Bisbee daily review., 1910-12-18

The city man is going back to
 the hrm" ,alright One company's
 repsrs just issued shows sales i3 two years of nearly 15oooo acres. largely to city men and women. in
 tracts averaging I3.s acres. ali in
 one 1acality in Florida
 City men have taken from this Chicago company first 30.000. then S5.0es then s5.0o0 and finally 15.e0o acree of an so.0Oo acre tract. but nevertheless the selling seems only to have got a good fair start. for the sales of November Uhe last month reported) were fifteen thousand acres. which snows a growing rather than diminishing exodus from the city flat and the counting room. Other companies have sold thou. sands of acres in other places, al though the record of 15o.000 acrol to some 1o.eoo city men in two years is a new one in colonization Sales in rexa9 Idaho and other states have been large, if not so astounding as evidence of the city mans mood.
 The success of the land shows in Chicago was conspicuously due to the city man, for he and his yearn- ins, and his wife and her yearning are to be seen in throngs moving from one exhibit to another and devouring with hungry eyes both ex- hibifs and literature The problems of living cost have changed the man who sneered at the farmer ten years ago to an eager student of intensive farming profits and methods. He has learned the lesson of the consum- CT, and envies the producer. ergo hs would be one.
 whether the going of those whc have gone back to the farm" has been a success. can be determined by the experience Of these 10000 buyers It is evident that many rosy dreams have been shattered by try-Sut- But IL l5 also evident that these who went back to the land with some degree of knowlege. intel. ligence and spunk and with capital to maintain them during the pre- liminary period have achieved sue cess of varying intensity. Apparently it depends on the man. h this as in undertakings of the city. The ne'er-doweil has sustained his repu- tation and now. if he is back in the {, city. he fs fsirly bursting with ana 1 ,hema for the farm. On the contrary, others who did not hazard the i, change blindly, have found their lit i tie Kingdoms of domestic independ- | encs, and this Christmas are merry i and contented, though hustling hard. |
 Take this company's colonists: l Out of the 10,c00 land buyers over 4.se8 have gone to the new Florida !! home. about 4nOo have expressed their intention to 20 and 20 per cent will benefit by the increment of the others labors and development work. Out of the 4.oo0 odd who have gone. bag and baggage. to develop their land a full 10 per cent were failures and their failure worked in- jury 10 themselves and the district. but the results of the other $500 families are such as to add more ''unsarned increment" than forseen to the speculator's holdings Roads have been made by the company and houses have been built by the colonists. land cleared three towns created. Gangs of carpenters. grad CTS. engineers and laborers. making a monthly payroll Of sI2.000 for the company, have reduced dis tances opened up communication and helped the absentee landlord az we'll as those on the ground. One Detroit man Is said to receive s900 q year rent for so acres which cost him s2,0o9 because t became part of a townsite.
 The failures gre a pititul lot, most iy men who lacked capital and jugd- ment but nevertheless threw thsm- selves at the feet of Nature expect ing some miracle 70 be performed They are either back in the cities again or trying to get back. The crops did not maeically grow. riren and cast their golden rewards into their eager hands promptly upon arrival: there were the regular de ta1s Of clearing. blowing fencing. seeding. cu'tivating and harvestine before the money came in. One would suppose that this interval would be foreseen by all. but 1t wasn't and overs'sht cost dearly.
 Prt for the city man who wer. erecting end rrcviding agains. the way fn which Nature wo~ks. Fenorts 1F ko South