Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-04-28
Danes Give Colony Clean Bill.

eIyWhere we went | was greeted with
Welcome Comrade" and | shook
hands with. everybody.
A Great Undertaking
It is great undertaking. They have
contracted for 10000 acres of good,
fertile, light soil Of IA to 20 inches,
with clay bottom. 1t is cut-over land
with the stumps standing. The clear
ing of this land is hard work, the pine
roots sticking into the ground ! 4 10 Is
feet, and until this spring it was all
done by hand. Now they have bought
a big puller. and are clearing land,
burning stumps, and planting is in. full
swing with 30 to 40 comrades, with
Comrade Lindsey as their foreman.
The first year there were 300 acres
cleared with the exception of the
stumps) and miles of fence were built.
Ibis has been going on ever since, and
with bigger force every year as new
members arrive. To the farm depart
ment belongs 3 horses, 4 mules and |
Fordson tractor. plows, harrows, cult
vators, stump puller, and all other farm
implements, everything paid for.
Dairy Department.
The dairy department is under the
supervision of Comrade Baldwin, with
other comrades as helpers. There are
40 head of stock Thoroughbred Hol-
stein), herd of swine, including 3
sows with filters, geese and chickens,
with incubators now running.
Industries.
A printing shop, with Comrades Can
trell, Gleeser, and Buck, is doing fine.
The printing presses, types, type ma
chine, and printing material. and the
concrete buildings, is worth at least
$4,000. all paid for. A saw mill,
brick yard, and building department,
are under the supervision of Comrade
Ole Synoground, with crew of com
rades working in the different depart
ments. Its machinery-brick ma
chimes, conveyors, saw mills, lathes,
drills of many descriptions, its black
smith shop. wagon-repairing shop, ma
chine shop ETC., without the buildings,
is worth around $4,000, all paid for.
The shoe and harness shops. with all
modern machinery. are all paid for.
Laundry Department.
The laundry department, under SUI
pervision Of Mrs. Ole Synoground, with
the wives of different comrades help
ing, is an .up-to-date laundry, with all
modern machinery paid for: and the
ladies are turning out the cleanest
laundry ever saw. The bed sheets,
table clothes. ETC.. at the hotel, are
white as snow, thanks to the ladies for
lit.
Hotel.
The hotel serves the meals for about
SO to go people. Every day. seven
days a week, we get hot meals, three
times day. The food is excellent
and palatable. | eat there, and it
proves to be good; for | gained lbs.
a week the first three weeks, and am
still getting fat. Mrs. Crawford is SUI
pervising this department, with the la
dy comrades working hard from 5 am.
till at night. But they. are all
pleased to do it-and thanks to their
good hearts.
Buildings.
The buildings and houses here are
hard to estimate on. There are the
office, store and bakery, shoe shop, a
good hotel, hospital. school house,
theater, brick sheds. saw mill shed.
storage sheds of different descriptions,
running up into many thousands of
dollars of value. This is all included
in the contract for the land.
The Climate.
The climate is excellent, and know
of no place in this country to beat it.
When arrived here on March first,
the trees were bare; then, the fore part
of the month, we had a heavy rain,
and everything started, and it was all
green in week, with flowers every
where. The atmosphere is as clear as
the heavens. 1t is in pine country,
healthful and pleasant, very few mo-
squitoes, no more flies than other plac-
es. plenty of pure water by digging
in sand and clay to a depth of Is to
20 feet.
The Colonists.
The colony is cosmopolitan. Com
rades and their families from many
nations are here. Just now there are
about 200 people here, all we'll edu-
Gated people, mostly people of middle
age, people who have tried the Greed
Mill and been knocked about in the