The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-02-22

pense in inducing emigration to flow in
to the city. They are bound they say
to pat settler Oh every lot in the old
plat, and on to every lot IN every one
of the numerous additions. With that
done or even half done, if the emf
grants are only well to do, the effect on
the farming interest around Podunk
must be beneficial.
OF course they do not propose to try
to induce er,igrants without means to
come. 1t must not be understood that
this scheme is gotten up for the benefit
Of the emigrant, and therefore it is in
dispensibe that only we'll to do people
are inyeigled. The more means they
have the better, but at least each one
must have money enough to build
house and buy his family supplies for
two years.
After that, if the emigrants should
discover that they could not get on in
Podunk, or cannot "diysrsify" their
business sufficient to keep them from
the poor house, then they may be util
lied perhaps further by being induced
by other sparsely settled cities, nearer
the setting sun, to move on and thus
become the nucleus around which a
similar development should take place.
One thing is certain the Podunk farm
or is starting this movement on a cor
rect basis.
The city is market for his produce.
True A home city is the best market.
True Build city and his market is
assured. True
On this plan the Podunk farmer starts
out with his market provided by his en-
ergy and foresight. Instead of Cutting
small appetite, that has been by
chance provided, he shrewdly builds
capacious NAV capable of holding all he
can raise.
In this effort to fill up vacant city lots
the Podunk farmer can in no sense, not
by any twist Of logic be considered a
more unsophisticatcd ass than is his
city competitor who is making such
great effort to fill up more thickly the
already over crowded farming com
munitv.
Following the wise lead of General
Manager Stickney of the Great Western
Railway, who wants every farmer be-
tween st. Paul and Des Noines TO sell
half his land to make room for more
emigrants from Europe, the Podunk
farmers also want the lot owners in
Podunk to split every twenty-five foot
front lot in twain, thus enabling Just
twice as many emigrants to be pro-
yided with comfortable city homes
Initiating and copying Stickney still
further, who offers to haul train-load
Of city manure free out to the new
emigrants on his proposed new farms
for every train load Of vegetables they
will send over his road in return payin.
freight rates fixed by himself, so this
farmers bureau agrees to haul DAD
of gravel from the sand hill west of
Podunk to macadamize its streets for
every load of garden truck bought by
the new emigrants at prices fixed by
the farmers themselves.
They have evidently been apt schol-
ars in applying principles that have
been taught them.
1t does look now as if Podunk was in
it, and is destined to grow.
This effort of the farmers is an effort
in the right direction, and is made up
on lines in exact accord with those
made by the business mems bureaus,
to fill up more denseIy with European
emigrants the rural districts, and sesms
to be beyond captious criticism.
The experiment will be watched
with interest. If this plan succeeds
at Podunk, over crowded Europe can
be relieved, aud every plated townsite
in America filled.
II. W. HOLLEY.
EVERETT, Wash. Feb. II, 1896.