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The Machinery Fend.
The friends and members of Equali
ty colony have undertaken to supply
the pioneers at the front with the ne
cessary machinery to enable them to
clear land, build houses and roads
and to carry on factories for making
most of the things we would use. A
grand start has been already made.
Over SI ,300 has been paid in. A large
substantial sawmill capable of cut
ting 20.000 feet of lumber in a day
has been paid for and is now being set
up. We have a shingle mill of about
26,000 to 30,000 capacity per day.
We who are on the ground here and
are therefore In a position to know
the facts and conditions claim that
•these two machines are the basis of a
living for the whole colony. Just as
soon as they can be put to work and
their products disposed of, we then
can apply, in a great measure, tl c
membership fees to the purchasing of
other necessary machines and Im
provements needed to make our la
bor effective. It Is poor economy for
us in the colony to spend our time
working by methods that our grand
fathers laid aside, all for the lack of
necessary tools.
More particularly is this western
country demanding machinery. The
timber is so big— our eastern friends
cannot realize what this means with
out seeing our forests~the stumps
are so enormous.and the industries
all around us being carried on by
larger capital and machinery, that
we of the Brotherhood are simply
'•not in It" without the co-operation
of nature's untiring forces, steam and
electricity. With machinery, we, by
co-operation have a decided advant
age: without it we will never be able
to solve the Industrial problem that
it is the mission of the BC C to
solve.
Now we have the sawmill and shin
gle mill, but THESE MUST BE SUPPLE
MENTED BY A DONKEY ENGINE TO
WAKE THEM AVAILABLE!
Now what is a "donkey engine"?
en eastern brother asks. It is a port
able engine of varying power accord
ing to the kind of work to do, going
up into perhaps a hundred horse
power or even more, and Is moved
about in the woods to clear land, pull
stumps and drag immense logs to a
sawmill. From five to ten logs are
hitched together and dragged around
ire.es. a.ad stumps and over hollows
-and bills as fast as a man can walk.
This is done by means of a steel wire
cable of any length desired. In this
way logs can be easily, quickly and
cheaply moved that could not be
budged with a livery stable full of
horses, and a donkey engine can draw
logs over wet land that no horse could
walk on.
Now, comrades, we have a large
sized nest egg as a starter for the
price of a donkey engine. It will
cost from $800 to 11,200, according to
whether we can find a good second
hand one or buy a new one. We will
need it immediately. It is for you as
well as for us. We here are trying
to put every dollar sent in to the best
possible use. We invite attention to
what has already been done here and
pledge ourselves to make a creditable
showing with whatever means the re
serves confide to US.
The machinery fund is a loan from
our friends according to the terms of
the agreement which is given below,
but payments to that fund may be
credited on membership fees if M de
sired, though of course in that case,
the amount would not be repaid.
THE MACHINERY FUND AGREEMENT.
"Resolved, That the general assem
bly of Equality colony hereby creat3
a special fund, to be known as the
'machinery fund,' to begin October 1,
3898. Into this fund shall be paid 25
per cent of all cash salaries drawn by
any and all members of Equality col
ony, and also 50 per cent of all gross
cash earnings of all machinery bought
in whole or in part by the machinery
fund. The payment of such earn
ings Into this fund shall begin six
months after the beginning of the
operation of such machinery in sach
particular case.
This machinery fund shall be for the
single purpose of repaying any and
all members and others who have or
shall contribute money or its equiva
lent toward the purchase of ma
chinery for Equality colony. This ma
chinery fund may be discontinued at
any regular meeting whenever all de
• mand* upon that fund shall have been
paid. All loans to this fund shall be
without interest, tne principal to lie
paid quarterly and the amount due
each lender shall lie calculated on the
ratio the amount of his loan btars to
the whole amount of the fund and
proportioned to the amount in the
machinery fund at the time of the
last quarterly payment. In bo case
•hall this fund be used except as
herein stated, and its disbursement
a»hall be in the same manner as other
moneys of the colonies are being paid
out."
Now, brothers, you have the wl ole
case, begging your pardon for being
so long winded. It is very important
that what we do we do quickly. Take
time to consider and then act
promptly. The future is ours if we
put our intelligence, our time and our
means into movement. Send all re
mittances to C. W. Belknap,
Secretary of Equality colony. Bel
fast, Skagit Co., Wash., and make
them payable to W. B. Bovd, Treas.
So generous and prompt have been
the responses to the call for a ma
chinery fund that the list is too long
to be kept standing. The number
contributing is over sixty. Hereafter
we will only print the names and
amounts of new contributors.
Now watch this amount grow.
Cash received to date $1040 75
—We will show up weather with
any of you, Southern California pre
ferred.
—In ten days from the time you
read this we will be burning our own
saw dust.
—Thousands of strawberry plants
for sale at the colony, 20 cents per
dozen, post paid.
- ?i^ iivarrlvi's tilt; to the col"
ony idea like a duck to water or a pol
itician to boodle.
—The various wheels, belts and pul
leys of the sawmill that fill our tool
house make it look like a foundry.
—They say we have raised more
cabbage than we can eat. But that
sort of overproduction will not cause
any grief here.
(2 —We are rushing the new sawmill
building. The first installment will
bt 30x90 feet, to be added to as we
need room.
—In Equality each one must cut
bait or fish. In plutocracy nine-tenths
of the people are robbed by a con
scienceless one-tenth.
—The agricultural department has
this week added to our store of winter
food 44 sacks of onions, about (if) bu.
We have some 12 or 15 sacks yet to
harvest.
At odd times the young men jump
in and give a few licks to the dance
hall. It is safe to predict the com
pletion of that hall some time in the
future.
—The weather here is delightful:
all one could wish for. Warm, bright
days and cool nights. The days are
getting short now. We go to break
fast at sun up.
—These roast beef dinners on Sun
day are exhiliarating, and when we
exchange cord wood for the beef we
feel we are not encroaching on the
funds of the reserves.
The very largeness of our under
taking here inspires us to enthusias
tic effort. Small business and mean
surroundings make small and insig
nificant men, and vice versa.
—The place we located the new
mill site was probably the hardest
place to clear on the ranch, but we
put a force at work and now you may
play marbles there, all but. See what
labor will do.
—What a joy it is to work here
where there is no danger of losing
money on the job. Where no man
need be harried to death for fear the
job will not pay. Utility and beauty
pf the work before the almighty and
ever flitting dollar.
—Our visitors almost invariably ex
press surprise that we have done so
much work in so little time with such
crude tool*. Well, boys, you would all
have done the same, if bolstered up
by the ideals of a new and higher
life. The ideals do the work, not we.
—Granpop Fisher and some more of
the younger boys are after a bee tree
today (Sunday), which Granpop dis.
covered last week. We sincerely
hope it will be well filled, for Bro.
Pelton's hot biscuits with honey are
not very hard to take these cool morn
ings.
—The stump puller is still making
inroads m the big field of stumps.
Every stump pulled now assures us
just so many hills of potatoes next
year. However we may be forced to
rent some ground next year, as it is
cheaper and more advantageous to us
to rent land than to buy the products
outright.
! Our school started up last Mon
day with Mr. D. Burgess as superin
tendent of Education and Recreation
and principal of these howl, and Miss
Kate Halladay teacher. The attend
ance is small, as a number of youths
of both sexes of school age declined
to leave the work for another month
yet. Generous of them but short on
the school.
EDISON, SKAGIT COUNTY, WASH., SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 24, 1898.
—Bro. Fisher was elected superin
tendent of the agricultural depart
ment at our general assembly meet
ing Saturday.
—There is a tent up alongside of
No. 1 apartment house with "Photo"
on top, and the young folks are jubi
lant accordingly.
—This week finishes the hay haul
ing. On that score we are in out of
the wet. There is a good sized pile
of it in the big barn.
—The cuisine department put up
the first barrel ot saver kraut this
week. Our early cabbage are bursting
and we take this plan to save them,
and also to save the late cabbage.
—New members admitted during
the week were: D. N. Foy and wife
from Salt Lake City, Utah; J. W
Smith and wife from Quillayute,
Wash., and C. W. Belknap and wife
from lowa.
—Our beans are nearly all in. A
few more days of this fine weather
will finish them. We will have some
where near 50 bushels, which will give
us at least two meals per week the
coming winter.
—Turnips, well yes, all you want:
they are piled up on each other In the
field. Can't even get them thinned
out to give them a chance to grow.
We will have to call on the cows to
help eat them.
—The transportation department
has had a full week, fifteen horses in
the collar every day and no cord wood
hauled. Either with the mill, or the
hay and garden, we have been more
than busy. Cord wood can be hauled
on wet days.
—Bro. Davis' rye bread Jis, some of
the boys say, food fit for the gods,and
when you add the cereal coffee you
have substantial, wholesome food,
much better than the worrryhard
tack we read of the soldiers getting.
—Xew arrivals as prospective mem
bers; Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Jolly from
Butte, Mont.; Arthur Tunmore, from
Alpena, Mich.: and Elias Ahlberg,
Marinette, Wis. Applicants for ad
mission: .las. J. Tunmore, from Al
pena, Mich.
—Bros. Potts, Sandstrom and Ok
erlund abandoned the cabinet work a
few days this week, and devoted their
time to building a hog lot. The saw
mill site encroaching on the old one,
we had to branch out in another di
rection. . .
—Bro. Eichholtz came staggering
up the road this morning with two
immense radishes, with the tops full
of seed. We shall be well supplied
in that line, having some two or three
hundred well filled seed tops of differ
ent varieties.
—Some of our bike enthusiasts are
having their pictures taken today,
wheels and all. There are five or six
wheels in the colony, and while they
give their owners quite a bit of pleas
ure they are very useful In making
short trips back and forth in the Phil
istine's country.
—The fishermen did not strike It
very rich the last trip; seven salmon
in all. However, we cannot expect
smooth sailing or good fishing all the
time. Better luck next time, boys.
Don't get discouraged but cast your
net on the other side of the boat.per
haps it will break the next time you
pull in.
—Sorry to have to say it, but our
potatoes are not quite up to the
standard, yet they compare favora
bly with those of our surrounding
neighbors. It seems this is an off year
for potatoes. Economizing we may
have enough to last to February or
March; It takes about 5 bushels per
day for our family.
—Visitors were: Miss Jennie Gibson,
Butte, Mont.; 11. Hoffmeyer. Seattle,
Wash,; isaac Nordman, Marinette,
Wis.: V. S. Brock, Whatcom, Wash.
Other new arrivals were the wives
and families of John Paris and Hugh
Mooney from Coalgate, Indian Terri
tory, who were already members of
the colony, having joined several
months since.
Equality's Donkey Engine.
Comrades and Friends of the 11 C C:
1 want to have another personal
talk with each of you on the same
subject as before: "The Donkey En
gine." My letter has brought numer
ous replies from all parts of the
country and we at Equality feel very
grateful for the Interest you have
taken in US. We now have a fund of
near $150, and the fund is growing
everyday. But 1 feel we must have
that donkey engine Inside of the next
sixty days. Our sawmill is now in
course of erection and will no doubt
be ready to run by Oct. 15.
And right there we need the donkey
engine. 1 have been here about six
months and feel as if I can give a
somewhat Intelligent opinion of the
lands and products of Equality
colony, and can say that while i have
farmed some of the richest lands in
Missouri and the rich black lands of
Texas, the fact is I had never seen
any real rich land until i saw the
land of Skagit county, and especially
of Equality. In this land of wonder
ful vegetable growth, the best adapt*
ed to grafts and stock raising 1 have
ever seen, where the largest crops of
hay and oats are grown year after
year without any fertilizer, where
crops have never been known to fail,
where we practically have no summer
or winter, as we know it East—in this
land and under those conditions is
Equality located.
But to get the full benefit of those
conditions our land must be cleared
of logs, trees and stumps, and there
is no power so cheap as a "donkey" to
do it, as it only eats wood and kicks
only when overloaded, which is hard
to do. Now let us look the matter
square in the face. This land cost us
about $10 per acre; cleared and plowed
is easily worth $100 per acre. That is
what such land sells at. But Its use
value cannot be estimated. Now this
place is to be the future home of a
great many of you, and the quicker
we get this land cleared and lumber
sawed the quicker we will be able to
offer you individual houses and the
other comforts of life that this good
land and climate produce.
And I have so much faith in the fu
ture of this country, and especially
in the future of Equality colony, that
I make this offer: For every $100 put
into the machinery fund, or turned in
on membership fees, I will put in the
machinery fund $50. up to the amount
of 8800; or, in other words, I will put
in $300 if others will put np $('.OO, and
when that is done the "donkey" is
ours. Who will be first on the list?
Fraternally yours,
Oliver P. Darr.
Equality, Sept. 19, 1898.
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