Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1893-04-03
JEWS IN NEW JERSEY.
a Colony Established by Hirscla,
tho Philanthropic Banker.
An Experiment. Which Promises to Be-
como an Established Succcss-The
People Prefer Trade to ;
Farming.

time to time received from the Hirsch
agricultural colony in New Jersey have
been nearly as conflicting and quite os
unsatisfactory and un3ubstantial as
certain war bulletins which engaged
the attention of humorous writers dur
ing the progress of military mnncuvcrs
in Madagascar some years aGo.E On
one hand, according to tho New York"
Sun, the Russian colonists in Cape May
county were represented IS being in q,
louriSl2ing condition and i'm pSsscssioh
of lands rtecming' with fertility. On
tic other they were pathctically de-
Scribed Us lacking ncCdful rair1cnt and
decent shelter: without means or hope,
restricted to uncongcnial and unproiit-
able toll in nastrangc land, and utterly
wrctched, respondent and dependent.
Under these circumstances, any con-
clu5ion as to the success OF the IIirsch
experiment was difficult to arrive ct,
but it need be SO no longer if the report
made recently to the New Jersey board
Of agriculture be accepted as trust
worthy. 1t is certainly explicit. Mr.. Lee,
who submitted the report, showed that
the town of Woodbinc, under Superih-
tendcnt JabSovitch of the fund, CONSISTS
Of $50 lots, around which arc thirty
acre farms, and the outlaying lowlantl3
arc reserved fer pasturagc, upon the
plan of medieval English communities.
In n year $50 acrcs of farm land, twelve
miles of driveway, and ITO acres of
town lots have been wrcStcd from 4
natural Wilderness. The town houses
built by the company composed of tho
trustees of the American llirsch fund.-
cost from $3.50 to $1,000 each, and arc
models Of ncatncss and adaptability for
colonists' need. Active work is expect
ed to give Woodbinc $50 houses by
spring. A hotel, Il railway station,
synagogue, and a public school arc com
plotcd, or are in cour5o of erection. A
park has been laid out, with side
streets and avenues lined with popla-5
and naples. On the farms each agri-
culturist has $50 fruit trees, planted in
1891, with an acre Of grapes and small
fruits. Early vegetables, growing rs
readily in Cape May as in Norfolk, were
also successfully l';tiscd.
This is certainly an encouraging
showing, and if, rs Mr.. Ice declares in
his report, the sill Of South Jersey gcn-
orally is susceptible Of such improved
cultivation, tho hopes of the trustees of
tho Hirsch fund may be realized, more
especially if, as is stated, the agricul-
tural conditions of South Jersey much
resemble those found in that part of
Russia from which most Of these colo
nists como. At the Same time it appears
that, great as has been the progress
made in farming in the South Jersey
colony, it has not kept pace with other
pursuits less carefully Observation-Disclosures
making, knitting, and cigartnal1ing. 1t
was tho fear OF such preference for
mercantile and manual pursuits and
given it. For the last ten or dozen
years, according to tho Philadelphia
Press, that side Of the fall has been "
shaped instead of U-shaped, the change
being caused by the wearing away of
the ledge over which tho waters pour.
On January 4, 1889, great displace-
mcnt Of rocks again took place, and
now the Canadian side of the great cat
nlIct is again Horseshoe Falls" It
is pretty generally known that the
falls of Niagara arc moving to the south
n deep cut through the solid rock marks
the course they have taken in their back
ward march.
1t is wonderful excavation, mighty
canal dug out by the sheer force of fell
ing water. Not less astonishing is the
removal of all this debris. The rocks
have been thoroughly pulverized and
swept out into Lake Ontario. Once it
was believed That the falls would ulti-
matcly wear back to Lake Eric and de-
generate into u second-class rapids.
The latest idea is that the fall will re-
cedc two miles farther to tho south
ward and then stop; that is, as for rs
tho backward tendency is concerned.
Tho cause of this will be that ut that
point solid foundation for the lime
stone ledge over which the waters pour
will be found. Two miles of wearing
back will make the falls only eighty
feet in height, instead of one hundred
and SixtU no nf n,,pacDt