The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-13
WEARY OF THE COLD.
Farmers Frem Blixxard-Land
Coming to the Sound.
4 GENERAL MOVEMENT sscun
The Rspperxwyfa and Holland Colonies
Only show Witch Way the Tide
II Running.

Washington. ard especially tire Puget
sound country, IL attracting a great deal
OF assensscn in the East among a exgsra-
Die class % immigrants Within the PAS.
six weeks colonies OF farmers in North
Dakota Minnesota ard Michigan have an
HouHred their intention Of quitting a
climate where hstxxards abound ard the
heat of summer Is almost insc3eranie. ard
VIII come West before the summer Is
over Already co'caies have been formed
an Nnascoxn and Skagit counties and an
other large colony Of weil-to-sso Michigan
people has located on whidhv island The
railroads are offering Inducements TO all
such immigrants and the chances are thar
before the winter again sets in there will
De general movement of desirable East
ern farmers TO the Sound
The Holland colony company. on Wild
by island. numbers among It's members
men who are worth as high a. s.aa.
while none among them have less than
G.s@. The Rapperswyii colony. in the
Ncoksack valley. In whatcom county. will
eventually develop the agricultural re-
sources of that rich valley and benefit not
only the members OF the colony, but the
county as well. X In said thar even now
the little town OF Acme. of which the col
onists have changed the name to Rap
perswyii. and where they have purchased
Nero acres OF land Is a ffourishing place
and several houses are being built One
big building Ia In course of construction.
which viii be utilized as hotel as the
eolonists arrive. Later the farmers viii
build their own houses on the portions OF
land allotted Ia thenf. Very little talking
Is being done. but the work Of developing
the valley Is pushing ahead with energy
The Whatcon Colonization & Manusae-
turing Company. OF which Charles q.
Scott. of this city, In secretary and treas
urer. has also been doing much for What
com county and especially certain por-
tsons OF the Nooksack valley. The COM
pany has four whole sections at It's dis
posal, on which IL has already located
fifteen desirable farmers OF the East. A
gentleman from Duluth was out here a
few weeks ago. aud looked over some OF
the land held by this company and was
so impressed with the character of the
soil and the climate that he returned to
his Eastern home with a glowing account
of what he had seen. He wrote To Mr.
Scott few days ago tina, during April
or May colony of fourteen farmers with
their families would be on their way
West to settle on the land. Most OF the
farmers already have holdi-gs In Mime
sofa, but they will sell out as soon as pos
sible and most of them haye already Of
fered their farms for sale Two carloads
OF coionists from that section arrived last
week as the advance guard of the immi-
grants.
Farmers In drouthrstricken Kansas and
Nebraska, are also looking towards the
West. with Puget Sound as the objective
point. and. Ii is said. several farmers.
representing about thirty families. will ar
rive here before the summer begins To
look over the country and see what In
ducements can be offered for their i'm
migration.