The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-08-12

NL@nE ALAO OkJSAN " &C It PO~eGAs
ANOTHER COMPANY is being organ
lied by English capitalists for the pur-
pose Of buying and selling lands in
the United States. The object of the
company is to assist English farmers
to emigrate to this country and
place them upon farms here, the
company to hold a lien on the land
and improvements until the purchase
money shall be paid. The plan has
worked we'll in the past, though emily
prGcticed on small scale. There is
opportunity for its large operation
and will be for years to come. The
land is oDathis side OF the ocean, the
bone and muscle to till it on the other
side. What is wanted is to bring the
two together, when the result will be
beneficial all round. II is something
remarkable that more of the strug-
Cling masses Of Europe, and especially
of the agricultural classes, have mot
taken advantage OF the opportunities
and inducements presented by the
United States. The western half Of
the republic has scarcely been
touched agriculturally. So vast
ia the c,uutry between the !!
Mississippi aud the Pacific that
government has as yet been unable
to survey and plat more THAI frac-
ton Of it; and of that over which the
chain has been stretched only a COM
parstively small portion has ever been
disturbed by spade oT pillow. Much OF
this land is equal in richness to any
to be found on the globe. Even in
''barren Utah" there is untitled and
unoecupied land capable of main
timing three or four times the num-
Der of people already hare. to say
nothing of what can be done with the
soil-ths choice of the cOuntry-thst
is under cultivation, but has never
been made to yield as it can yield.
WAT is true of Utah will apply to all
the western states and territories
with greater force. The available
land in some OF those districts has
been more closely settled upon than
here. Colorado can sustain within
itself millions more than it's present
population, and still not strain its
agricultural capabilities. Kansas will
not know the extent of her agricul-
tural resources for generations to
come; nor will Nebraska, Dakotah,
Washington, Oregon, New Mexico.
Arkansas and California. Under the
high cultivation practiced in England
and other European countries, two or
three of the western states that are
now fsrmed only here and there in
patches, could be made to feed the
world. It seems strange when we
think Of the thousands OF honest,
industrious people in the old world,
who are struggling to wiring living
from little patch of ground, that 60 ;
much soil should be lying idle in the ,
new; that the granger of Europe will
toll necessarily yesr after year, and s
practice the most rigid economy in or
der to make ends meet, and come out
even with the world at the end of the
year, when plenty awaits him here c
at half the cost in labor. The new ?
English company is mentioned in =
our cablegrams this morning, the b
first meeting having been held on u
Tuesday. The English papers spoke e.
of the proposed organization some y
time ago. Mr.. Thorold Rogers, a a,
wealthy gentleman, and member of O.
Parliament, is at the head of the II
enterprise, and he has associated e
with him several rich philanthro- %
pists, many OF whom have visited this Ia
country and contrasted the condition 81
Of the American farmer with that of az az
his overworked and ill-reWsrded ~
brother in England. The in CT
tention of the promoters is ia
to purchase large tracts of
land in Kansas and New ~ ~
Mexico, divide them into con-
venient farms. and place upon each ~
poor but industrious English
farmer, who will not only be pro-
vided with the necessary agricultural
implements. but if need be with food j.,
for the first season; as well as seed o.
grain. Everybody viii wish the ca
undertaking well. America cannot san
have too many OF the class that is to ha
be brought over. They soon adapt %
themselves to our laws and institu- If
tons, and are good citizens from the vii
fret. They increase the wealth of acl
she country in proportion as they ~! ne
prosper, individually. 1t is a pity n rer
that the idlers, the socialists, the dos
communists, and the agitators who STA
gather in the United States in such yea
numbers from the old world, cannot
be driven out of the large cities, and
transformed into sgriculturists of the :
kind thatMr. Rogers proposes to bring ,,a =
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