Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-30
COLONIZATION scHEMr.
Professor Boucher's Plan for Establishing
French Villages and Bringing from
France Into Minnesota q Community of
Sno,iaIists in A griculture

Professor Boucher's Plan for Establishing
French villages and Bringing from
France Into Minnesota Community Of
SPECIALISTS in Agriculture.
The plan proposed by Prof. f. c. Boucher
is for the purpose of purchasing large tract
of land, establishing French villages in the
State of Minnesota, to create farms, and in
troducing colonists from France to engage in
the cultivation of beets, sorghum, flax and
hemp: establishing manufactures for sorghum
and beet sugar, and others for working flax
and hemp.
To accomplish this purpose stock COM
many will be formed, with capital OF 81, OOO,
600. divided into 10000 shares of $50 each.
The operations of the company will COM
mence as soon as one-half of the capitol is
subscribed; then the company will invite the
coming of selected community, by Offering
| tn advance the means for emigration, and to
provide each family with eighty acres of land,
house, stables, furnitures, necessary farm
stock and tools, various seeds, etc.
| A certain sum of money will be loaned to
| each colonist, for supporting his family until
| the first crop.
The amount thus advanced will be returned
| to the company, with interest at per cent.
by stated installments at the rate Of one-tenth
yearly.
to the time when he has returned all advances
| in money made to him by the company, the
colonist will hold the farm on a rental.
His share of the profit is found at two
thirds for the grain and industrial crops
gathered and sold.
To each family, on the very day of their set
Element on the farm, will be handed docu-
mentary promise Of sale, which Will be trans
formed into positive and final sale the day on
which they shall have returned the whole
amount of the advances made to them, with
the exception of the price Of the land.
| With this system, which keeps constantly
! in view of the farmer on rental, the prospect
of final ownership, all inconveniencies OF that
particular mode of farming, are done away
with and the farmers will always be ready to
work, because the company will bind itself to
sell them the land upon which they shall have
| spent their strength, and which they shall
have improved with a certainty to leave it to
their children, or to sell it with profit, ii
thew wish to rest or to return to their country
After having organized these farms, the
company will proceed to establish manufac
| tories for making beet and sorghum sugar and
| for working flax and hemp.
| PROFITS.
| It is an incontrovertible fact that few enter
prises have offered more profitable results
than general farming when established on
large scale. The profits of the company will
be derived-First, from the division of crops
second, from rent OF houses and stoves IN Int
village: third from the sale of land; fourth
from manufacturing. These profits will exceed
% per cent. annually.
But the capitalist don't ask only profits, but
security for his Investments, so the company
will have to offer as available assets: LIST, the
soil: 2nd, the buildings erected on the land;
Sd, the natural increase of live stock; 4th, The
improved value of the land resulting from the
labor of the colonists; 5th, the crops; 9Th
the manufactures and machinery.
With such securieties the originators OF the
company are sure to find ready subscribers
are not only among those who take special
interest in the welfare of the state, but among
that numerous clan of persons who lOoE
first for their own individual advan
tages; manufacturers of machinery
of agricultural implements, carriages
wagons, ETC.; builders merchants and dealers
who expect to supply the colony with thell
wares and produce will find it to their Interest
to become shareholders, and thereby have thu
preference. over their outside competitors
The capitalist desirous not only of a remuner
ative, but at the same time of safe invest
ment of his funds, will rank among the sub
scribers The men of small means, thos'
who are not the favorites of fortune, the EN-
ployes and laborers, will also, from motives o
patriotism and to secure share in the profits
of the undertaking, buy up with their earn
ings portion of the stock.
It is especially jim the interest of the latte
class of subscribers that the company has de
termined to DIVIDE the stock into $50 shares
and without doubt every one will answer t.
the purpose Of the company.
The plan is in part based upon presump
ton that it will be necessary to bring wei
united and harmonious communities, an(
plant them together in order to induce any
desirable immigration from France. The.
will bring their religious and social organiza
ton and their thrifty methods and economical
habits and will form a model farming com
munity But especially it is hoped that i
such colony can be established it will be TIT
beginning of movement for important man
ufacturing industries closely allied to agricul
tural pusuits.