The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-02-24
SAYS WEST Will
HAVE MODEL CITY
BLANCHARD DISCUSSES BUILD
ING OF TOWNS ON COOPER
ALTON BASIS 5Y GOV
EMINENT.

Chicago, Feb. pa believe that
the mode. city of the world will be-
built in the desert country of the
west Civilization and murder do not
mix. 1t takes sunshine and plenty Of
it to make people cheerful and sue
cessful. 1t is not so very well known
that the United States government. is
building new towns on a cooperative
basis that represents as near an APP
preach to Utopia as can be reached
G. j. Blanchards estatitieian of; the
United States reclamation service,
made these statements today in an
nouncing the opening of new town
in Montana, to be known as Pompey's
Pillar, and an auction of zoo acres,
subdivided into town lots, as Rupert,
Ida, a thriving young model city"
whose greatest needs just now are a
hotel, an ice factory, cannery and a
sugar factory.
Accused of Being Visionary.
Il have been accused of being Wis
ionary," said Mr. Blanchard, who IS
here on brief visit from Washington
in connection with the activities of the
Chicago settlement Office of the SER
vice. But there are today graded
schools and telephones and even troll
ley cars swhepes when IafiEst expressed
Efny faith In the future of the reclarna-
Ftion work. there were only sage brush
lplains.
But in the very near future there
lis to be realized In communities like
THAT of Rupert something that is new
lin rural life. that is public owner
ship of power producing plants that
will furnish electricity at the absolute
cost of production.
AT the Minidoka p. ,ject, in which
Rupert Is located there is being in
stalled a power plant that will develop
Ienergy at 10000 horse power. Part of
the power is to be used for pumping
water out of the Snake river for the
Irrigation of 5000 acres that lie above
the level of our main canals.
There will be id large surplus of
power. however WhAnS All of the set.
Tiers have paid in full for heir LANDS
the sum receiyedsvgilfs defrags the cost
of creating the irrigation system, in
Guiding the construction of a dam and
the installation of power machinery. 1t
will all belong, TO. the farmers then.
The government will be in. charge and
will superintend the operation of
the works, but will take no profit from
them. Electricity for lighting, heat
| ing, driving farm machinery or for
manufacture will be available at cost"
Here is the beginning of CO.
Operative plan of the government that
will approach ideal conditions. Co
Operation also exists in every other
phase of life in the government irriga-
tion project, Where the welfare of all
depends upon the same conditions you
are bound to have mutual interest.
THE townsites of Pompey's Pillar
located on the Huntley project, will be
opened for a public sale of land in
town lot sizes on April 4 Pompey's
Pillar is named, for al geological forma-
j ton, which Lewis the explorer, chose
/ for a tab'at on which to record the
progress OF his westward expedition in
l1SO5. Who Pompey was and how his
name became attached. to a. rock that
clearly belonged to somebody else does
mot appear
"ModeI City" in West.
"On. the following day. April 5, the
sale of lots in Rupert will be begun.
/ They viii be placed at auction In fifty
foot divisions, the probable prices
ranging from $50 to SIS.
| zone of these model towns which
1--we are developing under these promis-
| ing conditions don't know which
one it is going to belt to become
the model city of the world.
1T will be city without conges-
tion, without palaces or poorhouses,
and with CO. operation very highly de-
veloped. One of the conspicuous feat
ures of these western communities
even the rougher ones, il the absence
OF petty crime. People don't have TO
nail down the windows of their houses
i or lock their doors, even.
There is just one trouble with the
schools The average service of the
Ewomen teachers Is four months. Men
are In the majority, you see, and the
i young marriageable women who car
lbe kept at the instruction Of the
| young for more than six months Il
H deemed a rare prize indeed by the
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