Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-24
uvennAnes AsxEs AND crvky.

A young gentleman as Bloomington
Indiana, propoands few questions, q
which he, Wishing TO como here, aska "a.
pliss- These questions are:
What opportunities are offered in
your ooontry for investing $500 on
O, with greater chance Of profit
tnan IN the east ? What rate of interest
can . Obtained On vell-secured note
c. l have inst graduated from the
Stats Univsrlty Of Indiana. Have had
nssls experience in teaching. What
cnaocs would have Of securing q posi-
ZOO e teacher. and at what salary
.. Am willing to work ct ANYTHING
sn4s mas money IN It; am q years old;
sstonR and reasonably intelligent. On
tnw basis, what chance IL there of max
In& money IL your countFyf Please
eeu me o0Oethin9 of salaries, or of prof
its IN ANAL individual enterprises, and
Also the cost OF living (price Of board,
eto.)
Z. What are the opportunities for pro
ht on investments in real estate
The opportunities for Investment here
are tnnumerable. Two thousand dollars
viii boy IN interest in steamboat or
IN Q factory. With accompanying occu-
patton at femunerative rates. Or il will
ouy out small business or an interest
IN larger one. Il will buy nice little
nome In tho suburbs, q small farm in
tho country, or it will enable one TO en-
TOR upon the poultry. fruit and milk
business on q leased place in the out
skirts. The business openings for $1,000
are too numerous to mention" Money
cln b loaned here on good security at
l per ceot. per month, or II per cent.
Per annum, this being the bank rate.
z. For some time past there have
been more schools than teachers-that
u, qualified teachers-and this condi-
zion OF AFFAIRS seems likely to continue
during the year TO come. Teachers in
this section average about t6S Q month;
some getting $50, $55. and eco, and a.
many more getting $40, &75, and $50,
with one here and there $50 and 500.
3. An abundance of work awaits the
man willing 70 do anything. The will
ing man will find labor awaiting him
on the farm, In the mill, the mine, the
logging camp, on the railroad, in the
town-any and everywhere. He will
find more or less opportunities in the
SCHOOLS, the Offices, the stores. He can
make opportunities, and nowhere-th
being new o0untry-are the opportu-
mites more boundlem than here. Street
graders get $3.50 . day, and railroad
lab0refs about the same. Lumbermen
average SO q month and board; car
penters get g 10 a q day; stone and
brick mssons, IS; bookkespers, from
$50 to $l2 month; store clerks, from
40 10 800; competitors, 80 cents per
thousand ems; deck hands ON steam
boats, 90 to go Q month, and enRi-
nsets from go 10 800.
4. Al for investments in real estate, |
Ne can only tell Of tho past. Il would
Be dimoult TO find q spot in Western
Warrington where there has not been
an advance In value Of 200 per cent. dur |
ing tho last two years. In some more
favored localities the advance has been
and even 1000 Per cent. |
Thsre II everything to indicate that the |
advance will continue another year. |
New people sre rushing into the coun-
try BY hundreds and Thousands, bring |
ing much money with them. They |
come to stay and invest, and they do |
stay and invest. That tho resident pop
ulati0n have faith in real estate specu-
lati0ns u plain enough, for all are car
rying what they comfortably can, while |
purchases are their most common means |
Of investment.