The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-30


can make their homes, and brin G
forth from the soil good harvests.
This is not theory, but proven
fact
The citizens of Washburn stand
ready and willing at all times to do
whatever is in their power to aid
and assist newcomers. and settle
them upon desirable lands. The
farmer here is king The markets
for his products are always in easy
reach, and the prices he realizes are
much more than those paid in older
sections.
10 the hOme-seeker of moderate
means, willing hands, and honest
purpose, the superior advantages Of
| WashOurn are manifest There are
no blank prairies to idle his hands in
the winter months, but every man
can gather a marketable crop of
wood in the winter which provides
him for those months as well as in
the summer.
| Our lands here are cheap, and
decided advantage over the older
settled regions is that the best lands
are not already taken. You can
come here, and after looking the
ground over, take your choice. The
homes that Uncle Sam has boasted
of having for every man, are not all
gone by any means; and go where
you may, better opportunities will
never be presented than are afforded
here IN the town of Washburn. 1t
is a country Of a somewhat unusual
nature; and in whichsthe bone seeker
has all the advantages of modern
tirst-class schools, good roads, a
home market and unrivaled shipping
facilities either by land or water, but
in which thousands of acres of good
lands remain yet unclaimed by the
men who are soon to build homes
thereon, and till it's rich, illuvial
soil.
This is the kind of country in
which colonies could we'll be accom-
modated. There is room for them
all, and here they would prosper and
grow, and in short time every fam
lily would be comfortably installed in
their new homes, and begin to reap
the benefits which this favored re.
gion has in store for the honest and
the industrious. There surely is no
more favorable spot for a man to
come to earn and own a home for
himself and his family. There is no
calling in life more pleasing and in
dependent than that of the success
| ful farmer. The farm is the place
where every man can walk over his
possessions, and say Il am king"
there is no such thing as working
from sun up to sun down in order
that some rich employers Golfers
may be filled still higher with wealth
earned by the hands of the laborer.
! The farmer is the man who furnishes
| the bread ard butter, and the wealth
of the nation. He is the most useful
and necessary adjunct to civilization,
and that is the reason we are after
more settlers. But while the farmer
is all this benefit to a community,
yet he is not without the pleasure
and self-knowledge that he is his own
boss that he can come and 90
when he pieases; that his home is his
castle, and that he is dependent up
on no man or set Of men for his live
! lihood. All he has to do is to raise
his grain and his products, and then
the nation comes to him as his mar
ket. Could any life be more to be
sought-how can person do better
than to go onto and open one of
those spots of land that is anxiously
awaiting the hand of industry, and
the pillow of the farmer? 1t is an
ideal livelihood, and it is surprising
that many of the struggling laboring
people throughout the country do
not forsake the ceaseless and unre-
hitting toll they are obliged to en-
dure, and grasp at this splendid op-
portunity that is presented to them
in ''This Region of Ours. y
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