Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-10-01

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ration.
All neighbors are friendly to our
cause and are very anxious to see us
succeed. Some have already rendered
work to build milldam when we are
ready.
Bros. Dunn and Ramey are picking
their hops. The entire crop cannot be
saved on account of losing their dry
kiln by fire.
We are receiving many inquiries
concerning our plans and industries
contemplated.
r Comrades from California, Iowa
and Washington, have been heard
from so far, and prospects grow
brighter all the while.
Several have promised to come and
others have promised to invest, and
when we have ten men promised to
come we will issue call for them to
move forward at once.
We can comfortably house five fam
lilies extra now. So those who wish to
Join a $500 colony in Washington
should write our secretary at once.
We want to secure deeds and OPP
tions on a 220 acre tract of well i'm
proved land in addition to the 100
acres offered on memberships, to do
which we must have some cash pretty
soon. A $400 mortgage must be lifted
within a few months or 40 acres of
our very best land will pass into the
hands of Pluto, and we would then
have to pay twice that amount to get
it. Those sending money for this
purpose may send either to the col
ony secretary or national headquar-
tiers. Be particular to state your
remittances are for redemption of 40
acre tt act, Harmony colony.
The peaches we grow here are de-
licious. Our trees were loaded this
year, and it bellies the claim that
peaches are failure here. The col.
ony should increase their number of
trees as soon as possible.
Fruit of many varieties sufficient to
supply six or eight families went to
waste this year in Bro. Dunn's or
chard.
A number of our neighbors have
successfully grown tobacco for sew
eral years. AS fine tobacco as the
writer ever saw grow in Missouri, Ar
kansas, or Texas, is now to be seen
growing here. No worms to bother.
We believe corn will yet be decided a
paying crop.
Wheat, oats, rye, buckwheat, bar.
ley, peas, clover, and timothy, bring
large yields here, and by the use of
the silo several crops of clover can
be cut each year.
There is no discount on this being a
great dairy country, as grass grows
with half show. Bees, also, make the
finest honey imaginable. White clo-
yer seems natural crop as it springs
up wherever there is an opening made
in the timber.
Several have made inquiry about
the health of our section. Our sec
ton has gained quite reputation as
health resort.
Mr.. f. A. Sherman of Topeka, Kan,
this year made a second visit to our
neighborhood, spending the summer,
and each time has become strong and
hearty. Another man from Kansas,
Mr.. j. NJ. Flynn, who was about dead
with asthma, came here some two
years ago and is now not bothered
with asthma at all. Others can tell
similar stories. The writer has a
similar one to relate. Not case of
malaria is known to have existed in
our section. Beautiful spring
branches afford water for our neigh
borhood. No wells are used. We seem
to have about the right altitude and
distance from the sea to be health
full.
- Others question regarding our reli-
gious views. That need not worry
anyone, as our colony is not religious
project. 1t is a Christian move
ment to provide homes and profta.
BILE employment; to insure it's mem
bers against want or the fear of want,
and in that alone we hope to be able
to uplift our people and rear our
children to that higher plane of life
which will live the only law: Love
thy God with all thy heart, with all
thy mind, with all thy soul" and
Love thy neighbor as myself" The
law of Love is the Christianity we be-
lieve in, and we believe, with just in
dustrial conditions, a few genera