THE NEW PLYMOUTH. 



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country roads and village streets, the erection of the 

 public hall, and the provision of other facilities 

 essential to the comfort and prosperity of the people. 

 It is these improvements and facilities which will 



View of Payette River. 



render Plymouth unique, and make it serve the 

 purpose of a type of the best industrial and social 

 institutions in Western America. 



The land and water rights being sold to the 

 colonists at actual cost, it is proposed to incorporate 

 the Plymouth Company, in which each colonist must 

 purchase one share of stock for each acre of land. 

 While many of the' details have been purposely left 

 open to be settled by the colonists themselves, it is 

 probable that the price of the stock will be $10 per 

 share. Of the tract of five thousand acres, 480 acres 

 will be reserved for the village site, which leaves 

 4,520 to be sold at 20. At $10 per share the stock 

 would realize $45,200. The total investment for each 

 colonist will be $30 per acre. This covers the cost of 

 his farm, of his acre lot in the village, and his share 

 in all the improvements and industries. Readers of 

 THE IRRIGATION AGE need not be told that this 

 price is very low for raw land alone, if of the best 

 quality, and if supplied with a reliable water right. 

 The plan of payments is as follows: 



Cash, $5 per acre on 20 acres $100 



Cash, $5 per acre on stock. 

 End of first year, $5 per acre on stock. . . 

 End of second year, $5 per acre on land 

 End of third year, $5 per acre on land .. 

 End of fourth year, $5 per acre on land.. 



100 

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 100 

 100 

 100 



One of the most interesting and valuable features 

 of the new Plymouth will be the illustration which it 

 furnishes of what can be done by a party of people, 

 possessing small means, who associate themselves 

 together to create a symmetrical community. By 

 adding $10 per acre to their investment, which still 

 permits them to get the land at a very low price, 

 they obtain the home acre and make sure of the 

 advantages of neighborhood association. They get 

 the benefit of good streets with shade trees, of a 

 commodious town hall set in the midst of a beautiful 

 park, of a public library, electric light plant and the 

 other features of modern civilization. But this 

 is not all. 



ALLIED INDUSTRIES. 



The presence of certain industrial plants is essen 

 tial to the highest prosperity of the Plymouth colo 

 nists, in order that their products may have a home 

 market, and be manufactured into the most profitable 

 and salable form, thus supplying a part of the de- 

 mand which is now satisfied chiefly by importations 

 from other States. It is estimated that a creamery can 

 be erected and equipped for $4,500; a canning fac- 

 tory for $4,500; a starch factory, $5,000; an electric 

 liijht and power plant, $10,000; a hotel, $5,000. Be- 

 sides the $45,200 realized from the sale of stock, a con- 

 siderable sum will be realized from the sale of busi- 

 ness property and residence sites to the population 

 which comes in to conduct stores and "industries. 

 There will thus be ample funds for all these improve- 

 ments. It is not designed that the community shall 

 operate the industrial plants, but that they shall lease 

 them, or, better still, sell them on easy payments. 

 This would give the colony a revolving tund of about 

 $50,000, which could be used for the creation of in- 

 dustries as the need arises. Village Hall and the elec- 

 trical plant will probably remain as permanent in- 

 vestments. There can be no question about the 

 prosperity of a community which takes for its found- 

 ation the agricultural scheme of Plymouth, with its 

 systematic production of what the people consume, 

 and its wisely chosen surplus crop, with its allied in- 

 dustries and its charming social possibilities. 



The Plymouth Colony lands are eight and a half 

 miles distant from the Oregon Short Line Railroad, 

 but arrangements are already under way for a rail- 

 road to cover this short distance, and it is hoped to 

 have its construction begun by the time the main 

 body of the colonists reach Plymouth next August. 

 The new Plymouth will then be dedicated with im- 

 pressive ceremonies, as a type of twentieth century 

 civilization in Western America. 

 D I put Plymouth Colony boldly forward as a legiti- 

 mate and most important feature of the propaganda 

 of irrigation ideas. I believe it will benefit every corn- 



Prune Trees Four Years from Planting in an Irrigated 

 Orchard. 



munity and every State which desires to obtain good 

 settlers. I believe the making of this colony in ac- 

 cordance with high ideals should prove to be a real 

 and lasting service to the country and to the race, n 



