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The New York herald., 1921-07-10

vded his 5120 acres into 12S forty acre
restricted not to exceed, 12S families He
was overwhelmed with applications for the
privilege of joining the enterprise. Feeling
that the success Of the new colony would
depend entirely upon the character of its
personnel, Mr.. Scott established high stand
ards. He made thorough investigation of
the character and the pecuniary response
bility of every prospective member. Sterling
references were required, but the prime requi-
site to use Mr. Scott's own definition of it,
was that every recruit in his caravan, what
ever his extraction, his experience and his
worldly wealth, must be an exponent of
100 per cent Americanism."
Mr.. Scott himself says he will make no
money out of the promotion of the organiZa-
tion. In common with some of his associates
he will buy eighty acres for his ranch in
stead of forty, but in all other respects he
will be in the same position his neighbors
in their Western venture. The affairs of
the colony will be administered-indeed
already are being enthusiastically it's own
governing board. A minimum amount which
each family must possess before 1t starts
for it's new home has been fixed at $4,000.
No family will be permitted to make the
start unless it be in position to sustain itself
for at least year. until the first crops
demonstration.
The idea of chugging across the continent
as a modern caravan on the $500 mile trek
was due in part to present high rates for
rail transportation, in part to the fact that
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Mountains, forty-seven miles southwestward
from our colony, were damned and i'm
bounded in the Cedar Creek reservoir
Thence a steel flume leads the water down
through the canyon of the Little Salmon
River, irrigating the lands which we have
taken up for our future homes and ranches
We have. in ALL an area of about three
miles by six.
"This irrigation enterprise Immediately
made marvellously fertile many thousands
of acres which Heretofore had been merely
a sagebrush prairie. The area had been
used only as cattle range and was one Of
the most sparsey settled districts in the
state. With irrigation. there isn't better
country for growing alfalfa, onions and the
famous Idaho potatoes. On farms In the
same neighborhood and enjoying like adj
vantages to ours there have been grown
world record crops of alfalfa, wheat to the
tune of nnety-two bushels TO the acre. and
potatoes rating as high as 642 bushels to
the acre.
''Buhl our nearest railroad town, Is about
twelve miles from the most distant ranches
of our colony. 1t is lively town only nine
years old, but with about 1000 population.
A fine road, which is more than fifty miles
long and which runs directly through our
tract. connects Buhl with the new mining
town Of Jarbidze Out of the Jarbidge
Mountains the Guggenheim interests have
taken more gold than all the yellow metal
yielded by Alaska. The town of Jarbidge is
the natural centre of that rich country, and
our colony will be its nearest source of
supply, with a good road running straight
into It."
On his return from his Idaho tour of in
spection Mr.. Scott began to organize his
overland caravan. For convenience he di-
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Building of Permanent Homes
Already in Progress for CoIonistS

As further evidence that Idaho waits with
welcoming arms outstretched construction
company already is at work erecting perma-
nent bungalow homes for many Of the
Brooklyn party. 10 be available directly on
their arrival. Also there Is being built a
huge warehouse in which may be stored
such household effects pending their occu-
pancy Of their new domces as the Argo-
nauts may elect TO forward 20 Idaho instead
of consgning 10 the auction man before
they shake tho dust OF Brooklyn from their
feet. Mr. Scott is encouraging liberal sales
and generous condemnation proceedings but
in spite of that he says he expects there
will be not less than thirty carloads Of
freight chiefly household effects, to be for
warded by rail.
Mr.. Scott, who, OF course, goes forward
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with the advance guard this month. takes
along with him his wife, his son. Orvis, Is
Years DID, and his daughter Muriel, 13 years
old. His mother expects to follow after the
family shall have become established in its
new quarters. Mr.. Scotts present home in
Decatur street has become the rallying
ground of the Kings county pilgrims.
The leader is becoming impatient to get
away. Like all true pathfinders, he is eager
for the trail. And he is full of his theme
During his chat with a reporter for THE
NEW YORK HERALD there were a score of un-
avoidable interruptions. "Scottie," his
chums already are beginning to dub him.
was as busy as a General in brigade head
quarters at the front But always, after
courteous apology for the interruption, he
reverted to his hobby with recruited zest.
yes yes" he bubbled effervescently, ''of
course we are going to have good school
houses and churches. One school already
has been built within reach of our colony,
but plans are under way also for large
common school, a high school. and for
churches.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Receptions and Celebrations
All Along the Pilgrims Route

Gov. Davis OF Idaho Is prodding the Chief
Executives OF all the states through which
the caravan is TO cavort. He is suggesting
receptions. celebrations and lurid doings gem
orally But Wyoming threatens TO cut a
deeper dent i'm the conventionalities than any
other state before the pilgrims jog across the
line and right into Idaho itself. There are
TO be cordial and noisy doings az Douglas
Casper. where the oil gushers gush; az
Basin. Greybun and Cody. There will he
three blessed days Of pure JOY riding right
through the Yellowstone National Park with
the Cheyenne Chamber OF Commerce supply
ing motor pilots over every inch OF the trail
Just as Hospitality as it would have fur
nished generation or two ago sun.
Drowned guides bristing with Colts and
chaps and spurs and cartridge belts.
Emerging from the western portal Of the
national park the party on crossing the
border into Idaho will be met by Gov Davis
and an impressive segment Of the populace
From that point forward the hystoria will b.
continuous clear down into Twin Fa.ts
county. which Is quite respectable tract
Just one OF several counties in the great
uncorseted West which are bigger in area
than tho whole Of "effete" New England. in
cluding Harvard and Yale. one day will be
allotted the town Of Bull in which to give
full rein to its convulsion OF greetng-and
one other day for recupcraton
Then these hardy sCions OF "A lusty pioneer
stock will tap an irrigation ditch, flush the
prairie dust off their trusty fiivvers and
settle down on their own precious bit Of soil.
sharpening their axes TO hew the roortrees
Of a new crop Of historic log cabins which
who knows?-may some day become thu
home nests Of Presidents of the Unitet
States yet unborn
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before they can close out their present busi-
ness interests to advantage. Furthermore,
Mr. Scott explained, IL has been found a
physically impossible task to clear Off the
sagebrush and prepare for cultivation this
year the entire 5120 acres, which, by the
way will remain tax exempt for three years
under the colonization arrangement
A meeting of the colonsts and of their
governing board was held on June 28 in the
home Of Mr.. Scott. There was disappont-
ment when II came to the process of culling
out some who are not to be permitted to go
with the first contingent, but the more ex-
perienced men agreed that the conservative
course was advisable, as nothing should be
permitted to threaten the complete success
of the venture
or the personnel OF the 400 or more pill
grims. one-third of whom start toward the
setting sun this month. Mr.. Scott says
about so per cent are Brooklynites. APP
proximatcly 25 per cent now live in other
boroughs of New York city about 10 per
cent hail from New Jersey or New England.
while the remaining per cent come from
scattered localities. some OF them in the
South. About 10 per cent. of the whole num-
her of these pioneers are former residents
Of the West, but not more than Is per cent.
of them have had any practical experience
at farming either in the East or in the West
Nobody seems to be borrowing trouble be-
cause of lack Of experience, however. Idaho
is by no means short sighted to the advan-
tages the success of so widely advertised an
enterprise holds out for that sovereign COM
monwealth. Experts from the Idaho Agri-
cultural College are to provide for the
novices supervision and skilled labor for the
first year.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Four Hundred Prospective Colonists Eager for
$500 Mile Trip by Motor From Brooklyn to
Land of Promse---Towns Aflutter All
Along Old Prairie Schooner Trail to
Greet Modern Pilgrims Camp Outfits
on Wheels Promise Every Comfort
By HAMILTON PELTZ.

have pictured a "Mliss" wearing q wrist
watch, her ears nesting under brunette
birds nests?
Who is the Moses who is to lead these
chosen people-the term is not used in a
racial sense-into their Promised Land? He
is William d. Scott of 236 Decatur street,
Brooklyn, dynamic man of middle age with
wife, charming family and home so at
tractive that one wonders at his wanderlust.
Some of the traits of leadership he shares
conspicuously with Moses He is a hustler.
a leader of boundless faith and energy, a
born organizer and, best of all perhaps, an
optimst
Originally from Minneapolis, for time a
resident of Boston, and latterly a successful
Brooklyn business man, Mr.. Scott during the
war was known as one of the most gifted of
the four minute men, for he always got what
he went after. With the return of peace
he began to feel the call of the West. He
and his family are enthusiastic motor tour
lists. They have wearied of the strait
jacketed city life. 1t had been his dream
to drive West this summer and there buy
up the best available ranch land he could
find, hang up his hat there and grow up
with the country. Friends and neighbors
heard of his inspiration and asked the privi-
lege of joining the enterprise. 1t was thus
Mr. Scott first conceived the idea of a
colony.
outlining his hopes he wrote 10 COM
mercial clubs and city and State officials
all through the West. One of the first to
reply was Gov. David w. Davis of Idaho.
Becoming deeply interested in an offer made
by the Governor, Mr.. Scott went to Idaho
and made study of the land lying in Twin
Falls county. along the Snake River Valley.
Mr.. Scott Tells How Idaho's
Prairie Land Is Made to Bloom
THAT settled it," said the Brooklyn
caravan leader as he described the germina-
tion of his big idea. when saw that land
1 knew it was just the place 1 was looking
for. and / Immediately took an option on
5,120 acres. The land was offered to me at
the uniform price of $125 an acre, with
water rights $25 an acre to be paid down
at purchase and the balance within ten
years at per cent. interest.
This whole land project is supervised
by the State. 1t is financed by the Idaho
Farm Development Company, the president
of which is e. T. Meredith, who was Presi-
dent Wilson's Secretary of Agriculture and
who is practical farmer and the proprietor
of an agriculturist newspaper in Des Moines,
Iowa. Mr.. Meredith and his associates. in
cooperating under the Cary act, spent
$625,000 developing these tracts. The waters
of three tributaries of the Snake River,
draining the watershed OF the Jarbidge
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1--WE were told" said Mr.. Scott, that if
work i'm harmony with these experts.
obeying their directions, they will guarantee
results. The Idaho authorities predict that
we can pay out by the end of the third year
on the proceeds of alfalfa. onion seed and
potato crops"
Mr.. Scott displayed a letter from Mr.. Mer-
edith i'm which the former Secretary Of Agri-
culture wrote 81 have no hesitation in say
ing that any person going on a piece of this
land properly applying himself and intelli-
gently handling his farm, will prosper"
Gov. Davis exempihes the live interest his
state is taking in this exodus from what the
westerner presumably regards as the most
"effete" section Of what he likes TO call 'the
effete East" The Governor came here from
Washington last May and addressed a meet
ing of the prospective Idaho Argonauts In
the waldorf Astoria Hotel. Before that he
had written to Mr.. Scott under date of
April II last:
'It was no surprise to me to receive
word from you that you had definitely
decided to bring your modern caravan
with it's objective on the first unit Of
the idaho Farm Development Company.
My firm belief is that you could not have
made a better selection.
MAY I address the members of your
caravan through you and welcome them
to Idaho? We need them. and they will
find happy and profitable ooes here.
II predict that no man who will use
energy and judgment in your caravan butt
will be thankful when he has seen the
fruits Of his labor that YOU brought him
20 Idaho"
The Buhl Chamber OF Commerce has sent
to this city Ben II. Bushman, one of it's
leaders and the secretary Of its Rotary Club.
to confer with the caravan and to facilitate
it's progress by every method in its power.
The Rotary Club also passed resolutions
extending a vote OF thanks to William ID.
Scott and proffering to the caravan amy
service II may render which may be OF value
in carrying the plans 20 a successful cul-
mination.'
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

Ky TEsTWARD' no." The old call
M/ has not quite lost its mystic lure
4 caravan de luxe COMPOSED of
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

Shaded area in the map shows loca-
tion in Twin Falls, Idaho, of the 5,I2o
acres where the fasteners will settle,
and the Cedar Creek reservoir, which
inpounds the waters of three tribu-
taries of Snake River and affords irri-
CATION.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Endless Relay of Pilot Cars Provided
BY the Automobile Club of America


along in advance over every rod of the jour-
ney, however, will be endless relay of
pilot cars supplied to those transcontinental
tourists through the continent wide courtesy
Of the Automobile Club of America. These
Idaho adventurers will not incur even the
danger of losing their way. Their path Will
be blazed at every turn by Western well
come along the trail, where the only mile
posts of the Forty-niners too often were the
bleaching bones of some earlier death
stricken caravan that never had glimpsed its
E.ldorado. No longer is the mileage to the
desert water hole a problem pregnant of life
or death, for is not every bounding fiivver to
boast it's batteries of thermos bottles charged
with hot and cold drinks to ones taste?
And what of the perils of the prairie
night? The Idaho Argonauts will not con-
struct of their fiivvers vicious circle as
those straight shooting oldtimers used to do
when they herded their women and children
and their cattle inside the girdling abattis
of disreputable old prairie schooners before
they turned in for the night, with sentries
posted throughout the camp These Brook
lyn adventures will post a guard in good
military fashion, but they rather expect a
large part of each night halt will be de-
voted to entertaining and being entertained
by the merry villagers of the nearest settle
ment And after the close of such festivi-
ties will they deign to go TO a hotel for the
shank Of the night?
Not they; forsooth, are they not pioneers
roughing Il? Hotels? Perish the thought
They will just break out the little old trailer
they have been toting along behind the
Lizzie" all day. They will push few but
tons, pull few straps. buckle down few
dingbats, extend few khaki awnings and
presto! There they are, snug as bug in a
bughouse, tucked in for the night in their
own peripatetlc bungalow, sleeping capacity
for six, warranted weathertight, all rooms
well ventilated electrically lighted, sun par
lor with southern exposure hot and cold
water roomy front porch exposed plumbing,
and all the other comforts OF home. Meals
will be cooked en- route, for the bungalow
rrafier has n kitchenette In that connection
IL Is announced there will be members OF
the party at least two general medical prac-
ttioners.
Many of the heads of families among these
not only their wives, but their charming
Brooklyn emgres intend to take with them
daughters. Some are graduates of Packer
and Adelphi and some are said to have
studied household science, including biscuit
building. But do you think Bret Harte could
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81. not quit: e' los, i. "1s @y:s sa s'. s'
caravan de luxe composed of
hard headed folk from New York. New Jer-
sey and New England is TO fare forth on
July 2S, severing home ties, even as did the
pioneer Forty-niners.
Their faces will be set sternly toward the
boundless West with the redeemed sagebrush
prairies of southwestern Idaho as the land
of their dreams. Irrigation, that miracle
worker of the desert places, has made the
arid flats OF the Snake River Valley to BIOS
som like the rose. On the tracts which ad-
join the homesteads purchased by these
twentieth century pioneers their predeces-
sors already have registered worlds records
in rich yield of alfalfa. They have grown
wheat, 92 bushels to the acre, and potatoes
642 bushels to a similar area. Such is the
golden bait that lures these Idaho Argonauts
to their winning of the West.
And they have elected to go. these hardy
pioneers, not by rail in Pullman or tourist
coaches but by caravan-I had almost said
like their sturdy forefathers went to conquer
the empire of the far-fung West. But. after
all, they are not migrating in quite that same
stole fashion as did their forebears There is
a difference.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

a motor car is prime essential to an Idaho
ranch anyhow and might as well be utilized
on the way across, and in part to the senti-
mental appeal of the tour ITSELF which,
among other continental attractions, will
pierce the beauties of the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park. In the matter of vehicles no
attempt has been made at uniformity, but
each family will start i'm its own car, some
of which already have seen service. but
many Of which win be spic-and-span in their
newness
Speeding will not be permitted. the idea
being TO maintain a steady pace of about
twelve miles an hour on an average the
caravan touring only during the day and
pitching its bivouac each night. In addition
TO the cars carrying the settlers, there are
TO be several three ton service trucks, an
administration car. travelling post ofiice
and n quartermaster's car and a pair of extra
trucks whose duty IL will be TO run ahead
Of the caravan during the nights to Keep II
properly supplied with provisions and equip
ment. The cars leaving this city on July Zs
according to the schedule. will be due I'm the
town Of Buhl, Idaho. on September s. the
day after Labor Day.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Sentiment and High Railroad Rates
Inspire the Motor Caravan Idea

The July 2s departures will aggregate
not more than forty carloads. or about one
third Of the whole number of the emigrat-
ing families. This first caravan will consti-
tute the colony's advance guard. The others
expect to follow in the autumn or next
spring. There were several reasons why II
was not found practicable for the entire 12S
cars to set out at the same time. Many OF
the men who are enlisted in the exodus will
require several more months in the East
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
A Spectacle to Startle the Shades
OF Old Time Worthless of the West

Shades of Charles Kingsley. Kit Carson,
Buffalo Bill and Bret Harte How any all
of those erstwhile worthless would rub his
eyes and reach for his water bottle and his
binoculars if he could vision the concrete
realities of this 1921 gasolene burning. inter-
nal combustion, electric lighted, carbureting
caravan as it hits the desert trail from in
front of Mayor Hylans City Hall sanctuary
while the brass band blares "There's Long.
Long Trail a-Winding!"
If the eyes of those immortals could
glimpse that string of fiivvers--the pneu-
matte tired prairie schooner of this degen-
crate day-chugging and fumigatng and
backfring their sinuous way toward the set
ting sun for six weeks at a comfortable
touring pace of twelve miles to the hour,
doubtless they would set it down to some
desert mirage, a figment of the unreal
Survey the modern picture made vivid by
the perspective of the past. In lieu of the
long plodding. sun bleached line of horse
drawn OK drawn prairie schooners, their
crazy smokeppes pricling through the cam
vas tops, their sides inscribed "Pike's Peak
or Bust" trim procession Of motor cars
bounds along merrily like a huge picnic,
each decked with flags and pennants and
flowers like a holiday spectacle and each
towing in its gas 'ous wake "collapsible
bungalow trailer" wheels.
The triumphal progress of this caravan
will be menaced by no treacherous hostiles;
it will be beleaguered by serenading brass
bands braying a welcome at every town
along the route. 1t will be ambushed only
by the ubiquitous but pacific barbecue.
Along the prairie trails, where once the cum
ming redskin lurked with rifle and scalping
knife, its grimmest peril will be- the menace
Of too lavish hospitality.
And will there be riding always ahead,
eyes and ears alert to danger, the trusty
scout, buckskin fringed. sombreroed and
bandannaed. his long barreled rife resting
ready at his pommel or in the crook of his
elbow?
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-12-29
..CoIpley.

The Copley Farm Bureau at q re-
cent meeting in the Copiey town hall,
outlined plans for the coming year
along the lines Of both farm and COM
.munity Improvement. Plans for
farm betterment have not been made
public as vet The community work
win consist Of: First Making the
school house more sanitary install
ing Of wash bowls, soap and towels
and Of fountains, and adding to the
general cleanliness Of the entire
school. Second Organizing Of q
food club for all girls under the age
of 1S; and keeping the sewing club
Iiri existence. Third Adding the aHot
Lunch System" to Copley schools.
Ora Capron is suffering from a
broken bone in his wrist, received
while cranking his automobile Thurs
day. III !, IA
Mrs, Howard Murdock is critically
ill with pneumonia. n
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-12-29
OBITUARY

4 Nancy Jane Houglan daughter oil
Jacob and Eliza. Plum was, born inI
Sharon township, Medina county, o.,
April 20, 1S47, and passed away Dec.
8, 1921, atthe age of}74 years, I month
and 10 days She was the last menl-
Der of a family Of six to depart this
life. Practically all her days were
Lived in Sharon township the last for
ty-nine years of which were spent on
the farm, at Doves Corners,
! On Feb. 20, 1862, she. was united
in marriage to William P. Houglan,
who preceded her in death June 20,
1907. Eight children were born to
this union: Adella ia who died in in
fancy; Alice E. Zimmer, who died in
Centralia, Wash, Dec. 10, 1915; Arth-
ur D., of Copoley; Lawrence L.; Of
\ Sharon township; Minnie E, Wallis Of
Wadsworth; Nett.e M. Young of
Granger; Clara v. Richardson of Kent
! and Pearl A. Clymer Of Agosta, O.
She was also the grandmother of
twelve children, and the great-grand-
4 mother of four.
Mrs. Houglan was woman of mod
est nature and Of sterling qualities.
Above all others she considered her
home duties of highest Importance,
her first impulse being to care for her
! children and to keep the home fires
burning" For many years she had
been sufferer with cancer Of the eye,