Farms Are Boring
In order to be able to cut down the giant redwoods the government needs workers.
The problems:
It would be an 8 hour commute round trip from the nearest town to the edge of the Belfast Valley.
No economy exists in the valley.....people fend for themselves.
There is no reason for anyone to want to move into the valley.
The Solution?
Pennies per acre.
Farms Are Boring
Although the prices were low, people still were not interested.
The population of the valley barely rose.
The road connecting the Valley to the rest of the Country was progressing slowly.
The exploration for coal had come to a standstill.
However the Small communities of the Valley were happy.
They had left the chaos of the city and had returned to nature.
They lived off the land and were able to do it for 2 years without power or water.
They broke away from electronics and took up sailing and hiking as they're main activities.
By this time most of the residents had even built they're own boats to to be able to catch the abundance of fish in the lake.
Although small this island prospered and grew.
The older section of the town was connected by a small dirt path, no one needed car for a settlement this small.
Just a few miles away at the mouth of the river that emptied into the lake the other settlement had grown to encompass
another city tile.
Not much is really going on in the valley.....its just a failed project in the eyes of the government.
To dangerous and distant from civilization for people to want to live there.
All but the president are ready to abandon the project to build a road into the middle of nowhere.
However he still belives there is something special about this place... a certain spark about it.
As the head of the construction project was packing up his workers to return back to civilization the president was sitting
in his office with a cup of coffee. Listening for anything from the radio that connected him to the last 2 explorers left in the woods.
Silence....and then something much more exciting then boring old farms:
" * static*.....for whoever is list * static*........just north *static*.........coal."
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