The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-06
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ssry and .proht ai9ls: To change farm.
ing to gardening utiIizes the soil 70
a better advantage; the use Of hot
BEDS or hothouses VIII supply you
With fresh vegetab les even IN winter.
Your natural gas gives the cheapest
means to conduct hothonses. There
Is hardly point not In favor of
building ttp settlements IN this. sec
ton.
81 understand hat many land
owners here around do not care to
sell their land bus would prefer to
lease it. Some faVorably located
land could be secured anyhow for
building up villages in which each,
lot would consist OF not more than
a quarter or half an acre In this
case the settlers would rent as much
land as they need for their purpose.
& daIryman will need more land than
a truck farmer and florist or poul-
try man atil1 Tess than truck farnl-
er. All these desallss would take
care for itself when the work Is IL,
progrtEs.
''Your soil. your location and the
markets are good t1e settlers cant
help but make money And when
they are making money, every bust
ness in town Will benefit by It,
when you haye 9startea once.
there will be no stopping, for the
whole district between here and Fair
mont could be developed by degrees
in the course of time.
THE question is now TO find out
the best way for accomplishing re-
suits by locating q large number OF
small farms around cInrksburg.
There are Two ways, both prac-
tiraI. z5
Either to form company. TO sell
shares and bonds and buy land,
build houses and establish proper
headquarters for managing one or
more colonies and for adding later on
canneries.. diaries. packing houses,
grape-juice plants, etc Tin cans and
glass Jars are manufactured here,
big saving in freight for a cannery.
Another way would be TO estab-
lish headquarters here for getting the
colonistS, for inducing the landown-
ers to locate them. for taking care
OF the people, teach them what to
helping In dispcsIng OF the products
In uniform and improved way
I'm Oregon Is place called Eu-
spent the last year $4,000 for the
same purpose: this year they have.
raised the appropriat ton to $4,000.
because the. results were justtfylng
the expense.
THE expense could be paid back
by the landowners, say at least $50
for each farm sold. To locate in one
year 100 families Is easy have
much more applications on hand now.
OF course we had TO make the right
kind OF oGeF, namely very small
payment down and easy terms.
The valuation of the small farms
can be high. for the advantages Of
fered in we'll. managed colony are
Valuable TO the eolonists and they
can pay for IT, a hundEed families
would already pay back the expense.
In addition you have gained the earn
ing capacity OF 100 families. amount
ing to at least 100000. and have
around you class S6f-progressive and
thrifty people, Who Will ;urn out as
loyal citizens.
Don't think thas my statement; OF
tho earning capacity is too high; in i
fact much higher returns can bel
made on 10 acres with truck-farm-
ing, if there is a system behind II.
las have said before, and when /
you have started once there Will be
no stopping. for what you would Of
fer to settlers is ust that what thou
sands OF people are looking and |
prayfrgs for. can even bring you
many American farmers, nov locat- !
ed in mountain districts on poor and
exhausted soil, where they are unahic
to make decent living.
Small farms good home markets
and cooperative work in disposing
of the products represent tho key to
success in farming for this section
~ am PERFECTLY willing to accept a
one years contract and would leave
It TO you to continue the contract or
not After ono years work. you can
Judge for yourself whether the Board
Of Trade ora private company would
give the best results But / could
not undertake. to induce people to
settle here without being able to
take care of them and to live with
them
MY tra!nlng will also enable me
10 arrange different enterprises
wherein farm products are furnish
Ing the raw materials. as cannery.
starch misunderstanding alcohol plant,
etc / could also take care of the
examination OF milk. water and 9th
ar foePl supplies according to the