News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-05-07
here she is too law to get well, and so

here she is too lazy to get well, and so
dies.
The Northern Pacific railroad has got
its new prize liar at work. They mao one
a few wears ago who eXerted himself so
that he died. | think the lie that Killed
him was when he stated that sage brush
country made the finest kind OF agflcnl-
tural land. The new man is no shlrK,
however. and can tell stories winch put
the dollars of the emigrant into the COM
pany's pocket every time. Almost eYc
cry day men are seen upon the sCreets Oh
this city who bitterly regret having put
faith in the railroad literature. Ihey
come here expecting to find government
land. There is none which it is practlca-
BILE for an emigrant without money to
homestead. Only about one fifth OF the |
State of Oregon and Washington Terri
tory can be cultivated. In Oregon TINS
has been taken long ago. ANY person
coming here expecting to find govern
ment land which he can homestead or
pre-empt, will be bitterly disappointed.
For many years the prayer OF Che peo-
pie of this country has been for men with
money. Send us the man of capital, the
man with money, they say, and when ne
comes they turn on him and REM MIN
financially. Now the cry is for manufac-
lures, and if a manufacturer makes MS
appearance the landlords will strangle
the infant industry by imposing upon
him such a rent that it is Impossible tor
him to live. When man builds to rent
his only idea is that he must charge
enough rent the first year to reimburse
him for the entire outlay. Kindly death
will remove some of the men in this
State some time, and then the country
will have a show for prosperity.
What shall l say of country where
corn meal is seven and a half cents per
pound? That's the figure for it here. 1t
is melancholy fact that corn will not
grow in the Willamette Valley. And |
without corn we cannot have pork or |
stall fed beef. Wheat-1M never take |
the place of corn as tes5Y VIII a corn
less country ever aupes=st to much? |
Would Chicago have been the city it is |
had it not been for the corn of the Mis-
sippi Valley? When the enthusiastic |
owner of lot in Portland figures up |
what he will be worth when this city has |
as many inhabitants as Chicago, say he |
reckons without corn.
The Indians in Oregon and Washing
ton Territory number about 5000, and |
have reserved for their use nearly twelve |
millions of acres of the best land in the |
Northwest. Most of them are civilized |
to the extent of wearing high hats when
procurable. They are greasy, fat, scrof-
ulous, lazy, sickly and dirty. They are
short of stature, stout, and have big, |
round. dark faces. Altogether, the Indi- |
ans of the Northwest are scurvy, mean
looking lot.
The hop vine is capricious plant. It
is like sitting hen, it will locate only
when it has mind to. If it don't want |
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will make it thrive there. The Payallup |
Valley in Washington Territory is its |
chosen home, but in what respect the |
Payallup valley differs from dozens of
others, | cannot find out. In Oregon the |
hop thrives near Butte, a town situated
in valley tributary to the Willamette
valley. Five years ago a Chinaman, who |
had made little money in wash house
in Portland, and who, unlike the most of
his countrymen, did not gamble it all
away, bought ten acres of land near
Butte. Last year his crop of hops
brought him $500.
This country is oYerstocked with la
borers and professional men. Skilled
workmen without capital can do better
east than here. Working women always
command good wages.-$25 to $50 a
month and board. Farmers with capital
can, by looking around carefully, and
not allowing themselves to be skinned
by railroad and other land sharks, locate
themselves comfortably. If a man buys
land near Portland he must pay from
500 to $500 per acre. If he is contented
togo back into the country, from $50 to
500 per acre. Now if man can afford
to pay these prices for farms, what OBJ
iect has he In leaving the east? II | mis-
take not a pretty good farm can be
bought for 500 an acre in Vermont.
Hence the market is limited, manufac-
tured goods are high, and the railroad
little better than high way
robbers. DOCTOR.