The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-06
CARL PERTZ,s GROWL.
NOVELTY P. O., SSooUALMis RIVER.
KING County. w. +.
nec QI 1879

EDITOR ISTELLI6ExCER: / have
been reader OF your paper for some
two years. and during th.t time hsvs
noticed msny letters which we're
full Of 6ne things in the future. But
for ono think it would be much wiser
TO speak more definitely Of the present.
than to dwell 30 much upon the futurs.
and about things that may take place
when the most of rs are six feet under
the sod.
WAS rsisei farmer snd sm proud
Of my occupation. have lived in this
country. Western Washington Terrific
~. Ave years; during shas time l have
worked every yer on farm. have
h.d to buy all my hour, like 80 per
cent II the farmers in this Lart Of the
Territory; IS per cent. b1y their meat
while large portion Of the remainder
are busy driving cattle and hogs to
feed the peopls IN this part Of the Ter
rit1ry. have foand the majority Of
farmsrs here mere slaves. not to fash
ions, but to their farm. In the 6rst
plsc, logging has been the principal
business on the Sound. and the msjority
Of the loggers have b.sn unsuccessful.
I think about rs many OF them have
made money as the farmers have on
the Sound. It Is s,id there u always
. cause TO produce an efsct. Nov let
Us return to the cause. IL this farm.
ing country. II so, why is onr -four
imported from Oregon aud Calf rnia
In the first place it costs S35 per acre
to clear the land, on which you cannot
raise wheat fit 10 make bread to eat; it
10 90 clammy or glney thst other wheat
has to be imported to grind it with.
which caps the climax aud spoils both
patches. And ~ for corn, . farmer 10
in luck to keep little for ses!.
This il . good vegetable country.
most all kinds do well. until the far.
mer gets them raised, aud then he can
do n0thiug with them but see them rot.
- there is no market for them on this
river. ! have tried shipping some. but
the Wharfage and freight have left me
in debt. Az for loggsrs. one out OF
every hundred is not prepared to meet
bis demands. and they are being cen.
sured and often branded ~ outlaws.
which is very wrong. The amount Of
it 10 iisnsrs. Iawyers aud mill men get
the logs. SHERIFF. and Auditors have a
little eide show, aud a. farmers are not
known in our Legislatures nowadays.
and there 10 20 lien law providing for
them. to protect their wives who make
butter aud often sling milk paiis to
help support their families. and trust
the loggsrs With their proceeds. must
be lett to the mercy Uf Providence.
who was never koown to have . ghost
Of . show in logging camp.
There are. as every where else. bad
men 10 this Territory, aud It would be
reasonable to supposs that . portion OF
them are among luwberme". But
there are also many men in the busi.
ness who would do honor to any country.
and such wholesale charges a. "oui.
laws" are only kuitcd 10 the visions
aud propensi,ies Of those whose very
very element il slsnder aud dstrsctiou.
aud who to grasify their base desires
would. II possible. consign to eternal
infamy their fellow men. The fact is.
the logging business aud new countries
have but fsw Boriginsl photographs;
they ere generally burnt with too much
sunshine, or blown away in storm.
4isery too often likes company. Bus
my object 10 not TO write aught in
malice, but 10 represent things - /
dnd them: in the Arm belief that IN
hoaest defeat is preferable to . dis
graceful victory. And I do not wish
70 b the instrument of encouraging Z
lot OF destitute smigrAnts 70 this part
Of the Territory.
noticed Q small speech delivered by
Judge Jacobs. in Seattle. some time
sincs, in which be said ''many had
come to this Territory under the Wild
delusion OF expecting to 6nd farm
uuder good cultivation for them. nnd
had been disappointed aud lsft." I
think the Judge was alluding to the
wrong class OF people. Who ever
heard the like Of any such thing be-
ing done BY . farmer! No Judge. you
are mistaken in that, it 10 the political
ground that 10 pulverixed IL advance.
II any. I also noticed . kttsr from
Norso. tho talented journalist Of the
Ssar-not Of Bethlehem, but Of the
Snohomish Sta.. which has failed to
blink of late publish Cd ia The lnrEL-
LIasxc4R last fals. when the late editor
vAs making his flying trip fron Sno-
honish to The Columbia river. in which
he aaid sone OF the SnoQaAlmie sestlers
had be>ome Discouraged and wsre going
to look for some other locality. vhers
they would have no Disadvantages -
contsud With. The Star man jumped
at his conclusion. Had he said. "some
we're gone and others we're going where
they would mot bs loaded doWa With
disadvantages" his syntax would have
hscu near the right length. Mol Star
man. our cause 10 like the negro Who
was making Ais move aud gos ssnck in
mud hole. A stranger asksd him
where hs vas going. He said to Amer
ics. He then asksd him what he wss
loaded With. HeDDaid di@cultics. / will
say one thing Tor the farmers o. settlsrs
on the HnoQualmis river. They doo'l
belong 70 Any clique; most II them
have ben raised Farmers and know
what farsaing coantfy 10 when they
have tsisd it . while. Many Of them
cnme here come years ego. and settled