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Show SELECTED. CO-OPERATIVE HERDIXG. Editor Stntinel: It is tbe linie of year at winch al prudent people plan the business ot the comine year. Year after year, fur the past fifty years, the policy of cooperation co-operation La a,l branches of industry has been making progress. This i? true of all trades. Ia 1ST0, coionizi-tion, coionizi-tion, which is another name for co-operation in emigrating aud settling in new countries, demonstrated to everybody every-body that it was the only way to settle a new country. It demonstrated, that if adopted 100 years ago, we should have had twenty millions more people and infinitely more wealth, and from the schools and churches aud printing presses established at once on the frontier, fron-tier, a much mote intelligent popula- tiuu iiidu we uuw uave. xo man can look at the town of Greeley and not be-thoroughly be-thoroughly convinced of these truths, t he only word that I can think of in connection with such a mode of settlement, settle-ment, that conveys the idea, is trans-planting. trans-planting. Tnere is a New England, or New York or Ohio village of 2UUU people, with their wide, clean streets, their neat, white dwellings, and, in short, every component of trade, business busi-ness or society its schools, its churches, church-es, its printing press, its banks, its workshops, its . hotels, its mills, its public squares, its fountains, its public parks all transplanted bodily, bod-ily, it would seem, from the eastern valley where it used to nestle, to the Rocky Mountains. So much for what co operation will do in emigration. Now why not apply it to other branches of industry t AH agree that stock grazing is profitable. .Many L the man who looks the whole business over and sighs that his few dollars are not thousands that he might have a herd sufficiently large to bear the expense ex-pense of herding. Now if one man has not the means to start alone, let as many as have start together; in other words, co-operate; put your money together; to-gether; buy together; herd together; nave a nercier together, and pay mm together, and my word far it, they will make money together. There is not an honest, laboring man in this county but would economise to put his earnings earn-ings into such a company. t would be better than a savings bank, because it would compound principal and interest, in-terest, which no bank does. Every citizen of this town, every employe of the railroad, every soldier at the posts, would be benefitted by such co-operation, and they would be joined by hundreds hun-dreds of young men from the east who at the same time seek labor, and investment in-vestment for their small means. Who will lead in the matter '? 1L L. Laramie Lar-amie Heidiid. |