The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-06-13
FOR VENEZUELA.
An Agricultural Colony
Being Formed.
Plan by Which 1t Is Proposed to Pay
for Lands in South
America.

A movement is on foot to establish a
working agricultural colony" for Venezu-
ella, South America. The Government of
that country has recently passed law for
the encouragement Of immigration and
colonization, and it is under this law that
the colony is TO be established. Among
the inducements offered by the law are a
free passage to the country, free board and
lodging for period not exceeding thirty
DAYS after arrival in the country, free i'm
poItatiOn of the household goods, working
implements, domestic animals, machinery,
tools, etc. of the immigrants, free grant
OF land for each immigrant varying from
TWO hectares TO six hectares, according to
the situation and fertility of the land, and
the right to take up and hold as much
N ore land as the colonss may be able TO
use and TO pay for at tie end Of four years
from the date of taking IN the land.
The proposed colony will devote Itself
to the cultivation Of sugar, tobacco coffee,
cacao, the rubber-tree, the banana tree
and such other fruits and vegetables as
Will make the colony. as far as possible,
f-supporting while the trees not i'm
mediately productive are maturing
The colony will be essentially "wnrk-
ing colony that is to say, there will be
no person connected with IL who is no. ac-
tually employed on some bona-fde wor,
tA tbO iatIA VI Il0 CUiUuN, IuIu llu. n con-
stltuent factor Of its use for the purposes
Tor which it IS held by the company,
There viii be no capital" shares in the
colony. the shares of the members being
based on and agreeing with the current
market value of the services they perform
Tor the colony, all doing the same kind of
work having equal share and one
mans share being larger than that of an
other only because The work he does is
recognized as possessing Il higher value
than that done by another, such value be-
Ing based on the skill and qualifications
required for the particular kind of work.
The land of the colony will he held by the
members of the colony jointly in those
shares; the expenses and liabilities of the
colony Will be borne by them in shares
corresponding with the shares under which
the land OF the colony is held BY them, and
the returns Of the laboTS of the colony,
after payment of the expenses of the col
ony, Will be divided among them according
TO the respective shares held bv them and
the number of hours worked By them.
For the flrst SIX months or so until the
colony shall be In receipt of the results Of
Its labOrS OIL its own lands it will support
Itself by causing a number of the mem bers
sufficient TO earn money enough for the
maintenance of themse Ives and other men,
bers Of the colony working on the colony
lands TO be employed On lands outside of
the colony, such work being counted work
for the colony the same as on the colony's
own land-the wages earned belonging to
the colony, not 10 the individual members
doing the work. Employment at suffi-
GENTLY remunerative rates for all the col
ony's purposes can. it is said, be found for
every man the colony will fud work for
and ~ this way little. if any, present cap
ital will be required by members.
The col0nists will leave San Francisco as
soon as sufficient number of mem bers
shall have been obtained and the neces-
sary passes and passports have been re-
ceived from the Venezuelan authorities
Mem bers of the colony will be required to
pay SO each to meet the preliminary ex-
penses of organization. and this money is
to be deposited in local bank in escrow,
and not cent of it touched by the urganiz-
ers OF the colony until the members Of the
colony are provided with their passports
from the Government and have started for
their destination or been given an oppor-
unity to do so.