Evening journal., 1921-06-03
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STATES ALBRIGHT
Swedish People Going Back
Home Spread the News
About Farms Here
SIDE LIGHT ON
NEW POPULATION

NEW YORK-AmoRg the floating |
population OF New York City, which /
averages about 100000 daily. there
moved one day an unconspicuous /
little group OF forty men, women and |
children whose presence in Father 4
Knickerbocker's town had a bearing /
upon two great lessons OF the day |
from American life. The first idea /
these visitors represented was how /
immigrants can grow rich on farms |
in America The second idea was /
that so far from proving the ruin Of
grape growers, Prohibition has en-
riched them.
II Robert Lundell, leader OF the |
party, could have taken his neigh |
bors and friends into the halls OF /
Congress and related there the re-
narkable story OF prosperity, con-
tentment and pride in the soil Of the |
United States which he told in New
York. perhaps. the Immigration Bill |
now before the national lawmakers
would be seen in a different view.
Yes. we are growing rich out in
California, and we are now going
back to Sweden to tell the folks over
there Il IS a great mistake TO come
TO America and settle in the cities"
This, in brief, from Mr.. Lundell,
explained the presence OF about forty
thrifty immigrant aliens, who came
from Sweden about twenty years ago
20 New York. They are all Ameri-
can citizens today and proud OF IL
They all hail from Kingsbury, Cal,
a little town nesting amid the rising
-
county. II can be said, with excep-
tional regard for accuracy, that they
have grown rich on a few acres of
ground. which they transformed
into smiling vineyards and peach
orchards. Three years ago they
were in the depths OF despair. be-
cause they believed prohibition
would prove their ruin. Since the
Volsteac Act outlawed wine making,
however. home brew" and home
vintage" have become such winning
cards that grapes have risen in price
from $40 a ton to $50. and even 500
a ton, right of the vines. With
thousands Of dollars in bank. these
Swedish immigrants OF twenty years
ago are returning 10 their home
country TO spread the glad tidings
throughout Sweden that millions
can be made from the soil Of Amer
ica, and that Il is a mistake to come
here and settle in cities"
In this group OF model immi-
grants who have more than made
good" on American farms, there
were, besides Lundeli. Algot Peter
son. who netted $4,000 last year
from fourteen acres OF land; John
Wilton and wife. grown rich at farm
ing and now retired; Alfred Modene.
who has been back three times be-
fore TO tell the people IN Sweden OF
the wondrous opportunities on Amer
ican farms; Hugo Sandberg. Emil
Anderson. Andrew Elm, Oscar Boil
inder and family. owners OF several
farms; Bror Crone and family. Oscar
Samuelson and family; Gus Bjork
and family; John Benson and son;
Robert Paterson. Miss Marie Boline
and Others
The party was divided and stop
ping at two hotelA while waiting for
the buckingham to sail for Sweden
Robert Lunden headed one group
al Hotel Albert. while oscar Bolind-
er heads the other.
II
from Sweden in 1892" said Lundell,
-and all had was enough money
TO take me TO Chicago 1 worked in
a steam laundry and earned enough
to reach California, where I again
secured employment in laundry.
Pretty soon I had saved enough
money 20 start a small laundry Of
my own In Kingsbury, Cal, which
later sold out and put my money In
a farm. II takes only about ten or
twenty acres Of ground 70 get rich
in California II costs from $4,000
10 $1,000 to put the land in vine
yards or peach orchards, and then
ones fortune Is made.
prohibition. we thought would
be our ruin, but II has turned out
Just the opposite. People In all
parts OF the United States are now
buying our grapes 70 make their
home brew and the price Of what
we call green grapes, meaning ripe
grapes fresh from the vine before
drying, has gone from $40 a ton 10
$50 a ton, and we expect II 10 go
over 800 next fall"
All the tourists are netghbors In
California, but they came from dif-
ferent parts OF Sweden. They will
return to the United States next taii-
tt,o