The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-21

Farmers Of the Coast Cnn Dispose OF
Their Products.
Victoria Colonist.

The farmers in the Coast section OF this
province ought TO bear In mind that from
now ON there will be a great demand for
produce OF all kinds in the northern gold
fields Take the line of poultry for ex-
ample The Yukon country will take very
great deal Of poultry It is practically i'm
possible to obtain any considerable 1uanti-
~ of turkeys, geese. ducks or chickens mere
for shipment north Indeed the homo mar
ket is not anything like supplied Why is
this? What good reason exists for the fall
IRE of our ranchers to raise enough poui-
try for domestic use? Perhaps IL might
have been alleged hitherto that the nome
market has been 50 limited that there was
no object In catering to supply II, but there
~ now practically unlimited demand for
everything In this line that can be PRO
duced here. For eggs and butter the same
demand exists
We know Il will be said that IL 10 I'm
possible for the people Of the Coast TO com
pete with the farmers OF Manitoba but we
do not believe there IS anything I'm this
similar argument was used In the state
OF Washington eight or ten years ago.
When the newspapers there urged the
farmers to aim at supplying the home aiar-
ket. the reply was. What Is the use2 We
cannot hone TO compete with oregon and
California" The stress OF hard times
brought them 10 their senses Rsnchers
would cat their farms up into town lots
and began 10 clear the land and raise pra-
duce The result Is that Washington IA
now more than selt-sustalning from a farm
ing point OF vidw. and this is one reason COR
the steady prosperity Of its cities Olvm-
nia, the capital Of the state. was supposed
eight years ago 70 have fallen upon avn
days indeed. Everything that was to have
made Il prosperous had collapsed. To-day
q ~ far more huslnesslike than ever. ANA
Tho reason Is that the surrounding farm
ing country has progressed. The town OF
| Nhateom SIX Years ago was set down as
! about ready 20 die. All the elements Of
I prosperity upon which the real estate leo.
pie had relied We're apparently worthless
Today % is more prosperous than ever. and
( the reason Is that the neighborhood Is niled
with farmers What ia true of the state OF
. Washington can be made true 81 Western
British Columbia There is market "a
practically unlimited market, a. home and
/ in tho north for everything that our rancn-
I crs can produce
IL is important 20 mention I'm This cou-
nectou mat the larger size supply on pro-
8ucos the easier u Is 10 occupy waiting
I market To gct customers it Is necessary
{ go have enough 90 sell 90 make d some
object foF purchasers 10 come 20 Us 10 buy.
For thls reason Ne believe that The sue
/ cess ~ rauchlng 90 Western british Coz
iumbia via depend 10 some extent Lq0u
the Introduction ~ cooperative method fog
{ the handling az praducs Johber~ nryd .o
T Re- informed AS % the supply % pr3d4ce
+ available Hitherto We have almost for
eoueu the possibilities q our agriculture.
bat the fact remains that upon the produce
/ az .s farms The futUrs prosperity 90 THIS
] uar.tou of the province rests 20 a degrpf
which not very many rc0n.e AZ present ap-
preciatc