. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 12 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Jan. 7, 19C4. fornia would to-day rule the price of honey in the West and figure in the market of the , world. I referred to the fact that the American peo- ple were great for independence and a home of their own, and tliat the government en- couraged it by giving each a farm of 100 acres, providing they live on and improve it for 5 years; and said that thousands of the most enterprising young men, the very llower of the East, had come West to get free homes, and grow up with the eountrj', nearly all leav- ing their "
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 12 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Jan. 7, 19C4. fornia would to-day rule the price of honey in the West and figure in the market of the , world. I referred to the fact that the American peo- ple were great for independence and a home of their own, and tliat the government en- couraged it by giving each a farm of 100 acres, providing they live on and improve it for 5 years; and said that thousands of the most enterprising young men, the very llower of the East, had come West to get free homes, and grow up with the eountrj', nearly all leav- ing their " best girls " behind, tilling the West with bachelors, and the East with maids and widows. Fully a quarter of the businessmen, one-third of the bee-keepers and farmers, and over two-thirds of the mining men, are single. I said that wages for assistant housekeepers was many times greater than that of the East, and that there was a great demand, and that a car-load could be placed in our little valley, and over 500 in the capital of Arizona, in the best of families. I advised emigration, and those of limited means to fill positions of trust and honor until they could egtablish a home of their own. The Associated Press, by some means unknown to me, got hold of my letter, and thinking they had received a new revelation heralded it over the wires to nearly ever city in the United States. Mr. York re- ceived the electric current from Richmond, Va., and copied it, but seems to think the bet- ter class will prefer to remain in the East and be old maids, rather than be " peddled out " to the Western bee-keepers, as he calls it. He forgot that it is their brothers, cousins, and old schoolmates, that were attracted west- ward and have opened up a vast empire, and with the Government aid in storing water, and the arrival of the ladies, the arid West will be a land of happiness, milk and honey. Chicago being the great supply market for this new empire, Mr. York should have an
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