A LITTLE LAND 50 



AND A LIVING 



from the city, and would haul their products 

 also. In this way the railroads would make 

 money out of the enterprise, once a colony was 

 started. 



SEMI-AGRICULTURAL COLONIES. 



Heretofore railroad communication followed 

 town building, and later town building followed 

 the opening of the railways nearby. The rail- 

 roads should look into this proposition and 

 should co-operate, to the extent of supplying 

 land along their lines, advancing the necessary 

 funds to lay out and build, or going so far as 

 to build houses themselves, renting the homes 

 at a nominal figure and realizing on the pas- 

 senger and freight traffic, which would increase 

 year by year as the colony grows. In the end 

 such an investment would bring handsome re- 

 turns and would go far toward making the rail- 

 roads a real big factor in civilization not only 

 in a commercial sense, as heretofore regarded; 

 not only as avenues of communication between 

 distant points; not only as builders and openers 

 of empires, but also as builders of a new and 

 healthful race, clutched from the fangs of the 



