Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-03-23
EFFECTIVE
ADVERTISING.
The Bureau Of immigration Sue
ceeds in Getting a Settlement
for San Juan County.
A COLONIZATION SCHEME.
Four Successful Colonies Have Been Loca-
ted in Different Parts of the United
States by the Same Projeotors-A
Promising Undertaking.

|
, National Rural, of Chicago, Widel
circulated farm journal, was in SAINT
| Fe last week looking for a location 70
an irrigation settlement.
To reporter of the New Mexican h
said: Yes, people are getting Ian,
hungry. The curtailing of opportunl'
Through the agency of trusts, depart
ment stores and other monopoies, Z;
creating a demand for farm lands.
There never was a better opportun.
ty to establish colonies than now w
have between 100 and 800 letters on ou
files from different parts of the couu
try from people who want to get irri
gated lands or to join an irrigation set
tlement.
What has stimulated this demant
for irrigated land?'
THE educational work done by th'
| irrigation congress and the Rura
| World, and the work being done b.
your bureau of immigration. We have
also published a series of articles on
the advantages of irrigation in the Ma
| tonal Rural; also articles on the SEMI
arid region, where there is practically
no good available government land or
rational home life. Farmers are also
| learning that farming by irrigation IS
| the most remuneratve, with sure an
| larger crops. and none of the risks of
change to wet weather in harvest time"
"Have you any particular place ii
mind, Mr.. Wilson,"
1--WE have not yet definitely settled
upon a location, but are attracted by
the advantages of San Juan county iii
your territory. Ii seems to possess the
requisites of good soil, abundant avail
able water supply, healthful climate,
and is recommended as one of the lead.
ing fruit sections of the United States.
1t also has very fine building material.
[ am on my way there now to make
further Investigation
You have located successful colonies
before have you not?'
SHOULD we undertake this one, it will
be our fifth. Roseland. La, now an i'm
poftant city, which ships more prod
ucts to northern merchants than any
point on the Illinois Central ralwaJ
south of Johnson, Miss. The Sunny
South colony at Chadum. N. c., estah
lshed in 1896, which handles Other
fruits, shipped 1875 car loads of straw
berries to northern merchants las
spring. Fair Oaks, Cal, and Flo.a
Home. Fla. The latter was begun in
January, 1899, and already has about
$50 families who have bought land ana
will or have made the settlement their
home
what plans do you follow in inter-
esting settlers and inducing them to 10.
cate in your settlement"
Liberal treatment; content with 4
small profit we let the settlers have tho
benefits of the rise in values which fol-
low settlement, and neighborhood i'm
provements. We also follow semi
corporate plan. dividing the profits
with those settlers who can pay cash IN
advance, and in that way supply the
necessary funds for canal construction
and other improvements.
'Jn the project in hand, if the cost Of
constructing the canals is not too great,
it is our purpose, as example, for $1,000
cash to furnish a perpetual water right
to eighty acres of land, pay the rail-
way fare of the purchasers out and
back to make his selection and filings
and give him $4,000 in value of stock N
ha 1ar ace inf
est in proportion to the acreage ne
wants and can pay cash for
I'VE already have about $50O00
pledged on this plan, and can get more
for the asking To those who cannot
pay cash in advance, or after We have
all the money we want for construction
work raised, we propose to sell the wa
ter rights al $12 an acre, IS cash, ami |
then make the balance payable in an
nual installments of 81 each, with in |
terest at per cent and no additional |
charge for water. Then when the pay
ments are all made the system will be
turned over to the owners of the wa
ter rights on the public ownership plan.
"The land question is becoming Sc
rious question in the east; the number
of renters is rapidly increasing, all
the scale of rent prices getting higher.
Even in Illinois the renters are paying
a cash rent of from SO to S. an acre for
declining farm lands. This installment
plan will attract this class of renters
and enable them to acquire farms oe
their own"
What class of settlers usually To-
cate in your settlements"
Temperate and Industrious Amer
cans and Americanized Germans ana
Scandinavians. We only aim at the
thrifty class. who make good citizens
and who succeed
"Allow me to add that in establishing
a bureau of immigration you are work
ing on right lines. The wide distribu-
tion of the class of literature you are
sending out and have in preparation is
the most effective method of advertis-
ing the many resources of the territory
and will attract settlers and investors.
In my work in other states I have
found the cooperation of similar
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