The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-04-08

one grand orchard, and yet, the
fruit lay under the trees ungathered
beautiful apples, large and red and
smooth and free from infection or
insects. The cause? No market
That condition would never happen
in Wayne, not if every available foot
of ground in the whole country was
planted to apples. There was rea-
son for this stagnation of the apple
market here, and as these fellows are
a wise set 1 doubt it's happening
again.
Who Should Get
Homes in the West.
There are, no doubt, a thousand
people in your midst who could take
advantage of the homestead laws and
get Montana home and better their
condition. To the wage Garner l ap-
peal, you who have to get up and go
at the clang of bell or the toot of
a whistle, whose ears are trained TO
catch the foreman's step. You
slaves of the twentieth century civil
lization, you who have never been
your own boss, or done your own
thinking, to you whom the Declara-
tion of Independence has no real
meaning, say, Come out west and
get home, real home of your own.
1t may be lonesome at first. Your
children may have to ride horseback
to school, your wife may have to take
the same conveyance to make an af-
ternoon call on a neighbor or to go
to church, yet the bloom of health
on their faces, and the fearless
expression of their eyes will we'll ie-
pay you, even though your children
are not allowed the privilege of
mingling with the crowds in the busy
marts of the world They will not be
shy like hirlings. Should a stranger
come to your gate and ask who owns
the land, they will look him straight
in the eye, not brazen, but still un-
abashed, and say MY Dad"
Neighbors Getting Close.
Safety in Montana.
The country is settling up. Neigh
bors are getting closer. There are
people living within one mile of each
other in Montana now. Still, you do
not have to lock your granary door
at night, or your house door, either
You do not have to send a bodyguard
with your wife and daughter if they
have to make long trip either in
the day time or at night.
Bright Prospects for
Montana Surveyors.
The last grand opening to take
place in Montana soon!" Why, all
the land in Montana will not be sur
veyed for ten years to come. Mon
tana is the third largest state in the
Union with population of 375,053 in
1910, little more than half that of
Rhode Island, with an area as large
as Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecti-
cut, New Jersey, Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland,
West Virginia, and South Carolina
combined. The state is rich enough
to provide for the millions of people
who inhabit those states. The fastest
train crossing the state, coming into
the eastern boundary at 800 D. m.
does not leave it until 700 p. m. the
following day, and will travel 780
miles For 25 years three transcon-
tinental roads, the Union Pacific, the
Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern sold tickets to tourists and
home seekers in a vain attempt to fill
up the state of Washington. During
all that time and until the Chicago,
Milwaukee and Puget Sound came
in the state stop-over privileges
could not be obtained. The railroads
wanted to settle the long haul first
Pullman Tourists Can't
Give Much Information.
You need not be afraid that the
land will be all gobbled up in Mon
tana this year. But, you are getting
older each year and if you ever in
tend to come west, now is the time.
Find out where this vacant land is.
Don't ask some one who has crossed
the state in a Pullman car. You can
see by the figures he was part of the
time in berth asleep, of if awake
it was too dark for him to see any
thing Then again, the roadbed fol-
lows the streams to get the grade
so the tourist sees a long stretch of
mountains and timber. When he
has crossed the State he will prob
ably ask where the hundreds of
thousands of Buffalo found grass
and pasture before the white man
came. This grew on the great
plains of the west you read about
in your youth. The Indians did not
cut Oil grass, HOT cut DOWN LrooS
and plant alfalfa for these Buffalo to
winter on. Then after the Buffalo
there were millions of sheep, and
hundreds of thousands of horses and
cattle that ranged over the state.
These had to be fed, and the feed
grew on these same plains. These
wild ranges are now being surveyed
into 160-acre parcels to be given
away to boni fide citizens of this
great Republic. What kind of land
do you want-some timber and some
opener some of the rich bottom
land? fiat? or hilly? with, or with
out rocks? Would you like it un-
derlain with coal, with a top soil of
one to LOS per cent. lime, with one
tenth of one per cent. nitrogen,
where you can raise the biggest
wheat crops grown in the world, or
any other kind of grain for that mat
ter, with rich sub-soil of clay SO
the moisture can not leak out: or,