It May Therefore Be Understood Of What Nature Would Be
The Traffic In These Warrants.
The owner of a single warrant might
find it of no value to him.
To go back utterly into the woods,
away from river or road, and there to commence with 160 acres of
forest, or even of prairie, would be a hopeless task even to an
American settler. Some mode of transport for his produce must be
found before his produce would be of value - before, indeed, he
could find the means of living. But a company buying up a large
aggregate of such warrants would possess the means of making such
allotments valuable and of reselling them at greatly increased
prices.
The primary settler, therefore - who, however, will not usually have
been the primary owner - goes to work upon his land amid all the
wildness of nature. He levels and burns the first trees, and
raises his first crop of corn amid stumps still standing four or
five feet above the soil; but he does not do so till some mode of
conveyance has been found for him. So much I have said hoping to
explain the mode in which the frontier speculator paves the way for
the frontier agriculturist. But the permanent farmer very
generally comes on the land as the third owner. The first settler
is a rough fellow, and seems to be so wedded to his rough life that
he leaves his land after his first wild work is done, and goes
again farther off to some untouched allotment.
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