New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-18
BOOTH-TUCKER'S NEW PLAN.
PROPOSES TO MAKE FARMERS OF The
UNEMPLOYED OF BIG CITIES.
COMMANDER OF THE SALVATION ARMY IN I'm
WEST TO SELECT LANDS FOR COLONIAL
rIoN-BACKED BY MILLIONAIRE
From The Kansas City Times.


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From The Kansas City Times
Commander Booth-Tucker Of the Salvation Army
and party will be through Kansas City on wednsS-
gay p morning In the private car Of ycePresident
the interest Of Mr. fuckers big PLAN Of coioniaa
ton for the unemployed.
Debs plan or the Debs army. Il is more subs,sn.
tial and OF greater magnitude in reality Millions
now Unable 10 work Ds sre or no I've nnd
earnes pan to p9 he N Wts With 40
pen Of family now struggling in the congested cen.
s ey Gr NAV ne E fe br , fully sv efnpe
living from.
Of pure ns BEST sasns ha
Is the Kind that enables men TO help themselves.
here from India to see the congested condition Of
the American cities. His business is TO relieve suf
It ti phsscay and d nanpcy as well as sprSay
He began studying the condition and it, probable
good one.
Booth Tucker is not the kind Of man who sits IDLY
in mind would take lard and money and he went to
work TO pave the way
money plenty OF il. and this trip is to select the
Teller. J.: Pierpont Morgan was another. and w. X
Vanderbilt another. They are heartily interested,
and that means that money for the furiherance OF
the plan will be plentiful.
DETAILS OF THE PLAN
This is the plan:
once the lands selected they wall be offered In
ployed who desire them. on such terms that any
can buy. These tracts will be thoroughly irrigated
by the company which is really the Salvation Army
with money behind it. The company will also fur
nlsh all things necessary 10 successful farm gar
ne e s ec and eory needed to start will be sup
Piled buildings furnished and transportation given
In short, if a man in New-York Chicago or any
md Z mill where he Is. the company
Will pick him at his very door ana set nim d3wn
a asd'n rrtg ah farm in the southwest free Of charge
Then he makes the money the man may GUY
IT There is plenty of room for all the people in the
United States. argues the Commander. II the peo-
pie vii gs5 se to G S MhHte she FO1o
ere,ed in the pan The railroads ses The ssns
% ar Uafticn ar Is anxious for the pan 70 go
ahead and Paul Morton the OF , ne
has Offered the 3S s * his own prVs
from Chicago and will 90 win tnem him nse
Frost a. rG aad ns Rsy r Of the Santa
J. S Emery. Of Lawrence. who has sPen, much ss
q WESTERN sis a lands will also accompany the party
The trip will be through sSanel sx aro and All
IONA. where land is now cheap and irrigation IL IN
assured success -, A., $3.50.
For irrigation rs the rock upon ~nicn the sre"'
hope Of the plan Is based
PIN THEIR HOPE TO IRRIGATION
1t has been demonstrated in Western Kansas
that with irrigation a ten-acre farm VIII raise
vegetables enough. sustain poultry enough ana
COW 10 furnish a good living for a moderate-sized
family through any quantity Of the dryest seasons
America has ever seen This fact Is making irri.
CATION grow and spread in Western Kansas. ana
the only reason doesn't spread faster is that the
people who own the farms there haven't the money
10 put in irrigation plants wnich cost ABOUT ~"
to each
In Arizona and New Mexico semi-arfd lands, con-
sidered almost worthless before have by irrigation
been made to bear oranges and the East now has
oranges from a country where II had been CON
sidered Impossible to raise anything
Southern Colorado. particularly about Pueblo 10
making effort TO get the first OF these colonists
Public meetings being held there daily to pre-
pare for the coming Of the Commander and his
purchase Of lands in hat country.
Lands have been offered In Arizona at very
low figure. but they removed from the rail-
roads and would be high II is considered. at any
figure
The difficulty 70 be encountered In the COLOMBIA
ton through the ignorance OF so many Of the pAO-
Die from the cities In regard thing the soil. has
been foreseen, and each colony will be accompanied
bv men who are practical farmers and will see
that the crops are put In right and the gardens
rightly taken care OF. .
The idea Is not one. Mr.. Tucker brings II
from India where IL has been successfully tried.
and was originated by him when he was com
mander Of the army there. The Salvation Army
has thousands OF acres in India which IL has popu-
lated with the unemployed OF Eng and and the
tracts that barren before are richly productive
full there can be made 10 thrive in the West
Ii is not unlikely that the party before deciding
on the land It will take will visit Southern Calf
f0rnia also.