Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-10-25
I New
I Af.Iiying Slowly :
he FoWNsHE IS CLEARED
4 Big Dat Crop in Skagit County The
Value of Potatoes Tor Cows
"a Care of Poultry.

The new Plymouth colonists are ar
Fing Slowly and taking possession OF
ir land in the colony tract. about 1C
les south of Payette, says the Boise
Atesman. There are now 43 members
heads of families who have selected
cir village lots and farming tracts
"a made their payments. Some of
EN- are at work, clearing sage brush
ID preparing for cultivation next
Ear. The average holding of each col
list is about 20 acres, making total
nearly 1000 acres which has thus far
EN- selected. The area held at the
eposal of the colony trustees is about
90 acres.
Half a dozen substantial houses have
Iready been erected, and three or four
|pre are going up before winter. Most
the colonists, however, will wait
It'll next year before building, maxi
81 temporary arrangements in the
Rantime.
The village site is a fine level piece
Eland, covering about 800 acres. The
IN ON which it is laid out is peculiar,
- the effect is a good deal like the
Management of theater, the streets
aisles and the lots rows
seats The lots in the outer tier are
81 largest, containing an acre each.
bese lots front on the 200-foot boule-
4rd which makes the circuit of the
turning square at one end,
~ rounding into a curve at the other.
be lots on the inside OF the boule-
4rd are considerably smaller.
Tie townsite is all cleared of sage
r0sh. One large road grader, two
!Xelers and a dozen teams are at work
ting the ground in proper shape.
'arly next spring all the vacant lots
nd blocks are to be sown to grass, and
"A Streets planted with shade trees.
The colonists themselves are a desir-
bic addition to the population of
5&ho, belonging, nearly all of them, to
be middle and professional classes.
one are from the far. east, but larg-
{ Number from the Mississippi valley.
hfeago supplying more than any other
ne place. The professions are well
4presented; there is doctor, a lawyer,
h inventor, a minister and school
aacher already on the ground, al
1ough not in a professional capacity.
4 Of the new corners have means and
3il1e are quite well-to-do. Some have
oNle for their health, some to make
Ie2sant homes, and some to make
1ouey. The management has prudent
Z discouraged the admission of the
oorer class of emigrants, whether ig-
GRANT foreigners or poverty stricken
rQrrietors of prairie schooners. The
however, do not seem afraid
lard work, and are grubbing sage
rush as industriously as If they had
ever followed any other vocation One
s&n who had been foreman for many
cars in a large machine shop at Mt.
'4I1on, Ohio, is building his own house
ID ~ himself, and a good two-story
Some amusing incidents are related.
Irrespective lady colonist sent in
accompanied by a plan, for
cnicken house to be constructed on
AT lot, with a sloping glass side, ex-
o81I to the south, and in this she pro-
o2td to live until her own house could
& built, when it would be surrendered
s the chickens. One young man fresh
EU1n Chicago traded a couple of bicy-
les Tor three horses and two yearling
oi(s. not having yet learned that the
1or6 horses a man owns in Idaho the
oofer he is.
The colonists will engage in diver
lied Farming and fruit growing, and
49, ind fria
IauI1y developed they will erect a
Reamery, fruit cannery, evaporating
nd cold storage plants. They think
hat The company plan on which they
re organized will enable them to dc
his profitably, and the proportionate
took Subscription which each colonist
aust make in purchasing his land is
esixned to afford capital for such
11rDoses, as well as for the laying out
( streets, parks, and the planting OF
nude trees. The management of the
ol01y, which is in the hands of nine
ru6tces, seems so far to be business
Ike md judicious, and has succeeded
d eetting wholesale rates on some
Ia8Ses of material and supplies, which
cry much reduces the cost to the indi-
5dua1 settler. No stores have yet been
sta blished, and all supplies are hauled
rom Payette,
New Plymouth will be strictly pro-
|LDI(Ion town, as the deeds to the col
nis<s stipulate that the land will be
0rfoIted to the trustees If intoxicating
|uuors are sold on the premises. 1t is
h0uxht that no formal town organiza.
ion Will be needed for some time, as
he coiony company will perform al
BE public functions which are usually
IsaIened to municipality.