White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-15
STATE AID FOR
HOMESEEKERS
FURNISHED HOUSE AND EQUIP
MENT SOLD TO NEWCOMERS ON
INSTALLMENT PLAN MIGHT
PROVE NEVADA'S SALVATION.

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at the same time earn more than at
present by being invested in the
safest proposals. Let it be the means
OF bringing into the state family after
family of home-making settlers, peo-
pie who want homes in an agri-
cultural country and are willing to
work their full share and more to
gain a foothold. This is the idea o.
Captain Harry Gosse of the River
side hotel, who is advocating the ap-
pointment of a committee to study
the subject from all angles and sub
nit some recommendations regarding
the matter to the state legislature,
says the Reno Gazette.
Briefly, Captain Gosse believes:
That the state needs settlers more
than it needs anything else at the
present time. And to get them, his
plan, briefly outlined, is to let the
state set them up in business. In
other words, let the state help them
to secure a farm and put it on a pay
ing basis, and after it is on a paying
basis, let the farmer pay back to the
state what he has cost the common
wealth, together with a reasonable
sum of interest.
In so far as actual cash is concern
] al na4 a aapf narIJ L., ,;Y., .. H.
newcomer. The state would pay for
the land he wished TO settle on. and
also would pay for a small house and
whatever equipment in the way of
agricultural improvements was need
ed. All this with the understanding
that the newcomer was to have, say,
four or five years in which to get a
foothold. The first year, of course,
he could hardly more than get his
land cleared. The second year he
would just begin getting a start,
while in the third and fourth years
he would begin to have an income
which would allow him to buy his
home. And throughout the entire
proceedings the state would be pro-
tected. as any person taking up a
farm under the proposed conditions
would not be allowed to take my
thing pertaining to the farm away
with him in cast he grew tired and
wished to quit. And if the man who
quits had been on a piece of land two
years. then the state would have that
much more choice a farm, already
equipped, TO offer to some more reli-
able man.
or course, there are many details
to a plan like this which would neees-
sarily have to be worked out by ex-
perts, but in proposing the substance
of the scheme, Mr.. Gosse believes he
has struck the keynote for the future
upbuilding of Nevada, and he is go
ing to make every effort to fan the
public interest to the point where
some definite steps will be taken to
carry the plan into execution.
Roughly estimating-for exact fig
ures are impossible without more de-
tailed investigation and study-Mr.
Gosse figures that should the state ap-
propriate only $500, 900 to the work,
that, at least. would be sufficient to
bring between 200 and 800 new
families into the state.
The farmer coming to the state to
take up land under this plan would
not be allowed to come here and SIM
ply ask for and be granted a tract of
land. a house and farming imple-
ments. He would have to give an
account of himself for at least 10
years back, to show he was a fairly
trustworthy a and not one given
to going into such things because he
thought it was an opportunity to get
something without effort or expense.
But at the same time, even though a
10-year record might show that a
Il ii0i a ~ W iah "a pay us
investment OF his farm in some other
part of the country, this would not
necessarily bar him from being given
a grant in Nevada. For the investi-
gators into a mans character would
have to be liberal enough and with
enough common sense to pick out the
real men and take into consideration
conditions surrounding the man when
he made his other attempt. For the
man who failed in one state might
come to the fertile lands of Nevada
and make the biggest success of any,
because he would be coming into his
own under proper conditions.
Under a liberal you help me and