The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-02

he can take care of, and under the in
tensive system 10 acres will absorb all
his time.
Under the system laid out by Booth
Tucker a man who is out of work and
cannot find work and is willing to work
will be taken to the colony as a settler.
He will sign purchase contract for 10
acres of land already broken; that is,
made ready for cultivation, with a
small garden sufficient to supply his
needs already set out. On the farm Will
be tWo-rOOm cabin, basic house,
capable of extension and improvement
when he finds the time, a COW and a
good stock of chickens. II is estimated
that the whole outfit will cost him about
$3.50, including land, house, stock, labor
on garden, fencing, furniture and agri-
cultural implements.
HE signs a purchase contract in
which he agrees to pay for his farm in
weekly instalIments of 81 a week, and
no other obligations are imposed ex-
cept to be a good citizen and keep his
contract. So long as he works, so long
as he manifests a desire to keep his
contract with the Salvation Army, that
farm is his to all intents and purposes.
But If he grows lazy, does not work,
does not keep his contract, he is re-
moved from the community, for he has
broken his contract. When the farm
is paid for the settler will receive a
clear title, and if he wants to sell out
or move away he is at liberty to do so,
for he is an independent proprietor.
''It is purposed chat the land shall be
sold to the settler at small profit on
the first cost per acre. The profit will
be his contribution to the cause, for it
is designed that the first colony shall
aid in planting the second, and so on.
sex is concerned, for single woman
can take up farm on exactly the same
footing with a man.
In the selection of sites, the inveSti-
cation was carried on with a view to
finding soil and climatic conditions
which will insure diversified products.
A
the valley of the Arkansas in Colorado
where men today, who started without
cent are making a good living each
on 10 acres, each acre worth more than
800, raising Rocky Ford cantaloupes,
watermelons, peaches, plums, celery,
and vegetables. The industrial fea-
ture of the project is found in the can
ming factory, creamery and dressed
poultry house, which it is proposed to
establish in the first colony.
Last year the dressed poultry and
egg business of the United States
amounted to 1920, coo, 900, a great deal
more than the entire production of gold
and silver. That one business alone
will come pretty near supporting COM
munity- 1t is proposed to make butter
of a high grade, and in the cannery to
put up none but the finest quality of
canned goods. Each can will bear the
S. A stamp as a guaranty that moth
ing but ripe, sound fruit and vegetables
We're used in the condiments, preserves,
pickles, etc.
THE Salvation Army has already in
its soldiers, over 5000 representatives to
handle the goods, and this single fact
goes long way toward insuring the
success of the enterprise, for that is
what it is. It is in no sense a charita-
bic institution. 1t is a good business
proposition.
The cannery, creamery and dressed
poultry house will be built and operated
at first by funds loaned by the village
bank The bank is to be esta bIished
on the lines of the peoples banks which
have been SO successful in Germany.
In the peoples bank every honest
industrious citizen of the village is a
stockholder. They elect a board of di-
rectors, who pass upon loans. The
money is loaned only to stockholders
who are up to the required standard,
and this money only can be used for
extensions and Improvements.
The settlers will take stock in the
creamery and other institutions, and
pay for their stock with raw material.
THE money to plant the first colony
about $500, 000-is to be furnished by
eastern capitalists, and every acre will
be represented by a bond. While the
money is to be borrowed, it is hoped
by the Salvation Army that voluntary
contributions Will be made, which will
enable Booth-Tucker to get along with
less borrowed caDitaI"