PLAN No. 374. FARMER IN A MINING DISTRICT
He was a good natured bachelor of good habits who felt he might as well live in the country with plenty as to work hard to live in the city and submit to the inconvenience of having ordinary food and poor neighbors.
So in 1907 he went to Grand Forks, B. C., and there took up a homestead on the Washington side, which cost but a few dollars.
This was a simple thing to do, as many men do the same in the northwest, but he immediately cultivated thirty-two acres, built a log house and out buildings. Then he made an investment of $675 in fourteen cows, one bull, twenty calves, twelve heifers and eight steers.
He had plenty of spare time so he worked in the mines near his homestead and in this way earned more than $1,800 a year.
Here is what he accomplished in four years—1907 to 1911:
The sale of his stock amounted to more than $5,000. He earned in the mines more than $1,800 a year. His farm sold for $3,000, which did not cost him over $200. He raised enough to feed himself, which means the money he earned was clear profit.
Figure out for yourself what he made, and anyway you figure it he made a big success.