The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-04-12
4 LARGE SOCIALIST COL
ONY TO Be ESTABLISHED
Leading Socialists Plan to Bring
Many Families Here From
California.

By leading Socialists the Truckee-
Carson project will witness a multi
tude of examples in actual co-opera-
ton far in advance of the inyoca-
ton of the cooperative conduct of
the project water system under gov
ernment auspices, which the recla-
nation law as now constituted con-
templates as an eventuality in every
government irrigation project. The
Nevada Colony Corporation, an al
lied organization of the Llano del
Rio colony corporation, of Los Ange-
les county, Cal. Is now strongly rep
s esented here By leading Socialist
workers, including, c. V. Eggleston,
1st yice-president, L. V. Flower, sec
retary, and A. Grant Miller, attor-
ney. Job Hartman, the Los Angeles
attorney, is president of the Nevada
Colony corporation, and the board
of directors include men well known
wherever the Socialistie propaganda
has taken hold.
Messrs. Eggleston, Flower and
Miller have been in and around Fal-
lon for several weeks and the net
results of their labors have proven
the wisdom OF the selection CT this
district as a field for cooperative
work. This, in substance. is the
statement given out by Mr.. Eggle-
ston, who together with his son, has
been visiting project farmers indus
triously for the last two weeks.
Within this period Mr.. Eggleston
has succeeded in buying for the To-
cal colony 100 acres of splendid
and, much of 1t carrying vested
water right, payment for which is
made on a cash. and stock in the
corporation basis.
Those who have sold their land
holdings to date are: Fred c. Sand
er, Wallace G. Parker, Henry C.
Taylor, w. II. Lowry, W. R. Streep-
er, A. Baumann, A. A. Baumann,
Martha Baumann, Sophia Baumann,
Alex Baumann, Otto Baumann,
Louis Baumann, J. S Harmon, F. A.
Austin and 1. L. Davis. Most of
these eolonists have turned to the
corporation all farming machinery
and stock, including cows and
horses.
Mr. Eggleston expects to leave
within a few days for the Llano del
Rio colony, where he will lay the
manifold advantages attaching to
local residence before the 700 resi-
dents of the Los Angeles colony. He
expects to be accompanied by 100 or
more of these colonists, who are al
ready yersed in cooperative endeaY-
or, on his next trip to this section.
1t is expected, according to Mr.. Eg-
gieston, that before the year is pass
ed the local colony will count 1,000
resident members. each being head
of family of several Memberships
are being sold at the present time
at a rate that would indicate the
disposal of the maximum of 1000
memberships in the local organiza-
ton before six months have passed.
Many of these according to Mr.. Eg-
gleston, will be sold on installments,
and installment members do not Sc
cure local colony residence priyi-
leges until such time as payments
have been completed.
Most of those who have Joined the
colony from among the local resi-
dents are Socialits, but not all.
But, Mr.. Eggleston says, they all
believe in the virtues of eo-opera-
tive ownership and cooperative eff
fort. The benefits planned to issue
from a grouping of interests are
manifold including within the be-
nign advantages the German plan of
residence for farmers, who will live
in this vicinity in a town to be
started soon. where all of the ad-
yantages of urban life will be pro-
vided, including steam heat, electric
lights and centralized advantages of
every kind
Mr.. Eggleston informs the Stand
ard. that the benefits of the Nevada
Colony corporation and those of the
Llano del Rio colony in Southern
California are interchangeable
Those who reside in Southern Cali
fornia and tire of the environs in
that over advertised section can
change their residence without ex-
ira charge and come here and enter
into work, while those of the colon
lists who come here and feel impelled
to change can move to the Llano del
Rio colony.
1t is given out that the assets of
the Joint corporations are in excess
of half a million dollars and that its
progress for the last two years point
to large things in the future. The
Llano del Rio colony was organized
two years ago, at which time five men
moved there and counted as farm
stock one team of horses, 16 hogs
and a, small amount of poultry. The
resident population of the colony
has increased in this period to more
than 700, and the assets in proper
ton
The Socialists in charge of the To-