When lowland businessmen found out there was money to be made there, they were quick in making enticing offers to the aborigines to rent out their lands.
商人的鼻子很靈，他們一「聞」到事有可為，立刻挾著資本、技術和產銷經驗上山，約以廿至四十萬元一公頃的代價，向泰雅族人租取耕作權，這是當時先住民從沒想過的高價。在銀彈攻勢下，不少平地人租到地。