and then be set down again at home,
think he would stay there. But if he die
emigratc he would not go to the western
prairies to raise corn for seven cents pei
bushel. nor to the Missouri basin to bt
when that territory is opened up by meant
of what promises to be the biggest railroad
steal on record.
MISERABLE MEXIOo's MIDDLE.
In the GLOBE of January 80, you say
that the right and the law in Mexico arr
on the side of Iglesias. Now, whether tn
law was on his side or not is a mater o
doubt. 1t certainly Is not now, for tn
constitution of that country declares that
president forfeits his position when h.
leaves Mexican soil, SO that both Lerdo an
Iglesias must be counted out, so far as tn
law goes. The claim of Iglesas was in tn
first place based on that clause of the cor
sttution which made the president of III
supreme court president of the republic i
case of failure to elect. II my memoir
serves me Alright Lerdo and Diaz were tn
; candidates. Now if Diaz received th
, most legal votes and Lerdo seized the GOV
erment, was there failure to eleclp
looks to me as If the best claim just no.
r lay with Daz, ae he has possession and III
[ two other contestants have forfeited what
, ever claim they might have had. AS to tn
willingness of Americans to 20 tlllibuste
ing over the border, you are correct in you
e estimate if the indications on this Goa
are anything to go by. 1glesias has h0
offers of help from several prominer
American officers east to come to his a
sistance, and there are thousands of unen
1 ployed, discontinued, adventurous men c
u | ,,,t,N
= the ranks of Iglesias or anybody else I,
the very sake of adventure. There arc al
rich capitalists who would not mind Il
i loss of lucre If it would result in the a
a nexauon of few of the northern Mexic,
Q states to this country, so that their capt.
4 could expect protection in opening up tn
RICH GOLD AND SILVER MINES
4 which are positively known to exist theI
!, and which are now worked on a smi
i scale, with little or no machinery, by I
n Mexicans, just as were mines in this stc
p aud even on the Comstock lode before t
J. conquest. But if Diaz can keep down I
j, nsurreci ions which are now threateni
ID him on every hand until after the election
y which occur next month, there is consid,
/ able peace for that unhappy country "
&c Diaz has good many friends and his eli
IN ton would astonish nobody. And II
can satisfy the people that he has been
gally elected he will probably hold the g
eminent more firmly than Lerdo did. o
Oh great cause for anxiety with his friends
1 the deplorable state of the finances of
ne country. Diaz has recently borrow
100000 for sixty days, agreeing to p
III $25. 900 interest, which shows how 'sol
IN that government is. This 100000 Is
so US toward the payment of $500, 900 alrea
ca due to the United States. How will
n raise the other 5000, 600? and how will
he pay the principal and interest in sixty da
,e- Mexican soldiers will fight contentet
" without pay, and on half rations, but ca
a. talists will not as contentedly go withC
er the payment or the prospect of payment
ut their claims. W. II. W
Of |
e, Safe.