The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-16
A PULL TOGETHER.
A Result That May Be Attained
By Cooperation.
An Article That Every Rent
Payer Should Read and
Consider.

Columbia has been on the market ten
days. When the sale opened, Saturday.
April 4, only forty acres of the townsite
was cleared. Already all Of the cleared
ground has been sold and the remaining
part Is being taken faster than fifty men
can clear ii.
Though the number of lots sold is un.
precedented in the history of Seattle, and
more remarkable on account of the alleged
dizziness of the times, if our proposition
had been more thoroughly understood
every lot would have been sold the firss
week.
Each day it becomes easier to satisfy the
public that we can and will do all We
promise, because little figuring by an
intelligent man shows that we have every
thing to gain by keeping faith with our
people, and everything to lose by failing to
do SO.
We concede that only an expert account
ant can see all that buyer gains by buy.
ing home on the co-ope rative plan, and
there are enough persons interested else
where who are willing to interpret to our
disadvantage for those who cannot figure
for themselves.
People who do not rely on their own
judgment may have hesitated at first; but
the example of competent professional
and business men, as we'll as their personal
investigation has convinced them that the
cooperative method of acquiring home
is cheaper, fairer and better than any other
and the only one by which man of small
weekly income can acquire home without
assuming burden that may swamp him,
without risk Of forfeiture and without fear
of depreciating value.
The Washington cooperative Home
Company's proposition differs from al
others and is practically this:
WE WILL LEND YoU LOT FOR SIX YEARS
upon the following easy conditions:
1. You will pay 81 a week towards the
erection of 5O0houses in Columbia, thereby
enhancing the value of your own property.
2. That you will cooperate with the
company and your fellow citizens Of
Columbia in their efforts to make it the
neatest, the prettiest. and the thriftiest
suburb of the Queen City.
8. The lot that is loaned you for your
own use for nearly six years becomes your
own property after you have paid its value
out for Improvements, of which you get
the benefit. The company rewards your
intention to cooperate in the up-building
of Columbia, and if you die after showing
such intention by making single pay
ment the company will at once deed the
lot or house to your family without a
penny of further cost.
4. You can have house and lot on the
same terms, $40 cash and $LOO a week
toward the erection of more houses until
you get house lin your turn, which you
can select), when you will be required to
pay $500 per week for the remainder of
the term. The $500 yog pay on house
each week is applied the same way. Not
dollar to the company. Every dollar
goes into more improvements until all the
houses promised $500 of an average value
of 500 each) have been built. When the
last of the 500 houses is built the com.
pany's promise will be fulfilled. From
that time on your payments, or the pay
ments of the later buyers will go to the
company. Not dollar before. If their
hopes for Columbia are realized the COM
pany will reap handsome profit from
their enterprise. Not more, however than
fair reward for the labor involved. Their
chief source of profit will be in the in.
creased value of their remaining property.
If that becomes valuable to us, will not
your property be equally valuable? VIII
we not deserve and earn all we will make?
A thousand persons pulling in the same
direction can accomplish almost anything.
A thousand owners working for Column
bia can make it what they will.
A thousand owners of one lot each mean
more to locality than million dollars
capital. Estimating a mans earning ca
pacity at 81 day, or $500 year, a thou
sand mems work is equal to the interest
on six million dollars.
We want people who appreciate their
own strength and Importance, and who
will take hold and help pull Columbia to
the front. Everybody knows what can b
done by "a long pull, a strong pull and .
pull altogether"
Get a free pass to Columbia and see
what ten days energetic pulling has
already done. Then decide whether or
not it will pay you to invest one dollar Q