The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-04-20
Energy, Industry and Enter prise Essen
tial tor Success.

That the great West is a wide open
ing for human energy to exercise It's
various powers is not questioned.
With all its advantages, however; per-
sons will not succeed even then unless
they possess tireless energy, industry
and enterprise A person who has
never developed any talent or ability
at home is not likely to become spon-
taneous fruit-b bearing vine in the West.
Drones are not wanted on the virgin
soil, but active busy men.
Some people, it is true, never succeed
until they go into strange land and
commence work for themselves That
is why so many young men of the East
are heard from after years of effort to
get away from their early home. We
find this topic so well handled in an
eastern city print, that its views come
in place just mere and cannot fail to
prove interesting and profitable. In
going West there is one class of immi-
grants that carry with them wherever
they golf the conditions of the soil and
climate are not averse, their own good
fortune and that of the country where
they locate. That class of citizens
farmers, manufacturers, mechanics,
young men with only little capital but
a large amount of brains and energy
have settled Michigan, Ohio, Illinois,
Minnesota and other Western States,
and similar bands of stalwart adventu.
rous pioneers have, within rrcent years,
been pushing their way and their for
tunes in the agricultural regions of the
| Northwestern Territories, Montana
and Dakota. Thither the great tide of
immigration is flowing, not only from
foreign country, but likewise from the
old, settled States of the Union Cen
tral Nebraska and Kansas have vast
unoccupied plains, but the insufficiency
of the rainfall is a serious drawback to
agricultural pusuits, for the effors made
by farmers to till to advantage the
soil beyond the western limit of the
rain belt have not fairly prospered,
But at all points in Montana and Da-
kota, north Of latitude forty-two de,
grees, climate and soil alike are pro-
pitious to the labors of the husbandman
Hence it follows that although only
six Of ten years have elapsed since the
farming lands of The great Northwest
ern Territories have been opened to in
dustrous settlers desiring free homes,
there has been a steady rush of immi-
grafton TO those regions where the ben
eticience of nature facilitates the labors
of the farmer, and soil, climate and
natural irrigation combine to develop
to full bearing from twenty to fifty
bushels of choice wheat to the acre.
| Thither has the star of empire taken
its co rise, and there, before this gene
alton shall haze passed away, will be
established State so atfluent and pop
ulous that its harvests will surpass in
value the yield of the gold dig
gings of the Sierra, and the citizens,
judging from their progressivenesss in
all that constitutes flourishng State,
will occupy front rank in intelligence
enterprise and numbers, if compared
with those of the now leading States Of
the Union. If Horace Greely could
} now be consulted by some medium il
behalf of some young man not afraid
to work, and who was undecided
where he could do so to the best ad
vantage, the advice that would com,
from the spirit world would be to go
not to Texas or its equivalent or in
definitely West, but TO make all tn,
speed he could to Montana or Dakota