WASHINGTON TERRITORY. 
BY A. G. TILLINGHAST. 
(In answer to Jesse A. Burrows, Rush, Pa.) 
The wages of farm hands has always been 
from thirty-five to fifty dollars per month; 
the latter figure for harvest hands. Now 
that the N. P. R R. is completed, so many 
are coming here that wages, no doubt, w 7 ill 
be much lower hereafter. There are about 
:six months that the days are so short and 
the weather so rainy that there is not much 
done on farms. I could not take the respon- 
ibility of advising any one to come here. 
Some come with nothing and in a few years 
have good homes and farms of* their own; 
others come with seemingly just as good 
chances, and are glad to get enough to go 
back home with, and are disgusted with the 
country. If a man is strong and able and 
willing to work hard, at rough, hard work, 
for five or ten years, he can acquire a com¬ 
petency here; but if he is weak or sickly he 
had better not try it. 
You could take up a timber claim of 160 
acres, build a iog house, clear off a garden 
spot, keep a cow, pig and chickens, hunt, 
fish, make shingles, stove wood, &c., to sell, 
and work out in harvest, thus making a liv¬ 
ing and having a home of your own, but it 
would be a long time before you could make 
a farm out of the woods. Some get ahead 
by renting farms of others, already made. 
All seem to get alorg well enough who have 
•iheir health and are willing to work. 
Farm hands are not treated so well here 
as they are in the east. Here you would 
•have to furnish your own bed and make it 
yourself, and hire or do your own washing, 
and be denied many of the privileges you 
would expect in the east, This custom pre 
vails all over the Pacifiic coast and a single 
man has to become a “blanket-man; still it 
is a roughness that doesn’t hurt much, and 
if you are strong, industrious, steady and 
don’t gamble, you can lay up money faster 
than in the east. To get here, buy an emi¬ 
grant ticket over the N. P. R R. to Seattle, 
Wash. Ter. Cost, about $65, to which add 
expenses by the way. You could get tlno 
for $75, but your expenses will probably 
foot up about $100. For further informa¬ 
tion apply to the Sec’ty of Immgration So 
ciety, Olympia, Wash, Ter.; Land Agent, 
U. P.RR,, Omaha, Neb.; or Land Agent, 
N. P.RR., St. Paul, Minn. They will send 
you free pamphlets describing the country 
and how to get here. 
(In answer to Charles Sherman, Rose, N. Y.) 
Puget Sound, or Western Washington, is 
more of a lumber country than farming 
country. You could take a timber claim 
with your soldier’s right, but it would be a 
long time before you could see fields of grain 
growing on your farm. It would cost $300 
per acre to get the trees and stumps off the 
land. Lumbermen have taken about all the 
land near the water that is valuable for the 
timber that is on it, and it will not pay to 
haul logs more than three or four miles to 
water. It is impracticable to make good 
roads through our heavy timber, swamps, 
&c. From the nature of the soil, (it being 
wet and miry all winter,) nothing short of 
plank road or a railroad would answer, and 
these cost so much that for many years 
your timber would be valueless. It is true 
you could select alder bottoms on swamp 
land easier to clear, but these lands are in 
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