The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-12-11
lNew Ynrk Worlal

The phenomenal success which has
attended the euarts OF ITS founders Il
bund an local city on unique modera
lines, within an hour rioe OF Lonaon.
has awakened the greatest interest.
From the SUN dweller in Hhitecnapel
TO members Ca the mouse OF lords, the
cry of Sack TO the Land" has been
taAen up The Garden City project
was actually started in 1902, and To-Day
there ale upward OF one hundred bdhd-
ers and contractors at WORK putting up
structures and carrying out street tm-
provements: the entire town site. con-
Sisting OF $500 acres, has been acquired
and pad for, ana some momentous mu-
nicipal problems have been so.ved. The
following account OF what is being
done MAS written by Ebenezer Howard.
the originator of the plan;
When yuu consider that this scheme
was first proposed Only in 1889, and
with a capital Of about 80 shillings
$500. results are most gratifying We
first started by forming Garden City
association. which was designed 10
bring my plans before the public. We
formed regular company for purchas-
ing the land an6 To-Day NO have ac-
quired $500 acres Of land at q cost of
500 per acre, or S760000. This land is
less than one hours ride from London,
and since We acquired the estate the
Great Northern Hallway company has
built a fine station In the middle of
the proposed city. 4 siding for freight
trafllc has also been built and present
cd by the railway company to the city.
The railway has expended $4,000 in
these Improvements. We have AT pres
ent tfty-two trains per day, the fastest
taking only thirty-nine minutes. Tn
der our scheme of development there
will be sidirgs for about 100 acres OF
factry sites
Garden City has not been promoted
as land speculation. Our main idea
has been 20 solve one of the great prob
lens Of modern city MISUNDERSTANDING
In towns and depOpulation in the coun-
try, and we think We have solved it,
Our town is TO be limited to 5000 in
habitants and when the Garden City
is butt and the population gets larger
than this number a new Garden City
Will be started elsewhere; and so in the
course Of time we hope to have these
model towns all over England
The original company that purchased
the town site has definitely agreed not
TO take by way of profit more than
thing earned by the city over and
above this goes directly to the benefit
of the community at large. All the land
or Garden City IS held by trustees for
the people. so that the entire incre-
ment of value gradually created be-
comes not the property of private in
dividuals, but OF the community, and
will be applied in the reduction of tax
alton BY this scheme ground rent and
local taxes in Garden City will be far
less than anywhere else in England.
All the rent which Garden City citizens
VIII pay annually as actually rent will
be about $3.50 per head, though of
course there will be other charges
which will augment this figure. The
average annual sum per head paid in
England for ground rent and local tax
alton is about S2S. whereas both ground
rent and local taxes in Garden City
would not exceed $40. The Garden
City board of management. after pay
ing interest and sinking fund on the
purchase price of the land, will receive