The immigrants built houses, cultivated farms, raised children, and planted bamboo forests. By the 1940s and 50s, high quality bamboo from Tingpentsai proved an excellent material for the booming paper and bamboo industries, and locals began heading down the mountain to sell their wares, making some pretty good profits in the process.
起屋種地、生養兒女之餘，也大片種植竹林，民國 30 ~ 40 年代曾興起造紙和竹筍加工產業，以桂竹為材料製成粗紙，由人工挑往山下販賣，收入可觀。