Payette County ID Archives News.....New Plymouth Colony May 23, 1895 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Patty Theurer seymour784@yahoo.com March 30, 2015, 4:19 am Idaho Daily Statesman May 23, 1895 Idaho Daily Statesman Boise, Idaho 05-23-1895 NEW PLYMOUTH COLONY The Committe Makes an Entirely Favorable Report. ALL VERY MUCH ENTHUSED The Colony to Come Out in a Special Train August 1st—Two Hundred Well-to-Do Families. (Special to The Statesman) CHICAGO, May 22—A colony has been organized in Chicago which will settle in Idaho and make a speciality of prune culture. Among the original members are J. C. Fortiner, Charles B. Cox, Dr. J. B. Burns, H. A. Edwards, ex-city engineer; Mrs. J. C. Pollock and Mrs. J. L. S. Hall who have just returned from an investigation tour to the new home of the colonists. It is located in the fertile Payette valley, seven miles east of the town of Payette and about 60 miles northwest of Boise. All the members of the committee are enraptured with that country and are telling wonderful tales of what can be grown there; cucumbers, 26 inches long, weighing 6 ¾ pounds each; 60 pound watermelons; strawberries, 10 ½ inches in circumference which average 10 to a quart; tomatoes weighing over 3 pounds apiece, etc. It is also declared that everything which will grow in the temperate zone—cereals, vegetables and fruits—will luxuriate there. The site selected by the colonists is a tract of 6000 acres. Each colonist will have a farm of not less than 20 or more then 40 acres and also a 1-acre or 2-acre lot of 100 feet frontage on a boulevard which will enclose a central park a mile long and 260 feet wide in which will at first be built a town hall, a public school house and a church. Already over 200 heads of families representing nearly 1000 people have agreed to join the colony. Thirty-five families are from New York and Boston and the others from Chicago. They have representatives of every trade and profession. The colony will leave here for Idaho on a special train about August 1st and a second delegation a month later. A. Grothe, of Payette, who is very much interested in the success of the New Plymouth colony, was very much pleased when advised last evening of the substances of the foregoing dispatch. He stated that the lands to be colonized were as fine as any in the Payette valley. Mr. Grothe further said that during recent visits to Chicago and New York he met a large number of those intending to join the colony. They were all, he said, people of means, and would have in the aggregate a very large sum for the improvement of their property. There was not a single family that would not be able to go ahead with improvements and be self sustaining until the lands should become productive. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/newspapers/newplymo719gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/idfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb