Year: 1877

of human industry in the world, that
yields so steady and sure a return for
the labor and capital expended as agri-
culture. There ARE very few acres Of
land in the Puget Sound Basin north of
Seattle that, when properly cleared and
cultivated, will not yield sixty bushels OF
grain to the acre and other products in
proportion. except few gravely ridges
or lands on the islands too easily dried
out. True, these lands are heavily tim.
bered. If they were not they would not
be so rich.


TO sum up--we have laboring
men, with out trades, and capital enough
for all enterprises already established
But for hard working agriculturlsts, men
with or without families, who want
homes, farms of theil own, we have plen.
ty Of lands, virgin soil, as rich as any in
the vallies of the Mississippi, the ANA
zon or the Nile even They are not prairie
lands, they must be cleared. If man
will take up a wild claim, and work on
1t as hard as he will have to work if he
hires out for wages, in one year it can be
brought into condition to support him,
ii he continues to work and improve it.


Now let all the laboring men here in
stead Of growing about the hard times,
and waiting for California, our great
lumber market, to recover from the ell
fects of the present drouth, so AS to
cause q demand for our lumber and make
times good again, take up claim, some
of the very land they have been tramp
ing over, in going from one logging camp
to another in search of work, settle down
and go to work, hewing for themselves
home out Of the wilderness, as their
fathers or grand fathers did before them
in the east, and our word for it, in five
years time, they will have more money,
friends and respectability than they have
enjoyed during the last five years, lead
ing the wandering life of hiring.


There are, perhaps some, who have
followed the logging business so long
chat they think they could noe turn their
attention to farming successfully. To
such we would recommend that instead
of trying to log exclusively tor large
mills, to tlrn their attention to small
water and portable steam mills and man
IAiaG,ure q class of luaaoer that at pres
ent is wasted in cutting long timber for
large establishments The old growth of
fallen cedar, now hardly ever utilized,
except for shingles and rails, most of it
being burned up in swapping to get it
out of the way, can be manufactured into
lumber that will bring thirty dollars per
thousand. Wehave a chamber set of fur
niture, made from this same material,
(the lumber was sawed at Ferguson &
Morgan's mill which will compare f-
vorably with any manufactured any
| where off this river.


Many loggers spend thousand or two
dollars every winter, opening roads to
claims oflarge timber, any two of whnmc,
if they would join together, expend the
same amount oflabor and money on snlal
water or portable mill, could turn all
that class of lumber now destroyed into a
source of profit, and have oil their heavy
timber beside. Will not some one make
a start Others will follow, for the ex-
pertinent will be a success. The market
cannot be glutted, for that class Of lum.
Der has only to become known to be
sought after all over the coast.


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