Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-04-25
"GWlNE BACK TO BRkSKY."
what the Pacific Coast Wants In Immi-
grants.
[speolal Correspondence.l

grants.
Especial Correspondence
SAN FRANCISCO, March One Of the
questions asked by those much on the rail-
roads is where are all the people going to,
and where do they come ffom2 1t is quite
a study this, the perpetual migration
OF the lower and middle classes OF so
ciety, and nowhere else "a the fact so ap.
parent as on the lines Of travel across the
continent. Day after day, year in and
year out. trains pull out from Chicago,
Kansas City and other shipping centers
with full immigrant cars westward
bound, and one would be led to believe
that soon every spare acre in the far west
would be settled; but despite this perpetual
tide of western emigration the census pc
RODS do not show any remarkable increase
ia population. The reason is TO be found
In the returning east bound trains,
These eastbound trains do not go nearly
empty. Almost as many are returning
east as are going west.
Aside from the restless disposition of q
certain class of ue'er.do.wells, a large mum
Der OF farmers and laborers get an iii de
fined impression that fortune awaits them
beyond the Rockies, aud without any clear
purpose or destr alton in view they pack
up their effects, which too frequently com
prise a miscellaneous collection OF tinware
and children. and start for Oregon, Cali
fornia or Washington, as the case may be
When they land at one of the cities of the
far west they have no money left, and are
not met by employers in eager quest OF
laborers as they hal calculated.
After elting out a precurious existence
for a few months nearly one half Of such
emigrauts "hock" what they have left, or
induce their home friends TO lend them
enough money TO get back to where they
started. When they get home again they
proceed TO a lavish abuse OF the west, and
if they try farming, under conditions en-
tirely new to them, ana failed to reap a
rich harvest the first year, they report the
land as good for nothing II they come as
laburers, and find no particular scarcity Of
hired help, they return east cursng the
Chinese ia particular and the western en-
ploycrs of labor in general. Such do not
stop to consider that the farmers of Cali
fornia aud Oregon have been managing to
get their seeds planted and haryests gath
cred before they thought Of emigrating.
What the llr west needs is immigrants
with capital enough to buy land and
money enough TO sustain themselves for
one year at least without earning dollar
| There are now enough laborcrs here TO do
all the work TO be done. The Pacific coast
states can absorb vastly increased popu-
! latiou. But good live farmers are most
needed. There are now enough merchants,
mechanics and newspaper men here, but
not enough farmers who are able to &C
quice farms Of their own.
was recently waiting at the depot at
Stockton for a train, and observed two tall,
hardy looking men, each with a big, black
paper sachei aud bed quilt tied into a
roll and corded with clothes llue. | en-
gagged the younger Of the two in CONVERSE
ton, and found him 10 hc typical imml-
grant of the class above described.
He said 81 am gwine back 70 'Brasky.
This bloody kentry is no good fur white
man to live in. have bin up TO See-attel,
and while Teller gifts good wages he pays
$40 "A week fur board and has mighty
little left l cum on down 20 halltoruy,
and worked all summer with thrasber
at - q day and board. But fcl,er has 20
sleep on the soft side Of q straw pile, and
make up his own bed in the mornin'. Ar
ter thr,tsheu was done bin a-grubben and
cuttin' wood fur Teller at $3.50 a clay.
/ But | amt spokt 20 wommon IN SIX
months Why, a con mon Teller amt no
more'n dawg in this kcutry. Nobody
don't care nuthen fu7 nobody. Teller
sleeps tn a barn and furnishes his own
bed
81 tried plowen, but was afeard Id 81
. lost. They start out in the moruin', a dozen
teams i'm "a gang, and il takes all day 70 20
one round They take along dinner and
/ feed for horses, and when noon csmeS they
/ take out. fcej aud eat, and then drive ON
till night nj ro they gifts back to where
/ they started No sir no kaliogny fur
me. Pm gw.uc a,cS to Brasky, wlar a
/ fellvr is somebody and has his bed made up
fur him, ANA whar Teller can speak 10 a
vommoa wU bout she gittiu' scared.
/ And be bought d second class ticket %
Omaha. and had bag Of grub 10 last him
f a week
4 He Nas&type ofimmigrant, good enou5
/ where labor Is needed but 81 class 81
/ whom there seems 20 be enough here a.
/ ready. g. n. w
/ In the Whcatstoue automatic method OF
teleEraphy, when transmitting at the rate
4 OK COO words minute, there are $500 eur
rents per minute sent cut, each having
( duration not exceeding UO2 Of a second
Il is the experience Of physicians that
children Of tuberculous parents properly
fed. with no fermentation Of their food, do
not dle u tuberculosis, but live 70 grow