Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-11-14
SETTLING LOGGED LANDS
IN SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON
The Idea that Those Lands Are Not Fertile, or
that the Cost of Clearing PrecladeS
Settlement IS lJnf0uaded
LAND IS FERTILE AND CLIMATE FAVORABLE
The Fine Farms In the Valleys Tributary to GrayS
farbOr Prove the AbSurdity of
All Such Talk

in the city limits who are making it
pay handsomely. 1t is idle to say
a business will not pay when other
people are making success of il.
The same is true of truck farming.
Give fifty ordinary men each five or
ten acres of land, and the chances
are twenty to one that not FIVE on.
of the fifty will make a success of
the undertaking, at least not for sew
eral years, or until after, by expert
ence and education, they are able TO
get sufficient knowledge of the bust
ness to properly conduct it. How
r. ~ men who have no previous ex-
orience make success in the mer
camille business? Good authorities
will say that at least ninety-five per
cent out of hundred men who take
up mercantile pursuits fail. This is
almost wholly and solely due to the
fact that they have had no previous
training, no proper education along
the line of business that they under
take. So many people seem to think
that anybody can raise poultry, can
properly conduct truck farm and
successfully handle a dairy. In an
experience running back over forty
years, we have never yet known of
a single instance where any individ-
ual starting into the poultry business
with as many as two hundred fowls
ever made a success of the business
for the first three of four years. The
average man should never start with
more than twenty-five birds, and care
fully study them-and II he doubles
the number each year and makes u
success of SO doing, he is accomplish
ing as much as ought really to be
expected of him. To successfully
handle poultry requires the closest at
tention to business, whole lot Of
hard work, and an extended expert
ence is absolutely necessary to the
success of the business. The same
is true Of truck farming. 1t is also
true in dairying. You must know
the business II you succeed, and In
addition to having the proper knowl-
edge you must have sufficient capital
to properly handle your enterprise, or
spend several years in building up
your business.
An able bodied man, who is willing
to work. can take five acres of reas-
onably level logged-off land anywhere
in the vicinity Of Raymond and at
the end Of five years, II he is 4 good
manager, can produce an almost in
dependent income from his small
tract. He cannot, however. do this
without previous experience and edu-
cation. The day has gone by when
anyone can take up farming. garden
ing. dairying, the raising Of berries
and poultry without fair knowledge
OF the business. and hope to succeed
at once. II they have the determine
tion to make for themselves a home,
and stay with their proposition, they
will eventually succeed. but it takes
several years to accomplish this pur-
pose. A five-acre ranch anywhere
within a few miles of Raymond, un-
der good state Of cultivation, with
the necessary buildings, stock and
equipment to get best results is worth
at least $4,000. II the average mar
succeeds at the end Of ten years In
having his tract under a good state
Of cultivation and out Of debt, he is
doing one hundred times as wen as
the average individual is doing in al
most any other line Of business. To
those who are discouraging the set
Ting and development of loEged-oH
lands. we would suggest that they
look over the number OF men employ
ed in the mills and logging camps
and see what they have n a result
Of ten years hard labor. The mum
ber Of men in a community that have
$2,500 in that time are
30 rare that 1t is not hard to fnd
them.
Any intelligent man, with fair
health and determination can take a
small tract of five or ten acres OF the
bench land in Pacific county and In
five years time. if he has as much
as $500 to start with, can have a
place that is easily worth $4,000. and
possibly more. 1t will be necessary.
however, to make some sacrifices.
and it will take lot or hard labor
no more labor, however. and NO more
sacrifice. than II he works BY the day
at any sort OF common labor.
Why anyone should question the
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