The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-11-02
Saturday, Novem'r 2. 1878.
HOMES FOR THE HOMELESS.

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upon Green River, in this country, Gays |
that in his neighborhood. between
Green and Cedar MYERS. there il room
for many families yet upon unclaimed
and, both bottom and upland, OF the
best quality for agricultural purposes.
Settlers may procure claims comprising
'uch proportions Of each as they may
require. The people in that settlement
IRE all anxious to increase their popu-
Ia.ion by the addition Of families who
will aid in promoting school facilities
md improving highways, and will take |
pleasure in showing persons 10 search
Of homes where good locations can be
made. This settlement is about nine
miles from the present head Of nsviga-
tioo on White River, 10 which point
steamers now ply regularly to and
from Seattle. Our informant is . high
ly intelligen. and energetic young man,
Who worked on Q good salary on the
Sound fsr several years without accu-
mulating to degree which promised
great results for the failure, when he
conceived the project Of putting his Ia
Dor into farm, which would be per-
manent end constantly increasing invest
ment, and be is highly delighted with
the result of his frat years labors. He
has sIsshed and burned three acres
which are now ready for planting. and
expects to prepare twenty acres nore
during the coming year, with an addi-
ten TO his buildings and other i'm
provements necessary to comfort and
convenience. He will then, as the re-
cult of his two years labor, have a
hons and farm from which he can
derive larger revenue than his labor
could command in any other employ
mens. and . permanent estate, constant
y increasing in value, which, with in
dustry and thrift. ensures compe-
tence. There are abundant opportuni-
ties for thousands OF others, with or
without families, to do the same. The
San Francisco Argonaut makes the fol-
lowing practical suggestions which
might be improved in detail:
"A correspondent asks the cost of
getting . home in Eldorado. Now,
that depends. A workingman can pre-
empt homestead Of one hundred and
sixty acres. The land costs only the
price Of the official fees. Then he
would want IN axe. price, $l.25; three
hundred and sixty-five pounds of bs-
con, say ten cents per pound. $3.50;
two or three barrels Of -four ct 90 per
barrel; one hundred pounds Of coffee.
SIS; twenty-five pounds of tes, say
$3.50; . barrel Of sugar at eleven
cents pound; doubled. barrelled shot
gun. with powder. buckshot aud No. 8
for quail; baking kettle. coffee pot.
frying pan, pewter plate, tin cup and
sheath-knifs; tive pairs Mission WOOL
en- Mills blankets; one pair army shoes.
cost. $2.75; ono pair rivet fastened
overalls, price, $l.25; two shirts ard .
straw hat. After he has grubbed out
the chaparral. he may hire piece
plowed for garden and orchard by ex-
changing day labor among his neigh
bors. He makes his fence of stone or
rail. He makes his cabin Of logs; and
lays up his fireplace and chimney in
stone and mud. His bed 10 pine
boughs and blankets. In three mouths
hs has vegetables; in six months, chick
ems and grain. In year he has start;
In two years fruit In three years he
has farm; in four years he 10 indie.
pendent; in Ave he IL in . condition to
go to the Legislature. 1.-The can get an
industrious young woman who 10 fond
ofpicnicking in the country and not
afraid OF tarweed on her stockings, the
whole thing can be accomplished more
easily. II requires nerve, resolution.
industry. patience, self. denial and On
honest purpose to accomplish q result.
The workingman in heslth can make
himself independent beyond the posi-.
bility Of . failure in Ave years, and o
wealthy man in ten. Our fathers did
il in New England. fighting . rigorous
climate. Indians. and an UNEMPLOYED
continent. They did it in the Genesec
country. now Western New York, in
Ohio. Michigan. and the great North
west. snd in the valley Of the Mississip-
pi. The pioneers have doue 1t in Cali
fornia. II 10 . better and surer way to
get living than to blaspheme God.
cure Republican government, and
damn ones luck on the sand-lot."
II the tens Of Thousands OF able.
bodied laboring men who have failed
In their search Tor the precious metals
snd had applied the Same labor and
submitted thsmselvss to the same mode
Of life they endured in mining in max
ing farms Tor themselves. how vastly
would not oaly their own condition but
that Ut the country have been benefited
thereby. Any man that can raise On
oatdt 10 80 on . prospecting tour to the
mines can achieve farm and house oil
his own in Warrington Territory "a
less onerous conditions. This country
has . vast advantage over the heavy
simbsrcd sections Of Western New York,
Ohio and Nichigan In tho solubrity Of
climate and entire freedom from ma
iariA ard dessasss incident thereto.
The settler here has no injurious winters
to provide against and no ague and