Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1910-06-17

Canadian authorizes ana I'e i"'Se
land corporations of the Northwest Ter
ritories are making strenuous efforts TO
attract settlers, An active campaign IS
NOW heipg carried on in New England.
Hundreds of thousands of our citizens
have lett this country, taking millions
If dollars with them In some states
fine exodus has assumed such proper
lions as to occasion alarm and the au-
thorities have instituted remedial meas
ures to STAY the food of emigration. In
a few of the states Land Boards are con.
Quoting real estate exchanges and are
makire a laudable effort to acquaint
homeseekers with the advantages and
opportunities of their own agricultural
districts.
The lure of the West, however, is still
strong and compelling, and the wonder
full industrial and agricultural develop
ment which is now going on in the arid
and semi-ard regions is attracting am
hitious aud adventurous young Ameri
cans. Our own government is endeaV'
oriug by opening to entry new farming
regions, and by the dissemination OF Ill
elature concerning the opportunities II
the far West to hold within our owf
borders the constantly increasing stream
of homeseekers whose eyes are tnrne'
toward the setting sun.
Out in the Great American Deser
stupendous engineering works are being
erected involving the expenditure O
millions of dollars. Massive masonr.
dams now block abysmal canyons an'
hold hack the enormous food flow o
torr4utjal streams. Thousands OF mile
of canals, many of which carry who'll
rivers. now water millions of acres
desert. The transformation whicl
water has wrought in this rainless LAM
is marvellous and the annual harvest
are valued at more than quarter OF
billion dollars.
On many of the great irrigation work
of the Government there are hundred
of farms on which water is ready TO
the coming of the homemaker. With
modest capital of $1,000 or more ma
can establish comfortable home o
one of these farms, and secure an il
come for himself end family and EMO
a degree of independence and freedoI
from worry unknown in the cities. 1T
Statistician of the Reclamation Servit
at Washington, d. c., reports that hui
dreds of homeseekers are leaving IL
cities and towns where the increase
cost of living has made difficult Il
problem of making both ends NEE
These people include all professions al
trades, from college professors to mil
workers and factory hands, and in
majority of the cases investigated, su
cess has followed their ventures into 81
newly opened farm land of the West
The requirements are not so much
knowledge of farming as sufficient cal
tai to get started and plenty of plu
and energy. The first few years on
irrigated farm III new country call I
hard work and plenty of it, but the ;
sured rewards of industry are great
than in humid region. Many OF t
new farmers are securing annual retur
greater than their original capital, a
this too in the third year on the land.
"Back to the farm" in the arid w,
does not mean isolation and loneline
nor the absence of the comforts a
uxuries which are customary in I
East. The irrigated farms are sms
communities are compact, the telephol
rural delivery, rail and even troll
transportation are all enjoyed. Church
schools, and social organizations I
quickly established. In all these fact
which go to make farm life agreea
the reclaimed districts are not far
hind the older settled parts of