Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-28

and the percentages of failures has
been much smaller than was antici-
pated. In addition to this, thousands
more would have settled there if the
necessary capital had been available.
The colonies Of the Salvation Army
in America are Fort Amity, in Color
ado, in the valley of the Arkansas
river, on the line of the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad. 267 miles
east of Denver; Fort Remie, in the
valley of the Salinas river, near the
bay of Monterey, Cal, and Fort Her
rick, in Ohio, about twenty miles from
Cleveland.
Altogether the three colonies con-
sist of some three thousand acres of
land and have a population of about
four hundred. The families are en-
tirely self-supporting. Some of them
have already paid for their holdings.
Fort Amity is the principal colony.
The soil is rich and the climate b
excellent. The mining camps of Col
orado afford a good market for prod
uce, and another advantage is that the
colony is on the highway of the prin-
cipal cattle markets of the midwestern
states. The crops raised are chiefly
cantaloupes and sugar beets.
The first colonists reached Fort
Amity in April, 1898. They were work
ingmen from the large cities, chiefly
New York. Their railroad fares were
paid and their goods shipped to them.
They were settled on plots of from
ten to twenty acres each, were given
a house to live in, the necessary farm
ing tools and implements, horse or
two, one or two cogs. pigs and poul-
try.
In April 1902, the first colonist dis
charged his entire debt to the army.
He had arrived in Fort Amity in
March, 1899, his entire capital, the
savings of ten or twelve years of mar
ried life in the city, being a team of
horses and a few household goods. He
has now twenty acres, with a neat
stone cottage, horses, cattle, pigs and
poultry, all free from incumbrance.
His Indebtedness to the Salvation
army was 5000. In three years he had
paid it off, besides supporting a wife
and three children and building his
house. The history of this colony is
repeated by the other American col
onies.
The Fort Remie colony consists of
$40 acres. divided into ten-acre lots.
and has seventy settlers. They raise
| potatoes, sugar beets, alfalfa and
| vegetables The Fort Herrick colony.
| which is located near to the childhood
home of the late President Garfield, at
Mentor, Ohio, has 2sS acres and thir-
| ty-three colonists- The owners of the
| land, Myron T. Herrick and James
Parmelee. have decided it to the Sal
| walton army for colonization purposes
| and citizens of Cleveland and other
friends have contributed $40, 900 to-
ward the enterprise. It is the inten.
ton to make it model institution Of
the kind and to use it as a training
| ground for tho other colonies in the
| West.
That Congress will make important
changes of some kind in the Irrigation
| and colonization laws this coming ses-
sion there is little reason to doubt.
One tAing more than all others that
/ has shown the necessity of some &C.
| ton in this direction is the last annual
| report of the Canadian government.
| In this report it is stated that the
total number of immigrants to Can
ada in 1901 was As, 149, of whom 1887
went from the United States, most al
them being farmers.-New York Her.
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