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small bodies, only enough for a few farms 
in each, and so far apart from each other in 
the great woods that you would not have 
enough neighbors for schools, society, &c., 
and still would have to make and main¬ 
tain miles of costly roads out to the water’s 
edge. The bottom lands need draining, 
and most of them dyking, to keep off flood¬ 
ing rivers, The salt marsh lands have long 
been all taken, and those in cultivation are 
worth $100 per acre. People crowd near 
the water’s edge and on the navigable riv¬ 
ers, and on acconnt of the great expense of 
road-making do not push back into the in¬ 
terior. The timber is mostly of fir and 
cedar. There is much spruce and pine, and 
some hemlock, maple, willow and alder. 
The fir and cedar grow to a height of 100 to 
250, and are frequently 9 feet in diameter, 
their roots covering sometimes from one- 
fourth to one-half of an acre of ground. 
Oats and barley are about the only grain 
raised on the Sound. Oats yield from 50 to 
100 bushels to an acre; barley about the 
same. On the reclaimed salt marsh linds 
oats are the main thing raised. Some sin¬ 
gle farmers raising 20,000 bushels or more 
per year. They are sent to San Francisco 
and sell for about 50 cents per bushel. There 
is still plenty of wild game. Elk and deer 
back in the mountains, and deer on the 
islands. Duck and wild geese are very 
abundant in the winter. Fish abound in 
the Sound, lake and rivers. Salmon, hali¬ 
but, trout, tom cods, clams, crabs, &c. 
The climate is cool and pleasant in summer: 
no hot weather and generally plenty of 
refreshing showers during the summer 
months. In winter we have cloudy, rainy 
weather, most of the time, with occasionally 
pleasant frosty weather when the wind is 
in the North, but in the seven winters I 
have passed on the Sound, I have never yet 
seen the thermometer down to zero. The 
summers are delightful, the winters are 
disagreeable. 
The climate is healthy if care is taken to 
avoid exposure to dampness in winter. 
Owing to so many coming over the N. P. 
R. R. this spring the probability is that 
wages will rule lower the coming year. 
When lumber trade is brisk, the saw mills 
and logging camps pay high wages. Farm 
hands get good board, but there the em¬ 
ployer's responsibility ceases. The men have 
to find their own sleeping accommodations 
as best they can. We call them blanket 
men. here, and it would remind you of 
your old army fare. The towns are grow¬ 
ing and building up rapidly; and carpenters, 
masons, &c., get work at good wages. This 
is a better country for a day laborer to 
make money in, than any other I know of. 
Only gambling and drinking habits prevent 
them laying up money. As a generel rule, 
a man who can get along well in the East 
can get along here, and a man who cannot 
find anything to take hold of at home, can’t 
do much here. It requires patience, per¬ 
severance and pluck to get a foothold and 
succeed anywhere. Some are lucky and 
know a good opening and opportunity when 
they see it; others grumble and growl and 
seem to be mad because some one or 
something don’t put them right into a good 
business or on a good improved farm where 
all they will have to do is to take the 
profits. If I were to look for a homestead, 
myself, as the main thing, I would look 
through the Eastern part of the Territory,, 
instead of on the Sound. You are about 
ten years too late for this part of the Ter¬ 
ritory, unless you would be satisfied to 
locate back in the wilderness away from 
roads or water and wait for railroads to 
open up you a way out. If your object is 
to see the world, the chance is good, strike 
out and keep your eyes open; there is 
nothing like seeing for yourself. 
The free pamphlets describing this coun¬ 
try are all in the main, correct, but do not 
mention the draw-backs. These, are bad 
roads, damp winters, mosquitoes, fleas., 
ferns and difficulty of getting plow-lands. 
There is a great future before us, but prog¬ 
ress must be slow and we must learn to 
labor and wait. 
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