New-York tribune., 1870-11-05
UNION COLONY.


such information "a obtained during my late hur-
riod visit, in addition to what already knew Those
interested may appropriate such portions thereof
sult them respectively and hope to eucidate some
points that will interest all who contemplate the
formation OF new colonies settlements any Of
Territories or States. In the hope Of attaining
greater perspicuiy will throw the facts into the
shape of answers to questions follows:
!. What IL Union Colonyf
Ansrcr. Union Colony is an association or company
OF persons who work for living. with intent to se-
leot and SECURE advantageous location whereon 10
establish their future homes.
3. Hon IL formedf
4. BY public meeting held about a year since.
after due notice. in tho City Of New-York, and at
tended by two OF three hundred persons from differ
ent localities. At this meeting the outline Of its
ganization and efforts decided on and persons
selected to give practical effect ~ ts leading pur
poses
B. What "a ns peoun'Gry bdsasf
H. A cash subscription of $3.50 from each member,
with 81 additional to pay contingent expenses.
Since the Colony has been established, the price Of
membership has been raised by vote OF the mem
bers to 500 the $50 difference being judged fair
equivalent for the hazards brsyed and bardshps GU
dured by the original members.
T. What does each member reoe,re for h,s inre'ment'
A. He receives his equal allotment from the lands
| purchased with the capital thus aggregated and an
equal right to the water which the Colony has ST.
cured may hereafter secure. by is outlay and ito
! efforts for purposes of Irrigation
5. Hon many nembsrs compose he Colony'
A. About ono thousand and the number is steadily
| increasing
| 6 Whre has IL mad. is locaiionf
4. Early in the present year its locating com
| and
protracted travel aud inquiry selected loca-
| ton on both sides Of the little river Cache
| Ia Poudre. the lower part of its course east
ward from the base of Longs Peak in the Rocky
Mountains to be lost i'll the South Platte. The nu-
clous of the colony is the village Of Greeley which
has since sprung up. like Jonah's gourd around the
station of the Denver Pacific Railroad which here
crosses the Cache Ia POudr0 in it, northward
| from Denver to the Union Pacific at Cheyenne. The
Denver Pacific connects with the Kansas Pacific at
Denver so that this colony has railroad communica-
tion with Kansas and Missouri. "a well with Ne
| braska and Iowa.
Z. What are the advantages Of this location!
| A. rich deep soil, free from bog stick stump,
or stOne very easily broken UP and titled, and re-
| quirng only water to render it abundantly and
surely productive. All these, with pure, bracing
atmosphere and remarkably healthy climate, it
shares with other localities but its facilities for
| cheap and extensive Irrigation peculiar and
think unequaled Wood and timber abound on the
| lower hills and in the gorges Of the Rocky Noun
| tains. from % to 30 miles distant, and may be
floated down to the settlement when the Cache la
Poudre is at its high stage, that is, in June. The
lands of the Cache la Poudre covered and sur
rounded by the short thin herbage known as gramma
grass which is said to be very nOurishng and tocure
on the stalk so as to be equally acceptable to cattle
| in Winter as in Summer, and TO subsst vast herds
without other fodder am not sure that this is an
advantage though to the pioneer Of scanty means it
will naturally seem such.
| 8. H0u much land has the Colony secured!
4. About 50,00O acres, very uniform in quality and
almost without exception arabic.
| y. BY uhat tenure is his land heldf
A. Largely by purchase for cash from the railroad
| company, who received it from the Government for
building the railroad. The alternate sections have
been bought directly from the Government, or from
settlers who had so bought, are secured by pre-
| emptiOn under the law
TO- What is is assurance that these preempOn claims
may not be Jumped" and itself thereby inrolred in quar-
reLs aud dUsuits Nth reckless sq,idtters'
4. The fact that the land cannot be cultivated or
made available without water from its irrigsting
canals which are constructed under grants OF power
| from the Legislature of Colorado. Everything in
reason has been done by that Legislature to protect
this Colony from all manner ofrapacity and rascaty
! II. Whdi are the leading Industries Of this Colony!
A. As get house-building mainly in the village, with
the arts subsidiary thereto and digging irrigating
I canals have mainly crossed attention When col
onists began to arrive late in April early in May
last there was not shelter for their heads to be
had for love money. post-ofice, 10 by 10 feet,
was the only structure TO be seen. Since then four
or five hundred dwellings have been built with some
| other structures, nearly so many gardens made and
water LEI into each public park laid out and planted
with trees and large yields from small areas of spring
wheat, buckwheat, turnips, &c, &c, realized did
not hear of single failure except those caused by
the rayages Of hungry cattle. am confident that II
every acre owned by the Colony could this Winter be
plowed and next Spring seeded to wheat, the yield
would average 40 bushels per acre. The potatoes
grown this year, though mainly planted in jane or
| Juy. were at once abundant and excellent.
70 Uhsre uiH this Colony fnd Markets.
! A. Right at home for the present, and among the
mines which abound in the adjacent mountains at
| all times The new and promising developments of
silver are but 30 OF 80 miles distant the god-mlnlng
operations on Clear Creek 20 or 30 milesfurther
! The mines of Colorado will consume all the grain
and vegetables that can be raised in that territory
for the next hundred years and, besides, the ranch
eros or cattle growers Of the Plains are every day in
creasing in number. while not very likely to fall
away in appetite Few of them grow grain. for want
| OF irrigation but all are glad TO help TO eat it,
Judge that the prices Of most grains and vegetables
viii range ~ high hele i'll the average as in our State
| or New-jersey.
19. Uhat manu- ufdoigres are likely 10 flourish here'
A. Those Of agricultural implements, saddlery,
househod-wares, and woolens Sheep are already nu-
a lAal.a aar.ft . .IlN
more so There is better location for the fabrics-
! g -. oboon srhstantial woolens such as Blankets