Payette County ID Archives News.....NEW PLYMOUTH COLONY April 17, 1895
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Idaho Daily Statesman April 17, 1895
NEW PLYMOUTH COLONY

Some of the Features of the Proposed Settlement.

WILL LIVE IN A VILLAGE

The People to Have the Benefit of Community Life-Cheap Electricity to Be 
Furnished.

William E. Smythe is evidently meeting with great success with his 
colonization scheme.  He has succeeded in attracting widespread attention to 
his new Plymouth scheme which he proposes to inaugurate in the Payette 
valley. His plans in this connection are detailed in the Chicago Record. 
"Each colonist will purchase 20 acres of irrigated land and 20 shares of 
stock in the Plymouth company," says the Record.  "He will also be entitled 
to an acre in the central area set apart for a village site if he will build 
a house upon it and make his home there.  All the farms and orchards will be 
within two or three miles from the village, so that the colonists will be 
able to enjoy community life while engaged in their agricultural pursuits.

"There is to be nothing communistic about this New Plymouth.  There is to be 
very little co-operation even, in the technical sense.  The only property 
which is to be owned in common is the town hall, which is to be modeled 
after the Idaho building at the World's Fair, and which is to contain a 
public library and perhaps also the electric lighting plant. Other 
industries besides electric lighting are to be started by the Plymouth 
company, but it is the intention to sell or at least lease them to private 
individuals.  The village electric plant will supply the clustered 
farmhouses with light and power at a cost of about $10 a year."

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