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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



dividual. Some men have started with almost nothing 

 in Idaho, and accumulated a competence of 10,000 

 in a few years. Some have started with considerable 

 capital and have not fared half as well. But as Ply- 

 mouth Colony is designed to serve an important pur- 

 pose as a type, it is eminently desirable that colonists 



An Irrigated Rose Bush. 



should have sufficient capital to make a good show- 

 ing in the matter of their homes, improvements and 

 surroundings. One of the best settlers, and one of the 

 most prosperous in the Payette valley to-day, started 

 with $350, and says he would not have known what to 

 do with more than $500. Nevertheless, the projectors 

 of Plymouth Colony hope the new Pilgrim Fathers 

 will possess one thousand dollars each as a rule, and if 

 they have more, the character of homes and surround- 

 ings in the farm village of " Home Acres" will be just 

 that much more attractive and satisfying. Here is 

 what can be done with $1,000: 



20 acres at $20, $400, first payment $100 



20 shares stock, $20 first payment 100 



Fencing 50 



House 350 



Stable 25 



Horse, Cow, Wagons, Plows, etc 250 



Alfalfa seed for four acres 10 



Trees for sixteen acres 115 



1,000 



EMPLOYMENT FOR COLONISTS. 



There will be a large amount of employment for 

 colonists who may desire to avail themselves of the 

 opportunity. They will be given preference 1 over out- 

 side workmen in making all the improvements upon 

 the land, and in the mechanical trades employed in 

 the erection of buildings, industrial plants, etc. 

 Tuere is also much demand for extra help when the 

 hops and fruit are being harvested upon the older 

 places in the valley. There is a demand for 500 

 hands in hop-picking alone for thirty days in each 

 harvest season. This gives employment not only to 

 adults, but to children who wish to work. 



Idaho is well timbered and the Payette valley is 

 particularly favored in the matter of a cheap and 

 abundant lumber supply. There are millions of feet 

 of the best pine and fir timber on the Payette river, 

 which is floated down the stream to Payette and there 

 manufactured into lumber. Rough lumber sells for 

 $ 10, and from $12.50 to $25 for planed and finishing 

 per 1,000 feet. 



On the Payette river, forty miles above Plymouth, 

 are good fields of bituminous coal. It is used now by 

 the people in the immediate neighborhood. A rail- 

 road is certain to be built from the mines to the line of 

 the Union Pacific at Payette, passing directly through 

 Home Acres and Plymouth Farms. 



Payette, Idaho, which adjoins the Plymouth Colony 

 lands, is an attractive little town on the Oregon 

 Shortline railroad, forty miles from its junction with 

 the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company. Pay- 

 ette has a first-class school, four churches, good hotel, 

 bank, large stores, two sawmills, and other industries. 

 It contains many fine dwellings, and is surrounded by 

 beautiful drives. Orchards and gardens are in an 

 advanced stage of development, as water has been 

 supplied for irrigation for several years. 



One of the pleasantest features in connection with 

 the location of Plymouth is the easy access to resorts 

 in the mountains. 



The eminent authority, Prof. L. H. Bailey, the 

 horticulturist of Cornell University, in Annals o 

 Horticulture for 1893, pays the following high tribute 

 to Idaho's horticultural product: " Second to the 

 display of citrus fruits from California, the Pacific 

 Northwest arrested the attention of visitors. Idaho, 

 Oregon and Washington held a prominent place 

 from the first, although Oregon exceeded the other 

 two in the amount of fresh fruit exhibited. The fruits 

 of this entire region are remarkable for their enor- 

 mous size and high color, and particularly for the 

 strange influence of climate which they show. 



The display of apples from the Northwestern 

 States Idaho, Oregon and Washington were char- 

 acterized by fruits of enormous size, high color and 

 remarkable freedom from scab. To the Eastern man 

 the most interesting variety from these States was 

 the Yellow Newton Pippin, which is the leading 

 apple over a great territory there, and which is twice 

 as large as the same apple grown in the Hudson 

 River Valley. 



III.-THE BUSINESS PLAN. 



The Plymouth Colony lands will be sold, includ- 

 ing perpetual water rights, for $20 per acre. But this is 

 not the entire cost involved in securing the benefits 



Four-Year-Old Apple Trees. 



of the colony. The expense of the preliminary 

 work in organizing the colony must be repaid to 

 the projectors, who have raised and advanced it. 

 There must be a fund for improvements, such as 



