The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-04-14
WASHINGTON TERRITORY,

mained several days, and made most fa-
vorable impression on our people. 1t was
suggested that he give his views in public,
and having obtained his consent, circulars
were issued for a meeting in the Court
House where a large number of people
convened at the hour appointed. MIR.
Muncy made very candid and interest
ing statement. He placed before the au-
dience in plain and easy style the sdvan-
tages and disadvantages OF his locality.
Mr.. Muncy lives at Dayton, w. T. The
County Adams adjoining has some very
eligible lands, short distance from the
the railroad line, and along a proposed
line into the heart of that county. 1t is
to this point that he seeks to lead his colo
ony and found a city. Already number
of sections are taken up, but those who
go now will reap all the advantages of ear
ly location. His mission east is to gather
those who will go west into excursion par
ties, and when he gets a certain number
of families together, have them all go on
the same train at cheap rates of transpor-
tatiOn which he will furnish. After their
arrival in Washington Territory if they
will help swell his colony, that is his prin-
cipal object, but they are at liberty to To-
cate wherever they choose. There is no
compulsion to locate in Adams County, or
anywhere else. But Mr.. Muncy thinks if
they once see the country, the advantages
are so great that they will not wish to re-
turn. Now, while we do not, of course,
want to see any of our good people leave
Forest County, yet here is an opportunity
for those who are ''bound to go west that
will not soon come again. Mr.. Muncy
will start three different excursion trains
between this and October; and if any
would desire to know further about the
matter, they can address him, care of A.
M. Hadley, Danville, Indiana.
There is no doubt the locality Mr.. Mum
cy represents is one of the finest sections
of the great North West. Eastern Wash
ington has been cultivated for many years,
and some parts of it are thickly populated.
Every month the waves of immigration
are rolling in from the east, and as they
break at this point, are scattering through
out the Territory. Farmers can here OBJ
oping. where lands are rapidly increasing
in value, and the possession alone is worth
much in cash to the possessor, not to speak
of the return from cultivation wear after
year. Thus one can look with confidence
TO the five million acres of rich alluyial
bottom lands, and the ten million acres OF
plain and prairie, which invite to this
of hn
the Northern Pacific can be bought for
$3.50 an acre where forty and fifty bushels
of wheat are commonly grown to the acre.
And here are the usual Homestead Tree
Claim, and Desert privileges of obtaining
lands that in a few months will become
the centre of immense populations. No
man who thinks at all of going West,
should let Mr.. Muncy's caravan move
without him. Here is a country of the
grandest possibilities, waiting to Weld TO
the embrace of pluck and capital; along
the great thoroughfare (the Northern Pa
citic) the highway for commerce between
the United States and China and Japan
and the countries of the orient. There
are inexhaustible fields of coal, coal
enough to light all the fires of the rlanet
for thousand years to come. There are
beds of bog iron ore of the finest quality.
And gold and silver, lead and cinnabar,
marble and gypsum, kaolin and clay for
fire brick. Even boring for petroleum
has been begun in the county of Pierce.
There are oysters and fish of the finest fla
vor and varieties. There are Churches.
and schools and Public Libraries. Ifa
man gets there and finds himself too poor
to buy one of Uncle Sans farms he can
go to work as a farm hand and get $50 A
month and board. If he wants to drive
team he can get $40 a month and board.
and so accumulate enough in a short time
to buy quarter section, and grow wheat
and rye, barley and potatoes, oats, corn.
buekwheat, apples, peaches, cherries, hay,
plums and prunes for himself; and with
al, climate balmy and sweet as that of
Italy, where the average mean tempera-
ture in summer is 790 and in winter $40,
and where the flowers bud and bloom
during every month of the entire year.
When we remember the astonishing
fact that wheat and other cereals, fax and
potatoes, and hardy vegetables are sue
cessfully cultivated fifteen hundred miles
yet north of the line between us and the
British Possessions, we will cease to won
der at the luxurianee of Washington Ter
ritory. To the tourist, this excursion
along with Mr.. Muncy would be filled
with the greatest attractions. After reach
ing Washington Territory, he could take
one OF the fine steamships which ply to
all points on the coast, and touching the
Canadian Pacific Railway, the COLOSSUS
of the North" could make the return trip
to the east. Here is a railroad with con
tinuous line of 1850 miles. Beginning at
the new City of Vancouver it traverses all
the mountain ranges in Western America,
crossing the Rockies, the Selkirks and the
coast ranges. For six hundred miles Won