THE FARMERS' HOMESEEKERS' 



LEAGUE. 



"FREE HOMES FOR WILLING WORKERS." 5 



sections of land cannot well be settled on by people individually. j| 

 as it requires the united effort of a number of men to create the j| 

 improvements necessary to open up the land for profitable culti- * 



The object of this article is to extend a cordial invitation to 

 homeseekers to join the "Farmers' Homeseekers' League" and by 

 so doing gain all the advantages of mutual aid and concerted 

 action. By the term "homeseekers" we mean those on the look- 

 out for suitable locations for home-making along with land and 

 conditions that will yield full returns for labor. 



On the axiom that "union is strength" it is our aim to have 

 our membership sufficiently large and powerful to insure the suc- 

 cess of our movement to the fullest extent The program of the 

 League is to select for settlement one of the many hundreds ofs 

 sites throughout the western states that are known to pcsses 

 very fertile soil and natural facilities for raising bountiful crops 

 thereon. Owing to reasons that we shall explain elsewhere these ^ 





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vation. Many of the tracts of land to which we allude have been 

 acquired by land companies for the purposes of speculation and 

 are being held at rates that put them practically out of the reach 

 of the average homeseeker. Our intention is to avoid the neces- 

 sity of having to go to these concerns by procuring the land di- 

 rect from the government, which stands willing to make free 

 grants to colonies and associations of men who undertake the 

 work of reclamation. In this way our members will secure 

 land for little more than the labor spent on the improvement, 

 that had they bought from land companies might cost from 

 $25.00 to $100.00 an acre. Information of several suitable loca- 

 tions is already at hand and other is expected, so that by the time 

 the League has completed organization we shall have a good se- 

 lection to choose from. 



If you feel any interest in the movement and think it ought 

 to be pushed along, join the League and help us to uphold the 

 principles ''Free hu7nes for ic ill ing workers" so long as Uncle Sam 



