The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-02
BUILT ON THE SANTA FE
Booth fuckers First Colony Is
to Be Planted
On the Santa Fe Line, Probably
Near Pueblo.
Industrial Comm issioner Davis of the
Santa Fe Outlines the Plans of
the Colony.

Chicago, Aug. 2.-Cornmander Booth
Tucker OF the Salvation Army and Paul
Morton, vice president of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, are in
New York for the purpose of selecting
lands for the site of the first colony to
be planted by the Salvation Army.
Since practical railroad men took a
personal interest in the plans of Booth
Tucker his project for taking the
worthy poor from large centers of pop
ulation into the west has received an
impetus which promises an early re-
alizatiOn of his plan. He has back of
him the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e
railroad That railroad is prepared to
do everything that can be done,
except in a financial way, to
hely the commander of the Sal
walton Army in America in carrying
official of the road, from President Rip
ley down, an enthusiastic believer in
the colonization scheme, and the first
colony will be placed on the line of the
road, probably in Colorado, near Pu-
eblo or Albuquerque. The commander
has selected three sites in Colorado,
Kansas and Illinois, and the conference
with Mr.. Morton in New York is for
the purpose of determining which site
is the best
A few days ago Commander Booth
Tucker returned from a 5000 mile trip
over the lines of the Santa F'e system
He travelled in Vice President MortonS
private car and was conducted over the
road by James A. Davis, the Industrial
commissioner of the system; John E.
Frost, land commissioner of the Atch-
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and Judge J.
S. Emery of Lawrence, Kan.
Yesterday Industrial Commissioner
Davis of the Santa F'e system said:
''Booth-Tucker has ideas which are
eminently practical. He seems to have
covered every feature of the PROPOSE
ton He has anticipated every emer-
gency, and we have no hesitation in
saying that the Santa F'e road believes
in him thoroughly and in his plans for
cOlOnizing the poor of the large cities
in the west. He gives as the principle
underlying his plans waste labor, waste
land and waste capital a trinity of
waste which can be converted into a
unity of wealth. He has proved to the
satisfaction of the Atchison, Topeka &
F'e that his is a practicable, workable
and highly commendable idea, and the
road is ready and willing to cooperate
with him and the Salvation Army in
demonstrating the utility and practical
bility of the movement.
He proposes to plant colony near
some large city, either in Colorado,
Kansas or Illinois, on the line of the
Santa Fe road. He wants TO place $50
families, $500 men, women and chill
dren, in the first group of farms. Each
farm is to be 10 acres in area and 60
farms will be embraced in a section or
square mile of land. The other forty
acres of the $40 acres in the section will
be embraced in a square of land in the
center of the group. A diagram rep
resenting an ideal group would repre-
sent a tract of land a mile each way.
In the center of the square would be
square representing 40 acres of land, di-
Vided into four parts. One of the paris
would represent the land reserved for
the village hall, with its stores, assem-
bly, room, library etc. Another would
represent the school tract, another the
public common or playground and the
fourth the land reserved for the cream
cry, canning factory and dressed pouI-
try establishment. The rest of the dia-
gram outside the center square would
be gridironed with parallelograms,
each representing a 10-acre farm Two
roads would run through this section,
dividing it into quarters.
INTENSIVE FARMING THE PLAN
1T is Booth-Tucker's plan that all
farming shall be done on the intensive
plan; that is, the land is to be kept up
TO the highest degree of production by
the scientific use of fertilizers, etc, and
the products are to be of the highest
grade. A considerable amount of the
vegetable produce will be raised under
glass. so that spring vegetables can be
supplied to the market all the year
round. No man can have more than