Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-02-26

the change. to get acquainted with the
people, establish your standing and char
acter and to get acclimatized. In m any
places your health will not be as good as
it is now, and doctors bills are usually
much higher than at home. If you settle
i'll a new place your privileges will not be
have good buildings, roads, churches,
schools and villages YOU must make or
help make them, OF it you locate where
these already exist you must pay for
them. Improved land buildings and
good business locations cost more than
at the east. Another thing to BIZ consid-
cred is the cost of making the Change. If
you have real estate and other property
you cannot pull up stakes" and sell out
for cash the latter is what you will need)
without making sacrifice, then there is
the value of a year or more OF your time
which will be lost, add to these the cost
of moving and the expense incurred i'll
finding place to suit you, and YOU have
a part but not all of what it will amount
to before you will begin to live again. ]
know something OF whit | am writing
about, by observation, by experience and
a knowledge of the experience OF many
friends and acquaintance. The first
time | came to California, (abSent II
months) it cost me $500 in cash, $500
loss on property sold. and year and a
halt time of self and wife, which was
worth at the rate we were making on
our farm at that time $500, interest at 6
per cent on these items for the specified
time $13S 90, total of $2+3S.00. Yet
this does not show the whole loss. re.
turned home with no capital but my
hands and an honest name, and was
5000 in debt. | do not now, however,
consider the investment all lost. was
wiser if not better man financially
| had gained knowledge by experience.
But, said a friend of mine once, if yor
had stuck to it" and not weakened"
you would have come out all right, you
would have found your money where
you lost it. Well, perhaps, but my family
would not have as good privileges, and
| am not sure as to finance.
am stopping now on the Klamath
river, where l spent my first year in
| California. Many OF the acquaintance
| then made have gone to that bourne
| from which no traveller returns" OF those
that are left not one in five has done bet
ter than have or others have done i'll
old Vermont. "A rolling stone gathers
no moss" and "all is not gold that
glitters." The landscape often appears
more beautiful and interesting at dis
tance than it does when we go through
its swamps, cross its rivers or climb the
steep and rugged mountain sides, and
there is good bit of climbing to be done
in new country before you can settle
down to the comforts and privileges you
| have left behind. But | would not say
to all. always stay at home. 1fyouhave
the means to spare, have ovcrworked and
are tired out if you are out of health and
there is so much to do at home that you
cannot rest, why then just arrange your
business as well as you can, take your
better half fif you have one) and go
| TaI.Io.,,a
other place west where you have friends
or acquaintance, or where you want to
prospect" or find paradise lost" stay
six months or a year, and then if you
have found better place than that you
have left it will be time to make a per-
manent move. Ifyou do not find your
Eldorado still the time and expense will
not be all lost. your health may be i'm
proved, you will learn much by observa-
ton and experience, but you will realize
after all that old Vermont is not the worst
place in the world to live in. Her green
hills and beautiful valleys will have a
new charm and be dearer to you than
ever before, and your strength and cour-
age will be renewed. There are some
other people that might as well go west
at one time as another. | refer to those
who are subject to periodical attacks of
western fever" who feel as the young
man did when he asked his father to give
him the portion of goods that fell to him
and gathered all together and took a
Tourney to far off country, who are sick
of home and friends and must see the
other side of the world before they can
be contented. If such do not spend their
substance in riotous living, but go to
work like men, they may do well, and if
not they will be glad to come back to
fathers house where there is bread
enough ard to spare" Vermont has re-
sources, (many ofthem yet undeveloped J
in her agriculture, her nearness to mar
kets, her chances for manufacturing, her
quarries of granite, marble and slate,
and better than all it is most desirable
State to live in.
RICHARD MAPLEsDEN,
Hamburger Cal, Feb. 10, 1897.