The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-11
IF PEOPLE WISH TO GET RICH.
Chances In Lewis County-But Hard
Work Is Necessary.
Window. Lewis County. May

Window. Lewis County, May g. 1895.
To the Editor: II get letters from Ore
gon. Wyoming, California. Missouri and
all over the United States where the
Post-Intelligencer circulates. l wish TO
answer these inquiries through your pa
per.
Many people are wanting to find out
where they can secure homes. As / said
before. there is plenty of unoccupied
land in this part OF Lewis county, some
homesteads, but mostly railroad and
school land. Now, viii give you a lit
tie history. a man and his wife, both
over 50 years old, commenced a home
stead settlement in this neighborhood six
years ago. They had three miles of road
TO open through a dense forest before
reaching their claim. They have now
about twenty acres cleared and under cuL-
tivation. pretty fair buildings. besides a
building for postoffice. They now have
100 fruit trees. mostly bearing. besides
small fruit and ornamental shrubs etc.
The land and orchard this year viii yield
enough TO support an average family. I
have seen as good grain grown on this
place as ever was made into bread. and
as good prunes and apples as ever hung
from the boughs OF a tree. / am now
relating fact, not a theory-no guess
ing.
Now should you come and secure some
Of this land I can tell you how and what
YOU viii have 10 DO 70 make good
home First cut all the timber down on
the land you wish to clear. Let * lay
and dry until August: then set a match
10 Il and all the brush Will burn. leaving
nothing but logs and large poles. Then
seed that land to clover and timothy.
Next year where stood heavy timber you
can harvest hay. Then go to clearing on
the logs That's work. Next set out an
orchard. and 1t will commenre bearing TO
surprise you. Now, II you want 10 get
rich sure and quick. clear up large
piece and set ont Baldwin apples and
Italian prunes, and you VIII get there as
certain as there Is a gold bug in London
or Wall street
Then. ~ you want 70 get rich another
way. plant your land 10 potatoes and
peas and feed them 10 hogs. Make your
hogs fat and heavy. sell the lard and ba-
ron and some day YOU may he able -
change your name 20 Vanderbilt Peas
VIII Yield nearly as many pounds % the
acre on any OF our soil as corn VIII In
Iowa or Illinois, and they are quite "a
good feed for hogs and chickens as corn.
Ny dear sir. " you Viii stay with the
hog he VIII make you rich.
Then another wav 70 start bank Is
% stand ny me cow and ChvrH. Now.
- show YOU what kind Of a place this IS
for butter | VIII tell you what the post
muster ~ this place told ne few days
ago. she turned her cream into the
cNurn lust es she saw the mall carrier
about To- rods away. and when the mail
arrived she had her butter IN the mold.
and sha- had no pate chura. either.
This IS = sacred truth. Glover grows ~
perfection and 50 10 potatoes. These
combined make the ve~v best winter feed
FOR mitch cows. Don't You know that
the man who rnanufa~ tures the Eagie
N~anf ~ condensed milk Is millionaire
/ There & ~r'4 On butter AMI cheese as
long rs the human family has a palate.
All $40 need IS Wiling labor 70 clear the
land ara make SIS willing bosom heave
urth beautiful fruit When you come
DOME curse he roads. y won't help YOU,
~ the roads either. Bad roads can ~
/ changed bat bal climate cannot BE
hanged ~ human skin.
= r. WORKMAN.