Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-11-12
HARMONY COLONY NOTES.

n. L. MCDONALD secretary
]. p. RAMEY Treasurer
The acknowledgement office is in need of
a good secondhand typewriter Anyone bav-
ing bargain in secondhand typewriters will
please address, A. r. Mcdonald, Newaukum.
Washington.
Several letters must be answered through
our columns this week
One comrade from Iowa thinks he will he
able to come in about month. He also adj
vances the argument against engaging never
to mortgage the land, that it might be very
necessary to do so to procure machinery.
What he fears most is to see colony swamped
for lack of capital. While we believe his
fears are well grounded, such matters will be
decided by the colony when in running order.
AS matter of fact if we had Is families at
Harmony we could buy one of the best farms
in the state for general agricultural purposes
and run the hop yard, doing all our tending,
picking, ETC., and have enough profit from
that industry alone to feed all the colonists
and clothe them for next year. Let's doa little
figuring on this. Twenty acres of hops at I
This would be Is tons. This year choice hops
are selling at Is cents per pound.
Bro. Dunn got liz cents, but hops have
advanced since he sold. But figure IL cents
and you will see Is tons come to $3.50. Since
labor is what costs to raise and save hop
crop colony of Is families could do all of
that and be out not to exceed $780, leaving
say $4,000 to be divided among Is families,
being an average of, approximately, $l75 per
family. Now with their wheat, oats, hay, stock,
gardens, honey, milk, butter, chikens, eggs,
fruit, ETC., in addition to the cash from the
hops, is there any prospect of going hungry?
$1,000 will put us in possession of the picture
briefly painted above. We should have it
before spring work opens up or arrangements
to tend the crop and plant the whole ranch
will be made thus greatly mountaineering
the colonists.
One fee of $500 would enable us to secure
the 40-acre tract and obtain lease on balance.
Who will be first to come to the rescue?
Where are the six comrades with the $500
each to place the whole 220-acre ranch in our
possession and begin operations in spring?
One asked if there were any Spanish here
country now. One fears bringing his little
girl from California here, but we can say all
experiences of the past, by which we are
forced to judge, 60 towards putting al such
fears to flight. Where under the sun could
one find more healthy girls sand boys than in
Washington?
Another brother proposes to put in good
printing outfit, providing he sees in it liv-
ing and a location to suit as to health. ETC.,
all of which we have no fears of supplying.
Come and look BROTHER and take the deposi-
tions OF a few people who have gained health
by locating at Harmony and Lewis county in
general. We will let you consult ali republic
cans if you desire. By the time he has trav-
eled in Washington and other countries as
much as the writer, he will about decide this
is hard state to beat for all purposes. Let
us have few colonists on the ground as soon
as possible and we will not fear securing his
printing plant and many other things.
We need not spend all our money for land.
We can get it by paying part down and part
on time. Remember what l refer to as buy
ing, means the 30 acres upon which is the 20
acre hop ranch and includes the 40 acres un-
der $500 mortgage. There are several hum
dred acres more to be obtained on member
ships as soon as this hop ranch goes into CO.
operative hands.
The editor of Discomfort few weeks ago
took the liberty as well as the trouble to
severely criticise the plan of organization of
our cooperative work In his issue of Nov.
he walls at my not answering his questions.
The writer of these notes has only this reason
for not replying: He has not the time nor
the inclination. With all due respect to him
and the Lake Bay colony, would say have
not half enough time to attend to my own
business. If he has time to help me. | trust
he will prove a good and faithful servant.
The opportunity to test the two plans to see
which is found wanting in practice under
identical circumstances viii be fonnd at
Harmony if peopletake hold. We are not
dictators 10 our colonsts.