The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1895-10-26
THE DE LAMAR NUGGET.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1895.
Plymouth Colonies.

The Youths Companion is doubtless
read by greater number Of progress
i've young people than any other week
ly publication in America. It touches
very lightly on questions OF political
and social economy but when it does,
nearly always treats them to explain
opposing views, with the most judicial
fairness. For this reason everything it
treats upon carries weight aud influence
with it. We are sorry, therefore, to
note, not long since in the Companion.
a short article advising people to be-
ware of the Plymouth Colony plans for
settling up sections Of the arid West.
1t dwells upon the deprivations and
hardships to be endured in the West
before homes can be established.
In a general way it is quite true that
the pioneer in any country encounters
and endures hardshps, but,according to
our notion, the Plymouth Colony plan
is calculated to reduce these hardships
to minimum, The depiivations inci-
dent to the Colony plan bear no com
parison to those endured by the pio-
Deers everywhere west of the Ohio.
Most of these went into a wilderness,
far from society and nearly all the COM
forts and conveniences of civilization.
Compared with them the settlers in
Plymouth Colonies are not pioneers at
all. A good illustration ofthis was the
settlement of Greeley, Coorodo. But
that prosperous settlement, begun TWEEN
ty-fve years ago, was pioneer of the
Colony plan, and many families went in
there before an acre Of land was under
irrigation, and before a building was
erected to shelter them. OF course they
endured some hardships, but they came
through them gloriously and have built
up a community of splendid and pros
porous homes. The Plymouth idea is
fashioned somewhat after the organiza-
ton of the Greeley Colony, but with
experience behind it, escapes most of
the mistakes then made. Take the
Plymouth Colony, now being estab-
lished near Payette Idaho, as an Illus
tration. There six thousand acres of
tillable lands we're secured in one of the
best fruit sections of the West, aud
where vegetables, cereals and hops all !
produce to perfection. This land is in
fairly well settled country, is within
easy reach of railway and daily mails.
and good markets. It's climate, the
year through, is more nearly perfect
than ever a New Englander enjoyed in
his own home. Excepting that it has
TO be supplied with water before crops
eau be raised, it is much more easily
brought under cultivation than any
lands except the praIres of the older
West. By combination Of the exertions
of a community the necessary bitches
can be readily constructed. 1t is by
colonization that community can be
formed, whose people make congenial
neighbors, with sympathies and inter-
ests in common and where each can
contribute to the welfare of all and can
keep out from their midst nearly all an
desirable people. Then again, these
Colonies are generally composed of bet
ter classes than comprise the hap-haz-
zard immigration which settles in the
West 1t is the plan of the Plymouth
Colonies to construct school buildings
and public hall at the very beginning
of their settlements and to plan or Law
off rural village, where all can make
homes convenientto their farms. They
can, as soon as their farms are occupied,
start such industries as will make
common market for their products
creameries, canneries, fruit evaporat-
ors, etc.
Committees of intelligent men select ,
the sites of these Colonies and will take
such care in securing information re-
gardng the character of the lands, their
capabilities of production, the supply of
water, the climate and all other needed
information, that no one need join them
without knowing just what length Of
time it will take to make his farm pro- {
ductive and almost be able to make an
exact estimate of his outlay up to the
time when his home will be self sup
porting.
There are thousand of families in the
east which could make no better move
han to, join one of these Colonies.
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